About the Poem
The poem I present to you is about a woman who goes to a train station to wait for her love who never shows.
In the beginning it gives a first person description of the woman, and then later, the narrator (me) talks to you as if you are the woman. The woman goes through denial that her husband is not dead. At the end of the poem, it finishes the analogy of her denial with closure of you understanding her strong will to not believe her love's death.
The Arrival |
| by Jonathan Shupe |
| I see you standing there waiting for your love In the breeze you look so fair like the sun so high above In your eyes, too strong to weep to see nothing's arrived In your heart your tears did seep from emotion that you've thrived Of your pain met the covered sky as rain, began to fall from sleep There you gave your final sigh Then for you, nature did weep With your back to the clouds, you started your walk and followed your lonely road As your foot hit the ground, you started to talk to the person that never showed Every word you pressed to speak to you he did not reply Again of him your ears do seek no sound to hear, but a cry A cry that could you only hear, to you that is so near Can only be so far away, so far away as the sky |
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5 Visitor Comments
Catherine
the hurt brims to the surface but not quite spilling enough. there's a detachment which makes the reader feel like an observer.
mahalet
i am like poem because it remembered me of the people who are lost and can't find the true love of christ
Kaite
I loved this poem so much! It ment so much to me because i know of so many people who are left behind
Ethel
Jonathan, I felt every word. It was though I were she standing there alone and listening for what was never to come. Beautiful and touching.
Dallas
Well written.
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