only confusion

if co-workers and family
members don’t count
then I am fresh out
one maybe two on occasion
but most have fallen
off the most recently
seen list long ago
some fairly recent but
not enough to keep
me from perpetual
solitude everything
important is blended
and distorted into
the fata morgana of my mind
no one notices these things
flipped and far away
never mind the huge hump
and I can’t find someone to ask
if co-workers and family members
don’t count what does that say
strange times because
no one ever seems happy
with their situation
maybe they are
and I just can’t tell from
where I stand a lone tree
in the forest silently screaming
no questions answered
only confusion...