Desperate To Know

Desperate to Know

When we fall there is the rush;

the pure adrenaline of wanting

of desire, of complete happiness; of lust.

We rise in triumph through the stages

from engagement to complete fulfilment.

Then we collide like stars

and fall away so far, so fast.

To go from such joyful discovery,

descending, plummeting at speed,

tearing the heart of romance clean from our souls.

It took much longer to build than to demolish,

like a house brick by brick erected

and felled by the wreckers ball

in a few crunching, crushing blows.

The confusion in our minds

at the sudden change, leaves such naked uncertainty

and question after question unanswered

as we claw at the flesh of truth

desperate to know

why the love that once was so precious has died.

 

25^th February 2009

Reviews

[Claire Twinn]

Such feeling and intensity - yes it's horrible when things go wrong so suddenly.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yes I agree.

[emmajoy]

What to say? This might have been written in blood, there's such an ache propelling its thoughts. And, at the end a would-be question that perhaps has a mess of answers.

'To go from such joyful discovery, ~ descending, plummeting at speed, ~ tearing the heart of romance clean from our souls.' A tragedy of words.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

It feels that way and you have been through it.