Para/Poem Challenge "Open"

Isolation
Alienation
Anomie
Insularism
Estrangement
Transference

It's easy to be alone in a crowd.
Isolation is a feeling.
Alienation's a way of being.
Estrangement sometimes makes you proud,
But different isn't always better, kid.
Sheep or wolf, herd or pack
You're still part of something else.
Your own soul doesn't always do as you bid.
Sometimes it's there to hold you back.
Connections strangle anomie
At its birth,
A strange kind of contraception.
Insularism isn't free.
You have to fight for it
And once you've won,
You've also lost.
We need each other just a bit.
We need each other
Despite the cost.
So we hang on
And you push away
And we push away
While you hang on.
It's a transference of energy
Without motion.
Isolation is just emotion
And it's easy to be alone in a crowd.
Always easy.