Loneliness

Loneliness walks down the wet street with his head low. He does not want pedestrians to see the tears in his eyes. The rain came down from the sky a mile a minutes and he was shivering underneath his jacket. Loneliness finds a yellow cab empty waiting to pick someone up. He enters and asks to take him home. The drive was quiet, except for NPR coming through the radio. Loneliness hears about the new drug that the FDA approved, and Loneliness could not help but let out a little sob because he knows it came too late. Loneliness did all he could to find someone to help. For years he asked for help, but everyone he asked didn’t want to be involved with people like Loneliness. The response was always the same, “we cannot find the money” or “the man in charge is busy” or something about who Loneliness prefers to be with. All of these thoughts went through Loneliness head. Until he felt a hand on his shoulder and a soft, reassuring voice saying, “ Everything is going to be okay”. But Loneliness turns his head and sees no one next to him. The tears stream down his face, as the cab pulls up to Loneliness apartment he realizes Love will never come back.