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Mad Rain

In your light I learn to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.
But sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Point-ilism Monday, November 08, 2010 |

At what point did I begin to lose myself?

Was it a solitary moment, a specific event? Or a culmination of smaller events?

At what point did I become part of a "we"?

How did our souls become so convoluted together?

At what point did I let you in, so deep into my soul?

I was sure I was secure in every defense; how did you get in so easily?

At what point did I realize I couldn't live without you?

How soon after that point were you gone?

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Gone: Excerpt from Heaven's Coast: A Memoir, by Mark Doty Wednesday, September 08, 2010 |

The afternoon is so quiet and deep, it seems almost to ring and chime, a cold, struck bell. There is an inaudible roaring, a rush, beneath the surface of things, beneath the surface of Wally, who is now almost no surface, as if I could see into him, into that great hurrying current, that energy, that forward motion which is life going on. I was never this close to anyone in my life. His living so deep, and absolute, that it pulls me close to that interior current, so far inside his life, and my own. I know I am going to be more afraid than I have ever been, but right now I am not afraid. I am face to face with the deepest movement in the world, the point of my love’s deepest reality, where he is most himself, even if that self empties out, into no one, swift river hurrying into the tumble of rivers, out of individuality, into the great rushing whirlwind of currents. God, moving on the face of the waters…. I know it’s time. I say to Wally, while the breath comes more shallowly, “All the love in the world goes with you”. Each breath he draws in goes a little less further into his body, so easily. He never struggles; there is no sense of difficulty, no sense of holding on… I say, “You go easy, babe. Go Free”. The world seemed in absolute suspension, nothing moving anywhere, everything centered. Go easy. But you go.

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Love is something you fall into... Monday, May 25, 2009 |

Fall:

-to enter as if unaware
-to suffer ruin, defeat, or failure
-to descend freely by the force of gravity
-to leave an erect position suddenly and involuntarily
-to pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind

Fall.
Fall apart.
Fall behind.
Fall from grace.
Fall flat on your face.
Fall into place.
Fall in love.
Fall short.
Fall.


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There is no mathematics to love... Thursday, February 05, 2009 |

They say we only use 10% of our brain. Everyone knows that. But how much of our heart do we use? With what percentage do we love? What amount do we feel? are we capable of more than 10%?? i am beginning to doubt...

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Who Am I?

I care too much.
I worry too often.
I trust too easily.
I hold on for too long.
I take things too personally.
I love deeply, too completely.
I have to learn some lessons the hard way.
I know that nothing worth having is ever easy.

I feel...
disconnected from this world.
as if I don’t quite belong here.
lost.
incomplete.
afraid of all that is before me.
completely unsure of myself.

I am...
constantly distracted
highly caffeinated
artful minded
often displaced
slightly OCD
easily amused
very stubborn
possibly radioactive
usually peaceful
overly independent
creatively random

I Am inspired by...
My friends,
what they have taught me,
about life, about myself,
about love, and loss…
I am who I am because of you.
I am forever changed, eternally grateful.
You know who you are.

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