A Good-bye Hurts.
A Good-bye Hurts.
"To part at last without
kiss,
Beside the haystack in the
floods."
-William Morris.
I cannot give you
reasons enough,
I do not myself
understand
The loud lover,
praying in sin,
Or the pain of those
who sin in prayer.
A good-bye hurts a
hundred times more,
Emptying the soul,
embittering the heart,
Much more than a fatal
spearwound would.
The happy love is flown,
a by-gone glow;
Locked in memory's
gloomy corridors;
A mere past, life
imprisoned in grief;
Robbed of fulfillment,
future condemned
to tears,
Gazing sadly over the
prey of previous
existence.
A good-bye hurts.
About this poem
It's about a lover reflecting upon the silent power of a "good-bye" after love is gone, tone and tint.
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Written on December 12, 1990
Submitted by hakimk.60811 on July 15, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 129 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 1 |
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