Ablation.

scraped clean

ablation of the heart.

I am wandering inside
my own imagination;
scraped the walls
of my heart clean.

If I bled I didn't notice
anything but a
slow seeping of my strength
from every pore --

and cold, so very cold,
the chill that comes from you
pushing me away
for no damned good reason

except you are afraid
for me to stay.

------------------------------------inside------------------------------------

"Are we okay," she said, with tears at the corner of her eyes,
He picked her up, and held her, taking her by surprise,
"What brought this on," he said, as if he didn't know.
She's wondering if he'll do the same this time,
or just let her go.

---------------------------------------these------------------------------------

She feels safe when she is with you
which is why you are worried
She wants something
She does not.

----------------------------------------empty-----------------------------------

for once in your life
look in her eyes and
don't read what's not there.
just listen to her words
and believe some things
are precisely
what they seem to be.

----------------------------------------walls--------------------------------------

Author's Note

Reviews

[Sindu]

The cold intensity and the pain procured from the word are incredible! All the emotions, an empty shel after losing the beating partl, love's pains, all are like paints on canvas drifting with the change in music.

It's always a pleasure to yours, KL. The first stanza dragged me in and it hut me strong. Those last lines of emptiness and the wide difference in them two, well, I find it hard to dechiper my reaction and put it in words here!

Don't read what isn't there.
Don't push everyone away... Atleast to me, they are very important!

Amazing reply to the challenge!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. I am glad you liked it. Good challenge. I often build poems around one word I become enamoured with.

[Sindu]

Thank you and you're welcome. It's amazing to know you do that too cos we both know how brilliant that feels :)

[h d e rushin]

the pain of loving someone is hard to poeticize. It is abnormally a foreign concept. I mean,
wouldn't civilization still exist without the abstraction of love as that personified
concept of goodness? Is it at all reasonable to suggest that meanings are by their
very human nature to be misconstrued?

I use to tell my last lover that if you really loved me, you would be with me always.
But they left anyway.

I love this piece.....dana

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes it really is never that simple. There's a first, and in between, and many lasts.

[Pryde Foltz]

Really loved this piece … so much … so many layers and styles blending with abstract, symbolic and expressionistic perfection.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you for visiting. I appreciate it.

[Sami Khalil]

Missed your wonderful poems. This is no exception. The message, sincerity and the amazing heart of it all...Excellent...:)........

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:).........................

[NoelHC]

It does seem sometimes that people are looking for hidden meanings in our words, searching for disguised intentions, seeking motives that are not there. Sometimes, as Freud was reported to have once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." As you well know I love this format of yours, and the little subheads inside these empty walls is striking.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, glad you liked it. I did really like that too. :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"don't read what's not there"
good advice, we too often do that.

he is afraid she wants something...why do we get so afraid to give, and to give in?

[Lyn Anderson]

Fear often leads to us losing out. Thank you.

[J. K. Beach]

Very powerful words here, KL. Wheels inside wheels, poems within poems each one expressing an abundance of pain and bewilderment. Ablation can leave us healthier, but what's left inside the empty walls is often times just as hard to bear. Excellent writing here!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[ron]

The pain of loving someone who will not or cannot love you back. My heart cried for for this one KL.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

[ron]

You are most welcome xo

[Einstein Noodle]

well .. reading this has taken away my speech .. its so brutally honest .. the pain is razor sharp .. whew! way to write says i
E.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much, yet again.