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a weary, battered heart
crawls out of the shadows
edges towards me,
expectantly
my jaw slack, eyes unfocused
pointed anyelsewhere
beyond the horizon
i feel a dull, phantom ache
lingering deep inside
throbbing with recognition,
stubbornly
as my hand flutters absently
like an errant, wounded butterfly
towards the gaping hole
in my chest.
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You Make Everything Beautiful Seem True
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The Beginning Is Always Golden
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton
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Ready? Set! Gliiiiiide.
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happiness is in
each flower unfurling as
it was meant to do.
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She Wasn't Sure Where She Ended And He Began
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Out of The Dark You Carry My Heart
Image is All Rights Reserved, @2013 Lotus Carroll To license - via EyeEm Market: https://www.eyeem.com/p/81397783 No use allowed without a license. All my images available via Getty Images: http://goo.gl/SfJHzb EyeEm Market: https://www.eyeem.com/u/lotuscarroll To license other images not available via Getty or EyeEm, email me directly. thelotuscarroll@gmail.com
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When Light Falls Into Darkness
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I Will Slip Myself Into Your Pocket
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I Will Walk Beside The One Who Brings The Light
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These Arms Of Mine
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Sing Me Sweet Lemondrop Lullabies, Baby
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I Should Have Given You A Reason To Stay
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Seeing Through The Veil
we all have a choice if you want to see, there are lights that can guide... push back on the hands that grasp, that try to drag you into darkness, look up and past the veil of lies that sometimes settles over everything. transcend the fog
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Time To Boogie, Baby
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All Her Hollow Memories Float Away, One By One
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Every Sweet Breath
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Maybe It Will Last This Time
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She Makes Your World Beautiful
It is a joyous day to pay tribute to the hard working, beautiful, nurturing mothers we know and love, and as mothers, to feel proud and happy about what we do. It is a difficult day for many, as well… some have lost (or cannot have) children; some have lost mothers (or had abusive/absent ones). Whatever your story is, I think of you! I hope the sun shines on your life today, exploding all your tears of both happiness and sorrow into bright, shining orbs. May you find joy to hold in your heart (and then pass on to someone else - that's the best). xoxo
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Quietly, I Find You Inside Of Me
The soft sound of unexpected rain falls into my heart and fills my soul with a comfort similar to your familiar smell.
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You Came To Save Me
This is one of my favorite flowers in the whole world, photographed in my garden - she is delicate and bold all at the same time... not quite like all the rest in ways that inexplicably draw you to her - nigella damascena, otherwise known as Love-in-a-Mist.

When you see her, you will want to hold on to her always, drinking in every angle and curve, absorbing all of her confusing yet somehow perfectly complimentary elements. Can't she just be yours forever? You long to keep her, but it is simply not possible. In time, she will transform into an equally lovely, but very dry, seedpod. Holding onto all the life she has ever gathered inside of her, she will bide her time. You will hear her shake and whisper, sometimes rattling, in the wind when it comes, as she stands. But stand she will.

She is strong, though eventually she will break, releasing everything she ever was to the wind, letting each piece of her land where it will; in this last act, she will both release all of her gathered burdens and pass life gloriously on.
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She Wrote A Message For Him And Wore It On Her Sleeve
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And You Thought Jiminy Cricket Was Cute
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And The Days Inside Their Love Went On Forever
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i stretch toward you
further inside me you go
here you’ll always live
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Throw My Arms Wide As My Heart Breathes Into All The Empty Spaces
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and so, silently i float to you
as I always have
and always will,
on the wings
of a golden dream
that will disappear
when i awake.
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the darkest part of truly forgetting
is finally willing away
the good memories, too.
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She Keeps An Eye On The Sky
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I've Seen My Way Through Worse
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If And Only If
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Discover The Forgotten
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Life Moves On While You Stand Still
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