Which shouldn't exist....

Which shouldn’t exist in this world,

the one who forgets or the one who is forgotten?

Which is better, to love one who has died 

or not to see each other when you are alive? 

Which is better, the distant lover you long for 

or the one you see daily without desire? 

Which is the least unreliable among fickle things - 

the swift rapids, a flowing river, or this human world?”

~Izumi Shikibu

How do you do that.....

How do you do that?

Act like you don't care, 

like you don't feel anything?

Because I can't do that.

I feel.

I feel everything.

~jz

The mind.....

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it,

 but is always breaking away from the present moment, 

and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... 

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, 

but from hope to hope.

~Samuel Johnson

Many.....

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling

 with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. 

But you have already borne the pain. 

What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

~ Kahlil Gibran♥

I choose.....

I choose to love you in silence 

for in my silence I find no rejection. 

I choose to love you in my loneliness 

for in my loneliness no one owns you but I. 

I choose to adore you from a distance 

for distance shields us both from pain. 

I chose to imprison you in my thoughts 

cause in my thoughts, freedom is for me to decide 

I choose to kiss you on the wind 

for the wind is gentler than my lips. 

I choose to hold you only in my dreams 

for in my dreams there is no end…

~Rumi

All you have to do.....

All you have to do is close your eyes

And just reach out your hands and touch me

Hold me close don't ever let me go

More than words is all I ever needed you to show

Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me

Cause I'd already know

~Extreme

I struggle with wanting you all the time, 

so please don’t mistake my silence for indifference.

 It’s just I have to hold myself back because I feel too much. 

Too often. 

Too wildly out of my control.”   

      

 ~Tina Tran

Try to.....

Try to learn to breathe deeply, 

really to taste food when you eat, 

and when you sleep, really to sleep. 

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, 

and when you laugh, laugh like hell. 

And when you get angry, get good and angry. 

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. 

~Ernest Hemingway 

She gave her husband.....

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure 

that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot.

He grew molten when she passed near other men, 

and at night they made their own shaking tent.

They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush,

into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons.

There, no one could hear them.

In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry,

pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.

~Louise Erdrich

We danced too wild.....

We danced too wild, 
and we sang too long,
 and we hugged too hard,
 and we kissed too sweet, 
and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, 
because by now we were all old enough to know
 that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day
 looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.” 

~ Pearl Cleage

If you've never been thrilled.....

If you've never been thrilled to the edges of you soul

 by a flower in spring bloom,

Maybe your soul has never been in bloom.

~Audra Foveo

But it wasn't.....

But it wasn’t some catastrophic moment 

that taught me one of the most powerful 

lessons of my life. 

I learned that unbelievably awful things can and do happen. In truth, they are not such rare, isolated events. Each of us has a story that would break someone’s heart. 

Despite the grief and the unfairness of it all, 

we keep going. 

There are chores to be done. 

There are people who still need our care. 

There is a life to be led.

~Aldra Robinson

Call it a kiss.....

Call it a kiss.....

but I want to dip my fingers into a dark wine

 and paint your lips red 
and let it drip down your neck.  

I want to cup your wet chin and raise the goblet

 of your fine wine mouth to mine.  

I want to drink from you until we taste the same.

~Peregrine

The earth.....

The earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A serious girl.....

A serious girl, 

when she finds someone to calm her spirit,

 and quiets her busy thoughts, 

will love you so fiercely,

 it will defy even her own logic and reasoning.

IWYL

When it's real.....

When it's real you'll know,

you won't be confused about it.

~jz

Two things.....

Two things define you.

Your patience when you have nothing,

&

Your attitude when you have everything.

My dear friend.....

My dear, find what you love and let it kill you.

 Let it drain you of your all.

 Let it cling onto your back

 and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.

Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, 

but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

~Charles Bukowski

Come with me to the sea.....

Oh, how wonderful it would be

Lying on the shore holding hands

Listening to the waves

Our feet in the sand.

~jz

I can't decide.....

I can’t decide whether I’m a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, 

or if I’m a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. 

And that’s how I know I’m a woman!
~ C. JoyBell C.