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Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

0 posted 2000-01-11 08:42 PM

Whirlpool

At what point
did my marriage
Turn into the
whirlpool
That threatens to
pull me under?

Can’t you see
that I’m in over my head?
I’ve been sucked in
And I can’t get out.

I’m drowning.
Going under for the third time.
Won’t someone save me?
Please!

They say if you stop struggling
It’s the best way to die.
Just give in to the complacency
That they call life.
That’s all I have to do
to find the answer I’m searching for.
Give in,
Give up.
So I do.
And I welcome death.
Only she can bring me Peace.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2000-01-11 09:30 PM

Well Tara, I certainly can relate to this. I don't want to give advice in either direction here, but I will say it was only the death of my marriage, my conscience decision to give up...that I was able to really start to experience life. You captured the helplessness here well...truly it is like drowning to be in such a relationship. I wish you every happiness, I hope all turns out well somehow for you.

Michael

Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

2 posted 2000-01-12 03:52 PM

It was the death of my marriage. I wrote this one only after I got myself out of it. Life is going well for me Michael, do not worry. I have pulled myself out of the whirlpool, fought back against the tide.

Bojopy
Member

since 2000-01-03

Posts 391

3 posted 2000-01-12 08:52 PM

What a metaphor a whirlpool! good work!

"Write down what you say if what you say is not written down" (Bojopy)

Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

4 posted 2000-01-12 08:55 PM

Thank you, Bojopy. Glad you enjoyed it.

It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
--W.E. Henley

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2000-01-30 07:35 AM

I know that feeling Tara when you just grow weary of the struggle and you don't want anymore. You wrote a nice account of your experience. James

Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

6 posted 2000-01-30 11:05 AM

Thanks for the read, James.

Munda
Member Elite

since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

7 posted 2000-01-31 12:02 PM

Great poem Tara and I can relate to this very well. I'm glad things are better for you now.

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