The Five Senses

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Rachel20

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I cannot see
The beauty that the world sees
I cannot watch magazines
And see pretty the way you see
I cannot taste
The sweetness that you pour
Like chocolate syrup over your toast
My taste buds are scoured
I cannot hear
Or I forget instantly the joke
When your humor lifts my mouth
In vain, my lips are broke
I cannot smell
The flowers you put in my hair
When we pass putrid flesh
In trash bags that rot there
I cannot feel
Your skin against mine
It was never there but I imagined
Your comforting hand intertwined




I have a heart
So I am losing my five senses
I am losing my compass
But I don’t think it was that big a loss

 
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psychomom

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Rachel, i miss you!!
 
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Rachel20

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Ellie!!!


I love you <3


Hope you are doing well, you dear, wonderful kind lady! ^_^


PS - yay!!! You missed me!!!! *happy dance* !
 
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Rachel20

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About the Poem -


This is one of my most "angsty" poems.

It's a personal reflection of how I feel - growing up in a country where people don't get even three meals a day. A place where great poverty exists side by side with wealth - a paradox.

At the time of writing this poem, I was afraid of being "numbed" by whatever I saw. I did not want to become apathetic.

This poem expresses a disconnection - not to the misery around me but to the outside frivolity and physical pursuits that coincide with the interests of the majority of my age group and indeed, the whole world.

The paradox in itself is the losing of the physical while gaining new ones. This is what I meant to convey in the last stanza.


It's no big deal to separate ourselves from that:) [ we are new creatures in Christ! ]

The failure of the physical senses is nothing compared to the dulling of the senses of the soul. The empathy, the compassion and love for others as well as our faith and trust in God should be our guiding beacons.
 
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