I Want You To Write A Poem Off-the-cuff Right Here Right Now

@SW-User "it's better left alone" - that line cuts right to the core, hey? Like a samurai sword straight across the abdomen...

@DreamCoCreators Indeed

But the part that brings a tear to my eye is you just wrote it. Just like that. It's you. Gethsemane. One of the queens of SW. Almost a celebrity the number of people who have seen your name. I don't want that to be. Come sit by my Open Fireside, tell us something we don't already know. Let it be new.

@DreamCoCreators Lol, I'm not a celebrity or queen of SW. Almost nobody reads my writing. Something new? Like what?

Well, your name seems to crop up every day I'm on, quite a bit :) Maybe people don't see your posts, but your comments... And, you missed a bit - define "it" :) Something new like that's in your life new. Something you thought that was new. Something, like, that you noticed. Something that's different like it might lead to a different thought, that might lead to a different feeling, that might … you get the picture ;)

@DreamCoCreators

My whole life is new
Foundations cracked and crumbled
The walls I've built around myself
Disintegrated, tumbled.

I can't find the way up
there are no right directions
I'm left to stand alone
paralyzed in my reflections.

They say it will work out
as they look on from a distance
just don't ask them for help
that will only get resistance.

I do as they expect
and put a perfect smile in place
for no-one wants to see the truth
that's written on my face.

OMG that's the most beautiful thing I've read in a long while. Please keep it, treasure it. I want to say this now and reply properly .. but you should see this part before you go (or before I go to sleep lol I'm really tired!)

This is REAL. I feel like my fire is burning right in front of me, and you are there with me and we are interacting, meaning more than talking, properly. Except, my mind is racing as it always does, rushing around in excitement that someone actually reached out and connected with me - albeit they don't believe it: "it will work out" is .. oh and the "help" which meets with resistance. So so true. So true.

So. I breathed. And now.

Your life's walls are down,
Your windows up.
You see all that's out,
But light's way in is shut.

Aslan's* table has cracked
The rains have come
Your leaves and branches take time
To then become

The hummus you need
To allow you to grow
Now you see it's broken,
But in time you'll see that you have in fact sowed.

What you've done is courageous,
To play by their rules
…
TBC...

*The lion in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - when his table cracked he was reborn
I don't want to teach you to suck eggs, but I don't want the meaning to be lost in case you haven't read it/don't know what I'm on about :)

@DreamCoCreators Oh yes, I've read it many times. Thank you! Your words are not only beautiful, but they are encouraging and inspiring. I appreciate it very much! 😊

This is not your average person reaching out to help. I get you and where you are, which is somewhere I long to be - surprisingly enough. I'm making a road map for me, for some reason. I've been there, everything broken except my partner and I stayed together. No job, no prospects, living at home again. All I had was pressure from all around, nothing else. All I wanted was to slow down, to find something I truly wanted, and run with it. Now I think I'm stuck in that place a little, running through that scenario, going outside, meeting people deliberately, and looking around me - sunrises, sunsets, night sky, things that inspire people. And finding things that inspire me - things I want to fill my life with. Somehow, one day, I will create a daily life for me that matches those things. That is the path I want to walk. It is a difficult one to find these days...

Your words mean zillions to me, honestly. Those 2 poems. So short, such punch, such exact, accurate (achieved exactly what you wanted) and precise (achieved it reliably and repeatably), I'm in awe. Truly. Thank you for stopping by. Now, truly, I must sleep. Goodnight.

@DreamCoCreators 🤔 Somebody isn't sleeping....😏

@SW-User too true. Tomorrow is a scary day in preparation for the week, and I'm holding my second fireside event where only 2 signed up, 1 of whom I know. So, I'm delaying the realisation that the onset of tomorrow might happen, by staying awake and calling it today still 😂.

@DreamCoCreators 😂 Oh myyy...I can so relate to that!

Relax, breathe, rest, sleep.... it'll be good! It'll be much better if you can remember it because you were awake for the event. 😄

That is so true sleep deprivation reduces memory creation ability. Scary that these last few years have hardly any memories I can just pull up...

@DreamCoCreators Good luck today! I hope it goes better than you could ever expect!