The Ghost Orchid

[caspex]

In the wet air swings white legs off a tree
the swamp masks your smell but you can't fool thee

Apathy, your heart is free 
yet nobody to be

Lonely, can you see?
I wanted you so bad, I couldn't contain me
I jut out to reach you, forgetting the
people who were my company

Now I hang here eternally

[caspex]

Not as good at technical execution but I did try to pen down the imagery that came to mind. Honestly, I just wanted to ask here about how to solve loneliness, but the imagery just came through. I don't even know what the poem means.

I like to think it is about a person who left his family and friends behind in pursuit of truth, and just when he is on the cusp of enlightenment he realizes it's all love and never should have left it all behind. Now he's stuck here, not able to return to the market of his old life.

It could also mean something romantic I think because the poem doesn't hint at a spiritual interpretation from the choice of words. In fact the spiritual interpretation is probably a stretch on this one.

Edited 19 minutes ago by caspex