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icequeen
Senior Member

since 2001-12-09

Posts 633
FL USA

0 posted 2004-01-08 09:50 PM

Your arms were the perfect circle
Safe, warm, strong
I wanted to fit in
but I felt
just like a square peg
No matter how I turned
it was awkward
I couldn’t plane off
the rough corners
I could only spin,
all balance lost,
splintered edges
shattering the circle,
breaking it apart.
Now I pick up bits and pieces
that won’t ever be
a perfect circle
but I keep them
just the same
It doesn’t matter to me
that they cut
too deep to bleed,
exposing the tears
that should never be cried
I wrap myself up
in the blanket of shards
and can’t let go
The pain outside
can never come close
to matching
the pain within,
but I’ll take it
until it takes me
or until you again become
my soft place to fall

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-01-08 10:02 PM

Remove the shards...
I want to thank you again
for your comments
on my own....

we can make it better...we just have to know
when to turn the page.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2004-01-08 10:36 PM

To hold the pain...is better then holding nothing at all. Understanding this. Hugs!

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

3 posted 2004-01-08 10:47 PM

It doesn’t matter to me
that they cut
too deep to bleed,
exposing the tears
that should never be cried

Caroline, this is very deep pain. I have
felt this before. It hurts.
Hugs to you

Ethel

Sadelite
Member Elite

since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

4 posted 2004-01-08 11:12 PM

icequeen,

Nice analogy made here, circle and square peg. I thoroughly enjoyed your write!

Sadelite

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-01-09 05:14 AM

I can relate

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2004-01-09 04:52 PM

I like this very much... maybe more so because I spent so long feeling there was no place I fit, no such thing as a soft place to fall. *S*

But there is... and it's worth every bit of the sanding and even sawing. *S*

icequeen
Senior Member

since 2001-12-09

Posts 633
FL USA

7 posted 2004-01-13 10:37 PM

Thanks very much, all... I so appreciate you stopping to read me

Sorry for the late thank you and my bad manners, I just have been away for a few days and had no access.
Hugs

Caroline

the only man worth your tears will never make you cry

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