Travails of a Lonely Soul (Self Poetry Appreciation)

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Broken and lonely
I'm all on my own
Crying and cranky
I swear I could speak to a stone

Yet I'm never alone
Because loneliness never leaves me
Dry as a bone
I lay to sleep yet another night, lonely.

(culled from my wattpad novel, The Diary of a Nigerian Teenager
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AUTHOR'S NOTE

This poem is a lyrical poem made up of two quatrains (two stanzas of four lines) using the rhyme scheme. The subject matter or central theme of the poem is loneliness. I'm not necessarily a lonely person so I endeavour to write this poem looking at things from the perspective of someone who is lonely.

The first line says,

"Boken and Lonely".

The first line of any piece of poetry is most times more or less like an introduction to the poem. This line is a pointer to the state of the speaker. He is both broken and lonely. However we do not know why.

The next line sheds light in the reason for the speakers statement of his loneliness.

I'm all on my own

So the speaker is broken and lonely because he is all on his own. The absence of company is usually called loneliness but the speaker is not only made lonely by the absence of company but is also broken as a result.

In the third line, the speaker continues to speak concerning his plight and how he feels. He says he is cranky and crying. As a result of loneliness and being broken, the speaker has become cranky and begins crying. In the next line we see just how bad this loneliness is.

I could speak to a stone

This is just a pointer to the extent to which the speaker is seeking company.

In the second stanza, however, the poet contradicts his earlier statements.

Yet I'm never alone

After all his lamentation concerning his boredom, it seems really absurd that the poet would say he is never alone, yet a deeper look into the next line makes us understand the poets self-contradiction.

The poet is actually saying he is never alone because loneliness never leaves him. This means that the poet has come to see loneliness as company. This is a pointer to the degree of his loneliness

The speaker then concludes the poem with words of hopelessness

dry as a bone

I lay to sleep yet another night, lonely

This shows us that the speaker is already used to being alone and perhaps has surrendered to his fate as he chooses to go to bed instead of continually brooding about his loneliness

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With love,
@ajremy (the teen with steam for steem)