Saturday, December 6, 2025

Readers Write In #898: Queer Loneliness


By A Queer Girl

It’s a hole 
Lurking within the shadows 
Able to pounce anytime 
Gnawing via my insides 
Unusually making a heavy weight 
Regardless of the inside erosion 
That appears so onerous to carry up 
My soul droops from being parched 
And withers inside slowly
Sucking the life out of me 
The thrill of life are simply in phrases 
I eat in order to feed the physique 
However when the soul isn’t fed 
How will the physique be glad? 
So it shrinks and loses weight 

What is that this I ask
Took me years to know 
That that is the sensation of persistent loneliness 
From not having somebody to really feel related with 
Being queer, it appears to be the anticipated state 
I noticed in my 30s that I’m a lesbian 
And now all my previous is smart 
After teenage, I’ve all the time been lonely 
Or in unrequited love with out realizing 
What I assumed was friendship was truly love 
With a number of of my straight finest feminine associates
These relationships lasted and gave me pleasure 
Till they discovered a man as a companion
I used to be additionally the tremendous dependable finest pal 
To dump their sorrows and provides a soothing shoulder 
As a result of I used to be all the time there for them 
With out having to place any effort 
It was solely after I wanted them 
I noticed with shock that they weren’t there for me 
For his or her emotions have been for some man 
So when their want of me was gone 
I used to be additionally gone from their lives 
Don’t get me incorrect 
They aren’t in charge 
Besides some who used my firm to cope with their loneliness 

What about my male associates one could ask 
Ohh nicely is my reply 
For they invariably turned out to be messy 
For after I obtained near them 
They typically developed emotions for me 
Which I couldn’t reciprocate 
So that they distanced themselves 
I reached some extent 
The place I didn’t have anybody 
Emotionally out there for me to attach with 
With out even realizing why 

Sufficient of this sob story I inform myself 
How do I am going ahead? 
To reclaim my life again 
To benefit from the tasty meals I used to take pleasure in 
To cherish the moments of life 
I cannot lie 
It’s a struggle on a regular basis in opposition to despair 
Then I consider my fellow queer brethren 
Particularly those that are trans 
If my probability of discovering a companion is low
Sadly theirs is infinitesimally small 
Are we cursed in society? 
Or ought to we be offended in the direction of society? 
These feelings aren’t useful 
What’s necessary is 
I march on 
Carrying the struggle ahead 
To interrupt heteronormativity of society
In order that, if not me
At the very least the following era of queer of us 
Dwell a fulfilled life 

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