Loneliness

Have you ever felt that deep, profound loneliness,
Where it grasps you in its skeletal hands,
And refuses to loosen its cold fingers?
That deep aching sensation,
Where it feels as if your heart has been replaced,
By a gaping hole that sucks in all of you?
Mind-numbing pain,
As if there is no life?
Have you felt that darkness that threatens to creep over you,
Eroding at your sanity,
Digging you deeper and deeper into the prison of your mind?
And have you ever felt the relief that washes over you,
Like a spring rain when someone offers you a hand,
Pulling you from the depths of that loneliness?