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I Can't Sleep, So I Have Gone To a Dark Place
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Hambre del Alma There is a tree sprouting with
severed limbs
it is grey and cold and
unholy
There is a man
lying at the bottom
without a face
but I know him
and he is asking me to
put his legs back on
he has no eyes and
he is beautiful
because he sees me
no one else sees me
Hi The denuded tree and the
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The denuded tree and the faceless man with severed legs are metaphors of a physical defect that reflects the perceived ugliness of the writer. The line alluding to invisibility is linked to the first theme in that the deformity causes the withdrawal of physical and emotional contact resulting in psychological damage. There must be more to life than outward appearances and cruelty related to it. A very sad poem indeed.
Farkas