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Creative Writing | Volume 11, Michaelmas 2021, p. 216
Loneliness Makes us human
A Poem by THISURI PERERA
BA Student in French and German | University of Oxford, UK 
It is the abashment of not having 
the comfort of others’ presence 
that glorifies a passive glance, 
at times more comforting than 
spatial abundance of Nothingness. 
 
Daydreams of a warm laughter, 
a soft collision. Bodies 
transcending gently, navigating 
in a sea of claustrophobic intimacy. 
 
We long for more and more, 
greedy, needy, human, real. 
A necessity to abandon loneliness, 
an obligation to bleed. 
 
It is not tenderness we seek, 
it is a fight for survival. 
Contingencies – they determine everything. 
 
Tender, friable, soft, desperate. 
Fight for love, except 
it is not love; it is desire. 
Boredom, lassitude, masochism, 
a primitive yearning to feel. 

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