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lovechild asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 6 years ago

Can you decipher the meaning in this poem?

Longing for but knowing the folly

Of knowing you are never sorry

For hurtful words and cold, dark stares…

For thinking only of your own affairs.

Long lonely nights when I am here;

The different loneliness of being there.

You were always someplace I couldn’t reach,

In need of a lesson I could not teach.

So we go our separate ways

Yours secured, mine a haze

Of uncertainty or a possible fate

That I came upon a bit too late.

But at least I have a chance

Of returning to the dance

Of life, while you shun belief

And stand, alone, denying grief.

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  • 6 years ago

    It is truly so very, very hard

    to know the `why`s and the `wherefore`s of someone else.

    The narrator thinks the other self - centred, never sorry, never grieving.

    Life`s a totally bad trip in the wake/ backwash of someone, leaving.

    Tragedies occur..We err for in our own pain we are blinded to another`s motivations

    Still assuming we shared the same dream but one betrayed it,

    The culprit being assumption itself; no matter how nobly or basely either seemed to have played it

    We still believe as we grieve, the other at fault.But believe me...Assumptions

    Even of the current states, are constructed unintentionally to make us bolt from the reality..

    Assumption is a misleading, seditious dolt.

    Only as righteous pain clears, can we view it again from somewhere clearer, a touch above

    Thus, realise then our own assumptions, rooted deeply in the belief that all we need is love; without

    Kindly communications, disappointment spoils .. our every thought leads to, `I am right!`. It might

    Be so. But for self - respect and clarity of heart..tell that other negative, ` 0, Go! Go! Go! Go!

    Each in solitude grieves, some in anger, some fearing they`re deceived, some feeling full unbelieved;

    Interpretations are the day`s currency ~ a thinker`s holy, would - be rule

    I know of not one single soul who`s not been, sadly, some assumption`s hopeful, willing fool.

    This, my answer to your poem of lost love, lost faith, lost trust..maybe lost hope, perhaps more...

    Of all of these, I urge you please, against all of those... assume nothing, bolt not life`s beckoning door!

    ......................................................................................................................................................

    TY for inspiring some kind of a poem...it is heartening.. to see you here again, L.C.

    Lapiz D.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes I can decipher your poem, you are a nut and can never admit you cause your own misery!!! Have a nice day

  • 6 years ago

    A bit late and long never went out

    For a tomorrow has its just due

    It’s in the-nature, where as answered

    And you have sure fit of void me

    But to each moment its own renown

  • 6 years ago

    It illustrates how people handle diffrent situations and wanting to believe that everything happenes for a reasons and that we'll all get what worked for let it be good or great horror or hell.

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  • 6 years ago

    you yearn for him but he is unfeeling and you cant change his inner soul so you choose another path thinking it will drive him crazy but he never saw you to begin with

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