POEM | POETRY FOR BROKEN HEARTS

Come What May. That Day, Love Got Burnt Away

Wit, heart, and sense burned like incense

Come What May

Lie upon lie makes the truth die; Blood, sweat, and tears fall on deaf ears. Day after day, care led astray, Fear, doubt, and pain take hold again.

On and on, not much to add on; Needs, wants, and joy further the ploy. Night after night, losing the light, Scorn, loathe, and snark blend in the dark.

Bit by bit, coal in a smoke pit, Wit, heart, and sense burn like incense. Hope and desire, moth to the fire, Goals, plans, and dreams dry in the steams.

Author’s Notes

Day ten of my 29-Day Poetry Challenge was more challenging than I thought. I was supposed to have a lot of free time, yet I found myself quite busy.

By the time I started to work on the poem, I felt the pressure of a tight schedule. It’s not really that leisurely when you spend a few hours on 12 short lines you call a poem. The things I do for poetry…

Rushing to find a theme or idea to work with, I turned once again to reading some random poems on Medium and noted down some bits and pieces that I found interesting.

Here is how those scattered, random bits looked inside my draft:

Overwhelmed, excited

Maybe a bit scared

A warm comforting contrast

just for decoration

climbing vines

sweating and covered in sawdust

wave goodbye to the hurt and pain

Ideas hide

thick storms and changing seasons,

broken wings,

Lie upon lie

in a fit of desire

like a moth to the fire

What a mess, right? But that’s okay. I’m quite good at scavenging, and a little bit of chaos inspires me the most. As you can see, I only fished out what I needed (about 5% of the words I noted down) and left out the extra parts. This was not a random word challenge after all.

That being said, I’ll keep the words in a draft. Maybe I can throw them into another mix, along with some new finds. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. It’s quite late, and now I have to write my second article for the day.

In case you guys wonder how I manage to write two stories every day, I usually write one day ahead. For example, these Saturday articles were written on Friday (yesterday, by the time this post comes out).