Please help me with this poem!! what the poem is actually all about?

Question

Sometimes (Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof)

sometimes i think my love
we’re so close
across the frontier of the dark
we’ll ache into fusion

but the dark tyranny
of the ocean divides, the intensity
of a consuming moment
stifles the passion

the wind across
the uncharted silence
brings no warm breath of yours
only the wishper of a darker dawn

sometimes i think my love
i see in the cold wind
your presence and i sink
softly into you.

Answer 1

i think of moses crossing the red sea.

Answer 2

"sometimes i think my love"
This line is broken up into three feet that go, da-DA, da-DA, da-DA...it's a wistful tone

"we’re so close
across the frontier of the dark"
Here he's setting up a separation between him and his lover...

"we’ll ache into fusion"
...and his hope that they'll come together



"but the dark tyranny"
Ok, but that's not going to happen. Outside forces are acting to keep it from happening

"of the ocean divides, the intensity"
Some outside force, which he is comparing to an ocean, which is something far beyond human control, and something humans are subject to

"of a consuming moment
stifles the passion"
There is something in the lovers' lives that consumes one or both of them so that the passion between them is stifled



"the wind across
the uncharted silence"
Wind and silence are both in here, evoking isolation or separation. The silence is uncharted because it is things unspoken between them, not secrets necessarily, but emotions perhaps not put in to words, or maybe there is some reason they cannot communicate

"brings no warm breath of yours
only the whisper of a darker dawn"
So, without the "warm breath," perhaps like the breath that escapes the mouth when speaking, there is the "darker dawn," a new set of circumstances that is "darker."



"sometimes i think my love"
And here is the first line repeated again, bringing everything back again full-circle, but with changes having occurred

"i see in the cold wind
your presence and i sink
softly into you."
Take this wind and compare it to the one above, where it stood for isolation and separation. Even in the new set of circumstances, this guy can still see some trace of the person his lover used to be.

Of course the meaning of poems is always some what subjective, what this poet seems to be talking about is a change in his lover, and the fact that he feels isolated from her. It could be a disease of some kind, or any kind of change in her, really. But, by the end of the poem, he is coming to terms with what has happened, and is still able to see some trace of the person she used to be.

Answer 3

It seems like a seperation because of society...maybe war, politics or something else.
I can feel this in "across the frontier of the dark" and "dark tyranny" seems some menacing force that the lovers cannot control. The wave seems like politics. Now he must walk in the cold without his love...still remembering her.
he also uses dark a lot and makes me feel such a barren feeling.

Answer 4

The intensity of their love is too much to bear. It's very intense. I think of laying there in the dark, next to my husband, feeling overwhelmed by mere presence of him. Yet the thought that he might not be there the next night is too much. This is a great poem. It's passionate and dark at the same time. It just dawned on me.... I think it's about death. He's talking to a dead loved one- imagining she's lying next to him. Chilling.

Answer 5

Well, a guy obviously wrote this poem, since some parts talk about the guy point of view of doing "it". Each poem means something different to each person that reads it. You have to think about it.

Answer 6

It could refer to so many things! I love it though, so thanks for sharing. It sounds like the writer is in love with someone who is there physically, but not mentally or emotionally - it's hard to tell which. It's like a contradiction in and of it self. There's a fragile uncertainty about it, like being so close yet so far...

Answer 7

I think this poem is about a person loving another an knowing that, he/she will never be corresponded. How they fell about the hole in their heart about that love and person.

Answer 8

I was a child
but found myself in my 40

Answer 9

he or she loves the that person who doesnt love him or her back.