Betrayal by: William hathaway
It’s now all about money
About which poetry rarely reaches Transcendence. But love must still fester Even under that. Everyone I know Frets if poetry can still matter, But what about love? It’s all become Too much for them, and they’re all On the soma. It makes sense With these pills when the someone They thought they loved for years By never thinking about it says, “I don’t love you anymore, But let’s stay friends in that mellow Woebegone way poetry now Sings without singing.” Of course, They’re always asking “What is poetry?” And then answering by saying It’s what Boethius was thinking about When they squished his head Until his eyes popped out, Or anything barbaric enough to get Everyone to stop eating for a bit And reach for a moment past A chatty moment. Sort of a solution To awkward goodbyes. How money Becomes a sort of welcome Relief that defuses the poetry Charging tense moments. “Interesting,” Someone remarks between bites, “To be right here in the moment Yet also out there watching Some once-in-a-lifetime sublimity Unfold, as if living as if already Dead.” As if standing in a dream far up In the stars somewhere with Scipio And seeing how little love matters, Or poetry for that matter, Considering how glory endures Only in glittering plunder. But best Of all, all of it stays just sort of As if. |
In the poem “Betrayal” by William Hathaway; in the beginning of the poem it first states “It’s now all about money” which means the writer of the poem thought it was all about money at one point of time in his life. “But love still fester even under that” , meaning that the writer of the poem thought that love still is rotten even if money is involved. The author still thinks that the money tops all happiness instead of love. “When someone they thought they loved for years by never thinking about it says, “I don’t love you anymore, but let’s stay friends” The poem states that once the writer did love somebody so much for so many years but the person did not love him/her back and they felt betrayed by that, because how can somebody you loved so bad treat you like you are not worth nothing, like your nobody to them, the person felt like if the person he/she didn’t love them, they felt like nobody will ever love them, or nobody will ever feel like how she/ he felt about that person and this cause them to be mad and angry at their selves and be depressed because in the back of their mind they know that they will never find love again.
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