if you are at first lonely, be patient
if you've been not alone much
or if when you were
you weren't okay with it
then just wait
you'll find its fine to be alone
once you're embracing it
we can start with the acceptable places
the bathroom,
the coffee shop,
the library.
where you can stall and read the paper
where you can get your caffeine fix
and sit and stay there
where you can browse the stacks
and smell the books
you're not suppose to talk much anyways
so its safe there
there's also the gym
if you're shy you can hang out with yourself in mirror
and put your headphones in
and there's public transportation
because we all gotta go places
and there's prayer and meditation
no one will think less
if you're hanging with your breath
seeking peace and salvation
start simple
things you may have previously avoided
based on your avoid being alone principles
the lunch counter
where you will be surrounded by chow downers
employees that only have an hour
and their spouses work across town
so they, like you, will be alone
resist the urge to hang out with your cellphone
when you are comfortable with
eat, lunch, and run
take yourself out for dinner
a restaurant with linens and silverware
you're no less intriguing a person
when you're eating solo desert
and cleaning the whipped cream from
the dish with your finger
in fact, some people at full tables will wish
they were where you were
go to the movies
where its dark and soothing
alone in your seat - amid a fleeting community
and then take yourself out dancing
to a club where no one knows you
stand on the outside of the floor
until the lights convince you more and more
and the music shows you
dance like no one's watching
because they're probably not
and if they are
a**ume it is with best human intentions
the way bodies move genuinely to beats
is after all, gorgeous and affecting
dance until you're sweating
and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things
down your back like a brook of blessings
go to the woods alone
and the trees and squirrels will watch for you
go to an unfamiliar city
roam the streets
there are always statues to talk
and benches made for sitting
give strangers a shared existence
if only for a minute
these moments can be so uplifting
and the conversations you get in
by sitting alone on benches
might have never happened
had you not been there by yourself
society is afraid of alone though
like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements
like people must have problems if
after a while nobody is dating them
but lonely is a freedom
that breathe easy and weightless
and lonely is healing if you make it
you could stand
swath by groups and mobs
or hold hands with your partner
look both further and farther
in the endless quest for company
but no one's in your head and
by the time you translate your thoughts
some essence of them may be lost
or perhaps it is just kept
perhaps in the interest of loving oneself
perhaps all those sappy slogans
from preschool over to high school's groaning
where tokens for holding
the lonely at bay
because if you're happy in your head
then solitude is blessed
and alone is okay
its okay if no one believes like you
all experience is unique
no one has the same synapses
can't think like you
so just be relieved
keep things interesting
life's magic things
in reach
and it doesn't mean you aren't connected
the community is not present
just take the perceptive you get
from being one person in one head
and the fully effects of it
take silence and respect it
if you have an art that needs a practice
stop neglecting it
if you're family doesn't get you
or religious sect doesn't not meant for you
don't obsess about it
you could be, in an instant
surrounded if you need it
if you're heart is bleeding make the best of it
there is heat in freezing
be a testament