Hiding
“I am the judge and jury. The harshest sceptic, condemner. The executioner with the swiftest blade…”
What creative does not know the tale? The squandering of talents crying to break
If a heart could speak
what of loss could it say?
Would it be more gracious
than one’s mind in the fray?
Could it give understanding
for the insatiable madness
That last crumb of sense lost
coveting what can’t be had
Could it speak of the blow
that sharp dagger to the skin
Echoing thought below the surface
“I’m not wanted, not wanted”
Would it shed tears of mourning
for the scarring of the soul
Dragging steal across bone
carving in, “I’m not enough, not enough”
What comfort could it deliver
in those moments of the unknown?
Facing the darkened path ahead
yet too afraid to go it alone
Looking anxiously behind
still grasping for those fallen straws
But as sand sliding through finger tips
holding the past is a lost cause
Does it ever cry out in anger
at the injustice of fate?
Scream with all of its might
against what cannot be changed
Does it rage with the force
of a perfect storm upon the sea?
Emotions breaking in violent waves
every creature at its mercy
Does it as the sense of self
ever teeter on the edge?
A tipping seesaw of desperation
tottering reality and mania
Dangling between thoughts
drastically cutting all away
Bereft of all attachments
it never need feel again
Or does it flicker
with the light of the last flame?
Reminding the soul
of all the love lost and gained
The beauty of letting oneself
embrace a full and thriving heart
Of succumbing to that whimsy,
that magical elation of love’s spark
Or would it only softly whisper
its deepest secret in one’s ear?
Abandoned are solely those
who never let love out of fear
If the heart could speak…
A thought I love to visit time and time again in my musings.
Too often we hush our hearts, turning instead to our heads for guidance. We’re taught to believe that our hearts can’t be trusted, can’t be rational, are easily mislead – “blinded by love.” Yet, it has been my experience that it is quite the other way round.
I see the heart as the seat of the soul. It takes practice to really listen to this part of you, but once you can find that voice in all the noise, it will never steer you wrong.
So why do so many of us stay away from our heart space? In short, pain. To love is to experience the greatest magic on Earth, but also to expose yourself to the vast soul-crushing abyss of its absence.
This poem explores the thoughts and feelings that accompany the heartbreak of being unwillingly left behind. Abandonment comes in all shapes and sizes, and we have each experienced it in our own way. It can cause us to feel we are not good enough and make us fear ever opening our hearts to love again.
Even in pain, the heart whispers its wisdom. Be brave enough to open your ears to hear.
“I am the judge and jury. The harshest sceptic, condemner. The executioner with the swiftest blade…”
What creative does not know the tale? The squandering of talents crying to break
“What flows into song cannot be unsung, the motion of the world long moved undone…” Within each note is a chain to something far beyond ourselves, calling us home.
“All that we are bound into flesh and bone” Love transcends all, an echo transversing the cosmos, intertwining two hearts, two fates for all of time.
Berlin Artist, Artist and Poet, American Artist, American Poet, Nature Artist, Poems of Love, Berlin Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Best Poetry, Musical Artist
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