It's Natural, I Yearn

This is about letting yourself get hurt because you allow yourself to be tempted by the thing you want most in the world, but cannot have.

It’s natural, I yearn.

Brisk be the highlight upon that face,

And brisk be it to fall upon my eye.

     That smile nearly illuminates my world,

Though is it mute to contain that which tempts?

For, I am severely crippled by what I crave.

     Surely you do not see the peril that confronts me,

When at a moment I am transfixed by the thought:

“A smile lends to more than that which fills the heart.”

     Are wild flowers so innocent to bloom,

In the presence of souls that commit their gaze,

So longing to keep the wondrous sight their own?

     And your smile to draw longing in my soul,

That which I am not willing to share with the world?

     For such reason, I am pained to over look such a gesture,

One I am hungered by, one that rots me to the core.

     This, my desire, commands fatal anguish,

An internal and eternal thirst.

     Still, “it’s natural, I yearn.”

Zach Flota

October 10, 2009

 

 

Author's Note

I was told that it may not be concrete enough, and I was also told that it didn't need to be....opinions?

Reviews

[Adam Crate]

Poetry is an interpretive art. I really enjoy your writing because there is depth beyond the initial structure. I think it's more important you find what your strengths are than trying to please everybody. You've definitely got the abstract down.

While the theme does seem to be wanting something that you can't have, there is also an almost painful level of acceptance. The narrator seems to understand the reasons for his suffering but chooses to suffer because of what is glimpsed amidst the tragedy. The first and last lines tie it together (and these are just my thoughts) by taking the responsibility away from the narrator. It's saying, "It's natural, I yearn." That makes me think all the suffering the narrator endures is natural; it's inevitable.

[Sami Khalil]

You have highlighted that yearning which is natural in a marvelous way. So many good lines to quote...Bravo

[Zach]

Thank you, your reviews have been very pleasant to read.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:)