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Archive for August, 2007

Weighs and Mean

Wrong? Or right? The scale teeters back and forth uncertainly.
A voice spoke. You decided it was God and not your own foolish inner voices.
A heart broke. Someone’s had to.
Is He still speaking?
Is it still breaking?
The scale trembles to a halt. Equally balanced… and then splits in half.
As each side lies useless and broken, it knows [...]

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I stand before you. Analyzed. Observed. Inspected.
All you see is that I am not like you. You miss the nuances that are me. You cannot understand my talents, my opinions, or my gifts. Because you cannot see me as anything but not you.
I do not even notice the difference at first. I see our commonality. [...]

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Lamentations

I loved once.
I love now, but it is not the same. I have less to offer. It is as if an amputation of self has occurred. I have lost parts of me. Parts of the whole. Parts that made up who I am. What I am. How I give. How I love.
What is left is [...]

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Weathering the Storm

I can feel it in the distance. It sits on the air like warm molasses. Hovers in the deafening silence that descends before it. Pushes before it uncertainty, desperation, fear. It is almost physical in its threat… before it even comes near. It cannot be stopped. It can only be escaped.
Suddenly it is before me… [...]

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Melt

It drips through our words. Hot and heavy gliding over syllables like silk. It pools between this moment and the next before slowly overflowing the boundaries of time. It fluidly fills ever space, penetrating every crevice.
And then it cools. Hardens. Stops moving. Distant and removed for the source. Useless. Evidence of fire without the flame. [...]

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The Discovery

You think you see me. You want to define me. Understand me. You want to file me away under “D”. Simplify me. Lock me away in your mind under a safe category. Make me less threatening to your peace.
I am peace! Am I? Peace is not invisible. I am not invisible! But peace is [...]

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