Alone

I type loneliness and get the technical definition
“the state of being alone”

it doesn’t address its causes or consequences
the perennial injunction against socialization

the ever spreading recognition that
for all the warm bodies and the incertitude of pets

I am alone
It is a feeling, alone, unique, a state as it should be

And for all the crisscrossing emails
And enveloping cathodes of nuanced telecommunications
For every one of those little cameras perched on top of your
Computer monitor

Lone, alone, solitude, all the synonyms and metaphors,
All remain.

Alone

Such a lonely word.