Poetry: Great sadness lived alone in me, kept apart from my great love.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23744)
Australia
January 13, 2021 10:01pm CST
I was sitting all alone, feeling sadly sad in myself, in myself.
Life had mostly all ticked me by, and I was still on its shelf.
I had done nothing much with my life, and I was already old.
I had never been bold enough to do, what I was told, to unfold.
I was now afraid of dying, with my sadness never emptied into love.
Love had never reached me, because I was so shy of it in me.
I had walked around its borders, but never immersed me in it, to be.
I soon died to myself, and I never lived as me in me, you see.
Love also dried up, and the sadness became then all me as me.
Sadness and love live in each other, only when we love both, in we.
Sadness works its way into us, from each saddest of sad thoughts.
And yet this is not fully true; real tears are cried by our hearts.
When we feel too much, we feel sadness deeply, not love anymore.
And yet, in the background of all sadness, love lives, still its maker.
We want to love more deeply, and feel the sadness, when we can't.
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We can almost identify and relate to sadness, more than we can to love.
Sadness can be a key into love's heart.
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5 responses
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
15 Jan 21
Let not sadness overcome your happiness. Take it as a part of life's challenges that would make life better after it.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
15 Jan 21
Thanks. That is a good way of seeing most things, to see them as a part of life's challenges, and not let them lessen our love for God, as Job did in the Bible.
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
15 Jan 21
@Nakitakona Yes, everyone else would have a hard job to match Job's faith. His faith was unsurpassed.
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
15 Jan 21
@innertalks No one could surpass Job's faith so as with Abraham.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
Yes, I have been longing for true love, for all of my life.
I want to experience God's love for real, but I never have as yet, either.
I mostly feel sad about that, but sometimes it even rises to a sort of anger, in me, about it, too.
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
14 Jan 21
@innertalks I am fine as long as God is in my heart.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
@Shavkat l know that God is in my heart too.
I just want him to move across to my mind sometimes too.
I need to somehow "feel" his love with my mind.
Possibly impossible, but nothing is impossible for God!
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@Deepizzaguy (122313)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14 Jan 21
You have a good point that sadness is the key for love to enter the heart.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
Yes, I think sometimes that it is. Sadness can reach into love, via its deepness, in ways that we might not get to do otherwise. Sadness is one of the keys to understanding love.
@Shiva49 (28397)
• Singapore
14 Jan 21
I believe in giving free play to my emotions but not to hurt others.
Sadness is inborn and need its place under the sun too.
Suppressing our emotions, sadness, can invite compounded miseries on us.
Love is ready on tap though and that should find a way past the sadness to illuminate our path.
Love is the best antidote to sadness and negativity and makes our lives worthwhile and fulfilling.
I overwhelm sadness with love as creation is oiled by love, hope and positivity.
Let me play along than sink in the misery of extended sadness.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
Should we give free play to our emotions, if they do not hurt others, but they do hurt ourselves?
I believe free play is too much, and as conscious beings we should always maintain some control over our emotions.
Consciousness lives on a higher level of wisdomed action, than emotions do.
Free play allows the emotion to be itself in us, but then a degree of control, by allowing love to step back in, as you so poetically said there, is the cure for prolonged, or extended sadness overwhelming us, and so turning into negativity in us then too.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
@Shiva49 Does sadness, lingering in you though, affect outwardly those around you, who might not see the outward smile on your face, so much, at that time?
Does lingering sadness move past sadness into a sort of melancholic depression sometimes too?
When sadness lingers too long in me, I normally get up and do something out of left field, to kickstart another emotion in me, if it is time for it to start, and for sadness to depart, as most of the time, lingering sadness is wallowing sadness for me.
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@Shiva49 (28397)
• Singapore
14 Jan 21
@innertalks What I had in mind was when we are emotionally troubled like the passing of a loved one. I do not like to force forget the sadness but allow it to linger within me though would not show it aloud to others. I have heard about grieving in private.
Then I have emotions of loved ones memories that I allow to replay not controlling them.
The only exception is when negativity creeps in with hurts of wrong doing. Then I move on with a conviction let justice takes its course.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
15 Jan 21
So many things that we miss because we take time for granted.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
15 Jan 21
Yes, that's true, and we miss seeing some things, when we colour them too much, with just the one emotion like sadness too, sometimes too.
