My world is gone (poem by Lu Kelly Davis)

My world is gone
It was never here
Let me live or die
Let me sleep or never be awake
Nothing here matters anyway

My world is gone
Don’t let it bother you
It won’t touch you
It is just me who experiences it
Never let it be any care of yours

My world is gone
What I thought I saw
Was never what it was
It is all inside my head
Just living there
Where no one can see

Don’t let me bring you down
I am not what you think I am
No light remains
No warmth, just cold
Its just me in this midland dark
Where no one cares
And no one has a heart

I walk among you
With sadness in my eyes
No one sees my fear
No one hears my cries
Just one touch
Gives me warmth
To last another year or more
Just one kiss
Gives me joy
I will not forget for evermore

My memories fade
As my world dissipates
Remember those times
When you felt something brush you by
And nothing was there
I’m just a spector now
Hauntingly close like a slight breeze
On a windless day

Don’t let me bring you down
I’m not worth that much
My memories may fade
While yours scatter in the dust
My world is gone
So I’ll borrow some of yours
So I can be close
Just a spector in your head
A remnant long forgotten
Swirling in the dust
Washed away by the rain
Gathered in the dirty muck

Don’t let me bring you down
My world is gone
I’ll only borrow yours
Long enough to remember
I was never yours

by Lu 14October2023, Saturday, 1:10pm
While listening to Bread “The Guitar Man”

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herDestiny · 36-40, F

Beautiful but so sad

assemblingaknob · 26-30, F

🥺🤗🌸
You're a very sensitive person. It's a beautiful poem.

BLP11520 · 61-69, M

@assemblingaknob she is

Luckylu · 61-69, F

@assemblingaknob thank you.

DavyPNW · 56-60, M

I think it was Edgar Alan Poe that said "melancholy is the only pure emotion". You captured it well

Luckylu · 61-69, F

@DavyPNW Thank you Davy. ❤️

Montanaman · M

Your words affect me more than i let on.
Bless you 🤗🤗❤️

Luckylu · 61-69, F

ah dear @Montanaman , your words mean a lot to me. I know you understand a writer when they write feels everything deeply and in doing so they are able to touch upon the emotions of others.

In writing, it is my hope that it will awaken in others that the stranger they see who shows no emotions on the outside may actually have within them a well of feelings so raw and painful, we ourselves could never survive it while this stranger walks among us surviving it every minute of every day they are alive.

So… be kind, be thoughtful when dealing with them, you might be the only bright thing they have had in their life for a long time. I have been witness to such in my life when I take the time and give a compassionate hand, while others look on and then ask me how I could do that, aren’t you afraid they might be a serial killer. I kid you not. I actually had someone say that to me.

So thank you for your words. They mean a lot to me.

OldBrit · 61-69, M

Very moving

Luckylu · 61-69, F

@OldBrit Thank you.

BLP11520 · 61-69, M

Great job lady 😊

SW-User

Again I love your work. But it brings such sadness. Does it reflect your past, or how you feel now? Or is it abstract like your art?

Luckylu · 61-69, F

@SW-User Sometimes they are a reflection of something I am going through like Hammer https://similarworlds.com/poetry/i-write/4733422-Hammer-poem-by-Lu-NOTE-FROM-AUTHOR-As-a-writer-I-am-always
In that one it isn’t that I wanted to hurt myself but how I felt this strong reaction to what was going on. Not removing myself from it was like me taking a hammer to inflict the pain I was allowing by staying and putting up with what was going on.

My writing begins with a word, a phrase, or an image and the words just come and pull on emotions and flows like the paint on a canvas. I never know where my writing will take me. Sometimes it’s an outlet, sometimes it’s emotions remembered. Most times it is symbolic and rarely about anyone in particular and can be about a person I long for but have never found.

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