GloPoWriMo – Day 22

Loneliness is My Companion

Wherever I go
it’s there
my quiet shadow

so I’m not alone
sun on my back
my companion behind me

Through all this
change, my one
constant. A lonely

person is at
home everywhere.

Daily Prompt:  “Find an idiomatic phrase from a different language or culture, and use it as the jumping-off point for your poem,” from Na/GloPoWriMo.

The seed for this poem: “A lonely person is at home everywhere” – Russian proverb.

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