You're right.....it's never to late to do the right thing in matters such as these unless someone passes on. Thing is, ya seriously just never know what the next breath will bring or not bring. That was the gist of the conversation and of the poem.
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~~~~Shakti Gawain~~~~
Well, personally, putting words down....expressing myself is a purging process of sorts. This particular poem was spawned by a discussion on Regrets. My family sat around last night, everyone sharing not only personal regrets concerning my brother in law, Tony, but also regrets about things that they did in life but shouldn't have or on the flipside, regrets concerning what they didn't do but should have.
Everyone agreed, that the 'not doing' or the 'not speaking up or expressing themselves' only served to harm and hurt not only themselves but others.
Anywhoo.....this poem certainly wasn't one of my best. It simply just 'is'.
-- Edited by PITA B at 17:15, 2008-11-16
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~~~~Shakti Gawain~~~~
Tonight I came home from a Memorial party for my brother in law Tony, who passed away one year ago today from lung cancer. At the get together, people started to talk about how they wish they had said 'this' and 'that' before it was too late and how they always regretted not saying what they should have said and how they carry that regret with them always. Anyway.....it seemed to have spawned this poem about regrets. Critiques are, as always, welcome..
The Silent Voice by B.E.Nelson
I would have listened had you truthfully tried to explain
But your terse words of reason never ever made sense
I floundered for years to understand and fought hard to continue
As you just sat there frozen solid upon your fearful fence
For this I shall ever suffer, as will you too.... in truth
Twas an avoidable disservice committed against both of us
An honest expression of words would likely have saved the day
If, in courage, your true voice had been given in trust
Alas, here we exist in yet more pain and in deafening silence
Harboring should-a's and could-a's and the ever, if onlies
Both now doomed to forever be relentlessly haunted
To live with hidden truths, dark regrets and evermore, for each other, lonely
-- Edited by PITA B at 09:28, 2008-11-16
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~~~~Shakti Gawain~~~~
