Charles Barry Poet Blank verse

Black Friday

Black Friday

So here we are again
My reflection and I
The worst of friends
As we’ve always been

Surely nothing could be better
I am a happily married man 
With a beautiful wife
And a lovely child

But something has grown
Out of the unknown
A latent energy

A mysterious
Creeping and suffocating 
Loneliness

The reason for this
I can’t attempt to analyse
When I try, I cry out
With surprise

But I am surely mad
You may say
It can only come to bad
You may say

And yet it is there
A lurking, choking, mysterious
Loneliness

So here we are again
An evening full of pain
When all my work is done
When my wife and child have gone 

And where are you?
Waiting on a wet Friday night
For your lovely child 
To finish her dance classes

Surely something could be better
For an unhappily married woman
Returning to her home
Waiting for her drunken lover……..

Don’t get me wrong
No indecent proposals
Only a wish to share a common feeling-
Loneliness

Monika – this is just one moment
And we have to think of our lives
Our responsibilities.

But can I dare ask you -
Despite my religious restraints-
Despite the fact that my carnal desire
For you may seem like playing with fire-

Can I dare ask you-
Knowing that we are cautious adults-
Can we one black Friday night-
Share our loneliness together?

Maybe I’ve misread the signals-
Maybe I don’t know what I’m saying-
Don’t get worried about my suggestions
In an age of obsessive sexual insinuations-

I repeat one last time tonight
Can we share our loneliness together?

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Alison Hodges April 19, 2020 at 12:31 PM I find this to be a well done poem expressing the loneliness we all can feel.