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when pain spreads like wild fire
by Jared Fladelandmy neck feels as if one side is longer than the other.
I'm speaking vertically, half of the back of my neck
is tight and wound, while the other is loose.
it pulls my head like a springboard.
i should be sleeping at this hour,
but i hurt too much because a part of me is not here, beside me
sleeping at night.
it makes me want to kiss her and hug her and love her more than I do.
this is loneliness:
an absence of what should be there.
08/13/2006 Author's Note: nothing makes sense at the moment.
Posted on 08/13/2006
Copyright © 2026 Jared Fladeland
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Deanna M Gritsonis on 08/15/06 at 03:20 AM Its not suppose to make sense that is why its an adventure...... |
| Posted by Leslie Ann Eisenberg on 08/16/06 at 02:05 PM at the risk of repeating myself -- raw. honest. powerful. cleansing, i hope. we can all relate to this empty place, so artfully spaced here...aches and pains are often rooted in emotion, and i've had almost 15 years of help (N.E.T. chiropractic) with just what you are writing about here, so this really resonates. PK |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 08/16/06 at 03:11 PM Well, the absence of the presence is realized when the present is absent.Unfortunately we fail to realize this as we are absent. So, whats important is to remember, rather remember to remember. |
| Posted by Dave Fitzgerald on 08/16/06 at 11:16 PM love is a bitch, but it teaches alot of lessons. Get a massage, have a laugh and move on or get a grip and sort it out... a great write.. I get it... (if u don't like bluntness, sharpen your pencil ;o) ) |
| Posted by Elizabeth Seago on 02/01/07 at 03:55 PM "An absense of what should be there." You've perfectly pinpointed what, indeed, lonliness is. Webster certainly must be jealous. I also love how you spoke of the need to have someone nearer. The intensity of feelings which in any other time might not be as overwhelming. It's perfection. All of it. I've added this to my favorites. |
| Posted by Sam Roberts on 05/31/14 at 09:50 AM This is so heart breaking. Although very personal to you, it can be related universally - which I like. I think we have all felt this pain, and you have put it into words that I could never describe. Thanks xx |
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