Cleave

[ampoule]

Cleave

I am everything and nothing at all.
I am lifted up yet thrown into the pit.
I have hope but feel despair.
I have many names but remain nameless.
I give love but receive indifference.
I give myself but no one is there.
Could this be a riddle?
No, it is just my life, maybe yours too.
Do not be sad but shed a tear.
Think of me but then forget.
Feel my warm embrace but shiver with cold.
Touch me but push me away.
Divided, I stand and fall.

amp, January TwentyFourth TwoThousandSix

[symphony]

Wow! The closing line says it all!

[Granny5]

Amp, this is beautiful but it is so sad it hurts.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Cleave

I am everything and nothing at all.
I am lifted up yet thrown into the pit.
I have hope but feel despair.
I have many names but remain nameless.
I give love but receive indifference.
I give myself but no one is there.
Could this be a riddle?
No, it is just my life, maybe yours too.
Do not be sad but shed a tear.
Think of me but then forget.
Feel my warm embrace but shiver with cold.
Touch me but push me away.
Divided, I stand and fall.

amp, January TwentyFourth TwoThousandSix

And yet you sing.
Everything that can be uttered,
uttered truthfully,
is triumphed over!

But even a joy
that goes unspoken
isn't very much.

[firefangled]

Cleave

I am everything and nothing at all.
I am lifted up yet thrown into the pit.
I have hope but feel despair.
I have many names but remain nameless.
I give love but receive indifference.
I give myself but no one is there.
Could this be a riddle?
No, it is just my life, maybe yours too.
Do not be sad but shed a tear.
Think of me but then forget.
Feel my warm embrace but shiver with cold.
Touch me but push me away.
Divided, I stand and fall.

amp, January TwentyFourth TwoThousandSix

This is so very deep into the cut that is the human heart that I feel blasphemous speaking of its poetics, but this is beautifully written and balanced.

[Pendragon]

I'm with Fire, cut and cauterized, life autopsied for all to see

[littlewing53]

wow..i hear the wind, see the sky and everything else in between...it is simply a beautiful poem...