Transitory Love Endured (Arbitrarily Trapped)

The people that are there just want to perpetually take your culture away. And the people not there want to arbitrary take your mind. Painting by Shirley Ardell Mason.

Cloudless skies overhead hold in their tears.

Braverly stepping out of the rules. Cowards can't avoid shadows,

Coming to life only when everyone else are dead or sleeping.

Too much on my mind to allow me to find my dreams. 

Alone still but sadly alive. The sky gives the impression of escape.

Parents perpetually live our lives for us because we took theirs;

Friends cravingly make you wish you were someone else, don't follow them.

Teachers constantly make you feel like you're not there, uniqueness not allowed.

Girlfriends continually want to take over your life and trap your dreams.

Psychiatrists arbitrary tie your wrists together and sever creativity.

Some things take so long. How am I going to get there?

It's such a waste how we take one another's dreams 

And break one another's hearts. Destroyed but not beaten,

Traps and battles shape love. The heart endures what the eye doesn't see.

Alone and alive, together and silent. Depression scratches the surface of what's unclear.

Reviews

[Dandy in the Underworld]

I can feel so much of what is, well, simply, you. Those masked in poetry, I can recognize a flavour of what you've been struggling through.
It's beautiful. You've done what anyone should with torrid emotion. You've turned it into art. Bravo, Russy!

[Fleur-de-lys]

I am in the process of overcoming something quite similar. It really leaves you raw but the wounds do eventually heal.

Your poem is heartbreaking, it's swelling and bursting with melancholy. It reminds me of a tear-drop.

[Brittany]

Unfortunately I found this extremely relatable. You speak with honesty and a piercing from the heart feel...very well done.

[zombiikillah666]

this is really good.
and i relate to some of it.
emotional and thought provoking. xD
great write.

[A.Lee]

I love the last stanza. Well written. A mass of thoughts spun nicely together.

[Naomi Montana Walsh]

This is an excellent expression. of the thoughts that flow in and out of our heads this one is about those battles and I like it

[deeps]

I like this makes one ponder. This is a very well written write here. Wondrful emotion and feelings penned here.