Me and Nobody (a poem)

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At a hard plastic chair.
In a darkened college room.
(warm heater)
I am the only one here.
It occurs to me how isolated I am from other people.
Just me here and nobody.
Me and nobody.
We make a good partnership.
I can delude myself and nobody can accompany me.
I can feel gut wrenching depression, and nobody can make me happy again.
I can sit quietly and nobody can love me.

Maybe I should marry nobody.
We could have a long and fruitful life together living in an empty house.
Nobody would give my life meaning and purpose

I am starting to love nobody.
I see myself reflected in nobody.
(In fact, as we emulate each other more and more closely)
I am starting to become nobody.

If I am nobody and nobody loves me then nobody could be everything I desire in this world.
I’m smiling and sitting on a partially squashed jumper as I sigh over nobody.
I should go to bed and dream about nobody.
Goodnight nobody.

That's a good poem. I've felt like that before too.


Franma

Thanks . I've written a lot of poems (several hundred), and I'm currently trying to compile them into a manuscript for a book. Whether it'll ever get published, I do not know... but it's a nice concept.

I like the symbolism and emotion it creates Though dark and saddening, the narrator gives me the impression that they are happy being alone.
You could always try self-publishing if you can't do traditonal publication.

I like the symbolism and emotion it creates Though dark and saddening, the narrator gives me the impression that they are happy being alone.
You could always try self-publishing if you can't do traditonal publication.

I like the symbolism and emotion it creates Though dark and saddening, the narrator gives me the impression that they are happy being alone.
You could always try self-publishing if you can't do traditonal publication.

Thanks Josh . I know some professional writers who could help me out, but at the moment it's more a matter of organizing, culling, and going through my archives too see if I can come up with a final manuscript that I feel would be worthy of publication. If I published it I probably would self- publish because I don't think I'd be doing it for profit, as poetry books generally don't sell unless you're one of the most successful poets in the world.

Yeah, it's hard to sell poetry these days :/ Sorry for the double post, WP was having heavy traffic at the time.