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Frederic asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 7 years ago

What is the concern in this poem" A Friend and Healer"?

To wander in your eyes where nothing lives

And find the pain you keep so close to you

The heart you have has emptiness to give

The color of the world your in is blue

I'll keep my thoughts and offer you a hand

And never cross the line that does divide

To be a healer you can understand

I'll be within your reach and by your side

And never fear the length of coming days

The time within will wash away the pain

Regrets will come and go but always stay

If you conceal what's left of love's remains

To wander in your eyes when you forgive

When you finally heal your heart where love lives

Update:

Teh Jester .....spot on

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  • Nat
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    "To wander in your eyes where nothing lives

    And find the pain you keep so close to you

    The heart you have has emptiness to give

    The color of the world your in is blue "

    Inspiring and masterfully written.

    A Perfect Iambic Pentameter opening,

    that you continue thoughout the entirety

    of this moving poem.

    A syllable flow that frames so beautfully

    the message to follow. You introduce the

    color blue, with all it's metaphorical implication,

    like a tinted mist that infuses the flawless

    flow of movement through this composition.

    The loneliness and pain...suffered in silence.

    You choose to change meter in your closing

    couplet...

    This change only emphasizes

    the emotion of finality for the reader.

    A touching, captivating

    soothingly flowing poem of melancholy.

    A poem to keep, return to and re-read.

    Bravo, Fred.

  • 7 years ago

    The concern is found in the one who is looking into the blue eyes,

    seeing the emptiness that comes when one numbs themself to

    all the pain and heartbreak they have with stood, only to find nothing

    left to give.

    it is the hope of that observer to instill some feeling back into that heart

    but

    I may be dead wrong.

  • 7 years ago

    It is frightening to lose that which you speak of here, when once flowing emotions freeze up and snowdrifts bury the evidence of warmth. The thoughts behind this are like the first thawing of Spring.

  • 7 years ago

    To be a healer or accepted as such, one must be healed first. In this case, it doesn't seem the case, good poem however.

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  • Mel
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I am ready to be there for you even though your cold heart is currently inaccessible. Very poignantly stated commitment.

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