The grey days continuePressing gloom on my mind
like a workman clamps an instrument.
There is no hope in our world only wispy dreams of past encounters-no future,
Only the heavy, oppressing moments of now.
I've been running.Aching to dance along star-lit mountains,and you just don't get it.
I run farther away from you now, faster,and your footsteps pursue me in heavy heartbeats.
Amaze, that's what it's like.My emotions bump into the walls and bruise.Broken, I try a different direction.
What lies in wait at the end?
Freedom and another chance at loving?
Or the grim reaper?
Kit Leamy
When I read this poem, I felt a lot of connections with myself. The writer seems to feel very vunerable and hopeless in the poem. She keeps trying to run away from something, but it is tracking her down. Painful memories and future worries are draining hope and freedom from her. I sometimes feel the same way. When I have too much going on, or when past experiences bother me, I just want to give up and stop trying so hard in vain to run away from the gloomy present. People today suffer a lot of depresstion, and I think I could understand how they feel in many ways. It's like searching for something in vain, without even knowing what it is. Maybe, what everybody searches in his or her life is love and hope, to continue living with meaning. That is why I think having meanting in life is so important.
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I also think the poet is very depressed. But also, I think it is really telling the reality of the world today if we really think about it. Even though we sometimes get in what we hope and dream for, we also encounters failures, and because of the failures, we feel more hopeless and get more intimidated to take chances and freedom.
This is such a depressing poem-- especially the ending where the speaker questions if there is any hope or just death for him/her! Keep pushing yourself to dig into these poems deeply.
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