Silent Senryu

Silent Senryu

fear of rejection

gap grows intuitively

overthinking love

erin-cilberto

4/20/23

Reviews

[1809 Black Plague Decem..]

Awww,
Dear Erin-Cilberto,
oh wow, dearest dear
powerful, mlagnifacint,
makes me cry,
yours truly,
----1809 Black Plague December

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you....

[1809 Black Plague December]

your most welcome Cilberto,

[Lydia Shutter]

How many opportunities for love do we ignore just because we focus on the "what ifs". Your form poetry shows how talented you truly are, Jacob. Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

too many, I am afraid...
thanks, Lydi,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Overthinking is a curse. It is that voice in your head giving you all the reasons not to engage in conversation with the smile that just came your way. Fear of failure keeps you distant and silent. You have to be brave.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Brave at one time...but then?
thank you, Chris,
j.

[1809 Black Plague December]

their funny Cilberto. LOL

[DIVYA]

Sometimes, our own idea of love is the greatest destroyer of relationships. Overthinking can be so unproductive. So is the fear of rejection. It makes one silent and sorry.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Overthinking is a bad habit...hard to give up, like smoking.
j.

[DIVYA]

So true....

[William Michael Reeves]

The fear of rejection drives men into a lot of stuff we could write poetry about. How many loves were lost that could have been, but for a bit of courage? I might have a couple under my belt. But fear is supposed to protect us, right?

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I wonder sometimes if we embrace rejection...like Taylor Swift did so she could write more songs.read moreI wonder sometimes if we embrace rejection...like Taylor Swift did so she could write more songs.
j.

[John the Baptist]

Says much in few words, this one. We pick up our fear of rejection young, before our reasoning minds can combat it. The fear grows with us until even as adults we may overthink our relationships to keep from getting hurt, something our partners pick up on. Thus does the fear become a self fulfilling prophecy.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I think I overthink much more in later years than I did in my youth...back then I just went for it.
j.

[Lorry]

I get this, I really do.Perhaps it was the flashback to my youthful and more leaner days (I leaned everywhere I went), of plucking up the courage to ask the way too good looking secretary at work, on the advice of the pot stirring cleaner lady, to ask her out.
All I remember from the actual days events were the world not opening up and swallowing as she laughed an unfunny "Ha!" right in my face and got on with pretending I didn't exist.
I'd like to end on a happy note, but the nightmares still persist and no matter how hard I wished it, last I heard she was alive and well.
From that day on, I promised myself I'd wait to be asked and never do that again. I'm still waiting 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that day will come, have faith.
thank you, Lorry,
j.

[willweb]

Remember sitting by the phone hesitant to dial because they might hang up on you on the other end? Not like today, they can already see who is calling and just choose not to answer. Rejection was harder in the good old days. : )

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I believe it was, will...i do believe it was.