With Resolve
Would I be that person again?
Am I not, still?
The anger that stewed within is gone,
resolved with understanding. Loss
weighs heaviest when dismissed.
Recognized, accepted, it still lives
within me, an empty space
never to be filled yet always holding
those who cannot be replaced.
This is my response to Reena’s Xploration Challenge #241, which offers this line as inspiration: “The only ghost that scares is a past version of you.”
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Thank you. I needed that this week. I released a rage this week, and it doesn’t feel resolved. “Loss weighs heaviest when dismissed,” says everything I felt/feel.
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Thank you. Mine was a simmer that went on far too long, until I viewed it in retrospect and realized what I had been doing to myself… and those around me… by not having taken long enough to grieve.
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So credibly written. Loss rage resolve. We all need the resolve. It happen at different paces in all of us.
Happy Thursday Ken
Much💚love
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Thank you, Gillena.
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Beautiful and beautifully read as well! 🙏
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Thank you.
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I can feel you words and loss as I have been trying to find the lost pieces of myself the last month.
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Oh yes ken. Reminds me of a Shams Tabrizi quote: we are the same as pots. The decoration on the outside is meaningless, it is the emptiness within that makes us useful
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Thank you. Yes, and what we do with that emptiness.
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“Always holding those who cannot be replaced” – love it!
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😀 Thank you.
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This is beautifully expressed Ken. We can’t keep carrying such a burden without great harm to both ourselves and others. (K)
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“Loss weighs heaviest when dismissed.”
What a great line. I have found when I inquire and dig deeper into my emotional response I come back out of the hole lighter than when I went in.
Wishing you peace.
Ali
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A heart wrenching piece about grief and its stages. It captures everything about it.
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Brilliant last line!
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Grief is love. I am in awe of this line as it could stand alone….
“Loss weighs heaviest when dismissed.” I know some who carry it this way. Heavy, indeed.
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A beautiful and thoughtful poem on grief and learning to release it. You’ve captured it so well here. I enjoyed your reading, too.
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Yes, loss weighs heaviest when dismissed, speaks strongly for me.
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The ache is palpable, this resonates! ❣️
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Ken I like the philosophy in yr poetry a lot. Is not the first time I saw it, and I walk away from this with good questions I need to answer, too.
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Grief so beautifully expressed, Ken! One of the most difficult things in life is letting go.
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Thank you, Eugenia.
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My pleasure, Ken.
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Ken, you always say so much in a few words. Beautiful and it resonated.
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