Possibly Broken

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." -- CS Lewis

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Punctuation-less Poem

nOiSe

Laughter Chatter Squeals Cries Footsteps Doors Pages turning Books dropping Hands slapping SMACK SWOOSH BOOM SMASH CLANG FLICK hahahahahahaha

My head is pounding  My eyes are strained  My feet are numb
Hands are shaking  Brow is sweating  Pulse is quickening

Is this what happiness looks like or 
what loneliness feels like or 
maybe both or 
neither

Everyone has an agenda
      Yet I am just standing here
             An unimportant grain of sand in a never ending sea of crushed rocks that have existed longer than                  any human can remember or a huge fiery land mass million miles away that most people just
             ignore because from their point of view I am insignificant

I can be what anyone wants me to be      believe me I have tried

                                                                                           but it is     E     m      p      t     Y

a   s m b c a r l e d   m s e s   t a h t   n b o d o y   c a n   u t n a n l g e

Maybe we become who we really are when we STOP listening to everyone else STOP trying to please everybody STOP playing the chameleon and START following

ONE VOICE
above all others

Maybe we become who we are meant to be

who needs punctuation anyway

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