As It Hurts Them So
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Posted Jul 23, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC · edited
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I love this, it is so simple yet so deep. It is anger, sorrow, and sadness worded so well
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really cool poem. It made me imagine blue lines "of control" flowing for a person's hand and spreading through the world. I didn't understand the last two lines tho. I also really like that you mentioned that control hurts, or maybe it's a more important part of the poem since it's also the title. Keep writing
Hey, thank you. I actually envisioned blue lines as I wrote it, too! Haha, that’s interesting.
Yeah, I spose the the last two lines were a bit more personal. It was written quite a few months ago, now. It was just venting after something happened, so the tomorrow for me was a double entendre of either I’m stuck in a cycle and the same things going to happen tomorrow, or that I’ve still got hope for tomorrow and will. Again, that’s a pretty personal interpretation, so I did remove that after reading your comment.
It didn’t original have a title and needed one, and I just thought it was a cool title. But yeah, I definitely find that to be true, whether they’re aware of the hurting or not (it also makes for a very loose double meaning)
Wow, thanks for the explanation, if I were in you I would have kept the last part of the poem, there's nothing bad about putting part of your life in poetry.
No problem. I’ve still got it in there in my notes app. I just removed it for the post to keep the imagery intact a bit more.