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Calloused
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali 
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My sunny-side eludes me, jaunty digression falls. I am in sharpest cage I know- screaming silent to these walls. They soak up scraps of aura- like hungry on skinpore, Draining me, obsolete - at Patience' door. Want to lick a finger- and turn a paged timeline, I am my own bookmark and hum a verse of Find... "Negate fate's body pain- and give me strength to stand, I am but a porous filter- with hard tries to understand." I'm not strong enough to serve, with limbs in weakened fend- But with hope, I could be now- what I once was then. Never whole, but passing- eluding shadow's gate, Warhorse all but broken- trying not to harbor hate. With all my pieces glued up tight from jagged-bottle's dine, I kiss those absent fingers- and stroke calloused Hands of time. Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I had written a comment, but after I read Michael's I have deleted it and wrote this instead. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ [This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (05-01-2015 09:25 PM).] |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I found this beautiful and yet painful to read, Tanya. You have an amazing mind and a very tactile passion to which you approach life with. Yet I sense a self-doubt within this piece that really holds no credence at all if you don’t insist upon it. Anyone who knows you truly, can see how you’ve handled what life’s thrown you and if anything, have come out stronger for it. We are all human. Our bodies forsake some of us earlier than others, but in the end we all feel that. It’s the knowing of things we took for granted in youth that allow us to appreciate them later in life, with even brighter eyes. Those fingers don’t have to be absent, even if those calloused hands of time might never receive enough lotion to be deemed useful again.  Great writing.Michael |
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali |
Jerry- lucky for me I saw your comment earlier, and? you hit my thought-path perfectly...of then and now- I sink to swim these days. never fret, I thank you all the same! Michael- knowing all, it still amazes me that you see so much more than I pen upon a line. I'm fortunate by far that your support is mine. *them's pouncin' words you know?  ty for being you, as I will try to shake my mood. (happy thoughts aboouuut here...or here?) ~Tanya Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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ambermize Member
since 2001-04-21
Posts 157California |
On my way over...bringing the puppy seester. gonna make you spill it, I've got hugs. psst...tell Zakk to watch for auntie, I'm running laaaate loves |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
This really resonated with me. You have some way cool phrases in here girlie! Want to lick a finger- and turn a paged timeline, I am my own bookmark and hum a verse of Find... I thought this was brilliant! ~L |
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