I sat amongst the graves and cried...

I sat amongst the graves and cried, at least they know how I feel
Bereft of life and soul, nothing left to call real
I walk empty now, soulless and void
Lifeless I live…and think without purpose or thought…
Not just scarred…defeated, killed, dead

Words have no meaning, music no sound. Food has no taste and my body no life…
Mind numb, thoughts unformed, haunting sleepless dreams…
I’m an empty shell…echoing of wasted life…eyes expressionless…
Words unspoken die upon reaching my lifeless lips…

I am nothing, dust in the wind…
There, but unimportant, purposeless,
Gone with the wind…
I’ve lost myself, but I’ll not search…for I know where I am…still with you…

What are soul mates when apart?
Lonely, incomplete, alone…endlessly searching for one other…
Are you The One…? No, we are One…I am you and you are me…
Together it’s ‘us’…’we’…

And who are we now? I am no-one…who are you…?
We are two halves of One…you are one and I am one
And together we’re One…one and one makes One…
And without you I’m none…gone, done…numb…

I speak in silence, without sound or words…I love deeply with a broken heart
Love bleeds through the cracks…
I live without life or soul…
Alive but not living…dead and still wanting to die…

I dream of a future that’s already gone…a future that was…without ever coming to be…
An endless love that’s ended? What that supposed to be…?
But it was, it is and it always will be…and you? Will you always be?
You’ll always be mine…but someone else’s…here, but elsewhere…
I search for you, even though I know where you are…what’s that supposed to be…?

How is it that I hurt for you with a heart that’s devoid of feeling now…?Numb…
Think of you with a mind empty of thought…? Dumb…
Yearn for you with a soul I no longer own…? Alone…

I had one heart…you now have two…
Taking mine when you went…
I had a soul…you now have two…
Taking mine when you went…
I had a life…but that’s gone too…
But take it all…it’s nothing without you anyway…

What good is all this to the dead? I have no use for it now…
I gave it all to you the day I knew you…
And I knew you before I knew you…
Words are failing me…like incomprehensible depictions on paper…
Meaningless…except to those who desire their meaning

Who are you, but my future that’s past? Living that future without me…?
I’m only a puppet on a string…a part in a play…
A character in a story I did not write, will not end and cannot sway…
Life lives me…I live nothing…
Love feels me…I feel nothing…
I am nothing…
I think therefore I am?
I think no more…therefore I am no more…
I was…I thought…or I thought I was?

I am not…
I exist not…
Seek and you shall not find…
For I will always be behind…
Behind you…you’ll not see me, but I’ll be there…
Gently moving you forward first…
You will always be first…
I am last…
I am past…

I will cry so you don’t have to…
Fall so you’ll never hurt…
Give so you’ll never want…
But you’ll never know…
I’ll be the peace in your heart because I’ll bear your sorrows…
I only breathe to keep you alive…

I always said that I lived for you
Now I’ve died for you…
Died to give you life…now live twice as well…
Enough for the both of us
Don’t waste the life I’ve given up for you…
I was there with you…We were One…
Now I am none
And you are me
You are One,
You alone are ‘we’

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Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

Ahh the pain, the agony and depth it holds bring tears to my eyes... I know exactly how you feel... But I WISH nobody has to go through this pain. Ameen...

O am reading it over and over again... it makes so much sense to me... I can feel each line...
May Allah help you go through this phase. Ameen

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried…

Thanks fara…I didn’t think it would mean much to anyone…and in some ways I’m sorry that you understand it…that you’ve had to experience such pain too…

Ameen to your kind dua :hugz:

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

:-/

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried…

Sorry dude, I know it’s a bit morbid…:bummer:

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

^ now you are being a bit MODEST here.

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried…

Ok sorry…it’s REALLY morbid then…:bummer:

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

Simply true

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried…

:hugz:

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

More people can relate to this than you might think.

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried…

Dilsay…yes simplicity and truth often go hand in hand…

GKK: Thanks :hugz:

Asif2000: You’re right…I suppose the poem itself answered that really…

‘Words are failing me…like incomprehensible depictions on paper…
**Meaningless…except to those who desire their meaning’
**

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

beautiful expression of inner feelings.. very true..

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

Phenix51,
nice poem.

you touch on the consistent strength of being a loyal soul mate.
but, as i understand, the arbitrary standards of the one you think you are in a relationship, will do its best to shatter all your longing and all your love for that person, into pieces so small, that if that person were to ever pick up...
that person will have to relive all that heart ache that is caused
by that person to you.

not much can be done, but let it be, "Now I am none
And you are me
You are One,
You alone are ‘we’ "

best,
Dushwari

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

Thanks redidentity that's very kind...

Dushwari: Perhaps once something has been broken...it can never be quite the same again...the resulting cracks may weaken the structure as a whole...or perhaps they may add to the charm and originality of the peice...I guess it's all a matter of perception...

Re: I sat amongst the graves and cried...

^ i agree. this is a part of the narrator's sense of dignity in deciding to be in ownership of the realization of being betrayed and still send away the betrayer with the best, while for own self, absorbing the shattering.
best,
Dushwari