Giving up on needs

Giving up on needs

 

I have given up on needs, wants, and desires.

It’s hard to have those in your life when there is no flame in your heart.

 

I do not mourn or cry at night, or wonder where it has gone off too.

I’m sure it has found a new home, the one it had is broken.

 

My numbness comforts me.

I no longer feel the need for such pleasure.

 

So I sit content not to wish for things that can no longer be.

I smile every now and then, just to see what it looks like.

 

It’s odd to see that smile, maybe it is someone else looking back at me.

The face that looks back at me is not really I at all.

 

I put the smile back in its box.

I will pull you out soon I promise; that was so very long ago.

Reviews

[Eddie Phillips]

Deep abject thought here. I know how it feels to put your emotion in a box and pretend it doesn't exist. It is a necessity for the work I do. One day however you will be able to open that box. When you do you will be flooded by the emotions that you stored there. You have no need to find desire..it will always find you. Great poem!

[ron]

Thank you. I dont think for me it will happen, but I keep hope in the back of my mind like and ember waiting to ignight.

[Eddie Phillips]

As long as there is hope there is life. If there is life there is faith. When there is faith there is possibility. All things are possible and you may find it someday.

[Dye]

I certainty hope this is just a write and not a complete truth. Never give up on needs my friends, when you give up, you tend not to notice when they arrive.

[ron]

This one is maybe 90% true. I maybe a guy but the needs dont seem to matter much anymore.

[shallimarRose]

Wow this is deep.. Dont ever give up on needs Ron That would be like giving up on yourself and you should never do that.. Very emotional read. xo Rose

[ron]

But I have given up on my needs Rose.

[Frieda P]

This reminds me of Pink Floyd's song 'comfortably numb'....we all find ourselves in this situation at times, not wanting to feel, denial is not so bad when all we've had is pain and hurt for some time.... it helps get us to the other side again, as long as we don't linger in it for too long. Well done ron!

[ron]

I have felt like this for so long that it feels like the safest place for me.

[Frieda P]

I get that ron, when we venture out seems that haven was a much safer place to be.....

[Laminators Dubai]

its great to control yourself....its a way to great humanity....

a very thoughful write.....
thanks for sharing...

[ron]

Thank you for reading.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

SEEMS AN IN DEPTH WRITE OF SELF HERE IN THE LINES...YOU SUM UP THE LINES AND IN THE END:

I put the smile back in its box.
I will pull you out soon I promise; that was so very long ago.

AND THE STRUGGLE IS FELT EVEN MORE WITH THOSE TWO END LINES...

[ron]

Thank you. Yes there is strugle but I have no more strenght for it.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

U R WELCOME...HOPE YOU FIND IT...TIME HEALS EVERYTHING...