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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2015-02-18 10:04 PM

A Place Where Sadness . . . Is

It began
in a miniscule corner of the universe,
on a world all green and blue,
on a continent,
one of the last discovered,
in a country of 200-plus years,
in a state,
so much younger than that,
in a city,
in a house,
in a room,
in a corner between two windows,
in a spot on the floor,
in the middle of a circle of blood,
in the wail of a new born
whose mother had died in birth.

Life.

And I live today
because it

began.

~ ~ ~

I learned, through the years
dying was what others did, not I.
It never occurred to me that time
would eventually pass me by,
that I could die,
but when death came
I was there . . . waiting,
and he took you instead.

And I still live,
spend most of my days
kneeling before the rickety,
weather-beaten cross,
here in the cottonwood’s shade . . .

waiting. . . and

When death comes,
he’ll find I already died,
I’ve been dead since he lifted your soul,
since he left you lying motionless, pale,
waiting only to become earth again.

He'll find me here
just as I was those many years ago,
wailing . . . wailing,

in a corner between two windows,
in a spot on the floor,
in a place
where sadness

Is

© wesley james beard, jr.
february 18, 2015

(Please don't assume everything I write is based on my personal life...)

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2015-02-19 06:39 AM

OMG! Jimmy! I think this is one of your best pieces! You rip at the heart strings and then wrap them around again and give them a jerk and circle round again and yank again...
It is perfection the way you have tied it all together in a painful little package. Brilliant work my friend! ~L

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2015-02-19 10:25 AM

WOW! James repeating what Lori said, because she uses words better than I. This is a beautiful yet heartbreaking rendering, the ultimate story of life. best to you, jo

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2015-02-19 05:51 PM

So tremendously sad, dear Jimmy, but masterfully rendered feelings. We are fragile, yet also amazingly strong throughout our existence ... many questions, too many maybe remain without answers. If we consider that we come from Love and can accept that we move through life accompanied by that Love, then we can find peace, also in the thought that Love has no end ... it is ... it is forevermore.

Oh you see you made me ponder and that is always a very good thing!

Love,
Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2015-02-19 06:32 PM

So well written and the feeling projected were, and is, sad unto the night.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2015-02-19 06:33 PM

So well written and the feeling projected were, and is, sad unto the night.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

6 posted 2015-02-19 09:28 PM

You write of loss, in the most understanding and sympathetic context. Interesting dialogue between the heart and soul.

tracie66
Member Elite

since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

7 posted 2015-02-20 03:09 AM

Oh wow! So heartbreaking, you have penned this perfectly Jimmy - the sadness obviously is still so very raw

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
— W. E. Channing

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