Open Poetry #48 |
One more breath |
Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
It's a friendly place ) And I would like to share with you my poems. Perhaps they are too private, and it's not a poetry properly speaking. Seems that I use to rhyme my letters. But since I've got no exact address now, let them be poems ) So... One more breath Can’t you see why I’am keeping silence, What is happening on my mind? I just think it’s a cruel science: Fighting that you can never find. Since I don’t understand your reasons, Why you need me to live apart, All the world has become my prison, Such a game I won’t even start. What’s the point in the way of living When you’re always ashamed of me? I’m being haunted by dreams of meaning, You’re wondering what they mean. If you guess I’ll impede your business, Kill your friendship, ruin your life, Was it wrong and completely needless, When you asked me to be your wife? If it’s true you don’t love me, dear If it’s true you just write me off How can I still inhale this air How can I live without your love? Well, perhaps I could take it easy For I lived alone anyway. I could die, but instead I’m breathing, Can’t forget: you went through the same. I suppose you are doing better Even when you don’t let me know, But in spite of my daily battles You will never become my foe. Every time giving way to despair I can’t take a step on the earth, Someone holds me, and then I hear: Draw a breath, baby, one more breath… 2012 [This message has been edited by Gale (06-21-2013 10:25 AM).] |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Tragedy in loves smoldering remains. You spoke for many throughout this poem, Gale. There are millions who are walking in your shoes. Although very sad, you have begun the shedding of pain in order to continue to breathe the air of survival. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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MICHELMAS Member
since 2012-02-15
Posts 305Lancashire England |
Keep on breathing Who knows what tomorrow may bring Michael |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
This is a beautiful poem of great heartache. Whilst I am extremely aware that it is not easy to lift oneself out of this, but just thought that the following little scribblings of mine may help a tiny, tiny bit. Owl WHAT I AM 8 August 2005 I am not what I do not what I say not what I make I am what I feel what I remember what I think what I love I am the mist of memories that I have yet to paint I am the kaleidoscope of the world within What I am not is the prisoner you tell me to be. Owl WHAT IS MY NAME? 21 August 2005 My name is not Richard nor is it Jane. My name is me and I am worthy of me. Owl PICKET FENCE 27 November 2006 He who will not embrace my thoughts with honour and grace, nor let me lift my eyes to the wide, blue sky, nor scatter my laughter over happy days, nor my tears on the cold stone nights, will kill my soul and I will not consent to murder. Owl I hope you don't feel that I am meddling. If you do, I apologise. Owl |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
Thank you Jerry! Thank you Michael! I'm still breathing somehow ) Believe you're right! |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
And thank you, Owl, for your support and your poems. I don't think that you're meddling. I see you just try to comfort me ) It's very kind of you. When I feel myself painted into a corner, I use to read about other people, or watch films, or listen to songs, and it gives me some hope, because people survive their troubles somehow. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks for not thinking that I am meddling. Yes, it is always good to have a sensible strategy to handle one's pain. Sometimes one can feel better for at least a short while, and that makes for a good interlude. Owl |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Fine writing...James |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
Thank you, James ) |
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