Changes
Changes - meaning Summary
Loss and Resilience
The poem describes changing emotional states as unreliable visitors: comfort, peace and confidence appear briefly but depart, leaving the speaker exposed. Each stanza tracks a different quality that refuses to stay—comfort slips away, peace remains out of reach, and confidence flutters off only to possibly return. The tone mixes frustration with weary acceptance, suggesting resilience amid recurring loss and the small, repeating cycles of hope and disappointment.
Read Complete AnalysesFickle comfort steals away What it knows It will not say What it can It will not do It flies from me To humor you. Capricious peace will not bind The severed nerves The jagged mind The shattered dream The loveless sleep It frolics now Within your keep. Confidence, that popinjay, Is planning now To slip away Look fast It's fading rapidly Tomorrow it returns to me.
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