Stillness Sits

by Duane Anderson

Image credit: Amy Tran on Unsplash

I say that I am ugly,

but I know that I am not.

I am beautiful,

yet I remain all alone

with no one to talk to,

no one to touch,

to love

and be happy.

I look at myself

in day darkness,

in night darkness,

and see only loneliness

sitting with a shy young man

wondering when the world will fall in place.

I sit in a dark chair and wait

in suicide.

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Duane Anderson

Duane Anderson currently lives in Olathe, Kansas. He has had poems published in Fine Lines, Cholla Needles, and several other publications. He is the author of ‘On the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk,’ ‘Conquer the Mountains,’ ‘Family Portraits,’ ‘The Life of an Ordinary Man,’ and ‘In the Eyes Of.’