A Good-bye Hurts.
"To part at last
without kiss,
Beside the haystack
in the floods."
-William Morris.
I cannot give you
reasons enough,
I do not myself
understand
The loud lover,
praying in sin,
Or the pain of those
who sin in prayer.
A good-bye hurts a
hundred times more,
Emptying the soul,
embittering the heart,
Much more than a fatal
spearwound would.
The happy love is flown,
a by-gone glow;
Locked in memory's
gloomy corridors;
A mere past, life
imprisoned in grief;
Robbed of fulfillment,
future condemned
to tears,
Gazing sadly over the
prey of previous
existence.
A good-bye hurts.
About this poem
This poem was the poet's farewell to a years-long love relationship--a farewell which, though he at first thought it was within 'normal' limits of things as routine, nonetheless proved too shocking to the poet in heart with its "true" finale; thus the poet's implicit reflecting upon life overall by compare-in/compare-out analogy.
Written on December 12, 1990
Submitted by hakimk.60811 on August 06, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 123 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 1 |
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