Restless Repeating

Written feb 22, 2021

My brain is restless today
Skipping around present to past
Only to drift to the future
Leaving those images abstract

A jumble wreckage of thoughts
Playing a mixture of scenes
Your face flashes in all of them
Displaying on many screens

Time pauses for a few seconds
Your touch brushes with fingertips
Gliding across my heated skin
Memories of you are the scripts

Physically you are elusive
Completely out of my reach
Distance now divides us
A heart wounded does beseech

The broken record started again
But then my mind scurries along
A new vision begins to play
Only to repeat the same song

Reviews

[Lorry]

If it wasn't for the optimism of the next one being right and working out, we'd all just stay in bed and not bother at all. Just think of all that grief we'd save and we wouldn't have to sit through another date wishing we were back in bed (we'll, it'd still be a good result either way) 😊
If only that darned mind jukebox would calm down playing all our greatest hits and misses though, like we need reminding 😊

[Poetic Beauty]

This is very true. In my case I am still friends with this person. We have not lived in the same state as each other for 10 years now. He is my best friend and I can tell him anything. It’s a long on going story. But sometimes I have to s**t my brain off from the repeat memories

[PamiAnde]

This one, for me, is about "monkey mind." A Buddhist term, are you familiar with it? That darn mind of ours can be so restless and unsettled and uncontrollable. And how good we are as humans at repeating! Love the title, it's perfect. And the words, the flow, bring me with you.

[Poetic Beauty]

You have gotten the idea clearly.

[PamiAnde]

That's because you versed it so clearly! :)

[Coyote Poetry]

I understand the below lines.
"My brain is restless today
Skipping around present to past
Only to drift to the future
Leaving those images abstract"
I did like the above lines. Hello dear friend and thank you for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[Poetic Beauty]

Thank you. I have those moment when my mind wants to be stuck on one person constantly repeating in every tense. It gets annoying lol

[Patricia Wedel]

My favorite Song is Jupiter in her Hair by the
Artist "Train" written for his Mother who passed away.
Your Poem is a Breath of what makes you live.
gently, Pat

[Poetic Beauty]

Thank you for these words. I shall have to look up the song for I am not familiar with it

[Patricia Wedel]

Hi Beauty... the Title is “Drops of Jupiter” By the Artist, “Train”... a Singer... par none.. Enjoy... Pat

[Poetic Beauty]

Oh I’ve her that song

[Poetic Beauty]

I meant I have heard that song

[Patricia Wedel]

Yes... it is so super Cool...
Glad you remember it. Pat

[John the Baptist]

The poem seems to reflect the mental processes of the speaker, who apparently wants to move on in life, but who cannot let go of painful memories. These memories center around a particular individual, who was once very close romantically. The speaker wants things to be different, but the same mindset guarantees they will not be.

[Poetic Beauty]

This love is eternal. Complicated story but I have accepted that years ago. It’s the mind staying focused on one person all day sometimes that drives me bonkers.

We are very close friends and shall remain that way. He lives far away now

[Robert Trakofler]

as a matter of daily existence, I have a very fragmented brain process but of course, that is not your expression in this more a result than the cause:) This long-distance connection is a difficult thing to palette in the best of times let alone in these pandemic times:/ you conveyed the restless tone in these lines perfectly I can feel your angst and want to pack your suitcase for you:) but in closing I must add there is a certain deliciousness to distance and the crave

[Poetic Beauty]

Not because of him but I’m wanting to pack my bags and move start a new adventure

[Pete]

this is so cool. so well expressed. your description of how it feels is so real. i was drawn in and touched by your words. those thoughts and feeling don't go away so easily. sounds like a heart is broken and not just a record. even though the same song keeps playing, a part of you wants it to - can't let go. really well done ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

No I have felt this way for almost 14 years. No love compares to that one. My love for him is eternal. It doesn’t go away and I live with it. I’ve tried over the years. I have had a long eight year relationship but the love is never felt as complete and as deep. I know he’s my other half. It’s a long story and he lives in Arizona far away from me now. We have remained friends with a few years of distance with not talking. I even prayed every day for three years that I wouldn’t love him but as you can see it is there strong as ever.

I don’t mind loving him so strongly I hate the repeat days where everything reminds me of him. And my brain think of him in the past, then the present and shifts to future.

[Intothemilkyway]

This seems like those late night thoughts where the world seems to go around that one person. You can't do much but let yourself and mind be fully immersed into those thoughts.

[Poetic Beauty]

Sometimes it is that way. Repeat in different tenses past present and future

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

I couldn't help but imagine one of those sorrowful songs that played on the record player with the horn where a woman bared her soul. The space between was immeasurable. The emotions were intense. They gave me a chill.

[Poetic Beauty]

Yep it’s like a scene straight out of an old 1940s black and white movie but trust me you don’t want to hear me sing lmao

[Chris Shaw]

Distance makes the heart grow fonder. Remembering times spent together.

'Physically you are elusive'

He is much missed that's for sure. I sensed the restlessness in this piece PB. Your work is always conveyed so well.

Chris

[Poetic Beauty]

I’m working towards starting a new adventure in life. I have a few things to accomplish and then off I go lol