Giving up

By animan

Sat, 08 Sep 2012
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Time is a great healer ...
... is it?
Time is like the sea, nuance of wave,
caterpault and hammer.
Sea-shock and crush,
cat-flap splash.
Pain is not a wound. Pain is
a rock – sharp flint edges
gouge and gash – but that is
bye the bye, as pain is rock.

Time smoothes it to a pebble that
you can walk on and place in your
pocket, run your fingers around.
Your pebble, sweet, of pain is smoothed
but has not gone away. It is
the wound, when its woulding is
gone.

Certificate U
Nature

Comments

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Sea-shock and crush, cat-flap splash... I'm not sure about this line. You were talking about the sea and the cat-flap stopped me, it felt out of place. bye the bye, as pain is rock. ... I was pretty sure that this ought to be by the by but to be sure I googled it. I love it when I learn something new. Most of the definitions were by the bye. I found one reference to bye the bye (so somebody obviously thinks it's right)but most of the definitions (for something not rigidly connect to) were by the bye, which just seems odd to me. Thanks for making me look it up. when its woulding is ... is woulding a word? As in would have done this or that so that a lot of woulds make woulding? ... or was it a typo and you meant Wounding? I'm not being flippant, I'm asking genuinely because I actually prefer when all the woulding is gone. I like this because it's different and you certainly made me think.

 

Submitted by animan on
Intriguing comments - thaqnk you. I meant to play with bye the bye as in a mix of by the by and goodbye the goodbye. woulding was a typo, but like you I think I prefer it and so it can stay. I suppose it's all the old chestnut of how much to play with normns and how much to stay with them. A friend said to me the other day that time does heal but leaves a scar. I think I kind of prefer that view now. But, it's all games and as you like it. ta, David