My Nevada

Teddy.15

 

I was twenty-seven year’s old

my spark gone

I couldn’t see anything

lost all hope in love

was drowning

in my very own

sin city

 

I remember the day

and the hour

my alarm clock died willingly

 

I felt nothing

I didn’t notice

every day was the same

 

dark

cold

empty

lonely

 

I pinned myself

to a billboard

on Fremont street

but nobody noticed

 

a million tiny lights

and I still didn’t shine

 

someone, once told me

If I wanted to touch the Sun

I’d have to dance naked

on the desert sand

so I did

    but still…

 

I never did touch it.

 

  • Author: Teddy.15 (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 10th, 2023 00:40
  • Category: Reflection
  • Views: 19
  • Users favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek, sorenbarrett
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  • Caring dove

    Hi teddy this is so sad yet beautifully expressed ) it’s very difficult to feel in a place of sadness / depression .. I’ve been there before .. still get sad sometimes .


    Beautiful way with words yet so much sadness speaking from them 🌸



    • Teddy.15

      This wasn't depression however It is about my first experience of love, and what it did to my self confidence. Thank you my dear rose. ❤️ What doesn't kill us in love makes us

    • Caring dove

      Ok )) I understand now . 🌸

      Your welcome

      • Teddy.15

        Well actually the reader must find their own interpretation and yes there was many dark moments so you weren't wrong about what you saw but as you can see I was strong enough to ride this terrible road and actually I wrote this just before I married the man of my dreams this poem is one of my most important and also one of my first. Thank you dear rose 🌹❣️

        • Caring dove

          The man of your dreams ) that’s nice , glad you have found someone nice to be with 🙂

        • Parisab

          All the desperate things we do for love and sometimes with no reciprocity-great read, being showy in Vegas doesn’t receive much notice-everyone and everything is already extra-thanks for sharing your heartfelt words- bravo a una poetessa

          • Teddy.15

            Thank you so much dear Parisab, welcome to my page. We all survive love if we are lucky enough ❤️

          • orchidee

            Good write T.
            KP 'kills me off' - I'm utterly out of love! lol.

            • Teddy.15

              lol then you will relate to my scribbles, you'd get lost in her chest anyway. ❤️

              • orchidee

                'Bit dark in here', I would say. A botox mountain! lol.

              • Neville


                this is absolutely brill & I aint talkin fish neither .. I seriously mean it ..

                I thought I was your Nevada tho ... ❤️

                • Teddy.15

                  lol soul poets ❤️

                • L. B. Mek

                  who we are and what we overcome
                  as seeds, to the us blossoming
                  in the now we cherish sincere
                  (i can imagine you dancing
                  in that desert, with just you
                  and the angels that look over you)
                  pulse as the drumbeat
                  to our life's emancipation songs
                  if we survived, we did enough
                  onwards
                  to existence's, blessed
                  hurdles
                  (stay strong beautiful!
                  but no more public peep shows
                  gotta make em Pay!
                  google earth a modern menace)
                  lol

                  • Teddy.15

                    LOL thanks for this amazing review and your wisdom dearest MeK. The most wonderful thing is when I was.28 I changed my life and never looked back ❤️

                  • Christina8

                    A wonderful write, Teddy! So sad but written with such description.....Great job!

                    • Teddy.15

                      Thank you so much dear Christina, my first love but certainly not my last. ❤️

                    • peto

                      Super write
                      That spark returned, I suspect pretty quickly just by your words I've read lately
                      Loved the dance

                      • Teddy.15

                        Dear peto, to kind of you to come by to yet more of my scribbles, 10 years of my life was lost on a love that was truly painful, but in the end I found my way and changed it all this is going back 20 years and is part of who I am today. I adore love even when is ugly it's part of all our beings and none of us have answers nor guarantees, that's why I love this subject and this poem would not have been written otherwise. Thank you so much. ❤️

                      • Goldfinch60

                        Very emotive words Teddy but you have come out of that down time into your wonderful life so all is good.

                        Andy

                        • Teddy.15

                          Yes Andy, you are right and if it were not for how my life turned out I may never have been able to write this. Thank you so much. ❤️

                        • Garth Rakumakoe

                          Full of meaning and significance. We are the result of our experience, and yet the creators of the impending same... Very powerful.

                          • Teddy.15

                            Dear Garth, you have interpreted this poem perfectly, it's true that we all have our own stories of good and bad love and it's what we do to change ourselves that counts onto the next adventure with experience and wisdom. Thank you so much. ❤️

                          • sorenbarrett

                            A beautiful expression of love lost and soul at the same time. An existential crisis where faith in the words of others was not sustained, and the sought after sun was not obtained. Sad but so close to truth and truth is what a poet is supposed to tell.

                            • Teddy.15

                              Awe, you found another one of my most special poems, you know sorrenbarret, I wrote this just before I got married, I guess it brought me to a full circle, 20 years it stayed inside me until I was so damn happy I could actually write about this past lost love. I know you will understand what I'm saying I'm not being articulate, but I know you will know what I mean, it took me to actually find my happiest time where I found my strength to write about such a dramatic moment from my past. Thank you dearest sorrenbarret 🌹💐



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