Acceptance
A poignant poem exploring deep themes of grief, disillusionment, and spiritual exhaustion.
Capturing a transition from seeking affection to a total withdrawal into solitude.
The speaker rejects passion—symbolized by replacing the color red with black—and surrenders to a profound weariness with their past existence.
The gothic imagery, such as swaying grief clocks and blackbirds, enhances the melancholic atmosphere of a journey permanently ended.
(A lone voice whispers)
And so like before love came
I return to my lonely home
Seeking no longer to atone
As my world suddenly stops
A new strange refuge where blackbirds now play as grief sad clocks sway
While my spirit guides come out to mourn
Dressed in black as in
They are re-swown
No more will I seek love to be adored - for now my only crimson ship has been moored
And love is now forever dead
Black is my new colour not red
So please forgive me Lord
But to truly live in happiness
I no longer horde
For of that old life
I'm now
Bored
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Copyright John Duffy
Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2026
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