Poetry: Sadness should not be isolated for too long from love
By emptychair
@innertalks (23743)
Australia
August 29, 2018 12:28am CST
Sadness dropped itself onto me, heavily, not by degree.
Another painful experience in me to be to flee, not free.
Destinating itself in me, it seemed to me to be but a plea.
Now that l felt it deeper, deeply feeding on me, you see.
Every tear left uncried had died in its ride, left unapplied.
Sadness had bested love in me, inside, and also outside.
Sadness wins though, only if love dies inside, untried outside, not onside.
How is sadness related to love?
Sadness is simply love that has run out of steam.
Sadness is still a part of love, as are all other emotions too, but love full of itself allows sadness to see itself as just one of the beams of love's rainbow, not as an isolated shard of glass that can cut you, with itself.
The bigger picture is incomplete without sadness, but also incomplete, when sadness is embraced alone, and love pushed aside, so that you cut it out of the picture, to see only one emotion isolated away, rather than it remaining in love.
Of course, for a moment, isolation works a different angled view into love so serves its purpose as such, but its purpose is lost when you remain in this view, and do not return to the full viewing platform of love.
Use a focusing tool for what it is, do not then think that you are that tool only, exclusively so.
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Sadness in love. Sadness will dog you forever if you do not return it to love.
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@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
29 Aug 18
Needed reminder, Steve.
Love helps us to remain positive and keep away sadness.
We then accept whatever life presents with gratitude and even eagerness.
When we move away from love, negative emotions take over.
Love is acceptance of life in totality - siva
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@innertalks (23743)
• Australia
29 Aug 18
Yes, nicely put siva, and yet negative emotions usually bring to us some sort of a message, or wake up call too.
They are usually deputising for love in some way too, because at the ground level of energy, it's really all only just love, and its energy, taking on other forms, sometimes less energised than full love.
All comes from and finds its home in love.
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@innertalks (23743)
• Australia
30 Aug 18
@Shiva49 Yes, to restlessness, and sometimes to despair and lack of meaning, due to the fact that any real meaning can only come from God, I think.
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@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
30 Aug 18
@innertalks It is tough in the real world not to stray away from love, but then we will know soon the right path to follow. The restlessness and meaninglessness of a different path should goad us to the path of love.
In a way, that resonates with "God is love" when we detach ourselves from our creator. The disconnection, from the sort of an invisible umbilical cord, leads to restlessness - siva
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
29 Aug 18
I love your poem. I also love that you went into sadness and ways to help with it.
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@innertalks (23743)
• Australia
29 Aug 18
Thanks Brendamarie.
This type of a poem is known as an acrostic poem. The first letter in the first word of each line spells out a word.
The word here is, "sadness".
I was also trying to show then that there is usually a hidden message or learning opportunity for us that comes to us from sadness, or from anything else in life, for that matter, that we can pick up on and learn from, and grow from, in a new way, for ourselves too.
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@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
30 Aug 18
@innertalks Our experiences are full of meaning and should lead to nourish our soul.
Let us not be satisfied with merely nourishing our body which is just an outer covering - siva
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@innertalks (23743)
• Australia
30 Aug 18
@Shiva49 Yes, I agree with you there siva.
We should not overpolish the outer side of our bowl, and leave the inside dirty.
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