EXCRUCIATING PUNISHMENT

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How can a parent deal with letting go, sometimes the should have questions perturb you. Why do we have to be happy to see them happy away from us. I believe that many just don't speak about it but they do suffer in silence and this makes them grumpy or bitter.

EXCRUCIATING PUNISHMENT

Ice crystals ornamental to partially weeping branches,
the sky foggy grey as if sadness struck the night,
the road seemed longer and the distance farther from you
my heart sank, as I got closer to home, and I became blue.
Visiting you did some good but it torments me now,
depressing me, knowing we'll never live together again.
How can I deal thinking, I should have done more?
Maybe I should have held you tighter when I hugged you,
I should have said more I love yous every minute of the day.
The should have questions trouble my mind afflicting my heart
like knives stabbing me making deeper wounds never to heal.
I'll never see your smile in the morning, nor hear you calling me.
The phone calls cannot touch me instead haunt me like a ghost.
I would rather have you here talking to me like before.
Today I woke up feeling miserable irritated at life itself.
I look around and it seems no one else misses you.
Life condemned me alone with guilt and sorrow,
while everyone else happily goes on living.
Its hard to eat, speak, smile and even weep.
I've tried to cry but tears won't come out,
instead they stay inside burning like hell.
No one understands why I am so bitter and yell.
How to explain this pain killing me slowly?
How can I tell them I need some compassion.
I'm dying alone in silence agonizing missing you.
I don't want to hear that it was time to let you go,
or its part of life nor the quotes of kids having to grow.
To me its an excruciating punishment weakening
my soul.

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ChewyRibbit commented on EXCRUCIATING PUNISHMENT

02-06-2010

Very well worded and a great expression of sadness and overall poem, I haven't experienced things like that in life yet but I feel like I can understand well what you are writing about because you are such a good writer!

poett

02/06/2010

Thank you for your comment and Im overwhelmed by you calling me a great writer. I am glad you added me as friend I will be reading your work soon and its the best choice you did to choose this site to vent out and write anything you feel. You will find the comments and feedback left by other are good help especially if you want to write lyrics in the future. I agree with you not being sorry for what or how you express yourself its okay many do the same as well as I do. Some of my poetry is also about certain things that go in my life and others are hear say or things I watch on t.v. or real life around me... Thanks for stopping by and adding me once again... I just became a grandma and my son barely sent me the pics so im too excited....

gogant commented on EXCRUCIATING PUNISHMENT

02-01-2010

They always have to leave...sooner or later. We smile while dying inside. A lovely choice of words, my friend..................gogant

poett

02/02/2010

Thank you gogant its tough you know especially in those special once in a life time moments like today I wish i could be there with him. My granddaughter will be born anytime soon.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

poett’s Poems (46)

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STARTING ANOTHER YEAR TOGETHER WITH A BLAST 0
EMOTIONAL CHAOS 6
YOU GIVE ME EVERYTHING 3
SENTIMENTAL NOSTALGIA 2
WHEN ISABELLA SMILES 4
AN OLD OWL'S HOPE 2
AN OWL'S LOVE CRIES 5
SWEET SMELL OF DANGER 3
FOUND MYSELF TONIGHT 7
SAD 6
Es tan Facil / It's so easy 6
MY CHOCOLATE LOVE INSANITY 5
CAN YOU STAND THE RAIN? 7
WHAT WOULD YOU DO 6
WITCHY MOM 5
LOVE IS FORGOTTEN 1
THUNDER STORMS WON'T GO AWAY 1
OPEN DOOR 0
A ROSE IS ALL HE LEFT 2
I'LL SLICE OPEN MY VEINS 2
ERES MI MOTIVO - YOU ARE MY MOTIVE 0
A LOVER'S FULL MOON 0
I WAS LEFT IN SOLITUDE 0
I AM SO SMALL IN YOUR HANDS 0
ITS DIFFICULT ( ES DIFICIL) 0
LOVE 1
DEATH STOP TAUNTING ME 0
MI QUERIDA BELLA - MY DEAR BELLA 0
EXCRUCIATING PUNISHMENT 2
WARNING: RED ROSES OR HOT FLAMES 3
FOR ALL PARENTS ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH TEENAGERS 6
POETRY IS MY LIFE 1
MY IMMORTAL LOVE 0
WELCOME TO HELL 3
Pensive Gaze 1
In My Father's Hands 1
I Am Not Alone 1
I Stand Alone 4
I Wish I Could Just Fly Away 1
To Play 1
Everything Is Collapsing Around Me 0
Lets Divide It By Two 1
You Mean Everything To Me 1
It Only Takes A Minute 2
DEATH 3