Loneliness

“Lately I’ve been feeling that maybe loneliness is a human sensation

given to us to drive us into relationship,

even as hunger drives us to food and tiredness drives us to sleep.

In that sense, it’s a beautiful gift,

for without loneliness to make us hurt,

some of us would wall ourselves in

and wither in our separateness.

As I’m driver into relationship

By my loneliness,

Life opens up to me again.

This is creative loneliness!

<W.E.HULME, Creative Loneliness. Why Go it Alone? (1979) >