A lonely world and other poems

by Himanshu Goel

some villains are scary because how close they are to being just like us

there's a moonlight like sadness inside me it comes and goes in lunar phases forever in the shadow of a greater sorrow

I learned about trust the hard way when I was little the only flowers I had known were the one with thorns the only rain I had known was the one in a storm

I write hundreds of letters to my friends and family thousands of flowy cursive lines and words I could never say out loud I write hundreds of letters just to put them in a box with the rest of my thoughts

they refuse to be sad and that is why they can be never happy anymore

she plays her playlist of sad and obscure songs in the car on a long highway that leads to nowhere