Loneliness

• Emilia Cilauro, Grade 5, Greenhills Primary School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

Loneliness is a small boat, alone in the wide black sea.
Loneliness looks like a dark, cold winter day, where it’s almost black at midday and rain pours down, sending droplets having a race down my window.
Loneliness smells like a dank, dark, bushy clearing, where your nightmares come to life.
Loneliness tastes like a bitter soup, that has been spat out, and tossed away and no one wants it any more.
Loneliness sounds like hearts being broken, and exclusions being dealt out like cards.
Loneliness feels like a dark, black, empty nothingness, that has replaced your heart.
Loneliness makes people curl up into a tight ball and refusing to unravel.
Loneliness is your soul being caged in the cage of despair.