Hurt
How do you define that word?
What does that word mean to you?
A word so vast with so many meanings
How can we even begin to classify it and choose?
What hurts me
May not hurt you
When I feel down
Maybe you won't be blue
When I cry
You might not care
When I die
You might not care
But when someone close to me is on the edge of death
The only word I can think of
That comes close to describing my stress
Is hurt
A four letter word so simple
Yet so undefined and effective
A crazy word that's sensible
Yet reflective
And now there's a funny feeling in my chest
Now there's that lump in my throat
Now I'm short of breath
Now I'm starting to choke
So I ask again what this word means to you
What this makes you feel
Me, it deconstructs the glue
That is helping me heal
No matter what you think
I'd ask if you'd pray
Pray for my loved one that's passing
And in return I'll pray for yours
And as this ends
Pray to make the hurt
Go away
Because we all hurt in some way...
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Dedicated to my Opa (Grandfather)
He had a stroke yesterday and they don't know if he'll live much longer...
I could use some prayers today
November 17
-Liv
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Sad Souls
PoetryThings I never had the courage to say aloud but wrote down instead, hoping that one day another soul like myself would come across it; hoping that someday someone could relate and be able to say 'I am not alone.' ♡Poetry♡ (Cover wasn't drawn by me)
