A Sublimely Melancholy Wall

 

I feel a lot like

The comedy and tragedy masks

Smashed together,

Lying in pieces

Mixed together on the floor.

 

If I were a movie

I’d be the cowboy

Riding off into the sunset

With the girl,

While a meteor the size of Jupiter

Hurls towards Earth.

 

If you listen real close

I am that sappy love ballad

That gets drowned out

By a metal song

About destruction.

 

I imagine that if I were a poem

That I would be the love child

From the minds of Silverstein

And Edgar Allen Poe.

 

There are so many times I feel like

My heart is walking into a wall

Built with bricks of contradiction.

 

Reviews

[MsJewel]

There are so many contradictions in life...
love the love child reference

Your words are honest and heartfelt

:) Julie

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Ahhhh thank so much julie, I appreciate your kind words.

[Matching Socks]

Ooooo very nice cowboy.
I know exactly how this feels, just try to stay out of bad luck's way!
(Side note: since we're talking about these contradictions here.... I married a man named murphy, you know about that law right, so I laugh now that I found the best love I've never had such bad luck with everything else... There seriously is something behind that whole Murphy's law thing!)
Anyway, no matter what life hurls at you, love can overcome. :-)

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Wow that is a pretty cool story, thank you for sharing.

[Matching Socks]

I know!! Isn't it funny!! Lucky in love but anything that can go wrong WILL go wrong!
I keep saying I should have kept my maiden name! Lol. :-)
Anyway, great write Cowboy.

[Fran Marie]

bricks of contradiction...liked that comparison...great write here, Dale..

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank so much Fran.

[I. Wright]

You've hit the humanity-nail on its delicate head, good sir.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you kindly.

[Beccy]

Just make sure you get to kiss the girl before the meteor lands.

Beccy.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Good point, thank you I will.

[writing mojo]

Wow!! So many good comparisons here..but the one that stuck the most was love child references. . such Gemini inspiration to literature forces..I love this piece..excellent job

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you most kindly sir.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh geez, the love child from the minds of Shel and Edgar...great.

all the contradictions of life...for every up a down...for every success a failure....
for every love, a heartbreak.

does life destroy us, or are we just self-destructive?

we are an enigma inside a conundrum aren't we?

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank yoiu Jacob… you pose some interesting questions.

[Frieda P]

Love the contradictions here Dale, love feels that way, yep!

Now I get all the romantic blubbering you've been on about. ;) Nice.......

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you Moonbeam… I wasn't really talking bout love, just emotions in general, I am glad you liked it.

[Frieda P]

Love encompasses most all emotions in one way or another, dontcha think?

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Oh yes you are actually right about that… what do you know, you are finally right, LOL

[Frieda P]

HA don't make me gut you in front of your girlfriend ;) haha

[Kayleigh]

Hmmmm honey, could you be anymore honest? I mean, I don't think you're speaking loud enough. ;)) I am only teasing you. I love how brutally honest you are... I think you're the best poet out there.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Ahhh thanks again darling… you know me, I don't beat around the bush.

[Jennie Baron]

Very witty and so honest and true. Well done!

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

Thank you so much Jennie, always appreciate you reading my work.