Sometimes loneliness creeps in. You can't really explain it, you can't really ignore it, it's just there. And different people do different things. Some reach out to their friends because maybe this loneliness is stemming from some sort of homesickness. Others have their time consumed by things like chores, workouts, school work or projects from work, in order to refocus energy and concentrate on something else. There's no cure for it, not really, maybe you can say that over time it just gets easier and then eventually fades away.

One thing that does help with it, in my opinion, is poetry. Poetry takes you to another place. It shows you that some emotions are universal, and it helps to cope with things like loneliness or homesickness, or lovesickness.

If you're feeling down at all, here are some poems to take a look at:

1. The Type by Sarah Kay

2. Too Much by Tyler Ford

A poem that may cause tears. It causes the reader to remember times of heartache, disappointment, and hurt and inevitably results in self-love.

3. Your Broken Heart is Like a Forest of Aspen by Nikita Gill

4. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Wordsworth

5. Leave Your Worries... by Erin Hanson

6. Epithalamium by Pablo Neruda

An epic romantic and sensual poem that leads you on an adventure form line to line, forgetting for a moment or two where you physically are and bringing you to new emotional territory.

7. Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

8. Alone by Edger Alan Poe

If anyone knew loneliness it was Poe. Embrace your inner Poe, read away.

9. Pretty by Katie Makkai

10. And Nothing Is Ever As You Want It To Be by Brian Patten

11. A Valedication Forbidding Mourning by Adrienne Rich

12. Fat Girl by Megan Falley

13. To This Day by Shane Koyczan

14. Part One: Life by Emily Dickinson

15. Christopher Poindexter's untitled poem

16. Repetition by Phil Kaye

Each poem has a different message, a different emotion, different forms, but in the end each poem takes the reader on a journey. Whether you're escaping from a broken heart or a lonely heart, there's a poem for that.