Disconnected From Messenger

What does it feel like to lose all belief in yourself?

It’s the sorrow of being untouched

By hand, by sound of voice

Reflected

 

It’s a wound within the chest

A throbbing ache

Regretted

 

It’s a dense fog of the soul

Succumbing to bad posture

The body language of one who knows

Only how to falter

 

It’s the beckoning gloom of endless night

The tireless wake of the surf

It’s a shelf stocked with memoirs that gave up the fight

Fear of a premature birth

 

It’s sitting alone

Cast aside

By one’s own expectations

 

It’s choosing to cry

Without knowing why

The pity your only salvation

 

 

Read more of Alex's works at:

www.SuburbanFiction.com

 

Reviews

[IMOGEAN]

As someone who's shelve is filled with memoirs, and even my own sits there, unfinished. I understood this piece. Succumbing to bad posture and dreaming of the flesh that shall only be read through the words of a cold computer screen. Endless nights that will never be fulfilled by the one thing that can truly make me feel whole.

Imogean~

[Jerri]

Sad and well put...great work.

[whispersoftly]

There are so many ways we can feel disconnected from someone....

for me the mental disconnection is far worse then the physical. I felt the throbbing ache of lose all over again.....

good work

[John B]

Mate this is a fantastic poem the images it gives out our haunting yet beutiful well done

[R.J. Seoul]

Very few poems encompass emotion as well as yours. Everything within it beautifully reflects a loss of faith, illustrating the immense sorrow which follows your weakened state. I have to say the strongest line, the one which I truly connected with was the final line, "The pity your only salvation." If you come to pity yourself, you've become caught in a riptide, scraping your shins on the bottom of the sea- however often it is the pity and help of another which allows you to break the oceans force and come back to the land. Very well written.

[caryhoneybee]

I can't believe I was lucky to read this!
Thank you so much!
Thi is wonderful!

[wizthom]

IT'S A ENIGMA OF IT'S..MUCH LIKE WHAT BUT AND IF,
WITH A A POINT OF SUBJECT I AM LOST,OH NOW I SEE IT'S IS BEING DISCONNECTED ,
FROM MESSENGER,MMM

[DANGER]

One will forget where they were going, and the soul will cry because it thought you said you loved it. You need you more than you need anything else to make you feel better and strengthened. You need constant imagination of how you can tell yourself you love you. :)

[Peaches]

This flows so beautifully. I really enjoyed it.

[Nicholas Hallows]

This is a great poem! Everythiung about it works beautifully - the rhythm, the length, the imagery.

I loved these lines:

The body language of one who knows
Only how to falter


It's a shelf stocked with memoirs that gave up the fight - I love the allusion to the mundane and tedious 'shelf stacking' expecially juxtaposed with memoirs - something that could be grand if it give up and give in.

Very well done!

NH

[[untitled]]

this poem moves me so, moments of intorspective, owning ones truth, accepting ones vulnerablity - and the fear of what could be - maybe i am reading to much into this poem, these are feelings this poem evokes within me. wonderful write