Sadness: Loneliness in the Same Room

Loneliness does not require absence. Sometimes it grows where everyone else is present.

In this room, bodies gather, but connection does not. Eyes are lowered, voices are swallowed, silence fills the space between breaths.

The figure at the center is not alone because no one is there— but because no one reaches.

Surrounded by others, yet untouched, this is isolation without distance.

Here, loneliness is not loud. It stands still, transparent, almost invisible— except to the one carrying it.

Being in the same room does not mean being together. Sometimes it only makes the separation impossible to ignore.