It’s better being apart
than being a part
of the mess
you’re calling your life.
It’s better being apart
cause keeping the distance
is my defense,
excuse and resistance
against the fury and passion
I call aggression.
It’s better being apart
than be battered and bruised
but I cannot — it hurts
even more to ravage
and mangle my heart — cause
It’s better being a part
of the mess
we’re calling our life
than being apart.
Lovers (the kiss) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The word apart from Marian inspired me a bit more. To be linked to Tuesday Platform at toads.
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May 13, 2019
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Yes, well turned around at the end…
A very clever play with the words! Sadly, I have been a part of many relationships in the past where being apart should have happened a lot sooner than it did.
Oh thank you for a lovely comment… and it’s never easy to break up when you should…
Oh, it’s hard to know the limits, alright… Well done.
There’s an expression my mom would often say “mejor sola que mal acompañada” (better to be alone than in bad company). The young need reminders of this often, while the old have either lived through it or seen someone they care about live through it and know the truth of this in their bones.
Like the flow of this and the use of “apart” and “a part”. I read this as an introvert who’s married to an extrovert. Sometimes I need to be apart so I can be a part of our relationship.
how real is this..the pain of being apart is often greater then the pain of being apart…alone is abuse in itself…and healing a greater length then a black eye…what kind of creatures are we?…bkm
Mankind is intrinsically a social creature, and suffers much from isolation, so that’s true
So many ways to be “apart.” I liked this, a bit of a merry-go-round. Made me think of a Venius Fly Tray plant, when it catches its’s prey it doesn’t like to let go….and maybe there is no escape?
This is a deep one… At first, I was going to say that I love the fact that the speaker has chosen to walk away from something that breaks his heart. Then we come to the ending lines, and… *sigh* Some messes are just so hard to walk away from. Not because one can’t, but because the alternative is even worse.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. I like your uses of apart and a part. Sometimes better to be neither.
Did they break up? I thought they stayed together.
But it’s fun while it lasts, change to ‘it’s fun before the last.’ You play the word play really well. Bjorn. I like your repetition of “a part” and its opposite, “apart”.
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Aw yeah. I like the conclusion here and certainly concur 🙂
Absolutely! ❤️ There is no point in being with someone who is not right for us.
Clever wordplay in this poem. There is always a craving in us for others.
Amazing format here, you skipped your way through the garden with ideas in your head and words on your tongue, words that cut both ways severing and then stitching. You never fail to mesmerize. Hell yeah….
surprise ending and appreciate your word play!
oh, those complications … clever use of the word