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Jena 🔮 Crystal Ball Woman! This is magnificent on so many levels...I love it. Art too has saved my life.....so many lively precious things said in-between......AHHHHHHH, thank you.

I will need to read that over several times. I do love how pain's steady decline leads into translucence. I think I am having that now....where my veins pop through the top layer and whirl.

And I too, am done with pain! NIGGLING! That word will resonate with me for a while or forever.

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founding

That child inside weeps

at our forgetting

the joy in being...just being.

Parts of growing up

and living life,

often feels more like

running to keep up...

breathing hard, almost choking

on air...wanting to stop

and breath, but you can't...

because

our synchronized society

has squeezed us into our place

in the hierarchy

our location +

race+ gender+economic status =

our place. The only equalizer is TIME

Time has power

...the power to release ourselves

from expectations and rules we

never knew we agreed to

- societal and self impose.

Time allows us to ask:

Who said we can't experience life with the same joy and wonder of a child?

Who said we have to be more serious, because we aren't kids anymore?

Who said we have to get everything done, and check it off the list today?

Who said we have to have

and collect things

and debt?

Who said we have to "stay in our lane"

when curiosity strikes our fancy?

Too bad the wisdom of age takes it's sweet time bringing us back to our senses.

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Thank you for the jolt right back to chasing rainbows, butterflies and cousins. Never wanting to really capture them just the joy of running free from the pain of the house I grew up in.🌹

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We should all reflect on what made us happy as children--and relish it.

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I believe! Made me feel like I was 6 and happy, though never as carefree, as I recall. But maybe I remember wrong. I was collecting my own dots, invisible on my skin.

This is a great poem.

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