My Life

About Life, hopes and dreams, sufferings, loneliness, knowledge and love.. Sums up everything.

Three passions have governed my life.

The longings of love,

The search for knowledge

and the unbearable pity for the sufferings of my heart.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.

In the  union of love I have seen.

In a mystic miniature, the prefiguring.

Visions in the heaven, the saints and poets have imagined with equal passion.

I have sought knowledge.

I have wished to understand the hearts of people.

I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led me upwards to the heaven

but pity always brought me back to the earth.

Cries of pain reverberating in the heart of children,

in famine,

of victims tortured and of old people left homeless.

I long to alleviate the evil buzz and I too suffer.

This has been my life and I have found it worth living.

 

 

Author's Note

Please review and let me know your suggestions.
Thanks and have a great day!!!

Reviews

[Frieda P]

Such a heartfelt piece, your emotions are palpable on this page annabela.

Cries of pain reverberating in the heart of children,
in famine,
of victims tortured and of old people left homeless.

Such a clawing statement, rips right through the heart. Awe inspiring read. Very nicely pen'd.

[Anita Singh]

Thank you Frieda. Glad to know it inspired you in someway.

[Frieda P]

The pleasure was mine Annabella.

[Roger Turgeon]

You know yourself well. Hopefully, you will find a way to channel your love and knowledge to overcome the suffering of others..... and stay aloft

[Anita Singh]

Thank you! I will definitely. I'll strive to do it. Thanks again.

[Blue]

I so love how you penned this, Annabella. You are a wise woman, I can tell that. I wish the best in your life.

[Anita Singh]

Aww! Thank you so much!! I wish you the best in life too. Keep the faith.

[DIVYA]

Very well expressed Anabella. Noble intentions and worthy thoughts never fail...Much enjoyed.

[Anita Singh]

Thanks a lot, Divya!

[Carl Drake Barnard]

Wow I could relate to this write. Your words are enticing rendering me unable to withstand the words that you form. I stand in awe for this poetess is A lovely poem indeed. Great WriTe!! :)

[Anita Singh]

Thank you, Carl.

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

What I like about this poem is that it has come directly from the heart...your language is nice and easy...although I wouldn't like to classify this in any category...but this is quite nice!

[Anita Singh]

Thanks a lot!!

[Aradia Lecrawe]

Wow, annabella. You are one of the few souls who look farther out than their own to seek to understand the world around them. And not only this world, but those beyond our own reach. It is a selfless act to empathize with those who suffer on a daily basis and take it into oneself. You have a good heart and know where your love lies. That is a rare trait in people. Very well written, as always.

[Anita Singh]

It pains me to see the horrors of death, destruction and disease in the world. A massacre takes place somewhere while the rest of the world looks the other way. Hearing such news, I get depressed instantly. That's when I jot down my thoughts. Thanks for reading and liking, Aradia!

[Robert Tusitala O'Neill]

You truly have a heart akin to mine. I know your three passions like they were my own limbs. I really like your use of the word "prefiguring." Great placement of that word. I like that your poetry needs no falsely imposed structure to have a flow all its own. It is as clear as a paragraph, but yet it is as poetic as a any poem of careful constructed iambic pentameter because you use your capitalization and careful punctuation as part of the meter and flow. It is like a river with rushes and eddies. I almost wonder if the two spaces before the word "union" are intentional or accidental because you clearly make every jot of this poem count. Very well said and beautifully explored! Thank you for letting me read your poem!

[Anita Singh]

Thanks Robby! The two spaces before "union" were accidental. Didn't knew it would be interpreted inn this way! Thanks once again for your lovely review. :-)

[Matt DeFranco]

This is beautiful Annabella.

[Anita Singh]

Hey Matt, Thanks!!

[Matt Sayer]

Our pursuits carry us soaring among the clouds, but we are always anchored to earth by the strings connected to our hearts. The higher we fly, the more painful those stretched strings become. We will never reach the stars without suffering, without hurt. Excellent poem :)

[Anita Singh]

Thanks Matt!! :-)

[Anita Singh]

Thanks a lot!!