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Why Sweetheart Why Do I So Love, Then Life So Carves Me Up

Why Sweetheart Why Do I So Love, Then Life So Carves Me Up As I wrote a surging stab of pain splashed into my brain Electric agonizing pulses ate ever deeper within I wanted to touch love but darkest devil bid me abstain Crying out, "You are mine dog such would be a mad, raging sin This old aging heart knew but was in no shape to such dispel My spirit had fallen into jet-black tangle of despair I knew as it ate into my soul, this is it, unholy hell. As I wrote quantum surging of pain splashed into my brain Electric agonizing pulses ate ever deeper within I wanted to touch love but darkest devil bid me abstain Crying out, "You are mine dog such would be a mad, raging sin This old aging heart knew but was in no shape to such dispel My spirit had fallen into jet-black tangle of despair I knew as it ate into my soul, this is it, unholy hell. Why sweetheart why do I so love, then life so carves me up Darling, can truth gift me much needed stroke of granted light Wiil you be golden lover and let me then your love sup Upon the romance and we share each other's all each night I watch you baby as you comb your hair what a fine sight And then when you move on over, I watch you get undress You lean to sweetly kiss me asking if I am alright I lie and say to you yes, but my heart is in a mess I've walked these sorrows until my heart so truly deep aches Why dearest darling did you so love, why this heart so bled You see me now, soul shattered, heart kicked and it then breaks Life went from our paradise, to a love that is now dead Cry I, this greatest of misery finds a way to end And your beautiful heart sees fit to our love thus renew Dearest darling please, I do not want to just be good friends I guess we are sunk, and all our loving plans are now through. I knew as it ate into my soul, this is it, unholy hell As I wrote quantum surging of pain splashed into my brain Electric agonizing pulses ate ever deeper within I wanted to touch love but darkest devil bid me abstain Crying out, "You are mine dog such would be a mad, raging sin This old aging heart knew but was in no shape to such dispel My spirit had fallen into jet-black tangle of despair I knew as it ate into my soul, this is it, unholy hell. Robert J. Lindley, Rhyme, romance January 26th 1980 Note- An unedited poem, wrote long ago. This was the third step in the process. I always used my standard 4 step process to have a finished product.

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Christina Bowring

Date: 9/11/2023 7:08:00 AM

This is so beautiful my friend. So heartbreaking from years ago. The flow and rhyme is truly wonderful.’Life went from our paradise, to a love that it now dead’ sums up the whole poem Robert. You didn’t just put your heart into this you put everything into it. And it is a hell that one has to go through and try to survive it without being completely burnt and destroyed.

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/12/2023 4:56:00 AM

Yes, my friend, I did manage to survive but I was a bit worse for wear for a long time afterwards. God bless you.

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/11/2023 7:48:00 AM

Thank you, my good friend. I so appreciate your comment. Your analysis is spot on. Yet I did go through a hellish hell and also lived to tell about it. God bless you..

Christina Bowring
Date: 9/11/2023 7:12:00 AM

But a part of you did survive and here, right now, you continue to gift us with treasures flowing through that glorious pen of yours. Thank God literally Robert. Blessings to you.

Frederic Parker

Date: 9/10/2023 8:11:00 AM

Robert, it seems you've had a poet's heart from your emotional beginning, A love lost is one of the deepest pains the heart needs to deal with...

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/10/2023 8:58:00 AM

Thank you, my friend. So true my friend and I have so sadly had three of those in my life. But tho' bad, they do make for some great poetry if one can write it. It is just that they were so very viciously terrible to have lived through. God bless you...

Ink Empress

Date: 9/10/2023 6:20:00 AM

I love your use of colors and imagery in here and how this flows in such a moving manner. Your work, no matter when its written is so poignant and always profound and comes of as very poetically pleasing to any readers eye. I loved especially the opening and the ending ? So heartfelt and touching. From paradise to death, what a way to describe. Brilliant. New fave

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/10/2023 8:02:00 AM

Thank you, my good friend. I wanted to show this as a longer and unedited poem from my youth. I was just 26 years old in 1980. This was a poem about a failed relationship. One that took me about 9 months to even start to get over.. God bless you...

Charlotte Puddifoot

Date: 9/10/2023 4:11:00 AM

well, this is a very passionate, stirring write..i'll have to read more of your work!

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/10/2023 6:06:00 AM

Thank you, my friend. I write dark poems so that my other poems will show better the true light and love of life. Show better how living in this dark world can be. God bless you.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 9/9/2023 1:05:00 PM

Love your attempts at writing dark poetry. I still have a few in reserve but they can never attain your high standards.

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/10/2023 6:04:00 AM

Thank you, my good friend. My friend, I am sure the dak poems you wrote are stellar. I hope that you may decide to post them so that we can enjoy reading them. God bless you.