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Post by Susan Peabody on Sept 4, 2008 12:34:28 GMT -8
Veronica A. Shoffstall After a While
You learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.
And you learn love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't always promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and and your eyes ahead with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong.
And you really do have worth and you learn and you learn
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Post by estrela5 on Sept 4, 2008 12:35:58 GMT -8
thats beautiful! really made me cry! learning with every goodbye... touched my heart... i wish i didnt have so many goodbyes  |
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Post by kimber70 on Nov 3, 2008 18:37:05 GMT -8
I printed this poem out a nice paper and framed it in my bedroom so that I can look at it every morning when I wake up!
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Post by kimgrow on Nov 16, 2008 3:16:15 GMT -8
Thank you so much for posting this reading.
Honestly, it made me angry because I've had to say a lot of goodbyes lately. I lost my sister after a life-long illness earlier this year, I may lose my job, and I just completed the final breakup with my boyfriend.
My relationship with him was a toxic relationship.
I haven't moved past my "relationship" with my "first love" from 10 years ago. Actually, it was a long-term teen-sex abuse situation. I was 16 and he was 21 when we started dating. He taught me that infidelity, verbal abuse and sexual coercion are the components to a proper romantic relationship.
Consequently, I've had to say a lot of goodbyes.
However, lately I've been able to leave relationships without the stalking, begging, bargaining or other tools that come with a sacrifice of your dignity.
I'm angry, but that is just because I still have more work to do in understanding that my first "relationship" was meant to end. It was meant to end because it was wrong. I didn't deserve it, not because I did something wrong. I didn't deserve it because I am a good person who deserves to have a good person. I will never find him if I never had (or never will) let him go.
I will remember that part about not building on the future. I act out because I am trying to guarantee my future with a person. Like my friend pointed out, "You are not a sex addict. You are a love addict who has sex."
Thank you so much.
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Post by lover on Jan 23, 2009 13:13:51 GMT -8
I love that one. I have a couple by Rumi that I really like. I hope it is ok if I post them here. I think they are about love and good-bye's and recovery.
My Worst Habit
My worst habit as I get so tired of winter
I become a torture to those I'm with
If you are not here, nothing grows.
I lack clarity. My words
tangle and knot up.
How to cure bad water? Send it back to the river.
How to cure bad habits? Send me back to you.
When water gets caught in habitual whirpools,
dig a way out through the bottom
to the ocean. There is a secret medicine
given only to those who hurt so hard
they can't hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you.
A Small Green Island
There is a small green island
where one white cow lives alone, a meadow of an island
The cow grazes till nightfull, full and fat,
but during the night she panics
and grows thin as a single hair.
What shall I eat tomorrow? There is nothing left
By dawn the grass has grown up again, waist-high.
The cow starts eating and by dark
the meadow is clipped short.
She is full of strength and energy but she panics
in the dark as before and grows abnormally thin overnight
The cow does this over and over,
and this is all she does.
She never thinks, This meadow has never failed
to grow back. Why should I be afraid every night
that it won't. The cow is the bodily soul.
The island field is this world where that grows,
lean with fear and fat with blessing, lean and fat.
White cow, don't make yourself miserable
with what's to come, or not to come.
A last little cute one I like
When Living Itself
If the beloved is everywhere
the lover is a veil,
but when living Itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear.
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Post by Judy on Jan 24, 2009 5:04:41 GMT -8
Oh I LOVE that last one. I just wrote it down for myself. Thanks!
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Post by Rilly on Jan 24, 2009 11:14:03 GMT -8
Those are beautiful, both of them. Thank you for sharing them. What an inspiration.
Here is a hymn I like:
1. Savior, Redeemer of my soul,
Whose mighty hand hath made me whole,
Whose wondrous pow’r hath raised me up
And filled with sweet my bitter cup!
What tongue my gratitude can tell,
O gracious God of Israel.
2. Never can I repay thee, Lord,
But I can love thee. Thy pure word,
Hath it not been my one delight,
My joy by day, my dream by night?
Then let my lips proclaim it still,
And all my life reflect thy will.
Rilly
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Post by dawnbelieves on Feb 7, 2009 16:36:12 GMT -8
That was awesome. Thanks for posting it.
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Post by lonelyheart87 on Mar 24, 2009 17:52:22 GMT -8
Just beautiful...touched my soul
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Post by glaciertraveler on Jan 8, 2010 2:04:56 GMT -8
I learned after my recent breakup that after saying good-bye to him, I said hello to myself!
GlacierTraveler
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