Saturday, February 23, 2008
Life's Punches
Another one of life's trials
like always unexpected
came walking down my road
Sized me up
knocked me down
like an eager young boxer
punching my beliefs to the ground
Completely numbed
I find myself left with nothing
No anger or resentment
no fears
even the pain has gone
as are all my tears
and maybe just as well
For life's undertow
takes without rhyme or reason
never clear
was I right or wrong
or just fair game in open season
and maybe feeling nothing
can help cope
©2008 Fenny
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I think you have portrayed how the pains of life are truly, well, pains of life. The punch metaphor is on the mark. And to get to the point where it does not even hurt anymore? One can feel your frustration and being fed up and just have hands in the air already.
Posted by: Scott | Saturday, February 23, 2008
numb is indeed a protective mechanism... i lived in a state of numb for much of the past year ... and then one day it began to lift... and still ,, little by little i feel it like dissipating fog i don't know that i could have made it without the numbness.. maybe it is just what you need....
Posted by: paisley | Saturday, February 23, 2008
probably, you will never know, by delivering the pain in words sprouting straight from the heart how much you help people to feel and find what they wanted to say but don't know how to and where to.
Posted by: arasu balraj | Tuesday, February 26, 2008
your words are almost my words as we all have these days. you express the pain of life so well.
Posted by: lissa | Sunday, March 02, 2008
Well....Life is indeed the best teach!
Posted by: kellos | Monday, March 03, 2008
Fenny, This is so true! You never see it coming, and it nearly bowls you over. We just have to keep getting up and fighting back. Nice metaphor for the knocks we take in life.
Thanks for reading my Hitler post. It's interesting to have had that similar experience. Unforgettable.
Kat
Posted by: Poetikat | Monday, March 03, 2008
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