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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

0 posted 2012-03-30 05:08 PM

I've made promises,
promises of love and companionship
promises of faith and desire and
all the good things life says it has to offer.

But promises get broken
and so do souls
and hearts
and people

and spirits.

And nobody really gives a damn
when they ask how you are doing

and when you say I'm broken thank you

they just don't hear anything but I'm fine.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2012-03-30 05:37 PM

That's the feeling, dear Dixie, yes, all too often! You express this sad truth very well.

Margherita

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2012-03-31 07:33 PM

Fine writing...from experience some do if you know or meet the right people...when going through hard times I can remember someone special always came along...James

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

3 posted 2012-04-02 02:53 PM

oh wow, this brings tears...so many are broken...held together by tape or glue...and no...we are not fine...but we pretend to be.......oh my *shakes her head and starts to cry*...very powerful writing pretty lady

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2012-04-10 09:29 PM

You touched me with this one, Dixie. Don't know how I missed it. You are absolutely correct, people hear what they are programmed to hear.You wanna talk, I'm a good listener.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2012-04-12 07:53 PM

Sometime "they" don't know what to say, my friend . . . that being very different than 'they don't care'. It can be very hard to help someone that you "can't", or "don't know how to" and "they" are left between a rock and a hard place because their desires are so much more than their abilities.

I know that doesn't lessen your 'sadness' any but I think you have a lot more 'care' out there than this write gives credit to.

as always...my heart...

j.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2012-04-13 03:56 PM

Some care... and listen... but feel helpless to do anything besides hug the pieces and look for glue.

(((hugs)))

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

7 posted 2012-04-13 05:14 PM

How very true.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

8 posted 2012-05-20 07:25 PM

missed you girl

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

9 posted 2012-05-20 09:39 PM

Very true and well written. Except, some of us do want to know how you are doing.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

10 posted 2012-05-20 09:51 PM

I know I have responded but I have to say something here. Every time you pose these kinds of please "look at me, I'm at my wits end," I get the feeling that it is garnering of attention you crave. If that is so, you get the attention, passing shadows, so why do you continue to play out the game? You are liked. We, everyone says the right things. How about paying attention?

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

11 posted 2012-05-20 10:14 PM

Jerry, I just got back in here after almost 2 months. I just finished posting on my other poem. You don't need to lash out at me because I haven't been here. I write not to get attention or to impress, but for my own therapy.

I don't know why I decided to stop in today but I did. If you feel that way about my poetry, I would not be hurt if you didn't read it anymore.

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

12 posted 2012-05-20 11:57 PM

Dixie ,I hope this means you are feeling better.You were missed by many. hope all is well. jo

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

13 posted 2012-05-21 12:04 PM

I have to say this poem touched me...sometimes such truth hurts too much...great writing...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

14 posted 2012-05-21 04:00 AM

I don't agree with the context of this poem at all or many of the other replies.
I'm telling you some people do care and they care deeply.
You can't roll the masses of people in the world up into a ball of uncaring faces.
I know the morals and the caring warmth of the general populace has declined but there are still many many out there who genuinely care.
Even when they say hello and don't know you they still feel a special communion from the greeting. Many still do.
I care, and I wrote my responses to your other posting because I do care.
You don't really think I have the time to waste pretending I care do you?

There's too much to gained from the romance of life to shrug it all off as simply noone cares.
I drank away a wife, a business, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property, a daughter (who is back in my loving fold thank goodness) but I came back from it all and YES there's people out there who care and they helped me through and I let them teach me how to help myself.

Not all people are uncaring!

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

15 posted 2012-05-21 06:41 AM

I accept that you post these as a form of therapy, please accept my apology for thinking otherwise.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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