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laryalee
Member

since 2000-06-19

Posts 352
Alberta, Canada

0 posted 2001-02-04 10:53 AM

(If humor comes, does that mean healing's on its way?)
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The day I shattered into bits
I couldn't reach my mind -
I only felt the pitted lino,
long deprived of shine.

"Could this be death?" I asked, surprised,
expecting hellish doom.
I'd never pictured random chunks
dispersed across the room.

I sulked in dust and whimpered
at the claustrophobic walls,
till finally, a notion formed:
it's time to end this sprawl!

I swept up all my broken pieces
(all that I could find)
and tried to fit them back in place,
important parts aligned.

The end result amazes -
I can hear and smell and see -
in many ways improving
the original of me.

I guess a lesson could be learned,
a note of wisdom tossed:
when life appears to fall apart -
it doesn't mean you're lost!

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-02-04 11:02 AM

"The end result amazes -
I can hear and smell and see -
in many ways improving
the original of me."

yes, laughing is part of healing.........I know this..........this is what the begining of healing felt like for me too...........I really enjoyed this

SEA

Ladycat

Senior Member

since 1999-07-05

Posts 782
At the edge and a doorway,TX

2 posted 2001-02-04 11:28 AM

My favorite lines:

I guess a lesson could be learned,
a note of wisdom tossed:
when life appears to fall apart -
it doesn't mean you're lost!
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Thank you for reminded me that all is not lost. I will have to add this to my library to read over and over again. It helps to keep your head up when you are so down.
I think that I'm going to take time out today to laugh at myself.
Thank you for such a wonderful piece.

Love,
Lady

Live in my world just once and you'll find yourself enraptured.

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

3 posted 2001-02-04 01:10 PM

Great write my friend, say's many, mighty things.

jwesley

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-02-04 01:24 PM

Lary,

May the pieces meld together to form a new and improved you. This was wonderful.

LW

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-02-04 02:08 PM

You took the words right out of my mouth - and wrote them beautifully!

"I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be." George William Curtis

kcsgrandma
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1522
Presque Isle, ME

6 posted 2001-02-05 12:24 PM

I enjoyed this a lot. You made me smile, and I feel better already.

It can be a puzzle, putting ourselves back together, but much better to laugh about it than to get frustrated and give up.

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

jellybeans
Member Elite

since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

7 posted 2001-02-05 09:56 AM

wow, your writing is so insightful, it amazes me, I LOVE this one

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