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
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- Comment from author about the poem: An introspective piece about love and heartbreak.
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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
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.
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.
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'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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