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Open Poetry #46

Love's punishment

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-05-03 03:13 AM

So from a high and lofty perch
love tumbled to the ground
and broke its legs and wings and “things”
that made it free to be.

Dirt got in its eyes
and it lay as one half dead
thinking it would mend
and reclaim its rightful place.

It gagged on mud and slush
in the season of its tears
and burnt from the inner out
in the season of its fears.

And in the cold of loneliness
it knew to not believe
the next season would uplift
the pain and agony.

How long it suffered I can’t say
but it dried beneath the feet of time
and lived just long enough
to know the coming down to ground
was its punishment!

Helen / 3 May 2010

Bec
Member

since 2001-02-23

Posts 475
Canberra

1 posted 2010-05-05 01:01 AM

Ooh, I've felt this before - just when you think love is all wonderful and perfect, realisation that things weren't quite the way you thought certainly brings you back down to earth - sometimes more roughly than others!

"I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell"~ Matchbox 20

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2010-05-05 01:45 AM

Thank you, Bec, for reading and for commenting. I suppose the trick is to land on the ground softly.

Helen

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