Daily Prompt: Helpless
Helplessness: that dull, sick feeling of not being the one at the reins. When did you last feel like that –- and what did you do about it?
I can barely control where by own thoughts go much less anything around me. I think much of my worry and much of my heartache stems from my lack of control. I never feel more powerless than to feel another persons words trapped behind a wall of silence.
You hide inside
In a place I can’t find
Your words trapped
In a field of mines
Afraid your thoughts
Might be caught
And ensnared
Ready to be stripped
And hung to dry
Naked and bare
Waiting to be judged
I fight for control
To overcome your silence
To pry the feelings
From the grave
You have greedily dug
I fight to save
You from hiding any part
Of the person
I have come to love
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A most stunning portrait…
You are welcome.
I really enjoyed your words…
I have some thoughts on silence and helplessness that you may like…
http://wileyschmidt.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/let-me-be-a-lantern-of-love/
Your words always seem to come from a deep and wondrous place, thank you for sharing your gift once again.
Things left unsaid suck.
Even more when both know they’re unsaid.
Unless the things unsaid are not unknown.
That’s pretty bad too – when the gap can’t be bridged.
Sometimes…
That’s so not unprofound.
Love the photo- you’re gorgeous !!! So photogenic!
Your features might be enhanced digitally, but it’s clear to see your bone structure and other features, + the beautiful eyes:making it possible for you to sham-wow the camera!!
Honesty and openness is the key to a successful relationship. Not knowing what the other is thinking or feeling can be a barrier to happiness
This was beautiful.
Love,
Cheryl
That’s love alright. My daughter has a cat and ever since we bought him for her in 2008, for her birthday, she has loved and cared for him so carefully and diligently; but what she has always done when she sees him and picks him up, from her being 5 to being 9 now, is to show her intense love for him by gritting her teeth and almost tightening up every muscle in her body with the intensity the feelings he evokes in her when she holds him. When I read your poem I was stunned to find myself reading the perfect encapsulation of the way it feels to love someone or something absolutely. It put me in my mind of my daughter Phoebe’s reaction to her cat; a loving feeling that evokes an almost violent reaction in the one that loves. You define ‘pure’ love so exactly in this poem and the definition you so exactly create, through the images your words foster in the reader’s mind, is slightly uncomfortable, almost too strong, like an impromptu parental hug that restricts movement and lasts too long. For me, personally, your poem also quite brilliantly reveals that ‘pure’ and intense love, real love, is such a strong feeling that it can often be disturbing, threatening or uncomfortable as well as warm, nurturing and supportive. An utterly brilliant poem.
Another great poem… and I smiled at your comment, ‘not unknown is the new known’. I wanted to press a like button for that too.
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