Hurting

My heart is infected
with the sad lonely of your absence.
I keep applying it with salve,
covering it with a band-aid...
it still hurts, brings tears to my eyes.
If it goes gangrene
I will have to cut it out.
I don't know what to do.
I want it to stop hurting.

Reviews

[Ed Hart]

a semi-wise man once instructed me about two kinds of emotional hurting: the first and more common hurting is from falling into the same hot fire over and over again; whereas the second, and equally painful kind of hurting, comes from withdrawing from our habitual flight patterns...the first is a recurring and eternal pain...the second has duration, as we cover our loins and walk slowly into tomorrow...the first can transform into the second as we care for ourselves like we would any injured child...heaps of love lynn

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Thank you so much for this rev, Ed . Heaps of love back at ya :))

[Graggz]

Great writing , leaves a mark in the readers heart, whats funny is that i`m going through what the emotions of the poem are saying.

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I'm sorry to hear that :( thank you for your visit

[Sami Khalil]

I like the usage of medical terms and conditions as an analogy for this very relatable state of lovers. An excellent one Lynn...:)....................

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Thank you so much, Sami :)

[Sami Khalil]

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

[Lydia Shutter]

Oh yes, anyone who has lost someone she loved can relate to this. The pain will not go away. With time, it dims, but it is still there. It is a wound that never quite heals. Beautiful emotions!

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Thank you so much, Lydi

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~~ sometimes being brave is the only option we have...

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Serah!!!! It is sooo awesome to see you back :))))

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~~ so happy to hear that, lady lynn... :)

[Adam Adams]

You display the pain of your heart; show how piercing it may appear when it's rendered by love. Beautiful though heartfelt poetry it is that provokes your spirit with enlarge intensity of melancholy words. A little glimpse of your past-love life's too shown through 'tis piece that implies, the love's ecstatic but hazardous to heart as well that cost life to the fullest. Very painful words you've come up with!

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Adams, some things never die, the leave you. Thank you for your warm and generous words

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Absence is said to make the heart grow fonder but in this case the loneliness is almost unbearable... the intensity of the pain permeates your words, Lynn...sad yet beautifully written...

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Thank you.....

[jacob erin-cilberto]

can feel the torment well, in this piece. Especially like how you used "lonely" as a noun. Very clever phrasing...

the metaphor works very well.

j.

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Thank you, Jacob