Saturday, November 6, 2021

Too Broken to Heal

 The Sunday Muse #185 




Grudges,
Those invisible boundaries
Relations bonded by blood
Flow in unseen maps
Sometimes pulling
In different directions: period.
 
How to mend the broken bonds?
 The bitterness sustain
They say blood is thicker than water!
 No road to those forced fences
The heart bleeds and aches
Longing to feel the good old times.


Relationships are glassed
Masked and glued
In grains of sand
Too porous, too fragile
Ephemeral indeed!



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11 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed this poem - the opener sets the tone perfectly

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  2. How well the image represens broken relationships and their fragility! You captured it equally well in your poem.

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  3. That closing stanza sums it up so well. Relationships are tricky things.

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  4. Wonderful write ... especially that epic third stanza!!! Families are usually a work in progress.

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  5. Nice one. Luv the end verse. So intangible. So
    Futile.

    Happy Sunday

    Much💛love

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  6. Love this; the contrast between what we expect/hope for and what we experience limns the fragility of those bonds.

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  7. I have 3 daughters, so this hits home—love that clever hanging “period.” Apt.

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  8. "In different directions: period."

    very well said, i've tried to climb those stone walls and cold shoulders may times.

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