Stories tagged “letting go”
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Letting Go [poem]
There is a time for everything you say And I have seen this day by day. Before I saw what I wanted come But now I feel that time is done. What I needed, wanted my desire Consumed me like a raging fire; But I realize now that it cannot last Years from...
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Learning to Fall
Let go, He says to me, Just let go. Free yourself. There is nothing, nothing left. Empty your mind and let everything go. Scorch your fields of the strawberries and apples. Take the change from your pocket And give it to the world. Throw away the cloth...
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While the World Sleeps
I pulled the phone out of my pocket. The bus was quiet. 3 A.M to Buffalo. Everyone was asleep save an older man with a newspaper in the back of the bus and the pretty girl with the laptop behind me. We cruised across the pavement, a cough here, a grunt...
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A True Friend's Embrace-- Glow and Grow Them as the Sun Has Done
It’s fun To wonder Under the sun Until the day is done It feels right to welcome What becomes the night Turning on not a light bulb Only letting palpable Fretting dissolve Naturally like the earth revolves Actually alive enough to evolve And all ...
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Gabriella
Matt took a sip of bourbon as he watched the rain beat rowdily against the window of the restaurant. The inclement weather made the party surprisingly more intimate and the guests behind him more animated. He rubbed a hand over his matted curls and tur...
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Recovery
It’s almost funny how you left me so long ago, yet I am still in recovery. I am slowly, yet surely, healing a bit each and everyday. I’d like to believe that I have completely recuperated from this but I would only be lying to myself, and after dea...
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Reoccurring Natural Disaster
The quiet storm rages to life. Desires are pursued with the unmitigated ferocity of Mother Nature’s fury. With no more warning than from a strike of lightning, the earth between us begins quaking. Despite efforts to steer the freight train away, ...
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Pain
Through teary eyes, the child in the window waves a final goodbye. She had always wanted a kitten. She adored them; they made her laugh. Dad knew just what would make my birthday so special. And now it is being taken away from me. Her eyes welled up ag...
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A Knight's Prayer
My other half. for once, screamed to speak. I tore at the bridle that held back my tongue. “You know I love you, I see you manipulate that fact with your eyes, you’re doing it now. When I show one iota of backward movement, you pull me inwa...