The opposite of up
Isn't heavy
That's just the quality
Of existence
That makes rising
Up
So
Much
More
Impossible?
Smiles point up
Hearts race fast
Temperatures rise higher
Ladders are climbed
Mountains are conquered
But I feel the opposite of up
Which isn't caged
It's just the chaining of my soul
To the floor
Which makes reaching
Up
So
Bone
Shatteringly
Painful
The opposite of up
Isn't ugly
That's just your perception
As you look away
Which makes believing in
Up
So
Soul
Destroyingly
Deadening
I am the opposite of up
Floored
Don't pick me
Up
With your lies
I'm the opposite of up
Dead
Passed bargaining
With the devil
I am the opposite of up
I am
Alone
- Author: sylviasearcher ( Offline)
- Published: January 15th, 2019 09:24
- Comment from author about the poem: Random ramblings
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Comments3
Inventive and compelling this read on the state of being between the ups and downs - first rate writing Sylvia.
Thanks Fay, at least my shameful woeful feeling produced something today!
A super write dear Sylvia.
Thanks Michael. I will write of a rainbow one day soon!
The opposite of up is impossible to definitively define from a global perspective given that 'up' is a culturally subjective concept ... just as we, or many of us at least struggle to appreciate for example the Inuit Indian has somewhere in the region of fifty words for snow... I like this poem though and there are certainly parts of it that I would be very proud of, if I had thought of them first.... I hope you start to feel more elevated soon.... N 🙂
You have put the U2 song in my head now. But it's okay because bono is my other unrequited soulmate!
Ahhh these feelings of mine are all fleeting, just the uncomfortable ones are always more likely to make a poem.
Thanks for your kind comment.
I wonder which type of snow we have forecast on Friday?
my pleasure.. I imagine it might be number 49.....
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