I want my shadow to set me free

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

0 posted 2005-09-22 12:41 PM

I want my shadow to set me free.

But maybe that cannot be.

My conscience follows too closely,

it makes me want to run away.

For I am guilty of ignoring your pain,

being too focused today on my own gain.

So my shadow is chasing me again today,

out into the pouring rain.

*a rewrite from Oct 2001

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

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Realms of Light

1 posted 2005-09-22 01:00 AM

"My conscience follows too closely,

it makes me want to run away."

~ Hmm, it seems as though you and I have the same affliction! However a good conscience does tend to keep us on the straight and narrow! Well, at least most of the time, n'est-ce pas?

Linda

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

2 posted 2005-09-22 01:05 AM

yep, even when we want to be self-indulgent

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2005-09-22 01:37 AM

We're all guilty of this....don't be too hard on yourself, sweet lady....you do what you can and you are only human! Great write, though.

....jo

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

4 posted 2005-09-22 01:55 AM

Kacy, I have felt this way, too.
Hugs,
Ethel

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2005-09-22 08:47 AM

Kacy~

'my shadow is chasing me again today'

I surely know THIS feeling ... sometimes I even slow down enough to let it catch me~

Nice penning, poetess~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

6 posted 2005-09-22 08:57 AM

Where is the line that says "this is my pain and that is yours, which I cannot handle?"
Sometimes the only ease of pain is to observe others, even if we cannot reach out.

Ilove the points you make. Well done. Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2005-09-22 10:05 AM

Yes, shadows have a way of pushing where we never thought to go - don't wish it away because it maybe knows more than we do.

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

8 posted 2005-09-22 11:06 AM

good read

Angelheart
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since 2005-09-08

Posts 754
Jacksonville,FL USA

9 posted 2005-09-22 12:28 PM

this is very nice.. thanks for sharing this...

Poetry can get you very far
-Laura

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

10 posted 2005-09-22 12:36 PM

No matter how compassionate we are or can be we still have our own "stuff"

there is nothing wrong with focusing on our stuff too.

and you, Kacy, are one of the most compassionate people I have ever known.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

11 posted 2005-09-23 04:22 PM

I like the brevity and simplicity of this one. It makes it more effective.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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