I don't deserve to love.

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4

Tired of the smallness
of mercies, the deep pockets
of loneliness in the body
impossible to fill, despite 
love's many gifts.

5

Nothing wrong with dying.
but with believing that life is always
meaningful, that meaning 
is not a flame
we lit ourselves and may flicker.

6

Perhaps there is nothing heroic
about choosing life. To do so
may be the same
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Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:  So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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How does one go from feeling so much love to a feeling of indifference and distress? Yet even then, i could not swipe it off like dust. Even God made man from dust. There was truth in my indifference and i need to hold on to that when i manage to pull myself out. One arm in the darkness and one arm in the light. To completely immerse yourself in ( Read more... )

I love her. I love her now in her absence as i have loved her during the days before we were married. Quiet and unassuming, she must have been the object of every young man’s desire. Not base desires, not lust, no. But a real desire. The kind that you feel when you see your newborn child for the first time and a sharp kick hits you at the base of ( Read more... )

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There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body,
seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of That
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.

This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
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“silence is the language of god, 
all else is poor translation.” 
Rumi