i ride the road with you
wondering what to do
fuse the ends
or splice the new
for in the silencing
i feel you withering
the fire of desire
for life
disappearing
where am i failing
to tell the truth
of the beautiful things
coming into being
all around you
i trace your lines in blue
we will find
a safe way through
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© M.G. Iannucci 2019
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I realized that what I value most in life is healthy, loving connection. It has been a most difficult thing coming to understand that not everyone values it. Sometimes what appears to be connection on the outside has an ulterior intention. I am working on a clarity of my own vision.
Turning the other cheek is not about acquiescing. When you are struck in a back-handed way, you are being treated like a slave. Demanding that the other use the palm of their hand is making the fight fair…equity.
The distance is for the practice of inner connection. The resistance is to learn to demand justice. The greatest killer of hearts is unresponsiveness. Please see, what you do to yourself…you do to me.
My senior students are attending a workshop on learning to identify abusive relationships.
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Your poem was great, but your commentary on the poem spoke volumes to me… unresponsive heart(s), it is something I know about all to well and it is a pain beyond belief.
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Yes, unresponsiveness can be a form of abuse…lack of empathy. Indifference is the opposite of love.
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