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Fallen leaves

By the waterway

Fallen leaves

And tangled reeds

Remind me of you

Falling so far away from me

Into the place of shattered dreams

Memory and imagination

Became home to me

In these later years

But here in the silence

All alone with nature

There is a place

For all of my sorrow

No thought of tomorrow to steal me far away

From painful realities

For a while

All is present here

Past and future

Mysteriously coalesce

In this moment of unravelling

I am held in a place where

No defences can stem the flow of grief

But it hurts to wonder

If you had to be cut free

So painfully

When all of those others times

Grief stole you away

Loving arms to hold you

Were all you needed to return

Not pills or a thousand other forms

Of human ills

Fractured diagnoses that spoke of suffering

But did little to articulate it

Revealing the bitter truth

Layer by layer

But when your pain was truly mirrored by another

For those brief moments

We knew the healing power

Of presence and surrender

And it is this peace I remember

By the water way

As fallen leaves

And tangled reeds

Give me the space

And freedom

To acknowledge the pain

Of a life of so much loss

And fully grieve

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"The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us." Ursula Goodenough How to describe oneself? People are a mystery and there is so much more to us than just our particular experiences or occupations. I could write down a list of attributes and they still might not paint a complete picture pf Deborah Louise and in any case it would not be the full truth of me. I would say that my purpose here on Wordpress is to express some of my random experiences, thoughts and feelings, to share about my particular journey and explore some subjects dear to my heart, such as emotional recovery, healing and astrology while posting up some of the prose/poems which are an outgrowth of my labours with life, love and relationships. If anything I write touches you I would be so pleased to hear for the purpose of reaching out and expressung ourselves is hopefully to connect with each other and find where our souls meet.

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  2. Again so many lines in this one that just took my heart away ❤
    Absolutely, that freedom to fully acknowledge the pain instead of running away from it is the first and the biggest step towards healing 🙂
    Thank you so much for writing this and sharing it 🙂

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    1. Ohhh that’s so great to read from you. I have another poem I haven’t posted yet about how you cant really fully run from grief (though many of us try to.. but it keeps chasing us!) Your comment really touched me. Thanks so much ❤

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      1. I for one begin the process by running away from it always 🙂 And that’s why this post even touched me even more. So now I am waiting for this other poem you are taking about 🙂
        Its always a pleasure to read your poems ❤

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