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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2018-02-04 10:28 AM



Never did get back to sleep.
Too many thoughts skipping
down memory lane
picking up lilies.
Instead of resurrecting old guilts,
and beating myself up over
what I didn’t do,
I framed it differently.
I thought about what
I should have said.
Not in anger,
but what my truth was
at that time.
What I didn’t know how to say then
I put into words now.
And for the first time I felt peace
instead of anguish
attached to that thought.
I didn’t change a thing,
except now I know
what I could have done
if I would have known how.

LGR(C)2/4/18


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Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417
In The Mirror
1 posted 2018-02-04 06:22 PM


quote:
"What I didn’t know how to say then
I put into words now.
And for the first time I felt peace
instead of anguish
attached to that thought.
I didn’t change a thing,
except now I know
what I could have done
if I would have known how"
A most profound insight, Miss Lori.

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2018-02-04 06:50 PM


Bluesy
I just hope I can continue to transform the effects of my past traumas on me by reconciling memories. ~L

Poet In Pink
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MI
3 posted 2018-02-04 08:25 PM


As we mature over time we often look back at situations we wish we could of handled differently. I guess that wisdom we've always heard about finally catches up with us Nicely penned ~ Enjoyed
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
4 posted 2018-02-05 04:37 AM


Pinkythinkin',
For over a decade I was stuck in thinking shoulda, but never any deeper because that was painful enough. I didn't kick myself this time. ~L

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