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Desire is the cause of all suffering yet it feels so damned good although when it is imposed upon my nature as some sort of drive to acquire assiduity this means I desire another person who is not a possession or at the minimum I crave notice which verifies me without it I want to pout and whine like a baby because I want I want I want I want more Hey! I am here notice me give me all your attention devote yourself to me I love it I may not love you but I love your affections forgive my selfish motivations as a human being this is natural as a man it takes a while to notice them as a real man I crush them and free you from my desires you come and go at will I courteously observe your absence and I am always contented when you come around
Never heard suffering so poignantly equalled with desire.
Thank you so much, that’s a great compliment!
Wow….I can’t even come close to Guapper’s comments – he summed it up perfectly!
Yeah he said it well, better than I could have lol
I’m sure you would be equally as brilliant.
lol thanks
Off to the curling rink I go….have a good night!
Night!
Oy. I concur.
lol thanks
Powerful. Desire is such a beautiful and ugly thing.
Thank you, and yes it definitely is.
Hmm..my impressions on first reading is that as humans we all do want to be acknowledged and we do desire affections and love from the outside…usually, mostly from others. I’m slowly coming to realize, with the help of the materials that I’ve been reading that whatever we need, whatever love that we crave for and the acknowledgements we crave has to come from within us. I used to want to have someone that I belonged to, you know the “You complete me” line from Jerry McGuire movie? Now, I don’t want that, because I complete me. It’s the expectations that we have about others fulfilling us that creates all the misunderstandings in a relationship…because…if we ourselves can’t / won’t acknowledge, respect, love and believe in ourselves….how can another?
Why do I get this feeling that I totally rambled off the tangent on this one? LOL!
Well I agree with everything you’re saying, we do want acknowledgement and affections, we crave it, but we can’t really have fulfilling relationships unless we are whole. I never actually saw “Jerry McGuire” but I know about that line. It’s very Plato-nic. I believe it was in “The Republic”, not sure, that Plato talked about how we were all once whole, then split in half, and so we spend our lives searching out our other half. Plato was cool but very skewed in so many ways, so I value the culture and philosophy of his work without holding it to heart lol. I love that you got that all from my poem. It’s called “Brutal Honesty” because words are expressed that people claim to want to hear, the truth, but once they’re heard, they can hurt. A woman loves a man and gives him all sorts of attention and he loves it, thrives on it, but he doesn’t love her. She moves her attentions onto another man, because she also wants that affection which she’s not getting from the first man. The first man wants to whine like a baby because he wants her repeated attentions again, yet he realizes it’s selfish for him to feel that way. He desires not her but the way she makes him feel when she adores him, so once that’s gone, he suffers. So he needs to grow up basically and get over it lol
I get something different from this; desire as a means to an end because you stepped off with that but the whole comes across as someone seeking acknowledgment of their existence. They want attention.
“I want– I crave– I desire– notice me– verifies me– assiduity…”
The flow of this is nice Sage :)
Thank you so much! And yes that’s part of it, I describe more in my comment to Shree above. Sometimes, if someone gives you enough attention, it can be like a drug, it feels so good, you want more and more. Then once the attentions are diverted onto another person, there’s withdrawal, which is painful. :)
I appreciate the clarification Sage :)
No problem at all, I love when people have their own interpretations, and have versatile perceptions from my poems, so I try not to fill in all the blanks for people and confine the meaning into a little box, but I don’t know for some reason I couldn’t help it this time lol. There you go, part of the ego, I got to talking about myself and what’s on my mind, as my readers give me all this wonderful attention ;)
Those last two lines beautifully sum up where many of us would like to be but never get to. Many of us end up with half-finished connections and dreaming of a better place. It’s the knowledge of that which adds to the “unbearable lightness of being”
Yes, definitely, it is hard not to want to possess each other in so many ways, it’s very intricate. We just need to find a place in ourselves where we don’t need external validation to be happy, and we need to find the ability to respect other people, and be satisfied when they are happy, even if it doesn’t pertain to us. Thanks for the comment!
Suffer my desire for you… a line from a Smashing Pumpkins song I happen to love.. this piece of writing has an interesting twist… as a man you crush your own desire putting the needs of another in their proper place… leaving the reader with that emptiness… so altruistic and beautiful.
Wow, thank you so much, I don’t know that song but I’ll have to listen to it, thanks for pointing out the experience left with the reader, great compliment, thank you :)
There are not many blogs I visit as often and take away so much. It is a gift to find a way relay such personal things and leave a universal impact – none who read your words can help but relate to you. I hope you never stop writing!
Wow, that’s so beautiful. Thank you for saying that to me, it truly means a lot. Thank you!
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SO MUCH I COULD SAY ABOUT THIS POEM / SPOKEN WORD BUT I WOULD BE TYPING FOREVER. I MAY SHOT YOU AN EMAIL.
Awesome, I’d love to hear your input, definitely. Not on email at the moment, perhaps I’ll be on a little later tonight if you’ve sent anything, thank you!