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Jay Jan 2020
I am rather emotional, and honestly, you all probably already know that.
Each of you has probably seen me cry once,
Or so full of rage that silence was never an option.
Some would say that this makes me too much to handle,
That I need to control myself.
But how I am now, is better than how I used to be.
The screaming and the yelling and the crying and the falling apart,
It's all so much better than sitting in my room at night, unable to sleep, my mind racing, but my heart numb.
It is so much better than being unable to smile a real smile,
It is so much better than despising my life and everything within it.
I'd rather fall apart over something small than be unable to shed a tear over something big.
And maybe I look crazy,
Maybe I am out of control,
But at least I feel whole.
Amanda Kay Burke Jan 2020
We are afraid of alone
Love too much or not at all
Other person becomes our addiction
Without them caring go through withdrawal

You will not be whole without them
Who you are alone
What you regret
For which you cannot atone

Not today
Not tomorrow
Or the next
Have I made wrongs right?
Never felt a sense of conviction
I have been wasting words I write
I think this is lacking something but not sure what
Antino Art Jan 2020
The word alone
means nothing on paper.

It should be torn
in half: "all" and
"one" no longer
together.

Anything that isn't one
must be in pieces,
and being with someone
is not the end all, be all.

God was a lonely man for Christ sake.

It's okay to be alone,
because oneness
is wholeness.

Sing it with me:
There is nothing greater
than being whole.
Q Dec 2019
ecstasy freed from
the ******* of mind and space
through your giving lips


s.q.




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~I was caught up in the moment of staring into your eyes.~


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Q Dec 2019
there is no answer
no statement recorded
no such truth
that answers the souls yearning
...
other than
what is found within
-
we too often feel lost
stranded, abandoned
by the cosmic whole
without direction

but we were given everything
EVERYTHING
we need to find peace
within the being we animate

stop being a victim to life



s.q.



.
thoughts from vipassana meditation and mom conversations


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Mateah Dec 2019
A love that learns to see
The individual
Is a love that sees the whole
Not their residuals
LC Nov 2019
on some days
I'm a piece of sandpaper -
rubbed and rubbed
until I'm raw and stinging,
until there's almost nothing left.

but there's a little corner
that doesn't sting,
that renews my hope,
that heals every part of me
until I'm whole again.
Mandi Wolfe Nov 2019
Sleepy Sounds-
cacophony of the
shared studio apartment
An island of misfit
toys
Some straight from
the factory with
missing parts
Some with
limbs lost over
time
All wandered/fled/abandoned
here
neglected/broken/discarded
Five sets of
eyes
finally closed to
imperfection/rejection/expectation
All found now
in this place
Whole
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