Does it HAVE to be so hard?

[Up Too Late]

Just as then so is it now,
When the heart bends beneath some
Unforeseen weight,
When you cannot carry the burden
Of your loneliness, and all
That you had hope in
And loved turns away,
The hands that once held your heart
Are no longer there. The heart that
Held your love has gone to love
Another.



...it seems to my that my only source of inspiration is a broken heart. Why can't birds and butterfies suffice.

This is a horrible state to be in, not good for the soul, the psyche, and body. But alas...the fates, the universe, they all seem to lead me in this direction.

 

[Senna Jawa]

contraband

UTL, was it one poem in two parts or two separate poems? (U seem to have extra space between the two parts). The first part, about the heart surgeon, is kind of spooky with those hands holding heart, brrrr... At first it sounded like that heart was gone, end of this somewhat morbid story (hey, Karmadog, here is another word for U, morbid). Then next words cheered me up a bit, seeing that that heart has gone to love another, thus there was a happy end after all. Great poet, Halina Poswiatowska had a life threatening heart condition since early in her life, and most of her poetry is associated with it. Well, I don't mean to make any comparisons.

I understand that in poetry U can (ab)use poetic license to say, as U did in the 2nd part of your poem, that "broken heart" is a significant source of inspiration. In reality, the truth is that birds and butterflies are superior by far as "sources". I know poets who specialize in birds and write great poems. For Poswiatowska's poetry bees were even more characteristic than birds and butterflies. So bees too are superior to a broken heart. I believe that if Poswiatowska was healthy she would be still greater. Of course she would write different poems.

I hope with all my might that U meant everything the way I am interpreting your text, that U didn't mean any generic "romantic" stuff. That would be even much much much more scary than the surgeon's hands on someone's heart. BRRR...

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Your sig reminds me about two passangers who just crossed the border. The woman happily told her travel companion that she has succeded in smuggling a priceless jewel in a way which is available to women but not to men. He got very excited by her skills and asked her if the next time she will smuggle a grand piano for him.

Regards,

 

[Up Too Late]

its easy

my heart aches, no its broken. I've found love and yet its eluded me, it flees away like the night at dawn.

I wish I could just see the butterfiles and the birds and not have to have this heavy heart. Sometimes things are just as they seem.

 

[Star At Sunrise]

Very "good" poem

Your poem was "good", of course, good being a relative term when it comes to a broken heart!

But seriously, I know how you feel. My heart wasn't just broken recently, it was crushed to a fine powder. It feels as though I was left to freeze to death in the rain. It's something that rings in my head as I fall asleep at night and the first thought that crosses my mind in the morning. Heartbreak seems like an endless prison term. Sentenced to wander and wonder forever: Am I really THAT bad? Why in the world would someone that I cherish more than life itself feel the need to break my heart and punish me for the simple error of falling in love?

So I hear the real truth in your poem, even in the title. Poems like these are like the poet bled for you a little, even though they didn't really want to. It was something that they had to do. That is one of the good points of raging heartbreak though; it's an almost non-stop muse fountain for poems and songs!

The best cure for heartbreak? (Or so I've heard) Find someone else to love.

Don't be careless with someone's heart. Don't trust someone who will be careless with yours.

There is someone out there who will realize that your heart is a gift to be treasured, and not a rotten egg to be tossed in the trash.

The person you eventually love will be thankful beyond words that you kept your heart intact so that you could share it with them. You shouldn't moon too long over someone who wasn't right for you in the first place.

(At least, this is what I like to believe.)

 

[Up Too Late]

You know Star....

I really have to ask myself, and I've been doing a lot of asking these past couple of weeks. "Is the pleasure worth the pain?"

Some how I'm not convinced, I think I was doing alright on my own, without having to deal with unwated emotions, primarily seperation and rejection.

But whe doesn't kill you makes you stronger right? Or so that's what they say. What do you think? Do you think the pleasure is worth the pain?

"Don't trust someone who will be careless with yours. "

When can you trust someone? I guess you can never tell, every single relationship there is that potential to be broken, how do you even up the odds, how do you you make it more of a sure thing?

 

[MsMuffet]

What I have learned....

The more your heart gets stomped on...

The harder it is for the next guy (or girl)!

It isn't intentional, it just happens that way. So often, there is a "hesitation" that is misinterpreted. As much as they would like to test new waters.... There is an uncertain feeling.

And HEY, it only makes me MORE PICKY!!!!

 

[Up Too Late]

Re: What I have learned....

The more your heart gets stomped on...

The harder it is for the next guy (or girl)!

It isn't intentional, it just happens that way. So often, there is a "hesitation" that is misinterpreted. As much as they would like to test new waters.... There is an uncertain feeling.

And HEY, it only makes me MORE PICKY!!!!

and picky is good! The best thing to do when you fall off a horse, is get back up in the saddle. Cowboy up!

 

[MsMuffet]

Re: Re: What I have learned....

and picky is good! The best thing to do when you fall off a horse, is get back up in the saddle. Cowboy up!

Is that an invitation?

 

[Up Too Late]

Re: Re: Re: What I have learned....

Is that an invitation?

Yes it is.

 

[MsMuffet]

Re: Re: Re: Re: What I have learned....

Yes it is.

How fitting.... you will always be remembered now....

as my ONE-HUNDRETH!!

Thankyou, baby!

 

[Up Too Late]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What I have learned....

How fitting.... you will always be remembered now....

as my ONE-HUNDRETH!!

Thankyou, baby!

You're welcome, I'm honored.
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