Can'T Help But Wonder Poem by Nathan Barkley
Can'T Help But Wonder
How beautiful are we really?
Why do we feel?
Since we are imperfect
I cant help but wonder
If love is supposed to have this power
Like the sun, to sustain life
and help create a simple, yet beautiful flower.
To shelter us from the darkness
Rendering it, makes it seem so harmless.
Love? Are you really this humble this giving?
Making millions experience this bliss
Yet I cant help but wonder
Since we are imperfect
is it us?
Or is it how its supposed to be?
Nobody told me love had a double meaning.
Many act as if love has only one face
'It's incorruptible', how dare they lie to my face!
I've seen its corrosiveness
I've felt it! I've fought it! I can't win against it!
Hollowing out peoples hearts
Like some kind of dark hole
Eating, devouring every good thing in one's soul
Love is Also like the sun,
It holds so much power
How am i supposed to know that
whomever gets so attached to it or close
ends up being burned and forgotten
Just like the trees who try to reach the sky
only to be obliterated and scattered within the wind
only their ashes float for a second
just like a nostalgic memory
Is the darkness so bad?
Why does the sun always try to hold it back?
Darkness do you hold some secret?
Is the sun so jealous
just like love eventually turning everyone so selfish.
I've seen the night,
I've seen it's moon and falling stars
oh its so beautiful with its calm and dark ambiance.
Darkness i invite you in my heart
Take it before love comes back in
Flow within my veins
Bring me that everlasting slumber
where my feelings will never again wake up
Feeling nothing, emptiness,
that's how i wanna be
No one will open this heart you see
Forever sleeping, wondering aimlessly, running away from pain
just like a shooting star
let it rain
forever...
i love this..every word of it..it left me rendering for words to comment. this is a constant thought of mine about love..its so great when it happens to you but once its gone all thats left is a knife in your heart. it consumes your whole body and makes you feel on top of the world..i've been there...but sometimes being lonely and single has its kicks :) this is an instant favourite :) you should feel proud about this master piece
Love is a two-edged sword; it vacillates on a single spectrum the extremes of which you can determine as you see fit. It is an emotional dichotomy that has varying effects on different people. Emotional darkness is a time to test the extremes that you as a person can withstand. How will you know how fast a car can go, if you don’t test it? The darkness is the extreme opposite of this and you don’t wish it upon yourself it just happens. Furthermore, it is a time to prune all the non-essential things and only maintain that things necessary for vitality- life itself. It is a time for contemplation and reflection; a time to make plans for the future and a time to consider the things you would like to change. Above all else, it a time for personal growth (this come from personal experience): Cloudy weather, rain or the night time has never bothered me it simply exists regardless of whether we like it or not. Love; this togetherness that is idealized a man and woman is not essential maybe it’s a product construed by the media, Hollywood or some other artificial product of man. No one person will ever be able to fulfill all of your desires. As far as beauty, What kind of beauty is it that you speak of? Physical/external Beauty? Is it internal beauty? Or Is it a combination of the two? This perception is altered by the media just look at the television/internet ads, the billboards or the magazines in the grocery store checkout line. Sorry for the long rant, but this poem is very contemplating. You are asking some very fundamental questions about life. Most excellent I might add. Keep being curious. Thanks for sharing this piece.10+
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I would like to translate this poem
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4/27/2024 2:33:47 PM # 1.0.0.1119
A lot of other people here are going to go into a play by play breakdown on what exactly this poem does. I'm not going to do that. Your poem made me feel pain, emphasize with you, and for a second there embrace the darkness.10