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Escaping the Pain..so easy to do.
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Escaping the Pain..so easy to do. |
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Lady Lost Member
since 2000-07-13
Posts 470
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I look back now and I am stunned at how clever I was on matters of escaping pain. Anything to make me not feel would work just fine for me. So many times I felt so light like a feather floating in a dark tunnel a downward spiral towards numbness…. I didn’t have to feel. Never good… always bad. I have held the hand of death more than only once, I have danced with the Devil underneath many moonless nights. One day I stopped running I was tired. I started to allow my body to accept the pain for I was too weary to fight it anymore. I learned that just like happiness and misery, anger and regret, pain is just another feeling that comes and goes. When I feel weak I repeat "This too shall pass." You can never have too much fiction; reality can be such a bore |
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L Tiuch Member
since 2000-02-04
Posts 151NY |
Such an affirmation. Fortunately you learned that the pain will not go away until it is dealt with...so many sad souls haven't recognized this fact. More power to you. And, yes, this too shall pass. Linda |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
I understand completely, and yes, it does pass, although you would swear it never will. Nice poem. Take care. Catalinamoon |
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Deborah1 Senior Member
since 2000-06-22
Posts 653New Hampshire |
I think to get through, we must work through..I think this poem was well spoken and so so true!! Great job!!! The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose...--Hada Bejar |
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Songbird Member Elite
since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184Missouri |
My heart joined with yours as I read this poem. |
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Chere Junior Member
since 2000-07-26
Posts 18 |
A very startling poem! Simply directly true. And thank you for placing in words my recent thoughts on this temporal place filled with much waxing & waning* Chere |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
Dearest Beth; Your poem is filled with wisdom and truth, and written so eloquently. None of us escapes the pain, it's how we deal with it, that decides our fate. Love, Mom Summers haunting melody that awakens the butterflies, calling them to join the dance in their silent song of praise to God. eL |
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taramw Senior Member
since 2000-06-08
Posts 738 |
Fantastic work!  And yeah, every single emotion we feel eventually passes... as it is replaced with another... well written! |
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BSC
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Wow Beth, beautifully written piece. I was one of those who built those walls, and until I decided to "stop running" nothing changed, but once they were gone, after I finally let go, and once I learned how to feel again ....well, now life is good!!! Wonderful poem. Bonnie |
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Hardrock Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 948New Hampshire, USA |
Lady Lost...sounds as if you are lost no longer. Exceptional poem. Hardrock |
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Lynne Dale Member
since 2000-07-18
Posts 114Melbourne Victoria |
Wonderful poem and a lesson for us all Be Well Kethry Kethry. as soon as you feel too old to do a thing. Do it! |
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kitkat Senior Member
since 2000-01-11
Posts 878Nova Scotia |
How true your words are. Once we can learn to deal with the pain and release it the sooner we can move on. Glad you are moving on and not running anymore. -------------- You got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart Then people are gonna treat you better You're gonna find, yes you will That your beautiful as you feel.~~~ Carol King |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Wonderful! I applaud your stength. It's almost always easier to run than to stand. Like this! Great message, good delivery! Christopher [This message has been edited by Christopher (edited 07-28-2000).] |
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kynder Senior Member
since 2000-04-11
Posts 537Tallahassee, Florida |
yes, this too will pass. thank you for reminding me of that. wonderful work!!! very well done. kynder Sunshine can not bleach The snow, Nor time unmake what Poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Dennis L. White Senior Member
since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463Michigan, U.S.A. |
Beth, A raw honest poem, a sad but triumphant journey back to life! We are so much more alive once we realize how much dead we have been. Well written poem! Dennis :^) Moonbeams radiate When the veiling cloud has past Playful shadows dance Dennis L. White :^) |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Some very impressive work! Yes, it is important to remember that anything you are going thru will soon pass. You can probably even learn something from your situation... We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are |
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