Broken

by Star   Mar 21, 2020


pull the gauze off your palms
and let the blood express the thoughts
you failed to write.

your brain may unleash its
hidden stimuli
into verses of your type
of poetry.

your fractured bones
couldn't run over the full stops;

your words always flowed.

To share a path,
is to share a death
you said

but
at the end of your love poem
you will be the one left

broken..

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  • 4 years ago

    by Vanesa

    Oof. Such a good simple soft poem.

    • 4 years ago

      by Star

      Thanks Vanesa :)

  • 4 years ago

    by Everlasting

    Hmmm ... does love break us? That’s what came to mind after reading the poem.

    • 4 years ago

      by Star

      Does it ?
      Thank you Luce ^_^

  • 4 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    Right away, the poignancy of you mentioning the blood can express all that this person failed to write... I mean wow. There's a fragility to that, a humanity, the inability to sometimes clearly define our thoughts and pinpoint our emotions.

    These were the best and most memorable/thought-provoking lines to me:

    "To share a path,
    is to share a death
    you said"

    This poem kind of reads as an enigma to me, but also, as an acknowledgement perhaps to the feeling of emptiness? That love can exist, you can write tributes to it, yet it is not enough, or it pains you and fractures your soul and you cannot make peace with it.

    Going to have to read again, thanks for sharing!

    • 4 years ago

      by Star

      Thank you so much MA and Mark ^_^

      I do agree with you that part is really thought provoking, it is the prompt that inspired this :)

  • 4 years ago

    by prasanna

    Love this! Caught a typo in the first verse, you should be your

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