Rhyme of Betrayal

I am impressed you are able to write yourself through it.
Did you mean 'applied' vs appied?

Thank you, it has taken some time to be able to do that… But we're here now. That means something. :)
Also… YES! Chapter 1001 of me reading over my own mistakes even though I checked like 3 times. Thanks for pointing it out, Ahavati.

Delanee.

At least he left you something useful. My left me with nothing, taking away the little I thought I had. Good spill.

Yes, I can't deny that… Though it has taken me some years to come back to this point of strength, my friend.
For a long time all I was left with was a broken heart and a lingering paranoia. :)

Thank you!

I know that feeling very well and I still wonder, at times, as if in trance and the chill still hits me like a knife.

"the chaos in my calm
the stirring in my quiet  
the confusion in my evident" - interesting composition. Well done!
I'm wondering if reading your latest poems means to follow you on your way "per aspera ad astra". :-)

Thank you so much for the praise, applepie! I'm humbled…
And I wish I could tell you if it is or not, but I really like that it feels like this to you. I have no idea where my works are going to take us - but let's find out! ;)

"per aspera ad astra"... I love that! Also, it's sort of creepy because yesterday I wrote 'ad astra' on one of the stray papers on my desk!

Delanee.

"the confusion in my evident"
... an interesting phrase which I can't quite get my head around. Can you amplify the meaning a bit? Thanks, Josh.

It actually just means that what once was very evident and obvious to me, isn't all that clear anymore after all that has happened. So it's all not that clear anymore.

(I should be speaking in the past tense, because thankfully that isn't the case anymore now.)

Hope this explains it a little? Delanee.

Thank you for the answer. I think clarity and confusion goes in cycles as our openness to deeper and new understanding expands. What once seemed clear, later is felt/perceived as not-so-clear - and then a few years down the road we see it afresh with new clarity. And so it goes on - a very human experience.

A very interesting way of looking at it, and I can absolutely get behind that thought.
It is more difficult to deal with that confusion when it's brought on by someone else who literally shattered your idea of certain things by proving you wrong.

From experience, life moves on as a series of "unlearnings" where our assumptions of how things are (or work) are picked apart by life's encounters. But each time it happens we feel ourselves to be in an emotionally 'wobbly' space until we find our own redefined anchors to hold on to - which then again get challenged later on. A process of life on planet Earth.

Exactly, my friend… I love how you see all these emotions in my words, it should make me feel more vulnerable, but it's actually liberating in a way. :-)

I think we both are pulled towards the tragedy and the beauty that emerges from it. And so I am really glad you loved this piece of mine.
Thank you for reading so very between the lines again… I absolutely value your comments.

Delanee.

Ugh. I felt this❤️ Great ink!

I am glad it made you feel, Liv. ;-)  Thank you for these kind words.

Delanee.

Dear D,

This hit home. You’ve provided soulful language to a situation that can sometimes have only feral responses.  Whilst I truly hope this situation has been resolved for you, reading this has made me feel a bit less lonely about my own.
Fabulous write! H🌷

Dear H, I am glad that you feel this way about this spill of ink that was nearly drowned in too many strong emotions.
The situation has been resolved for me for some time now, but the scars remain, but I feel at peace with it somehow.
I hope one day you will feel the same dear H. ;)

Delanee.