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Fall From Grace
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Fall From Grace |
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Red Member
since 2000-01-01
Posts 143Ca 
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I watch you cling perilously to the illusion of normality. Your feeble attempt to portray the manifestation of sanity. Your delirium is ineffectual, it cannot save face. You've chosen the path you follow- now begins your fall from grace. |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (sigh) Oh Melissa, you describe the transition so well, sweet friend, may you float with grace and find great joy and happiness along your path, this is wonderfully said, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Melissa, thank you for sharing!  May love and liht always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Wonderfully written. Cold hands means a warm heart |
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Robert Adamson Member
since 2002-10-21
Posts 328PA/USA |
This was hard to hear for me but, it was great medicine. I like the results very much. Thank you. etoodog |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Melissa, this was a good poem....written very well. I enjoyed. thanks for sharing. Love to All, Ethel |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
This leaves one with much to ponder. I like that! Very well written. |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
Wow, you described someone who was in my life too long, and at one point in time, I was the finger-pointer.God, did I hate him and held him loathsome. An felt considerable contempt, same as depicted in this well-written poem. Soon as I got any power at all, usually by sympathy from friends and family, did I rub his nose in it! Honestly, at that point in time, I didn't know his own self-loathing. In time I realized the path he was on wasn't chosen, but from a severe, severe, horrific childhood, not printable here, nor, would I, and all actions and path he was on (chose) were subconsciously decided before he was five years old. A means of coping, no matter the horrific results and harm to others. Being near genius in IQ points and extremely charasmatic and hysterically funny, helped him "pull it off" and stay on that path. He didn't chose that path, but decades later, and, more often than not, he truly was certifiably insane, (with some attributes mentioned above: 1. cling to normalcy 2. attempt at sanity 3. delirium, plus many more) and a lot of love from me and growth and education, he changed his path... that is the one he Chose...and is on to this day.. I still get my Holier Than Thou Attitude, but, only rarely....when you live with the criminally insane you have to take a look at self, and, today, when I personally start the finger-pointing, or try to set someone up and show what a terrible person they are, it is usually because I have allowed a low self-esteem to creep in and I feel so much better, knowing I am better than that person. Of course that is a form of soul sickness, plus! I now know instictively something is wrong in me, to be so judgemental. Unless, I am trying to protect someone else from being gravely harmed, by something that person did, I rarely do that anymore, by the grace of God, I have learned to forgive, and MOST importantly, to UNDERSTAND. And the beauty of life is we usually have time to grow and switch the archaeic path taken. I love this poem for I have been on both sides of the issue. You wrote it very well, and I hope it is not a personal experience, but, rather just an observation. Warmly, Pat  ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
I only need to add I hope I did not in any way "put you, the author, down", I merely was quite deeply touched and got long-winded. If poems are meant to cause someone to react, or to feel, well this certainly did, and like I said, I in no way mean to demean you personally. I did just recently get cencored by a reply to an author, and I do not want that to happen again! You captured a very real feeling! Thank you ever so much for reminding where I've been and where I'd like to keep going, growing, in and with God's care. Sincerely, Pat ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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Red Member
since 2000-01-01
Posts 143Ca |
regards2you--- no worries, no offense taken at all. I'm just glad that something I wrote spoke to you! Everyone else, thank you for the kind replies. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
This poem is small but mighty! A lot going on here. This must have been very painful to watch. EA |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Red - true words you write. The fall from grace can at times be a long one... BC |
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