{"id":284,"date":"2026-07-07T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:42:36","slug":"loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglastitus.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: being disconnected from your own mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: a pale faced anemic space of skin losing blush of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of leaves carpeting my dark walks on legs reaching out step by step into the vast opportunities of terrifying tomorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of children growing up and falling from the nest over and again to give space to the heart for baby birds to sing their sweetest songs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of holy tongue hearing no response to wailing calls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: tied to the wheel of perpetual aging, death, rebirth and life, aging, death, rebirth and life again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: the burden of empty eyes that have lost their use of sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of losing touch with your mind and concocting mad delusions to shake us from our sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: waking up in psych hospital bed alone with only guilt and shame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: just \u201csurviving\u201d winter year after year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: knowing he who increases knowledge increases sorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: sleeping in separate beds and dreaming different dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: abandoning all hope <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: forgetting one\u2019s self in a sea of forever others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: to learn how to let go and even harder to heal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: to admit that I am cracked and my yolk has bound me to my labor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: when I just can not get myself to call my mother from psych hospital out of concern for her wellbeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: having a good cry bound in the heart forever<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: to think that we are mad and that they are the definition of sanity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness to bring home souvenirs of t-shirts with PSYCH HOSPITAL written across the chest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of decomposing bodies awaiting the rapture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: entertaining demons by mythologizing psychosis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: of borderline mother with baby at breast of sour milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s loneliness: at 3 a.m. with only breath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s loneliness: being disconnected from your own mind It\u2019s loneliness: a pale faced anemic space of skin losing blush of life It\u2019s loneliness: of leaves carpeting my dark walks on legs reaching out step by step into the vast opportunities of terrifying tomorrow It\u2019s loneliness: of children growing up and falling from the nest over 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