Existing In a World of Sorrow
There was confusion
and devastation
followed by a feeling of extreme desperation
as I longed for rejuvenation
so as to go back into the world that I once knew
a world where equanimity
was so true.
But this I was helpless to achieve
just as I was not able to foresee
all that was in store for me
and as I tried to understand
through a persistent desire
to make mind sense of the circumstance
I was devoured
by an emotional fire.
And more confusion
because of all that consumed me
and the feelings that entombed me.
And I eventually started to see my limitations
while hoping for reconciliation
from those feelings I could not control
By way of logic that I knew the mind could hold.
Though benumbed
I desperately attempted to explain the mind’s realizations
to the heart
but logic had been torn away
from my being’s state
for I was now lost in a life of hardship
in a confusing dream
and I was left with my heart’s
subliminal scream.
And I asked…
Where can I find tranquility
from this calamity
that is in the here and now?
And then I finally realized
what I had been offered
and what was now proposed.
I had to let it be.
How could I hold on
when it was so painful for me?
So I surrendered
to the morning seed
which had inseminated my world
and I succumbed to an existence
that seemed surreal
but the course needed
so as to heal.
Copyright © George Yiorgos Stathakis | Year Posted 2021
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