Business Loneliness Poems

“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream 
That shatters little privacies she shares with no...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Outwardly I love the outdoors
Internally I hold resentment

I hate the loneliness
Despise the isolation
Loathe the alienation
From the rest of humanity 

There is no escape
As one is...

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all of them lied to him
creating a world that made him
ideal to be victim to whatever
they wished of him
the woman they allowed him to
believe loved...

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She seems afraid to say too much
and not listen enough.

Perhaps fear of becoming misunderstood
and, worse, too quickly dismissed,
her moment,
even in this small-staged sanctuary,
unnoticed
under-nourished
unfed
unwatered.

She wants to...

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Communion
reversed
grows feelings of narcissistic isolation.

Isolation
reversed
invites empowering cooperation.

Cooperation
reversed
requires competitive capitalization.

Capitalism
begets
Win/Lose strategic
Business as bottom economic line
Usual.

BusinessAsUsual
begets
monocultural monopolistic fantasies.

Monopoly Win fantasies
beget
monotheistic loyalty games
speaking patriotism
whispering worship.

Monotheistic loyalty
begets
isolation.

Isolation
reversed
invites active communion,
a...

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I now count down the days like I used to count the letters
waiting on when you’ll hurt too so I can start to feel better
straying...

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When it came to love I would always act strange 
younger me messed up with an amazing girl
I'm sorry for all of the past pain...

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A FADING QUEEN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

She had  all the feminine gifts those many years ago
Drawing stares from everyone where ever she’d  go
Back in high...

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I end up insecure like a homeless individual,
Going through the streets of sheer cruelty
I desire to be mighty like you, my faith fuel
Blowing like the...

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It has been a while since he called
And I miss him deeply
Long to hear his voice
His casual remarks on how unsociable I am
 
I miss...

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She said you're moving like you're the white Trey Songz
You're playing girls because of all your relationships that went wrong
You've got a new girl every...

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Big city wilderness, what can compare?
Folks by the millions, in lone solitaire,
Looking, not seeing the traffic around,
Heading to work and then home they are bound.

No...

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In my loneliness,
There's inner cross-section examination
In order to know what bring life's goodness,
That's when the cerebrum opens to deep meditation.
	
In my loneliness,
When seated on the...

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I see it almost every day
People passing by each other
Crossing paths without connection
Criss-crossing up and down
Almost like an escalator at the mall.

Here I stand against...

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