A poem I wrote
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| Thu, 05-05-2005 - 6:46pm |
Hi guys, I thank you for your support so much and I always look forward to coming to this board and reading. I am glad to see women get a hold on their lives and get out of any harmful situation they might be in. I am not replying to many posts, since I am thinking who am I to answer now, as I am not out of my own situation yet, but I still like to read what other women write.
I have started posting poems on 'The Poets Workshop' board and have written one (out of many) poem regarding how I felt in this marriage. I would like to post it here and see if any can relate, and even say if you liked the poem. Guys, even if you think it sucks, please tell me as I am trying to gather up all my stuff and do something with it. I won't post poems here regularly, just this one because I thought you all might relate. If it is inappropriate to post a poem here, please let me know. As I said, I will only post this one and only because I know some other women feel how I do in this poem. If you don't like it, please also let me know. Sorry, if it is inappropriate to do so.
Here goes:
The Key
Since you've been here
I've been living in my head
Not living in my heart
Where I should've been instead
It seems that you've tried to block off the door
To my heart and change things that went once before
You pushed out the love and I learned really fast
To forget about things I was taught in the past
Not to trust my love, not to trust my heart
Not to use sentiment and from my joy depart
Not to live in a world that was splendid and free
But to analyze things right down to a tee
So instead of living life in a joyous state
I sat here in silence so you wouldn't berate
All the joy and the happiness you tried to destroy
I'll leave here with you and all you used to deploy
But I'll be adding a new technique now you'll see
It's called shutting the door and not leaving the key
And leaving the place where you once had found me
I'll return to the world and be happy once more
And I'll bask in the sun like I did once before
Very soon in my heart you'll be just a memory
Where you might see the door
But you won't have the key
Again, this is the only poem I'll be posting here just because I thought other women would relate...... Thank you

I think your poem is wonderful! While I can't speak for all, you really captured what my experience has been except, I am still working up the courage to leave. While I am not an expert in any of this, I would suggest you send it to magazines oriented to women.
I look forward to reading more of your prose! Please don't hesitate to share!
Hugs,
Dianasr