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Unrequited? / Monsters from The Id
by Mark Sebring → (All Poetry by Mark Sebring)
Sunday, January 6, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I remember when she loved me.
It seems so long ago.
So many years.
Things change as we grow older.
 
All these years - longing for a lover.
She’s the only one I’ve ever needed.
The only one I could ever love.
                             Nothing here.
The way we feel.                       .
The way things are.
The way we feel.
The way things are.
 
 
 
 
Sometimes our desires
become so strong
they take away our ability
to see things in perspective.
When this occurs
we may no longer trust
what we believe.
 
We must use reason
to discern "what is"
from "what seems to be".
Our emotions
do not always
tell the truth.
 
The way we feel.
The way things are?
The way we feel.
The way things are?
 
 
 

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 Reviews of "Unrequited? / Monsters from The Id"
Reviewed by Mark Sebring
Reviewed on January 18, 2019
Contrary to popular belief, the veracity of our emotions is unreliable. What our feelings tell us is often untrue. Despite that, I believe it can
be beneficial to use art to express our innermost feelings. (In order to deal with our emotions, we must first attempt to understand them.)
As a result, like other confessional poets, I often write poems that simply express what I am feeling, knowing full well that what my feelings
are telling me isn't exactly accurate. Sometimes I'm afraid that people who read my work don't understand that, and that's what led me
to write this. This combination of poems contains an example ("Unrequited" by the romantic, Bozo The Magic Weasel) followed by a rebuttal
("Monsters from The Id" by the more rational stoic, Roger T. Slug) which was intended to be an explanation.

I'd believed it would last forever.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 7, 2019
Two sides of the same coin? Certainly, even in the best relationship, our perception of the other is distorted by our perception to the point where we may completely miss the point in thinking that someone loves us when they do not.

Ron

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on January 7, 2019
This is so true, our emotions are like the waters of the ocean. that withdraw and recede only to flood the shore again and again.
Better still our minds and reason with our hearts and wait for the clarity of true. I enjoyed your poem today Mark, Have a good one, dear writer.

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on January 7, 2019
You have tapped a theme that
haunts many of us, one that is never
quite satisfactory and that leaves us
unrequited.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on January 6, 2019
Life's a bitch, that's a natural fact, Jack. You did well with your words however with this one.


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