Sponge of Heartache

To ease your pain 

keep it for myself 

take away your hurt 

I would ….

But everyman’s journey in the flesh 

surrounded by millions of suffering hearts 

is always taken alone

Allow my companionship 

we can walk together a while

I will be here when you falter

Cry your tears 

bathe in grief

emotions too need daily ablutions

To understand the wrenching pull 

the one present in anguish at the base of your belly 

your inner, outer

keeping you in unbalanced balance 

To erect no walls, 

as hard as it is 

to embrace the heartache which

every life entails

When you know it is time 

- there will come a time 

keep the affection, then 

remember to release the 

pinning heavyweight 

even this pain can dance in eternity again

Reviews

[The Gent Called Alex]

Holy s**t woman! This is so beautiful, I can’t even… I hope you have someone like this in your life. :-) This is the first work of yours I’ve read, and it’s so very impactful to me. I might just go perform an introspective ablution of my own soul right now

[Nipplegrinder]

This is just so good. Your words actually swayed. From knowledge to naivete'.

[KWP]

I felt dizzy when you said swayed - just saying :D

[Nipplegrinder]

Good! Your write, touched me. Thanks for that.

[Davidgeo]

If the good things were truly easy and never hurt to get to they wouldn't be wonderful.

Walls and ceilings are counterproductive. We just need a floor to lift ourselfs up from, and then dance upon. Like similarly learned idiots without a care in the world... that to me is paradise.

I always find my own good things in your writings... I love and hate that.

Believe me, I do try and look for reasons to tear you down... I do that with everything, myself included. But there's something about you that I identify with even though we are pretty much oppo. You're no fun in that sense... but a quality intellect none the less.

God damn Kangaroo people... Australians are awesome.

[KWP]

Thing is, you tear me down and I will come back fighting :) you know that right ... love a good slap and tickle ;)

[Davidgeo]

That's always what I hope for when I'm critical of others on the internet. It's when you get to see who they really are. This site (and social media in general) has a problem with users being extremely fake and manicured. Fake and manicured internet persona's are fun to play with but the main goal is to find relatively genuine people and their genuine disposition with that technique. Even if someone eventually tells me to f**k off, calls me the personification of evil and then blocks me - if it's a genuine and rational "f**k off" I always gain more respect for that person and continue to visit their work (without commenting or reviewing of course, but, that stuff's overrated and largely useless anyway... good writing is good writing independent of what some idiot says or doesn't say in a review or comment).

[KWP]

I do believe I have told you to f**k the hell off in the past .., and lookie lookie here we are. read moreI do believe I have told you to f**k the hell off in the past .., and lookie lookie here we are.

And I do believe I am one of the most genuine people I know ... I say this be use my bullshit radar is set to high and when I come across billshit I either vomit or explode ... sometimes I wish I had trip switch so that when I am winding up for a good session of cutting out the crap the trip would kick in and I’d be silenced before it is too late ... other times I think my Brian was wired like this for a reason and if i loose it, it’s probably justified with the u inverse anyway :-)

Right or wrong a there is none X

[Davidgeo]

I'm sure you have. I get told to f**k off too much to remember any of them specifically though. The next time you do I'll make it a point to remember... and there is always a next time.

[KWP]

;) moment to moment bay the past no longer exists ... or did it ever?

[Davidgeo]

Depends how you interpret timekeeping with respect to recordkeeping. If you forget did it happen? If others forget but not you, did it happen? If no one remembers at all, did it happen? How much time must pass before any of it becomes meaningless?

I prefer a more objective perspective myself. (telling people they're terrific or to f**k off is ultimately meaningless; emotions are transient)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YycAzdtUIko

[KWP]

Thanks for the vid ... I stopped it after it said it will blow my mind ... I am choosing to have my mind blown tomorrow during the vid. I need my mind tonite.

One thing my son always says to me is .... and this is purely because he thinks differently to me .... I'd say he swings more to your side of the boiling pot .... he says, when I am upstairs and you are downstairs, do you still exist .... followed up by ... prove it :D

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the "pinning heavyweight"

life is lonely sport...we do it ourselves. Others may sympathize or empathize with us...but in the end, we are alone in the journey---we fight our own rounds in the middle of the ring---we can't take the trainers and the cut people with us. It is our life, our battle to get through the best we can.

[wordman]

someone to carry your pain,walk with you in a time of need
a true friend indeed

[Einstein Noodle]

those are some wholesome, lofty ideals and aspirations aren't they KW!? a good friend once told me her idea on suffering in the world..and how it can seem so c**k eyed and unfair ... she said the human beings collectively make mistakes ... a huge pile of them .. and so collectively we share the pain and sorrow and loss that accompany those "mistakes" .. i thought that was pretty cool .. and so is your poem .. its a call to pick up the cross .. and your protagonist is wholeheartedly willing ... something that is probably a bit rare ;) love your stuff ... as always dahlink!
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