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Wall by Mohja Kauf

Someone sent me this beautiful poem today and I just wanted to share ❤

Your heart is a wall on which I knocked
looking for a door, a latch
a windowsill, a flowerpot

Everything I brought to the wall dried up
and blew away for lack of answer:
tulip bulbs, my worry for you, some children

Sometimes I pounded it with my fists
smashed my forehead on it
blamed myself for not having the passcode
hated myself
hated hating myself—started over
willed patience, got advice
cried in a heap against its brick
without getting a stir
so many night-after-nights

It’s a wall.
There is no way in.

Now that I’ve made the choice to leave
your heart suddenly has a gate
You fling it open for the first time
but I’m gone
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marcusmcmasters007 Best Comment
That piece is heartbreakingly beautiful. Raw, vulnerable, and achingly honest. It captures the quiet devastation of loving someone who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, let you in, no matter how much you gave.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Sad.

Yet sad he wasn't willing to go around the wall as well.

Yet walls are not the only thing that many won't consider going around.

Layered vails as well they refuse to consider moving.







Side note to someone else. Yes I see you through the vail struggling. The vails are there for a reason and persistence is everything.
Rambler · 61-69, M
That's powerful
496sbc · 36-40, M
wow. it almost sounds sad. 😢
Kiesel · 56-60, M
Damn… a lot of the words speak to me right now

 
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