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You Are Not Alone—You Are Lonely
For Your Own Good Company
You are not alone—you are lonely
for your own good company!
You have never been without good
company: you are always there...
If you are feeling lonely—like I feel
lonely sometimes—you are lonely
for your own good companionship.
"Alone in a crowd" describes how it
feels for you to be surrounded by others,
but still feel lonely, since you are not alone
in a crowd... For, not feeling like you have a
good relationship with yourself makes the
crowd feel like it's solitude, rather than the
crowd feeling like it's companionship.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
My Writing About Not Being Alone: You are not alone—you are lonely for your own good company! You have never been without good company: you are always there... –Paul Whiting (written March 23rd, 2015, revised November 20th, 2015, revised October 18th, 2021, revised May 18th, 2022, revised May 19th, 2022, revised September 18th, 2022 and revised September 20th, 2022)
My Writing About Feeling Lonely: If you are feeling lonely—like I feel lonely sometimes—you are lonely for your own good companionship. –Paul Whiting (written June 7th, 2016, revised May 18th, 2022, revised May 19th, 2022, revised September 18th, 2022 and revised September 20th, 2022)
My Writing About Feeling Alone In A Crowd: "Alone in a crowd" describes how it feels for you to be surrounded by others, but still feel lonely, since you are not alone in a crowd... For, not feeling like you have a good relationship with yourself makes the crowd feel like it's solitude, rather than the crowd feeling like it's companionship. –Paul Whiting (written May 19th, 2022 and revised September 20th, 2022)
My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: "You are not alone—you are lonely for your own good company! You have been without good company: you are always there... If you are feeling lonely—like I feel lonely sometimes—you are lonely for your own good companionship."
And what prompted this poem is the song "Morning Prayer," written by Jason Gould, Marsha Malamet, Liz Vidal, as performed by Jason Gould, and specifically the lines, "I ache to see you walk through my open door/To fall in your arms and know I'm not alone anymore." (Please see the hyperlink below for the video.)
You see, I have noticed that a lot of songs have some kind of message about "being alone until you find your one, true love..." And when I heard this same message in Jason Gould's song I thought, "You are not alone...you are always there!"
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
Watch "Jason Gould - Morning Prayer" on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/torfwGPgyEg
This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 076 was edited on January 31st, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
