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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-09-06 06:23 AM


There can be a moment of happiness, joy,
and faith so strong it breaks my own will
and there can be a moment of sadness, despair,
that breaks what lies beyond awareness.  

There can be the lightness of wishes in air,
the heaviness of no one who cares,
the gentle hold of loving you so
and the open arms of letting you go.

There can be the tears of the lost and lonely
and those joined with mirth and laughter
and there can be the pain in body and mind
that loosens my hold on these present times.

There can be the sinking of feet into earth
and the wiping it off because it’s just dirt
but dirt always sticks no matter the holes
life has made be in everyone’s soul.

There can be, there was, but what’s yet to be
a matter, I think, simply up to me!

Helen / 6 September 2010


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Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2010-09-06 05:54 PM


quote:
There can be the lightness of wishes in air,
the heaviness of no one who cares,
the gentle hold of loving you so
and the open arms of letting you go.



You said this so very well, dear Helen! Excellent write.

And yes, it is up to ourselves I guess!

Love,
Margherita

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan
2 posted 2010-09-06 08:25 PM


Yes no matter what life may give us we do have free will to a certain extent.  I thought this was a thought provoking piece.  Nice work.
Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2010-09-07 01:25 AM


Inspiring write, Helen. I guess it is up to us to some extent.
                  Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2010-09-07 02:11 AM


Thank you, Margherita, Earl and Ida.  There can, of course, be so much more to this thing called life which we discover as we go along. Does the journey of discovery ever end?

Helen  

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