Isolated & Sedated (The Fold)

a sonnet about solace

Give to us the tears you've spilt

All your doubts and fears and guilt

And we'll show you the way

To be happy for all your days

Permanently sedated

And perfectly isolated

Give to us the lies you've been told

And we'll welcome you to the fold

Where you'll never again have to feel

A thing remotely real

Permanently isolated

And perfectly sedated

Give to us all of your cares

And we'll take you all the way there

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2025

Reviews

[RomaJ]

I love the hypnotic pull of this poem..the repetition and cadence mirror the sedated isolation it describes. It’s dark, haunting, and precise, a meditation on surrendering self to something both comforting and suffocating.
..Roma

[Desert Knave]

Thanks so much. Yeah, I write a lot about addiction, as I think it helps keep me from going back there. ~Jim