on your poem and the quote at the end, smoky, each of us is indeed alone in an existential sense (though i tend to think aloneness and loneliness are different) . this is why, i think, we hunger for connection. but even in intimate and long-lived relationships, in my case with my wife, we've been married nearly forty-three years, the aloneness doesn't go away. -glen
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on your poem and the quote at the end, smoky, each of us is indeed alone in an existential sense (though i tend to think aloneness and loneliness are different) . this is why, i think, we hunger for connection. but even in intimate and long-lived relationships, in my case with my wife, we've been married nearly forty-three years, the aloneness doesn't go away. -glen
Amen Glen. In the vernacular: Ain't it the truth pal! ! !