tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86948621927839779842024-03-05T08:39:14.500+00:00 Life & Other TeachingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-2022267569687442402016-06-23T22:05:00.000+01:002016-07-18T22:07:56.352+01:0023/06/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've emptied my head whilst I've been here.</div>
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And that's the best thing I could have done.</div>
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It's made me a little calmer.</div>
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At peace.</div>
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At peace with what has, will and is happening.</div>
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I'm humbled. And that's the most I could have asked for.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-73870540099149895172016-06-22T07:30:00.000+01:002016-07-18T22:03:20.607+01:0022/06/16<div style="text-align: center;">
Yesterday I didn't:</div>
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/ buy wine - I bought beer</div>
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/ eat the fruit I picked up</div>
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/ type up everything I said I would</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-14055288140996713032016-06-21T07:00:00.000+01:002016-07-18T22:01:53.797+01:0021/06/16<div style="text-align: center;">
Today I will:</div>
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/ buy wine</div>
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/ find a bottle opener</div>
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/ pick up some fruit</div>
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/ and finally type up all my thoughts</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-22614113711924390472016-06-18T15:00:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:12:45.821+01:00Photo Diary | War, Capitalism And Liberty <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-66515867988942752872016-06-16T13:30:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:59:13.741+01:0016/06/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It wasn't that their conversation lacked intelligence,</div>
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it was just easier</div>
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to talk about the habits of pigeons</div>
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than why she was crying.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-67892089644184403322016-06-13T12:00:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:56:30.907+01:0013/06/16<div style="text-align: justify;">
It was quite the marvel really.</div>
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These three kids, they'd been here all morning.</div>
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Riding down the hill.</div>
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Running back up.</div>
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They passed at least twenty benches on the way down, along with the expected scoffs from the older generation and the occasional pretty woman.</div>
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That was what stumped 'em.</div>
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When they caught the eye of a particularly attractive blonde. </div>
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All three hit the pavement and their skateboards flew far.</div>
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I imagine that's what love feels like.</div>
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Like you're plummeting in to hardest concrete and everything you were sure of flies out of reach.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-19709785891937585272016-06-12T21:33:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:47:03.562+01:00Her<div style="text-align: justify;">
And she had this habit of ordering a coffee then fidgeting with her stuff until arrived.</div>
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As though that tiny espresso was her centre of gravity.</div>
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She was bizarre in that way, right up until noon.</div>
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Of course she smoked, as her mother did.</div>
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And each one always lasted a little longer than she liked.</div>
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She kept her ashtray neat. All the ash had to stay right in the middle. It couldn't touch the empty sugar sachet she'd ripped up and pushed to the side or this god awful burning plastic smell would consume the air.</div>
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I think that's why I thought she was alright. She had her batshit crazy rituals right up until noon - keeping things where they should be and all. And I think that's how you know a girl's alright, when she won't let plastic burn because the smell annoys everyone else.</div>
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She didn't take notice of the news either. In fact, I'm sure she'd been out of the loop for a few months now. It kept her sane I reckon, almost justified her more-than-questionable habits.</div>
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I think she didn't pay attention to it because she'd decided it made her smoke more. </div>
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And she didn't applaud the idea of being as miserable as the bastard bank men her father once said she'd do well with.</div>
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I couldn't tell you all that much more about her.</div>
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In truth, I don't know her.</div>
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We stop by the same cafe each morning, I linger nearly all day, except I know she doesn't see me, she doesn't see anyone, she's too busy.</div>
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Somedays she stays an hour or so, calls her mother, is reminded to eat, she ignores most of the incessant nagging I imagine.</div>
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And other days she's fast as hell. Barely looks up from the centre of gravity.</div>
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Either way, she's mesmerising.</div>
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Girls will do that to you, they'll drive you crazy with their weird habits.</div>
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They don't change though, never do, not really.</div>
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Especially not for bastard bank men.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-22692315034674704002016-06-11T21:30:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:33:45.077+01:0011/06/16<div style="text-align: center;">
I wasn't expecting to see you hiding there,</div>
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here,</div>
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where I am now.</div>
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All these years later.</div>
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But there you were,</div>
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passing those seductive glances</div>
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you do so well.</div>
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You cut me up so bad,</div>
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so many times that</div>
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I figured there wasn't much left to destroy.</div>
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That killed me.</div>
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There you were.</div>
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After all this time.</div>
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I'd been doing alright</div>
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as it goes.</div>
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But you passed me</div>
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another seductive glance.</div>
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And I fell.</div>
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Deeper than before.</div>
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After all this time.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-68242741651664806072016-06-10T21:22:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:30:11.896+01:0010/06/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You seemed brighter that day.</div>
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Liked you'd slept more than four hours and hadn't been drunk the night before.</div>
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And this rare sight filled me with a little of the good stuff.</div>
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I've stepped back, and I now see you can do it alone.</div>
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As can I.</div>
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I realise now this a movement to be celebrated.</div>
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Not mourned.</div>
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We can both manage without the familiar. We can both flourish.</div>
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We're separate entities and often - in equal measures - I think we forgot this and became so consumed by our own little bubble that we stopped living.</div>
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It's taken a few thousand miles, too many cigarettes and the occasional "let me know when you're home" message to let go.</div>
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But the hour's arrived at the right time, for once.</div>
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I think, after all this, it's now easier to come together when we wish.</div>
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And when we do wish it, I hope you chose the bar, as always.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-26215835952795756942016-06-09T09:30:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:22:26.438+01:0009/06/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saner heads prevailed this morning.</div>
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I've eaten more than a banana</div>
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and filled my lungs with fresher air.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-30144067665218131752016-06-08T21:13:00.000+01:002016-07-18T21:18:54.088+01:00Here<div style="text-align: center;">
There is more,</div>
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more to see, more to dance with</div>
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and alongside.</div>
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And on the wine-front,</div>
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I am more</div>
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than satisfied.</div>
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There is more sky.</div>
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More time to fill</div>
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and more pictures to take.</div>
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I notice more options</div>
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and opportunities.</div>
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It feels close enough to reach</div>
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and far enough for longing.</div>
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I hear more laughter</div>
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and conversation.</div>
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It is more alive,</div>
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more awake.</div>
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Each corner holds more detail than I can comprehend.</div>
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Here,</div>
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there are more achey feet</div>
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and greater impatience for caffeine.</div>
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And there's a greater scope for change</div>
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and exchange.</div>
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Here,</div>
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there are more words.</div>
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Spoken</div>
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and written.</div>
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It's a funny feeling being a little squiffy, in a big city, entirely on your own.</div>
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There are worse cities to feel like this in, that I know.</div>
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Scarier. Riskier, not as safe.</div>
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Mostly, it feels fine here. Like home.</div>
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I reckon it feels safer than where I was before.</div>
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I know there are weirder feelings to expect when I am teetering on the edge - like longer for my usual companions, my (previously) normal air, the better known.</div>
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This insanity usually lasts about 30 seconds.</div>
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At the 31st second, I remember where I am and what's in front of me.</div>
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Had you told me a year ago that at this moment in time I'd be sipping wine in the sweet, summer heat of Rome I would have howled with laughter.</div>
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Big adventures are coming and happening. It feels free and unpredictable, which scares me immensely, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.</div>
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It's this point in my life that's driving me mad with desire.</div>
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The desire to explore,</div>
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I'm at my own dispose, finally.</div>
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the weather in great detail. If possible,</div>
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enclose a fist of snow or mud,</div>
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the corn is growing on the hill.</div>
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Thank you for the photographs</div>
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of where the chicken coop once stood,</div>
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clouds that did not become tornadoes.</div>
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people imagine corn bread, cast-iron,</div>
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cows drifting across grass. I interrupt</div>
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with barbed wire, wind, harvest air</div>
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that reeks of wheat and diesel.</div>
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I hope your sleep comes easy now</div>
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that you’ve surrendered the upstairs,</div>
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hope the sun still lets you drink</div>
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one bitter cup before its rise. I don’t miss</div>
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of star I can’t see from where I am—</div>
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bright, clear, unconcerned. I need</div>
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the buttons I can’t sew back on.</div>
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Please put them in the jar beside your bed.</div>
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and feathers, a piece of bone or china</div>
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you plowed up last spring. </div>
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Please promise I’m missing the right things.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-16190438635814498992016-05-22T10:00:00.000+01:002016-05-22T10:00:18.789+01:00A Stumble In The Right Direction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My brain wasn't feeling notably creative or alert that day. Nor was I feeling particularly strong, and the door was somewhat heavy. I couldn't tell you what made me walk in to that little place, but I'm glad I did. </div>
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Before me were a small collection of pretty swell people.</div>
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Like-minded. Big beliefs. Radical characters.</div>
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They held their own.</div>
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Their art was miraculous, and it glowed.</div>
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Their presence was strong, but oh so gentle.</div>
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They were the kind of people you put your phone away for.</div>
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As I enjoyed the company (and too many coffees), a wave of complete calm washed over me. Without warning I had become overwhelmingly mindful and steady.</div>
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Believe me, it was a mighty wave.</div>
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Nothing felt like it really mattered any more.</div>
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The nonsense and empty conversations that were surely waiting for me at home began to seem so much more manageable.</div>
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Every word uttered was soft. It felt easy.</div>
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Breathe in no and breathe out yes.</div>
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I became so acutely aware of every word. Every pronunciation. Every prolonged 'S' and every missed 'T'.</div>
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The more they spoke and the more I listened, I began to realise they were much like many others I already knew. This didn't destroy anything, not the awe, wonder or the admiration that had grown. It shattered no illusions, I still felt safe.</div>
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It was all the more powerful. All the more spectacular.</div>
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They were average people, with above average ideas.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-28601191521137210032016-05-15T10:00:00.000+01:002016-05-15T10:00:07.462+01:00A Poem For Today | 19<div style="text-align: center;">
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your thighs off my hips.</div>
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As far as I'm concerned</div>
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they are all surgeons. All of them.</div>
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They dismantle us</div>
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each from the other.</div>
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As far as I'm concerned</div>
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they are all engineers. All of them.</div>
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A pity. We were such a good</div>
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and loving invention.</div>
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An aeroplane made from a man and wife.</div>
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Wings and everything.</div>
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We hovered a little above the earth.</div>
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We even flew a little.</div>
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- Yehuda Amichai</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-54210180078790113942016-05-11T10:00:00.000+01:002016-05-11T10:00:10.433+01:00Entirety<div style="text-align: center;">
I feel so full.</div>
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Full of all things.</div>
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Good and not so good.</div>
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Worry.</div>
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Desire.</div>
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Hurt and heartache.</div>
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Plans,</div>
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ambitions.</div>
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Confusion.</div>
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A liver still quite intoxicated.</div>
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A heart beating a little too fast.</div>
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Two croissants and a cup of tea.</div>
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My mother's love and my father's gumption.</div>
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And a growing fire,</div>
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of excitement and anticipation</div>
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for what is just around the corner.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-49863792370554203522016-05-08T10:30:00.000+01:002016-05-08T10:30:17.713+01:00On Stress, Abandon & Everything In Between<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's the thing no one really braces you for. Or maybe they do, but it doesn't really make sense until you're neck-deep in shit, is that stress is not just one layer thick.</div>
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Excuse the Shrek reference, but it's like an onion.</div>
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It goes on and on, yes in slow succession, still, don't doubt its strength.</div>
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Sounds agonising, doesn't it?</div>
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That's another thing, it's not, entirely.</div>
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Don't declare me a fool just yet. I know, it can be remarkably uncomfortable. And I would always advise that you don't make it home.</div>
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The more I grow, the more I believe that it's important, as human beings, to acknowledge that discomfort, and sit with it, comfortably.</div>
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And stress?</div>
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Well, stress can be pretty useful. It helps us decide what is worth that treacherous discomfort, and what is not.</div>
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And some things really aren't worth it.</div>
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I spent eight months bracing myself for battle each morning. 8am, sharp.</div>
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And each morning, I felt my body tense with an arrogant fear. And that fear, that stress, well, there wasn't any damn value in it.</div>
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It didn't make me better.</div>
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It didn't make me stronger.</div>
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It was to be survived.</div>
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And while there was a speck of value in biding my time, there was a whole heap more in leaving.</div>
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And leave I did. I abandoned it.</div>
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I left because ultimately, I believed in greater things.</div>
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That's the other loop hole that's easy to miss.</div>
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The truly spectacular process of discovering what you believe in.</div>
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There are things I believe in.</div>
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Whole-heartedly, without question, without fear.</div>
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Beliefs that shake me.</div>
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They're mostly simple, but the beauty of simple is that often, it aligns with stress evolving.</div>
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That shiver becomes something quite magic.</div>
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For me, on occasion, sitting down to write is the scariest thing to face - in fact, I've spent the better part of the last few months avoiding it.</div>
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Equally, it is the most important thing I know to do.</div>
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It moves me forward, makes me better, stronger.</div>
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It is a belief I manifest.</div>
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It is worth every ounce of stress, fear and bone-shaking awe.</div>
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And that is entirely the point.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-25001762261782207972016-05-04T10:00:00.000+01:002016-05-04T10:00:17.259+01:00A Poem For Today | 18<div style="text-align: center;">
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to understand the other person's</div>
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no matter how</div>
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out-dated</div>
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foolish or</div>
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obnoxious.</div>
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One is asked</div>
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to view</div>
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their total error</div>
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their life-waste</div>
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with</div>
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kindliness,</div>
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especially if they are</div>
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aged.</div>
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But age is the total of</div>
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our doing.</div>
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they have aged</div>
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badly</div>
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because they have</div>
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lived</div>
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out of focus,</div>
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they have refused to</div>
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see.</div>
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Not their fault?</div>
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Whose fault?</div>
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Mine?</div>
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I am asked to hide</div>
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my viewpoint</div>
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from them</div>
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for fear of their</div>
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fear.</div>
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Age is no crime</div>
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but the shame</div>
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of a deliberately</div>
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wasted</div>
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life</div>
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among so many</div>
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deliberately</div>
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wasted</div>
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lives</div>
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is.<br />
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- Charles Bukowski.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-36116267706679052812016-05-01T08:00:00.000+01:002016-05-01T08:00:12.488+01:00Dear May...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You are my last little fix of this place for a while. And you have no idea how pleased I am to see you. </div>
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A hazy metaphorical grey fog hung over my head for the last two weeks of April, refusing to budge and sometimes it was difficult to summon the desire to simply get out of bed in the morning. But the mist is beginning to lift and I think the promise of, as Mama calls it, "a big adventure" has a lot to do with that.</div>
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You're the end and the beginning.</div>
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The start and the finish.</div>
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Hello and goodbye.</div>
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Goodbye to feeling trapped. And hello to a dose of free.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-73966859347765821452016-04-27T17:00:00.000+01:002016-04-27T17:00:01.232+01:00Links Love #20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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// <a href="http://www.scarphelia.com/2016/04/the-comeback-kid.html" target="_blank">The Comeback Kid</a>.</div>
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// Kinfolk: <a href="http://www.kinfolk.com/pranksters-paradise/" target="_blank">A Prankster's Paradise</a> | <a href="http://www.kinfolk.com/in-anxious-anticipation/" target="_blank">Anxious Anticipation</a>.</div>
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// <a href="http://readcereal.com/fondazione-prada/" target="_blank">Light</a> At The Foundation.</div>
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// "Let your idea die - or, more accurately, <a href="https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2014/12/10/ideas-dont-always-work/" target="_blank">kill it yourself</a>."</div>
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// My <a href="https://vimeo.com/97356262" target="_blank">Mom's Motorcycle</a>.</div>
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// <a href="http://orwell.ru/library/articles/cigar/english/e_cigar" target="_blank">Books vs. Cigarettes</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-11044475187632755292016-04-24T09:56:00.000+01:002016-04-25T21:16:16.413+01:00Dear You,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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35,000 ft. was pretty high.</div>
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And the whole ordeal would have been a lot easier if I'd have been that high too.</div>
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That plane was dire.</div>
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Full of 'wise' guys, talking about their 'grand' lives.</div>
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What a phoney word. Nothing's grand.</div>
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The journey made me think of that time you declared me a patient soul. I'm sure you wouldn't have said the same if you'd seen me then.</div>
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I didn't feel patient. And I didn't feel 'grand' like my company.</div>
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I felt like a phoney.</div>
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I listened to every conversation for that torturous hour and twenty minutes.</div>
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And I sought a little bit of you in every one.</div>
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That riled me up too. I hate you for that.</div>
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I guess there was a void.</div>
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That seems to be the only way to explain the mess we became.</div>
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Vacant. Empty. Forceless. Sterile. Blank.</div>
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All those words. And 'void' was the only one that really fit.</div>
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We did manage to fill it with a few things.</div>
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Pride. A sprinkling of ego. Confusion. Remorse.</div>
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And a plane, I suppose.</div>
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Visiting you that day was stupid. You weren't you and I was someone else entirely.</div>
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We absorbed all those bogus feelings and sat in silence - the loudest silence.</div>
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It was so goddam consuming that I couldn't hear the goddam tv - you put that stupid show on, you were always doing that. I hated you for that.</div>
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I wish we'd both swallowed our pride that day; more so, I wish I had.</div>
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It was a rare occasion that either of us owned up to our shitty actions. Damn, it was a real treat if we did.</div>
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That's where the void began. I'm sure of it. We both saw it. I'm sure of that, too.</div>
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The foolish thing is, when you did fully digest your pride, I couldn't comprehend it. I couldn't get a grip on it.</div>
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And I regret forgiving you. It was fear that prompted forgiveness. </div>
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I've been mourning us since then.</div>
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Since that stupid day.</div>
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And I think I'd been mourning long before it came to a natural end.</div>
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I'm pretty sure you were too.</div>
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Once again, we were both too full of pride and cowardice to admit it. I hope we can at least agree on that.</div>
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That's where the silence became too loud. Too loud to hear the goddam tv.</div>
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And that's how it grew. The notorious void.</div>
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And boy, did it grow.</div>
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This is my closure. I hope it can be yours, too. I won't be enduring any more dire plane journeys, with only a bunch of fools for company. And neither will you. </div>
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This letter will be a crumpled heap on the floor by tomorrow morning - much like me.</div>
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All my pride,</div>
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always.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13764157141381421267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694862192783977984.post-69396793161496220002016-04-20T10:00:00.000+01:002016-04-20T10:00:04.183+01:00A Poem For Today | 17<div style="text-align: center;">
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</div>
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Write, for example,'The night is shattered</div>
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and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'</div>
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The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.</div>
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</div>
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I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.</div>
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Through nights like this one I held her in my arms</div>
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I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.</div>
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She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.</div>
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How could one not have loved her great still eyes.</div>
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</div>
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To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.</div>
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To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.</div>
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And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.</div>
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What does it matter that my love could not keep her.</div>
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The night is shattered and she is not with me.</div>
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This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.</div>
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My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.</div>
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My sight searches for her as though to go to her.</div>
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My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.</div>
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The same night whitening the same trees.</div>
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We, of that time, are no longer the same.</div>
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I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.</div>
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My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.</div>
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Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.</div>
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Her void. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.</div>
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I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. </div>
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.</div>
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Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms</div>
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my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.</div>
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Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer</div>
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and these the last verses that I write for her.<br />
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