Profoundly disturbing emotional write filled with palpable longing for a love lost. I hope writing is a bit of a catharsis for you. It seems darkness is enveloping each word here. One small typo - "But whose there to blame" should say "but who's to blame?" The short lines of your poem flow well. Lydia
This is a well written piece but in truth you must understand this is a little Dark for my taste. Not to take
anything away from you it is a great piece, with a good flow and rhyme. I just isn't my taste.
Debby
There is a wonderful sense of build up in reading this - I was urged forward like running to an end. I think it works very well with this poem in particular. I would never disclude how you feel but I don't see a reason for concern if your writing centers around some touchy subjects. I think that death and sorrow are a very real and vivid part of life and you capture this well in your writing.
Life's worse tragedies... love, war, loss, death... are never gone, but they do fade. Our mind is a highway system of neural networks and the way we forget or fade the memories is to strengthen other pathways and write over top of the old ones... it's much like a computer - deleted files are always there, underneath the data. Unless you use a DoD level shredder, you can always retrieve the "deleted" files.
Alzheimer's is an interesting disease in that it strips those neural pathways in reverse... uncovering everything that we've not shredded. Shred the parts that hurt; remember the parts that don't; grow from the whole experience... learn, love, and most importantly, LIVE!
Writing is the best release and living is the best revenge. As Mr. Spock would say, "Live long and prosper."
Nice write. Good expression. You convey your emotions and readers can and do identify with your experience.
I'm assuming this is at least based on fact and in doing so I find it very disturbing, though well-written. You are in a dark place and need to change your thought patterns from negative to positive...can you do that? Of course you can, with a little effort everything is possible! You write coherently and with feeling, I suggest you turn your gift into something magical rather than depressing your reader because that is what's happening here. (I mean this with sincerity) I'm giving you a challenge to write something beautiful and send it to me....take it on, what have you got to lose??? I'll be looking out for it...
whose (who's)
Helen :)
If there be grief, then let it be but rain,
And this but silver grief for grieving's sake,
If these green woods be dreaming here to wake
Within my heart, if I should rouse again.
But I shall sleep, .. more..