Sometimes we can feel this lonely even in a crowd. This is keenly felt. ~Elizabeth

Your verses share a universal and seemingly timeless theme in this life/world, Gene. I know many will relate to what you have shared here. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

I love the song, Gene! My advice? Get a couple cats (spayed/neutered); they ignore you as well as anyone, but also give you hugs when you need 'em...give you the feeling of being needed...and purrrrr you to comforting sleep. Experience talking :o)

Blessings and Love - Micke

I think as we enter the autumn years learning to live with lonesome is one of the more challenging lessons we have to learn. With or without a tune Gene this is one splendid poem...a true keeper for me. Welcome back, Gene.
Blessings, Carole~

This is poignantly sincere Gene, whether an actual feeling or one that you have imagined, it is really moving.

Axilea

I was lonely once 2000
or was it 2001? hummmm
it was an awful feeling
it was either the longing
or the lonely (to be held...)
can I give you a cyber hug?
Love Fills Us All With Good Feelings
Love...
man now I hear Elvis Presly song (are you lonesome tonight?)
Vickie

Wow Gene I almost caught myself singing this one and I love the last line, if you're going to be lonly you hope she is too.

Newfie Hugs, Rose

I am feeling this one, Gene, right there with ya, lol! I am not a big fan of summer, and it makes me real morose, and that makes me feel lonely. This really gets in the head of the poem as well as the heart of it. Blessings, Gene :) Michelle xx

Good one mean Gene, I think this lonely thing is a little overated though. I'm with my wife almost twenty four seven except work and I don't seem to appreciate, I try but sometimes I wish she would visit a relative for a few years, almost brings me to tears, I guess if something happened to her for good I'd miss her. It seems we're never really appreciative until someone close to us dies, then we really miss them and get lonely. cheerio

Gene this touch a deep cord. A dear man like you should never be lonely but to have written this I know you must have felt it sometime in life. So good to have you back.

It has a Hoagy Carmichael 'feel' to it, Gene, this lyric..I'm not taking it to represent your current state but rather the words of a sad song of longing, that ineffable longing we see in eyes and sometimes hear eloquently as we do here.

John

You won't believe how thrilled I am to have the opportunity to read you once again. You have been sooooo missed. The Lyrics that came flooding to my mind was "Only You." By The Platters I think. A sad set of verses which tug at my heart strings and you do it so very well. Love and admiration, J'nia

Your gentle words say it so well.
Been there. Am there. . Know it deeply.
Thank you for helping

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY TALENTED!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Gene, have you seen a Saguaro cactus anytime? With their arms up in despair? All alone?
That's the picture that your poem conveys, forget about her, nurse that sad loneliness and the tune will come with a crying guitar...

Georg

Ah, it's just a category poem of Romance of yesteryear, the gal at the black gloss piano bar with a tune lifting from her ivory fingers to your heart, Gene...reminiscence of a time when gulls were the way to a girl's heart and a tango with a bottle of scotch entangled in one another's arms watching Bogart's African Queen...you're back in good writing form, Gene...be well.

Love,
Sage

Gene, your words pull at my heart.

Pain is the crucible of all great writing. Keep pen to paper and sow the seeds.

Gene, I certainly know how you feel..I have been alone for the past two years now..I am waiting for my prince to save me..lol
At any rate, If I lived closer I would definitely take a walk on the beach with you, in a heartbeat!
Always know, with all your friends here on AD, you are never really alone..

Much peace, love and light,
Amber

I hope this is the muse talking ... powerfully, powerfully emotive and so well written -- excellent, Gene.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Sooo glad to see you writing again -- I've missed you!

This is not the Gene I know. So I will presume it is the busy muse that dwells within his creative mind. I think this would be a great song for old blue eyes(Sinatra) to sing for us. I wish I knew how to write the music for it. Something along the order of "Strangers in The Night" is probably the right tempo. I like this rendering. It is not easy to imagine and verbalize a circumstance we would not wish to be forced to endure. This is the essential Gene I remember. Keep the good stuff coming our way my friend. May this day and all of your days be filled with joy and peace. Jon Michael

Sad one, Gene. You need to work on this; it's not healthy, my friend.
God bless.

I have to say I hope you & she are not as lonely as me...I lay in bed in morning and worry & feel too much self pity & try to feel better as the day goes on...hopefully going to Sea Isle tomorrow to walk in the ocean, that always makes me a feel a bit better...Ed

I love your song, Gene. One never can be sure whether a poem is autobiographical or simply another imaginative, wonderful piece. I am hoping for the latter in your case. But, if you are lonely, I'll meet you later in a day-dream. I'll bring a deck of cards (I play a mean hand of poker) or some Keats - maybe both. Then, we'll quiet ourselves and listen for the gulls; I trust they have not forsaken you.