Tenuous

It’s not like I didn’t know
that life is tenuous
and death a given

I chose to ignore the signs –
seems that which we avoid
has a way of catching up

I pin-balled my way
searching for something
undefinable

A break from responsibility?
a Saviour?
Condemned myself as failure

Sentenced to a lifetime
of love lacking
How does one traverse such margins?
Re-engage in the face of rejection?

I have pen,
and thoughts,
and maybe
if I bleed enough,
the path will be revealed.

(Image my own)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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  2. Oh, I “feel” this piece deeply, VJ! Don’t have the answer though. And honestly, don’t know if I ever will. But I think the closest I can come to what “it” is, safety and freedom felt at the same time. ❤ May we experience it. These lines are my favorite:I pin-balled my waysearching for somethingundefinable

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  9. once we found a way, for everything that’s lokced up inside too long, then, we will, find that, sense of release, that, brand new feel of, freedom. But it’s not easy to reach this “place”…

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