- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Nothing
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Click hereAt the funeral home
grandma threw herself on your coffin.
Maybe you weren't named right.
Death was confused, should have come
for her, for any of the old ones.
She pounded her head on the brass,
sobbing. The men had to pull her off,
and I felt nothing.
That morning
Aunt Florence dressed me as if
I were a child, rolling on nylons,
dropping the black sheath over me,
asking what shoes I would wear--
as if what a shoe was or why
one foot moves with the other
has any relationship to a world
with a dead sister.
It was cold in the synagogue,
I think, and the Rabbi said we
are all children of Israel, but Daddy
paid him after the burial and he left
for the train to New York.
I felt nothing anyway.
My mouth fumbled over Kaddish,
like a bad actor I forgot my lines.
Someone hugged me from behind
when they tore my black armband.
They said I cried then, just the once,
but the blessing of not feeling
is a gift in hardship, and now
when I finger that frayed black grosgrain,
I still feel nothing.
- COMMENTS
dr_mabeuseabout 19 years agoNo. None of us are, are we?
"Feeling nothing" can mean two things too, can't it? Not feeling, or feeling nothingness. One's what the poet feels, the other, her sister.
BooMerenguealmost 20 years agoI thought I had already commented on this one. I loved it Ange... a lot! I felt it and that's my benchmark. Thanks!
flyguy69almost 20 years agoThe feeling of not feeling
Grief is personal
Cannot be defined in "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"
But it can be shared in poetry
and lessened
Lord DragonsWingalmost 20 years agoYou have done excellent. The flood of emotions you cover are done perfectly. Very touching and illustrates the feelings one has at a tragic moment.
tungtied2ualmost 20 years agothe paradigm shift which occurs during times of grief very subtly. Well observed and related. Tragic.
twelveoonealmost 20 years agoThis poem is so moving and flawless, I am hesitant to ask this question.
"I felt nothing anyway."
Why is the word ?anyway? used? I am assuming what you are describing here are feelings of total loss as opposed to not feeling (caring) at all.?anyway? seems to take it over to not caring.
Liaralmost 20 years ago...told as it is, without the need for make-up and fancy poetry clothing. Very strong.
