Symbolism 1: Burning (Photo credit: binaryCoco)
Symbolic power
Corroding the soul
Inching its dreadful way in
Debauching a butterfly
Excoriating rainbows
Washing childhood dreams
In ritual and sin
Power corrupting
Mystery schooling
Making the hidden
Just occult debris
Where now to aspire
For liberation’s knowledge
Where now to become more
Symbolically free?
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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I love the language you have used! This is one of my favorites =)
Thank you so much! It’s one of the darkest ones I’ve written in terms of subject matter, so I’m glad it worked. It could easily have turned out too dark. 🙂
Having seen my blog you can probably tell that I don’t shy away from dark but I do know what you mean. There are certain traumas in my past that I feel if I wrote about it and shared publicly that I’d be traumatizing my readers and perhaps myself a bit.
Yes, I know you are a great writer of the darker areas of life..you do it brilliantly. This poem isn’t from my personal experience but from that of a friend, and then what I’ve since read of certain practices that are….words fail me really, the poem is an abstract way of expressing it all. I sincerely hope you have not had experiences like the ones alluded to in this. I wish no-one did. 🙂
Words fail me when trying to write about the lighter more vibrant aspects of life! While I am glad to know you didn’t experience this personally I am deeply sorry for your friends tragedy and you are right no one should have to experience this. If you are talking about sexual abuse I am afraid I do know very well.
I am so sorry to hear that…I am speaking about that, within a very particular context, but abuse is abuse, regardless of the particulars..I am so sorry you had to endure that. i cannot understand how people do this to each other, it is unimaginable to me. I hope you have the support around you that you need. 🙂
I can’t understand either, it is really unforgivable. I wish I had my sanity as well that would be a great support!
You seem sane to me, and very brave, just dealing with alot. Just finished reading one of your latest poems and all i can say is that out of your experiences a major writing talent emerges..not sure it is a consolation, but it is the truth.
Thank you, I would love to write for a living not that I care about the money and all that extraneous business but I do care about being more independent and contributing for my family and if in the process I could do something that I love that would be fantastic. I keep practicing hoping that I will develop enough but the thing is I really just have no idea how one becomes anything. Its mystifying and my social skills have failed me so many times when trying to find any type of employment. I am trying to get into therapy now, something has to change within me.