Dead Eyes

when there's nowhere else to go

where are you?

when there's nothing else left to do

who are you?

will it hurt

when there's nothing else left to hurt you?

will it feel?

when there's nothing else left to touch

was that living?

when there's no one else left to love...

... you are alone

but for how long?

will you take this

for how long will you let it

take you... 

;)

Author's Note

Reviews

[Fran Marie]

when there's no one else left to love...
... you are alone
but for how long?

when all is gone
the feeling of
ultimate emptiness
seems to follow in tandem
Nowhere to go..nothing
to do and loneliness. Is
overwhelming ..all too many
let it take them to the end
of the line..

[Davidgeo]

I love how you reviewed me with, what is essentially another poem. I love that.

[KWP]

well I like this ... when you reach the seeming endpoints you get to go within, understand yourself at a deeper core, have a few vital questions answered if you dare to ask and if you quiet your mind long enough to receive answers.

For how long will you let it take you?

Good question. For some it will take a lifetime.

[Davidgeo]

It's hard on the inside sometimes. Like chewing on metal. You can only bite so far. Kinda like pi or eulers number... not enough time has passed in the universe to get to the final digits of those numbers. That's what's inside us, a question that has yet to be answered. It's the question that makes us human, never the answer... never the answer. There probably in all likelihood isn't an answer.

[KWP]

yeah I get it - but not at the level you are talking - I refer to buddha - how long did he sit? He found the answers.

It's easy for me to comment - I get that - I do however always try and remove myself and take a look from the outside in.

the answers are there - but do we know the questions to ask?

[Davidgeo]

The question, if asked properly, is the answer.

If you ever find the answer I'm pretty sure that means you're dead.

[Chris Shaw]

I can't imagine what it is like to be truly alone. In truth I have never been alone in my life. However, I have read about others who have no one. Not a single person who is a family member or friend available when they hit hard times. The emptiness must be unbearable, not having a single soul to give you a hug. I wrote a poem once about a woman who had been dead in her flat for three years and stayed there undiscovered. The TV was still on and the Christmas tree and presents neatly wrapped. She had family and that happened! Then there are the others who die without one mourner to attend their funeral. Makes me realise how harsh life can be. Dead Eyes, a good title.

Chris

[Davidgeo]

There's definitely different levels of alone-ness. Ever since I left the military I've struggled to identify with people. I've estranged myself from people that were very, very close to me. But I couldn't see myself dying alone like that. That's the bottom... truly the bottom. I don't care how rich or successful you are, if it ever comes to that... you are broke, you've made nothing. Life is about relationships, it's about people. Hard times or easy one's it's still about who you have around you. If you have no one to talk to existence is a very bleak place. It'd be hard to look in the mirror everyday if all you only had was yourself. But I guess some people can do it... I don't know how but, they do.

Thanks for your review. That was a good one.