I can smile (Poetry)

[Apulu_Imback]

Hello!

Well, I wrote this poem today around 8 pm when I was on the way to my home in a long car drive. I hope you enjoy it. I'll start editing the next chapter of my novel 'Pierce my heart: A Grim Reaper's Love' tomorrow.

I can smile

No, I do not cry nowadays, it was just a childish phase where adolescence messed up my hormones.

I can enjoy the warmth of life now, I can breathe in ease now.

I can smile now.

No, I do not wait for them nowadays, it was just a lovesick phase where attention messed up my love.

I can fill up my own heart, I can enjoy my own company now.

I can smile now.

No, I do not cry all night nowadays, it was just a blue phase where problems messed up my mind.

I can fight my fears, I can face my problems now.

I can smile now.

No, I do not hurt myself nowadays, it was just an immature phase where depression messed up my world.

I can treat myself, I can love myself now.

I can smile now.

[SnowedIn]

So beautiful.

The first image is at once gorgeous and haunting.

The words are, appropriately, haunting, too, in an elegant, simple, quiet way.

There's a melodic single note being quietly played throughout the poem that explodes into a chord in that last line. Like the juxtaposition of the sunrise in the last image to the chill of the snow; the incongruity of the snow on the roof yet the character is relaxing. Warm in repose despite the chill of the snow.

You have, as always, captured beauty and sorry and yearning and pain and soaring hope from depths of despair -- and you done it simply and elegantly.

There is immense vulnerability here inextricably linked with immense strength. You've captured that tension so well.

Thank you for sharing this.

[Apulu_Imback]

Thanks a lot for noticing the depth in the last picture, it was hard to find but I'm glad I did. I was planning to write a depressing poem but then I thought why not start writing optimistic pieces? Something which represents me. I wanted to show that it's not all about the depression, poetry can show a whole story of character development.

[serious]

This is beautiful. Again it shows self love.

[Apulu_Imback]

Thanks a lot! Yes it shows a significant character improvement.

[serious]

@apulu_imback

It's fine.

[QuietVerbena]

Beautiful ❤️

[Apulu_Imback]

Thanks 💖