Solitude Comments

Great closing lines. Liked

Let me languish in closed-eyed slumber Don't awaken me, my dream will be broken Let me wear the darkness of the night......beautifully expressed! The beauty of solitude is so magnificently delineated in this captivating piece of poetry! Top score.

sleep dear sleep, collect dreams, make poems

Grey and forlorn! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

Wonderful poem...10++++ Let me wear the darkness of the night Though the sky has changed its apparel

Let me languish in closed-eyed slumber Don't awaken me, my dream will be broken A temporary respite from the harsh realities of life is essential for anyone. From the weary tumult of the world it is natural for us to seek a kind of escape ! I greatly appreciate your ability to put your thoughts precisely and succinctly using apt images! Top marks!

I read the poem with ease over and over with the realization of the honesty that it conveyed. I imagined those shuffling work-bound feet and sullen drawn faces. Defeated and surrendering to their fate. Their only refuge the solitude of night, perhaps some silver pavement in dreams where hope and decency are a momentary relief from their lives. Thoreau said that most men lead lives of quite desperation......your poem is unfortunately all too real.

If one retreats too much from the tedium and burden of the world, one becomes a hermit - like me. Yet dreams are always superior to reality.