Emotional poetry has always struck a chord.
We all, unless we are really lucky, have endured heartbreak.
I rather still love reading this old piece.
A lone soul reminiscing while looking for a new love.
After being abandoned.
The metaphor of the circling sharks represents social media or someone's social circle.
Predators seeking new thrills regardless of someone's attachment to another.
How many relationships worldwide lie in ruin, due to a sudden behaviour change, relating to a new secret love interest?
Poetry, music, film and theatre echo these themes, relentlessly.
So here's just another heartbroken piece.
Before you ask, it doesn't relate to me.
I'm just another creative soul.
Have a great weekend.
Salute.
Title:
The Lifebuoy
Floating like a lonely lifebuoy
In a hurricane of raw emotional seas
That defied all known physics
In a secret version of The Pacific
Known only to the Kataai
Where we were both drowning in
A New Stone Age
Created by critics
Our version of the Mesolithic
With happiness and pain
Written and carved across
Our souls
In shed blood and tears
Like unfathomable Egyptian hieroglyphics
You floated my way
One day
And with soft lips
And tender eyes
Held me with
Tightened fingers
As my lifebuoy
Kept us
Both afloat
You whispered
Secrets to me
To help me cope
As I to you
Secrets
Mystery Schools
Would beg to hear
Stories
Hopes
Fears and dreams
We floated in that sea
In between worlds
For what seemed forever
You and me
Clasped so tightly
Together
In that crazy weather
But deep below
Great sharks
Were circling
Leviathan's of
All that creeps
My lifebuoy held
Strong
Though
Chained
To the bottom
Of that rough sea
Your grip firm
But then
You slipped
A voice
Caught your eye
In the near distance
And in that instance
Wet with that sea
You just floated away
From me
Watching with saddened eyes
As I slowly floated by
I remember
Looking at you
On the crest of that huge Nazare wave
That suddenly appeared
And screaming
Over that ocean
Of neverending undulating
Emotions
"Love given freely
When accepted in any known form
Should be cherished
No matter how long
Or wrong
No guilt attached
For in that moment
Always remember the magic of that song
Our song
That helped us float
Together
In that moment
Forever
A sonnet
We both once heard
No matter how tragic"
If I remember
In reply
You just smiled
Then disappeared
Forever
When that old familiar fire
Of ours
In your eyes
Died
And I floated away
Alone
To never again
Cry
Just another
Bobbing red and white
Lifebuoy
Looking for another
To meld with
To reach
Me
In that secret version of The Pacific
With memories of your soft
Fingertips and sweet smiles
That once held me
Glorious stories
And all those magical things
That once created a love song
That now still plays
So beautifully
Slowly
Like Beethoven's
Moonlight Sonata
As it heals
Somewhere
Deep
Within me
As I still float
Alone and lost at sea
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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