Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
Mis-Step
“I feel my failure intensely as if it were a vital organ.”– Jim Harrison
I searched for you today but it seems you’ve gone away,
leaving naught but stepping-stones of failure in your wake
for we were but a beautiful mistake.
I tried to say the right words, be everything you expected
but you left me anyway, hungry for your affection
as love’s done so many times, leaving me dejected.
The stars no longer shine, the moon no longer glows
in this void of emptiness,where bitter tears flow
nothing flourishes here, for hope no longer grows.
So I walk this shadowy path now that we’re apart
plodding on the fallen love, once a work of treasured art
now vanished in the fissured cracks of my broken heart.
©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s note: I’m going back to the first few days of the 28 Days of Unreason that I missed.
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The fissured cracks of my broken heart!!
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Haha! Yes, a bit morbid.
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No – fabulous word choice! Love it!
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Thanks!😊
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This is such a wonderfully romantic poem!!! Bravo, Linda, Bravo!!!
xoxo
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Thank you Chuck. xoxo
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A beautiful mistake….and yet leaving memories of love.
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Yes. Thank you.
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There are so many mistakes… yet we cannot live without that experience.
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I agree with you- life lessons. Thanks Bjorn.
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You captured the acute pain with these words “….in this void of emptiness,where bitter tears flow…” ..and many more. The spirit of Harrison lives on!
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Thank you so much Vivian. I just had to go back and complete the challenge. One more tomorrow. 😊
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Good idea! Will check on you tomorrow too, then 🙂
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😊 thank you!
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🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet and commented:
Come and enjoy Linda’s wistful and romantic poem – MIS-STEP
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Thank you Chuck!
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This is absolutely lovely! I love how you describe confusion and feeling of betrayal when a heart is broken. The pain is fresh and palpable in your verse. 💜
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Thank you Sanaa. I appreciate your kind thoughts.
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Ah, if one has to try hard to fit another’s expectations, it’s doomed. Perhaps it’s some comfort that it was beautiful, even though a mistake.
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Yes, so true. Thank you. Appreciate you reading.
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