When writing becomes lonely

Your girlfriend or boyfriend, friends and family won't understand

You aren't neglecting them, you're simply just feeding your soul, doing what you love

They won't understand

You're just surviving.

When you're holed up in your spare bedroom with a computer or in the basement with a laptop, or even sitting in your car on your phone, writing for hours.

They won't understand.

When you return to normal life, and they are angry, or quiet, or packed up their things and left.

They don't understand.

When you're one million miles away in your own head, thinking of something to put down on paper, or on a page, or a screen.

They probably won't understand.

And when you're all by your lonesome, with nobody to get angry at you, or be short with you, or take the dog for a walk as they slam shut the door,

When you aren't invited out to social functions anymore, and no one answers your texts or calls.

It feels like a gift and curse, to be alone to write, but now you feel neglected.

That's when you pick up your pen, or quill, sit comfy in front of your typewriter or laptop, and write about it.

Because they don't understand.

That writing can get lonely.