Aching Beauty

[bethylynn503]

I hurt now. A dull ache that sobs and moans, but comforts itself. I love, I feel, I live. It’s not much. Not a life by most standards, but it gives me hope. Hope for meaning. Hope that I will not dull into the drab colors of monotony. There is something crying within me, and it is a beautiful song. A tragically beautiful melody that urges

Comments

[katalaya]

beautiful descriptions like this make me happy

I agree that feeling, which includes pain, is better than numbness. Numbness is fatal to the "life of your life" When you're numb, you're just alive, you aren't really living

so is anything to come out of this? Or are you at the point of not wanting to rush things?

[bethylynn503]

I'm just letting things take their course. No sense rushing things, things that are too good to be true disappear when you rush them. My life sucks and rocks all at the same time. I feel like Eeyore and I couldn't ask for anything more!

[katalaya]

as long as that remains balanced it's good right?

one time I wrote a poem about living both extremes at once