Broken - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2009-11-20 10:53 PM

Broken

there are
no angry words in suffering
my heart breaks
as I die by degree
there is nothing to touch
with nothing in reach
sleep brings tearless silence
as dreams slip awake gone
why did my heart
turn and betray me
in a now lonely bed
with the distance of incomplete
how do I breathe
when my lungs won’t fill
and there is no soothing in
a world outside that has survived
and here inside my knees
are buckled and bent in crawl
my skin is much too sensitive
I don’t understand it either
and wish it would change
so I call on an angel
but I hear…
they fall broken too

"I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad."
— Joni Mitchell

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2009-11-20 11:08 PM

Hugs
Shivered me in the reality

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2009-11-21 09:54 AM

Deeply touching, excellent write, dear Helen.

Love,
Margherita

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2009-11-21 03:19 PM

If angels do "fall broken" then they always get up repaired and made whole. Maybe that's the purpose of a fall. This is a sad write but I've a feeling that you will "get up" again.

Helen

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2009-11-21 05:05 PM

and there is no soothing in
a world outside that has survived
and here inside my knees
are buckled and bent in crawl
my skin is much too sensitive

If I had your talent with words, I could have written these words as year ago. Just remember, my friend... time is a wonderful glue and mosaics are beautiful.

Osprey
Member

since 2009-04-12

Posts 249

5 posted 2009-11-21 11:25 PM

Poignant, that's the word. Strips the skin off already. raw nerves. So. I'll tell you what I said to the mirror: 'Stand up, man, and be counted. You're not above not being loved, live with it.' x
If it's bereavement, I have no answer, just a, xx.

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.