Nostalgia-- Past's Ghost

Personification of Nostalgia

I am an empty husk

A ghost which haunts the hours of dusk.

I pillage your sense of complacency

And echo sardonic mockery.

 

I grate your heart and leave curled shreds

I snap your neck so you look back instead

To see my floating back to Past

Where I hide my face with pretty masks.

Withhold my coiled, writhing form

With coy, flirtatious, human norms.

Author's Note

Just wrote this one. Please be honest in your review!

Reviews

[MoriartyMesa]

I grate your heart and leave curled shreds

I snap your neck so you look back instead

To see my floating back to Past







I think there is a great deal in those words that are not expressed, this should be looked at with an eye better than mine. Mr. C. Poetry would know.

[Annie]

It's about nostalgia hurting your heart and forcing you to look back against your will.

[Annie]

Should I make this poem a bit more expressive? Perhaps the words are a tad vague or weak. I really appreciate your review

[Horizons]

Past, present and future... these three words're never gonna leave us alone but we can live along these by doing good stuffs and without hiding, without getting fear of someone and so on. In the life up and down always occurs ... there's only a need to handle the situations how a man can do. That's all i got. I loved your imaginary, i think it's a piece came from your real life... It could be a great story write too i think.. anyway, brilliant job!

[Annie]

Thanks for your reviews! I always love to hear input.

I mainly wrote about the strange bitterness and haunting qualities of nostalgia and missing past events... isn't nostalgia such a terrible feeling, especially when you're just growing up and realizing how far you are floating off?

[Horizons]

Welcome!

Yeh, at some extent it's really an abhorrent situation, it starts effecting on our life as we do start growing up in our life because we start becoming Mature and our Harmones start getting the speed of increasing the cells. Every day i think whenever a past memory comes in our mind and starts making us emotional i think... that all should be called "Nostalgia". Every dreadful memory's Nostalgia because our childhood's been gone and no one can bring that back in our life and we miss our childhood and make our eyes filled with tears .. so that;s what called none other else but "Nostalgia". So, the answer of your question's yes... yeh, Nostalgia's really a terrible feeling that comes out from our heart, from our mind and makes us sentimental especially when we growing up in the life and start realizing the things how far we're floating off now at the time...
Thanks for asking the brilliant question, i've learnt this time something new from you, thanks for making and sharing the piece with us.

[Annie]

:) a pleasure :D