Author: Mary O'Donnell These poems were submitted during Loneliness Awareness Week 2026, as part of the theme Giving Loneliness a Voice. Leopards Last night I saw the two of us sisters. We wore leopard-patterned coats, laughed like we did occasionally when I visited or she came here. My hair was yellow, hers pink, a breaking dawn on the horizon. We smoked and chatted as if nothing had changed. But a hinged bridge between us kept her in a cage. She chose to stay, blinking as i