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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-04-25 07:29 AM

as I wandered through life
stopping here and there to taste
what life had to offer
I have tried, in my way
to be free
I was free to commit whatever it took
to stay alive
so saying I was
like a worm on a hook
I was fortunate
I have indeed survived
but of course
not without scars
mostly these scars are internal
but still . . .
I have tried to hide them
not dwell on them
still, I visit them from time to time
I shouldn’t
but I do
throughout my checkered life
if I have been unkind
that wasn’t me
it was my demons
oh . . .
I had plenty of those
it is funny about demons
they can negate
everything which has gone on before
by one unkind deed
if I have been untrue
it was never them
it was my demons
like something stillborn
I have cut off the hands of those
in the past
who reached out to me
once I had a short conversation
with a beggar
he said . . . you must not ask the world for too much
that made no sense to me
my motto was why not ask the world for more
as I wandered through life
stopping here and there to taste
what life had to offer
I have tried, in my way
to be free

©March 27, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ Why is bra singular and panties plural? ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-04-25 08:46 AM

What did Janis sing? " Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose..." and rolling stones gather no moss. Yes, you were, for good or ill, a free bird. You still are my friend.

Lori

PS
If you have a checkered past does that mean you have a plaid future?

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-04-25 09:14 AM

Haha! You can crack funny early in the day. That was funny. Thank you for being here.

~*~ Why is bra singular and panties plural? ~*~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2014-04-25 04:37 PM

To be free is an act of courage, to conform can be quite depressive. Sensitivity and loving kindness are probably the fruits of winning the battle with those demons! Aren't their voices just like those of sirens?!

I enjoyed reading your intensely rendered experience of being free. Many only dream about being free.

Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-04-25 06:41 PM

Margherita, thank you. My demons were all slain in October 2012. Yes, that set me free.

~*~ Why is bra singular and panties plural? ~*~

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