bereft

"no fucker has the answers
although they’re only to happy
to share the wrong ones"

True words!!!! Enjoyed this, thank you Atakti!

I'm glad you liked it.  Thanks for stopping by, DrLove.  

interesting time of the week for the come downs Atakti...
but as always your words flowing effortlessly..

chin up my friend
fuck em all...

Thanks, Boreas. Can't really schedule these things, it hits when it hits.

Cheers.

no fucker has the answers
although they’re only too happy
to share the wrong ones

yep get it ataki

strider

A teeny insight I got, feels good.
Thanks, Strider

aware enough to grimace,
at suffocating clichés

you nailed it with this poem, great job ^^

A poet's sin, and I indulged myself. Thanks, Crona.

"too tired to think now (it's not the mind)
and too numbed to feel (it's not the body)
aware enough to grimace
at suffocating clichés"

... it's the soul speaking in this one. Well done!

Could be, Mark, could be so. Thanks.

Hi Atakti

no fucker has the answers
although they’re only too happy
to share the wrong ones
 
relate to  this ..
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I’ve been irritated before
this isn’t it
I’ve been self-pitying before
this isn’t it
 
there’s a growing prickling
around the back of my skull .

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great poem, lots of identification.x karen

Thanks, Karen, glad you liked it!

The answers are there to be found not given if one really wants to find them. A challenge that can be tempting if the mind makes it so (IMMHO) :)

Great expressive write Atakti.

I don't know how this post of your's got past me.

Thank you, Magdalena.  I'm pleased you stopped by.

Read this last night as well -

For me this speaks to me of aging. That looking back and forth, left wondering.

Atakti Your writing reminds me a bit of my husband's ( obviously a tad shorter. Jeesh that man can write novels ! lol )

You have that same kinda no nonsense thing about you which I personally prefer.

Much enjoyed  :)

Hi Maggie,

Yeah, I've read Uley's stuff, it's good (sometimes long, I need a running start to get through some of 'em, lol).

Thanks for stopping by.

It takes a time to navigate this place, glad to have landed here, better late then not at all.... our destinations may confuse sometimes to catch a breath .. bereft indeed ... ah! good words to place upon a page  

Good to see you here, Harlequin.  Thanks for stopping by!

Very melancholic, and I must agree with it all.  I feel Life is about finding your own answers. It is exhausting and frustrating work.  I am almost always in an existential frame of mind, thinking of why I/we are here, and what my/our purpose is.  More and more questions, and no good answers.  But I think as long as I keep searching for myself, then I am living.

Amen to that, cj.  As we move, we live.  Thanks.

this is it, when the journey
is pointless and only
the destination holds
the slightest bit of interest

You said what I've tried to so many times, just without my rambling. I love your work, it's gonna take me a while to read through it all though :)

Hello there, DystopianMelody, welcome to DUP!  Thanks for the comment, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

Yes you were as to get across what others feel in a short amount of words. Many times I feel like saying fuck it and people love to hear themselves talk, but usually it's just bullshit. I'm glad I came across your poem.