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nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

0 posted 2005-05-31 08:32 AM

This..A Letter

I have reached inside of me
sharing more than I thought possible
always wanting my happiness to show through
yet the unattached feelings fading the voice within
that carries the love and pain of my life
to remind me of what I am so scared of.

I smile in secret, cry in darkness
with you as my drug of choice.
I am captured by the aura, haunted by the missing
always watching for your shadow to appear,
not wanting to chase it, but wanting to meet it
head on.

The memories will be there to sustain,
my fight will always be at the ready
and my lips will always have
the flavor of you to tempt me.
I have been lessoned by you, taught patience,
learned to bite my tongue no matter how painful
but I feel on the outside
always looking in, wanting only the ordinary
that has been lost over the years.

This...a letter to myself
to remind me that loving is sometimes
not enough.

M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

1 posted 2005-05-31 09:13 AM

May you be loved as you yourself love another...

An honest and beautifully expressed letter to one's self...

Lovin' hugs,
EA

jellybeans
Member Elite

since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

2 posted 2005-05-31 11:05 AM

I was gonna quote, but would have quoted the entire poem...lady...this letter is the best of the best.....wow....gonna print and save
I just do not have words to express the excellence of this

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2005-05-31 03:36 PM

quote:
This...a letter to myself
to remind me that loving is sometimes
not enough.

No, just loving is not enough...

"being" requires action...
so "reaction" may happen...

adagio
Member

since 2005-03-19

Posts 449
Marrero, La.

4 posted 2005-05-31 03:52 PM

Makes me feel almost like you'r talking direcly to me.

Canuckster
Member

since 2002-01-09

Posts 285
New Mexico, USA

5 posted 2005-05-31 03:57 PM

Has a few different applications, all of which serve to make this stronger.

To me it reads of codependence and the need to let go of that other and redefine ourselves by that which is truly us.

Of course, others will not accept us until we show them we accept ourselves.

Thanks for the needed reminder.

never try to teach a pig to sing
it wastes your time AND annoys the pig

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2005-05-31 04:24 PM

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2005-05-31 04:42 PM

"to remind me that loving is sometimes
not enough."

A good write, M, and in a way you are right but only because "loving" is so ill defined by us. If we could truly know its full definition then indeed loving is always enough - just my penny's worth.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

8 posted 2005-05-31 04:47 PM

Understanding this Maureen..
and sending heart hugs your way.

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

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