This is how I speak

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joel
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This is how I speak

Post by joel » February 18th, 2011, 9:24 am

I coulda sold my soul for love— instead
I’m gonna draw a bubblebath of tears—
and either way’d be heartbroken and headached,
but a wash is needed, one that clears
that fabricated feeling that you’d love
me. This is how I speak to my own soul—
the soul I’ve lain on you, as if a coverlet
on top a lover’s bed— now folded,
then in jumbles— all the time controlled
by you and never led by me. So now
I’m gonna cry and each salt tear that’s trolled
across my face is gonna teach me how
to love you better, love them better, love
me better. This is how I speak to love.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Re: This is how I speak

Post by saw » February 19th, 2011, 11:36 am

this is good joel, the lessons of the mind's tears are powerful for sure....and you can't go wrong reinventing yourself, 'cause without that you get stagnate......be introspective every day, meditate, stretch, read, write......
be alive...........fine work
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: This is how I speak

Post by dadio » February 19th, 2011, 4:17 pm

Excellent poem. 8)

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Re: This is how I speak

Post by rshreve » February 19th, 2011, 5:47 pm

salted tears of love and joy
run like a little boy
like a father would say
and do so without dismay
time to take a stand
just dare not demand
show it with emotion
say it without commotion
mean it with pure devotion
plant the seeds and they will grow
for this you see she does know

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