we all suffer from unreturned love
Strange Shore is the second poem in the Sad Love Poetry series that I’m making for my YouTube Channel. You can read a bit about the first poem here, where I scratch the surface about my inspiration for making this series. In a future post, I will share in depth my thought process on making this kind of love poetry, but on the whole, I just want you to enjoy, to have something to entertain yourself with, for sometimes we make art for the sake of it. Well, to make money and pay the bills too, but when something hits you, you just create, and right now I have this bug to create sad love poetry.
Unreturned love is a universal theme. We all go through it at some point in our lives, or we know someone going through it, and sometimes we commiserate with them, sometimes we laugh at them if they are our enemies, or if we know they are so stupid they can’t see the person they are craving for is way out of their reach. Love makes all of us stupid, in one way or the other. It screws up with our thinking, and we end up doing things we swore we would never do. We fall in love, we get hurt so bad, and yet we don’t learn. Next time someone comes along, we find ourselves falling badly in love again, and there is no helping it.
There are some lucky people who will fall in love with the right person, the person who loves them equally and they stay together all their lives, but for the majority of us, it’s just one sad story after another. We might start out okay, madly in love with each other, but at some point, you find yourself loving someone who won’t love you back, and in such a moment, you might need a bit of sad love poetry to cheer you up. It does cheer you if you know someone else went through the same heartache, or even worse, doesn’t it?
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the idea for a sad love poem
The idea for this poem came while I was in Senegal. I had gone to show my short sci-fi film, Akoota, and there after I went on a holiday. I stayed in Ngor Island, right by the seaside, and experience I had never encountered before, and I woke up one night to the sound of waves crashing against the shore. For a moment, I could not remember where I was, and when I did, this poem just fell into my head. Of course, I was thinking about a certain girl at that time…..
strange shore
a strange sound awakes me
water pounding with fury
I think it’s a rainstorm
but moonbeams light the room
and I don’t know this bed
I don’t know where I am
it feels like a sweet dream
of a full moon shinning
in spite of a dark storm
I don’t want to awake
oh no. my eyes open
water slams my body
a hammer of hate.
Agony. Too much pain.
I’m a rock on a shore
in the ocean of you
I dreamed of your warm touch
of a kiss and a hug
and of a flood of love
but
waves spew from your cold depths
to hurt me
I should really wake up
slap myself out of this dream
for you’ll never love me
but
how can I walk away
and yet I don’t know why
I love you
I can’t understand how
you got into my head
so how can I stop dreaming
yet my mind goes to you
to search for my lost heart?
I’m stuck on your shore
I’ll drown in your sea
I love you
and it hurts
Poetry Wallpapers
Other than making sad love poetry, I sometimes turn poetry into wallpapers, which you can use on your computer or mobile gadgets. Here below is an example. I started doing this to reward my patrons…. you know, there are people who believe in me so much that they have pledged to give me a little bit of cash each time I make a short film, and I have a lot of rewards for them. This is just one of them. You too can get wallpapers like this, or a lot of other cool rewards, if you become my patron. It takes almost nothing to support me. For as little as $1 per short film, you will make me a very happy and well fed artist. So go over to patreon.com/dilstories and show me some love.
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