Empty the Shelf

tarazkp in Blockchain Poets • 4 months ago

Scrimped and scraped and saved,
Sunny day tomorrow, not today.
Laughed and loved and lasted,
Eat more tomorrow, today fasted.
More and more for another self,
While sat waiting, upon the shelf.

One thing, another, just one more,
Always counting, yet nothing scored.
A little here, there and everywhere,
A cut, a nick, a chip and wear.
Wounds of battle after battle raged,
Fighting and losing, each one waged.

Take step, take three, keep walking,
Follow my words, keep on talking.
Praise and promise and please,
Raise me up, bend your knees.
Broken back and cracks through skin,
Attraction lost to mortal sin.

Broken fork, bent spoon, blunted knife,
Punished to death, in another's life.
Stolen and enslaved and slaughtered,
At the behest of those once courted.
Into darkness an emptied life stare,
The once full shelf, now laid bare.

#poetry #psychology #philosophy #mindset #family #health #reflect #life

4 months ago in Blockchain Poets by tarazkp

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owasco 4 months ago

I have to read this through the lens of your recent loss.

A couple thoughts, none of which is likely to be helpful, but it's poetry so that's OK?

We scrimp and save for rainy days too, not only sunny ones. You've had your sunny days, mixed in drab working days.

The shelf is not bare yet.

One foot in front of the other, same as when you are trying to please someone else.

For me, it helps to set a goal, such as "how can I do this so as to change the lives of my children as little as possible?" That one made a lot of tough decisions much easier for me to make, and it all worked out after one very hard spate of years.

I wish I could do more, but you've got this. I know you do.

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tarazkp 4 months ago

For me, it helps to set a goal, such as "how can I do this so as to change the lives of my children as little as possible?"

This is what my plan is at the moment. Smallsteps hasn't been told yet, but I will tell her next week what is going on. It is going to worry her, as she knows how important work is, and understands we need it to maintain our house. She doesn't know to what extent. The only reason I haven't told her yet is that this weekend is her "Dream weekend" where she has got to choose what we do for the entire lot, including the menu. This has been planned since before I heard of the situation, but will write about what we are doing later :)

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tamaralovelace 4 months ago

That's a beautiful and touching poem

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tarazkp 4 months ago

Thank you.

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bozz 4 months ago

Very interesting. For me, this speaks to the importance of living for the small every day moments. In time it will all be gone.

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tarazkp 4 months ago

And I think, to also make those moment count. Don't waste the opportunities.

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aloysiusmbaba 4 months ago

A fine poem, I must say, which points to the agonies of an emptied life, so to speak. We tend to realize that life is vain when we lose all the things that give it taste. Thanks for writing.

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tarazkp 4 months ago

I can live without flavor, but if I am unable to add any flavor to the lives of others as well, what is the point?

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vincric 4 months ago

Giving life to the journey of an inanimate object, this is the kind of poems and stories I enjoy. The shelf was the place and the cutlery and various cups for drinking are the people, the end being bare was akin to death and everything passing on.

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tarazkp 4 months ago

I like your interpretation :)

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saltycat 4 months ago

I read in the imagery suggestions for a call for unity and compassion, urging society to uplift the broken and marginalised. Through a shared humanity.

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