Poetry: The Lonely Man

Thanks, Scott. Well, to my mind, it is nearly the same thing. If we are not seeing, acknowledging, or living from the underlying love, that is always already there, that creates a lack of love in us, as we are underutilising, not connecting to the love that is always already there. It's a catch 22 situation, as love also provides the love glasses for us to wear, but if we ignore the glasses, and stop trying to see from love, or to see everything through love's glasses, we are essentially living then from a lack of love, left unpotentialised/underutilised in us then too. We leave love's seed on the shelf of our mind, rather than let it grow in the fertile soils of our hearts, but without putting love's glasses on too, with our mind, we mind not even see the seed of love that is always there too.

@DocAndersen I would say that if the underlying thing of all is love, all we do, grows within/from that bed of love's soil, too. It is up to us to prune ourselves, add some fertilising knowledge, mulch etc, to grow ourselves into a healthier plant then too. God still rains down his love upon us too, so we have love coming at us, in/from our roots, or our heart, and in/from our minds too.

@innertalks does an appearance of the absence of love mean there is no love? or that the love has been put into a box, and locked away? i do often wonder if love is more the existence of all. that the very breath drawn while writing this, is part of that existence, and therefore love.

Yes, thanks. We still miss people, and are lonely for their company, but we accept the love that was there, and is to come, and can come again, each time that we remember them too, with that love, still alive in us then too.

@innertalks absolutely right

Loneliness can be different from boredom, and can even be a form of depression, as you hinted at there too. When we link ourselves to a greater meaning, through living from the love in our hearts, rather than from the questioning of our minds, boredom, loneliness, lack of meaning, and depression, will stay locked away from us then in our minds, and we do not have to open our door to them then. As a human, these things are always in us somewhere, but we do not need to embrace them, when we spend all of our time embracing love instead.

@Shiva49 I have always tried hard not to be a prisoner of my mind, and to react awarely, and logically, and not emotionally, so as to be cold in my mind, but warm in my heart. A hot mind can also cause problems for the owners!

@innertalks Some refuse to walk out of their loneliness and boredom as the wide-open world in front of them looks alien. It is like a prisoner dreading the day he has to face the unforgiving world again that consigned him to the prison in the first place to be kept locked away for a period. Yes, some are prisoners of their minds and they have to embrace love and then live in it.