Ph: Life: Feelings Are A Mixed Bag Comments

Brian, I came back to read this poem again and to try and answer your questions. Painful feelings etch themselves into our minds, lingering there so we can never forget them. Delightful feelings vanish with time because they are felt in our hearts. On finding someone else or something else, our hearts forget these delightful feelings, because they've been replaced by new feelings from someone else. Our hearts, I fear are fickle - not letting us know if love is really true. Our minds tell us intellectually of the pain inflicted, always a truth. Does it make sense to you? ?

This poem poses a special mystery to me. Can someone more experienced than I perhaps suggest an insight that seems to elude me? The poem suggests that painful feelings seem to stay while delightful feelings vanish with time. This seems paradoxical to me and I am quite at a loss to explain to myself why this should be so. Both feelings are surely equally emotionally. Why should painful feelings then linger so much longer?

Yes you were right Roseann. I appreciate you calling it to my attention. It is much better now thanks to you.

Good poem, Brian, however your rhythm is a little off and as I read it twice I was thrown off balance by it. Like how you explained feelings in different situations. (child, paired childless, etc.) Thank you, Brian. RoseAnn