Devour Your Soul and Heart

by McKenzieSerenity   Jul 31, 2008


Endurance comes at a costly price,
Composure always need be high,
Pain to see is pain to feel,
Eyes and heart are ice and steel.
And thus when love feels pain unending,
Must your heart become hard and unbending.
But one thing that you will not know,
When your heart is hard as stone,
It will destroy you,
Ending the life you had so cruelly sewn.
And when your heart and soul are gone,
Your body will wither and die 'fore dawn.
Once you start you cannot stop,
But if you can find the will to heal,
Then emotion will flood o'er top.
O'er top they flow,
And bitterness away they steal.
Close your soul to cold,
To pain and sorrow's call.
Open wide your arms,
Forever held in quiet warm.

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  • 15 years ago

    by Gabba Gabba Hey

    You have a very good Elizabethan way of writing, I do admire it! I rather like this poem better than the other one I read. I think you captured your writing style better in this one.
    This poem was worth reading several times.
    As for suggestions...
    well, you wrote 'oe'r' once instead of 'o'er'. That's just spelling...
    Nice double use of the words 'steal' and 'steel' the similarities in word sounds was really, really well installed.
    'And thus when love feels pain unending,
    Must your heart become hard and unbending.'
    this actually kind of reminded me of Hamlet. These lines stuck out to me a lot, and I like the aspect of 'love' feeling something. And the though of 'bending' hearts. Very well written.
    I feel that your ending is mixed, trying to choose between being cold, or being overwhelmed, but I think it's good that way. It makes me have to choose for myself.
    'It will destroy you,'
    this line is a great turning point. It changes it from static to fleshed. I liked that.
    The line about withering and dying before dawn was good, because dawn can mean a lot of things--another great dual use of a word.
    Great job!

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