Can You?

Can You?

If a breath is all it takes for life

And no breath is all it takes for death

If getting up is all it takes for success

And giving up is all it takes for failure

If a flame is all it takes for light

And a power cut is all it takes for darkness

If a scratch is all it takes for pain

And medicine is all it takes for curing

If hatred is all it takes for devastation

And love is all it takes for replenishment

If words is all it takes to destroy

And a lifetime is all it takes to rebuild

If a breath is all it takes for life

What happens when you can’t take that breath?

What happens when you're bound so tight you're suffocating?

Will it all just fade to black?

Will you just keep on falling?

With no one to catch you at the end?

Will you just believe eventually you’ll hit the bottom?

When all you're falling through is vacant solitude?

Where it’s a seclusion that has no end?

Can you live without breath?

Survive without success?

See with no light?

Can you hurt with no scars?

Feel with no love?

Or live with destruction?

Can you feel a pulse if there's no spirit beating?

Can you see a soul behind tear-rimmed eyes?

Can you suck venom out of clogged wounds?

Can you repair heartache with your voice?

Can you stroke pain below the skin?

Can you mend an interior lesion?

No sometimes you damage people so far

There’s no longer any thing you can do

To save them from your mistakes

Author's Note

Poem I wrote on a lonely day...

Enjoy.

Reviews

[JC]

your most powerful poem yet, a spiraling epic work of existential questioning, falling into oblivion and heartbreak....

[Gege]

I loved your poem. It flows great and I loved how at the beginning the two sentences were opposite to each other, and how most words rhymed. It really added to the effect of the poem. Really love reading poems, this is the best that I've read so far. Really, really nice. Keep up the good job :) An by the way, it's the perfect length, it's no long at all!

[Alicia™]

This is an absolutely beautiful poem!! The flow is great, and the idea behind it is wonderful. It's very long, though.