When relationships fall down.

There is a rift
Expanding between us

A deep wound
That I don’t want to heal

So I reach out
Pull myself up
Climb out of the bleeding gash
And escape

And then I feel
So free

Like the beautiful grey clouds
Drifting timelessly across the sky

Haunting this tired
Old
Landscape

Waiting for the moment
To burst right open
And wash it all away

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  • Darlene McFarlane on Jul 24, 2008

    Another great one!

  • tonisan60 on Jul 29, 2008

    sometimes we feel so bad in the relationship, that evasion and escape look as the ultimate answer.
    My claps for your poem, very good.

  • R J Evans on Aug 3, 2008

    Excellent poem – really caught me this one!

  • Heather on Aug 3, 2008

    This poem makes me wish you could or would explain stanza by stanza. It holds depth character and just as I’m about to really let it in…it loses me or I lost it. I don’t know. The ending was a bit cryptic for me.

  • realmpoet on Aug 5, 2008

    Great imagery. I like the unexpectedness of the line “Climb out of the bleeding gash.” it is a poem about finding control again after pain. “washing away pain” can become cliche…but this is not, it is well arranged, nicely done.

  • jolene37 on Aug 6, 2008

    So true and so real excellent poem.

  • Jaelatthedisco on Aug 6, 2008

    Honestly, I don’t like this poem very much. It is a bit cliched, and nothing about it truly stikes me. The only very good thing about it was the way that it flowed, it was almost perfect.

    “Like the beautiful grey clouds”

    The word “beautiful” is just so vague that I just can’t picture the clouds. I don’t know what exactly you’re comparing the clouds to either, so I found this to be a bit confusing.

    “And then I feel
    So free”

    I understand what you’re attempting to do here, but I don’t really think that it worked very well. “So free” is just the most ridiculous description of it ever. It is just so vague, I don’t get any emotion out of it.
    My favorite quote is “no tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”, and I just don’t feel any emotion in this piece.

    Your main problem is being vague. I have a feeing that you could write really well if you wanted to. Just be careful about how you word things.

  • Christine Ramsay on Aug 13, 2008

    Beautiful work. It really makes me think

  • Rebekah Lowell on Aug 20, 2008

    interesting,nice

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