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"Wash, Rinse, Repeat"
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"Wash, Rinse, Repeat" |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida 
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This life becomes so much to bear The wicked beliefs of others Stabbing to get in Reaching for the soft tissue Of a brain that has already absorbed too much A prior life wasted on what others wanted the world to be I welcomed them and those thoughts Never once considering what was to become of me Costing rebirth into a universe further deteriorated The beginning has no end Going round and round I find time is the same and nothing can mend I wanted to do better and become what I should Yet my mind seems too water logged with debris From other times and other people and other beliefs They haunt me in my dreams Maybe reincarnation is infinite The thought leaves me frightened My eyes filling with regret, my heart heavy How am I to know what is right? What if I never choose wisely? There is no such thing as hindsight The need to learn becomes an addiction Leading to an obsession that cancels out Everything else, leaving me finishing where I started I have dictated my own affliction Leaving me no choice but to start again "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Susan? Listen to me closely. "Wash, Rinse, Repeat" is just a suggestion. YOU DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW ORDERS FROM AN EXPLETIVE SHAMPOO COMPANY.  There, I feel better, don't you?  Let's dance now.  |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Well, that is a relief... but what is the alternative? *eg*  "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
This is bizarre because now in association with Karen, you Susan, get to share the brains of three more people . . . This: Reaching for the soft tissue Of a brain that has already absorbed too much ironically, was just talking to Ed about this very issue and he said to me, Susie? (We were speaking of memory and loss and why things fail us) and he said that we encompass so much in our brains that eventually it has to stop remembering, recalling . . . This just kind of blew my mind because its exactly how a whole lot of us are feeling. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Well, I have learned to turn my brain off.  LOL, or at least, my ears have learned to tune everything out that doesn't fit easily between them. |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Excellent write Susan! Eric |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Susan? I know the feeling in this poem and wrote about it in a little different way, but I think it is the same...It's nice to know I'm not alone!  There is a loss of something every day. More than time with edges I am carved by slip of rocks and broken tentacles making me more inward now, than skin starved. When is the time when the ache is gone? I dredge the river that flows in me looking for something within this circle to upend, turn over, then finally set free. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Thank you everyone. and Martie?  It's just hard sometimes for all of us. But we muddle through."too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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