poem

    What is love? Love is both a good and a bad thing that can happen to every one of us.  This great poem by R.Nathaniel show us that It is a wonderful thing to be in love, but it’s very sad when you have to let it go. Truly, a person can be depressed when he or she have to let love go, and for the author of the poem Sometimes it is not easy at all. In this eight lined poem, the author show his deep sadness of missing someone he loves through every words he shows. On the surface, this poem expresses the desire of the author. In the first two lines of the poem, the author thinks about his ex-girlfriend a lot as he counts the hours he thinks of her. He found himself wanting to be with her as he thinks of her. Those lines shows an image of a guy who is still deeply in love as the author says “I count the hours I think of you.” This indicates that the author loves someone, but he could only “think” of that person. In the next line, “And found myself wanting,” indicates that the author and the one he loves are no longer together. The verb “wanting” in this line shows the desire of the author as he wants to be with the one he loved. However, from those two lines, it indicates that the author can’t be with his lover as he can only think about her and want to be with her. In the next two lines, they describe the wish of the author, as he wants to be someone else to be close to the one he loves. “I wish I was in his shoes,” this sentence shows that he wants to be someone else, and the author specifically says “his” shoes. If this poem was to be given to the author’s lover, the word “his” would indicate that the person that the author loves is now with someone else. The author wants to be that guy, the guy who now has his lover’s heart, and wants to be close with her. He writes, “And found myself coming home,” to show that he wants to go “home,” which is next to the person the author loves. The most depressing lines of the poem are expressed in the next two lines. The author calls out his lover’s name at night but without any answer. The image of the author, sitting in the dark, calling out the name of the one he loves, is extremely sad and sorrowful. Through putting in the word “vacant,” he reveals the emptiness inside his soul as he desperately calls her name in the dark. The image of emptiness and loneliness surrounding the author makes the readers feel sad for him, for the person that has lost his love.
     The depressing image of a man who constantly thinks about his lover, to be someone else just to be next to his lover and having emptiness in his soul create this heartbroken poem. Finally, in the next two lines, he repeats the first line of the poem to show his needs to love for that person. With the finishing sentence, “And found it was all the time,” combining with the previous one, “I count the hours I think of you,” the author wants to convey that he thinks about his lover “all the time,” letting the readers to sympathize with him