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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-12-09 01:26 AM

Love came upon a dusty trail
trodden on by many minds
and at the crossroads saw a sign
that left it quite bemused.

It wavered there for quite a spell
but no spell of insight came
to make it move right or left
or carry on ahead.

Finally it turned around
and went back the way it came
for far behind it knew to find
the point of no departure.

And that point of no departure
it's very own true essence
still clean and untainted
by life's so dusty trail.

But sad to say there's no water
to wash the dust away
and that point of no departure
sent it back onto the trail.

But trails aren't laid down roads
with no options at the crossroads
and that is why today you'll find
love sitting in the dirt.

It simply doesn't know
which option best to clean, refresh, renew,
and befit if for a welcome back
to that point of no departure.

One day love will walk again
but for now it merely sits
head bent and waiting for …
a little spell of insight!

Helen / 9 December 2010

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

1 posted 2010-12-09 03:13 AM

'Point of no departure' strikes me as a situation where one can neither go forward nor backward---an existential trap of the worst kind, but I put my money on love, that it will somehow extricate itself. A puzzling, but thought provoking poem, Helen. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Art

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2010-12-09 03:32 AM

Sorry, Art. I guess it is a bit puzzling but love should never depart from it's true essence. We are love and we left that place from which we should never have departed to tramp along the dusty trails of life not as our true selves. How to get back when covered with dust? That's sort of what I was trying to say but, hey, I'm sitting in the dirt confused.

Thank you for reading and for commenting.

Helen

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

3 posted 2010-12-09 07:39 AM

Love. The most confusing emotion there is. So you are in good company (or bad) if you are undecided as what to do.

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