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A Silly Tale for Today
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A Silly Tale for Today |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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I found today in a second hand store a book on a life lived before and I flipped through the pages with an eye for detail and a bag full of rusty old coins. The edges were worn, the cover was torn, the colour had faded to grey, and then I remembered I’d read it before and already had paid the price. But I pulled out a penny to pay the man though he hadn’t yet asked for my thoughts so the penny, like love, fell to the floor and I planted a smile on my face. I went back home and packed up my heart in a red velvet box with a clasp and placed it under my double bed as a gift should a stranger pass by. A precaution, you see, in case he should think I died in a daylight raid but I’m still alive walking around with a brick in the place of my heart. And when I get back it’ll be quite flat with no blood left to turn about face so maybe I’ll stick with only a brick cold and hard and lifeless inside to keep me sane and grounded in life until I am no longer me. However, the moral of this silly tale is perhaps of no consequence when the heart of the matter is under a bed beating alone with no phone to dial love up and call it back home from wherever it went to be free. That’s it! It’s life that squashes a heart and bleeds out the life-blood of soul! |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"However, the moral of this silly tale is perhaps of no consequence when the heart of the matter is under a bed beating alone with no phone to dial love up and call it back home from wherever it went to be free. That’s it! It’s life that squashes a heart and bleeds out the life-blood of soul!" Not so silly, I think, Helen.  &  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
No, perhaps not, Jo, but it helps sometimes to wrap things up in silliness. Thanks for the read. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
laughter is the best medicine...yeah...well at least we can giggle at ourselves after the worst is over, right? |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
quote: wish I had written that a thoroughly enjoyable read, Helen and a keeper  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you, Midnitesun, for your kind comment. Much appreciated. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
And I missed your reply, Dixie - sorry. Yes we always laugh - it's one of the best cover-ups I know of. |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Helen, there is in you an awareness that had to have been expensive to learn and certainly heavy to hold. Your ability to treat it lightly speaks volumes for your strength. As always, I enjoy reading your work. Thank you for being with us and for sharing your thoughts. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Icebox - I guess there is a price for everything in life but if awareness has come to me it is only through love and love, of course, has it's own price which it demands. I cry more times than I care to think about but too I can laugh - mostly at myself because I try to understand so much that is always out of my reach. Thank you for the read. |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
A great write! Eric |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thanks so much, Eric. |
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