[ Life Lesson ]

Heart of Babel

Life lesson

101

Nobody will hurt you more

Than someone you love

We focus on enemies

While guarding our heart

Yet it’s the closest people

Who can tear it apart

 

But I say, love extravagant

Let down all your guards

Hold your head high

And embrace all the scars

Love is the answer

Don’t focus on pain

Love, just in spite

Of all of past shame

 

It’s become far too easy

For us to discard

Forming our factions

And having no regard

Making life into a fiction

The illusions of the author

Letting truth fade away

To the deceit that were offered

 

We call ourself victim

Call others the enemy

Create a facade

That disfigures identity

And as time goes by

Part of you becomes lost

Buried so deep inside

That it just leaves you in want

 

See, treating life like material

So easy to replace

Walking through relationships

All piling like waste

It just keeps you in pain

As more of you breaks

And the whole world can see it

But they’re conditioned to take

 

It is time to ponder life

Let our minds be unfurled

And quit letting pain

Be the center of your world

Find value in others

Quit waging these wars

Let the empire cease

So that love can restore

 

Because all life has purpose

Yet all are disguised

Because we all know the same hurt

And have believed the same lies

So don’t let it be a guide

Time to open your heart

Because love’s the only thing

That will not tear it apart

 

Life lesson

101

Nothing can save the world

Greater than love

And it starts with an action

Without need of reply

And until you learn to love

You’re never truly alive

 

© HeartOfBabel

  • Author: Garathe Den (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 22nd, 2021 08:47
  • Comment from author about the poem: An introspective piece about love and heartbreak.
  • Category: Love
  • Views: 17
  • Users favorite of this poem: HannahElisabeth, A Boy With Roses
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  • HannahElisabeth

    A bitter pill to swallow in the throes of heartbreak and betrayal...

    Really though, you should keep up posting more poetry like this. I like this hopeful side of your work

    • Heart of Babel

      I hear you, in regards to the heartbreak bit, it is definitely a bitter pill.

      Although, I intentioned myself to write this poem while I was actually going through a divorce. I did so because I knew that there was a hopeful side to the whole ordeal, and I refused to lie to myself in thinking that there wasn’t, and in thinking that a) I didn’t want love or b) I wasn’t worth loving. So I am happy to see that that hopeful side was evident to you within this writing, because it was from a time where there were moments of sorrow trying to persuade me otherwise.

      And you are right, I should continue to accentuate that side, at least at times.

      • HannahElisabeth

        Sorry if that came across as preachy at all, the majority of my own poetry was written over the course of two years of coming to terms with dysfunctional family dynamics and ultimately realizing I needed to get out of my own marriage due to accepting the "love" I thought I deserved.

        I just see so much pain and frustration (justifiably so) in much of your writing. I write from a place of catharsis as well; I guess what I'm saying is I enjoy seeing when others who've been through so much pain can still find the beauty and courage to love despite the chaos and heartache.

        • Heart of Babel

          No apologies needed, we’re on similar frequencies and I didn’t perceive it as anything but a sincere and friendly sentiment.

          Also, it is nice to see that you are no longer just another name without a face!

        • L. B. Mek

          'It’s become far too easy
          For us to discard
          Forming our factions
          And having no regard'..
          precision commentary! with a hopeful tint
          thanks for sharing your wisdom, dear poet



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