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The Clock of the Heart (an attempt at poetry)

if people were braver, they would look beyond the pain and sadness of endings
most times people create new beginnings after something ends
endings don’t bother me too much and i don’t bother much with beginnings either
i’m all for the natural course of things, the seamless existence
things don’t need to end if you don’t want it to, that’s what i’ve always believed…
some people get stuck on endings and beginnings
i much prefer middles, where things really transpire
where the power to live resides
its where i can accelerate, elevate
i don’t long for endings and i don’t look forward to beginnings
these things just hum on my brain while i’m busy in the now
i welcome the spikes and the booby traps that i come across
i thrive on the challenge and i don’t let up
running into dead ends is all a part of the race
the trick is not to set boundaries and to claim every territory
to own it and to leave a mark
everyday is beautiful because i am there to live it
nobody knows how long it would last, this ability to see every new day
it’s god’s most precious gift
the seconds, the minutes, the hours that he allows me to live my life,
to be in the race
i’ve been around for a while and the beauty of it all is that
i may be around a lot longer just as easily as i may not last beyond today
so every minute of every hour of every day should be embraced fully like a longed for lover…
ps: now boy george may be a washed up addict but there is one song of the culture club that somehow stuck to me, bit of an anticlimax for this passage I've just put here, with the words:
in time it could've been so much more, cuz time is precious i know i
in time it could've been so much more but time has nothing to show me
cuz time won't give me time
and time makes lovers feel like they got something real
but you and me we know we got nothing but time
and time won't give me time...
Time (Clock of the Heart) by The Culture Club
Comments
Love it! :-) What strucks me now is that it's like focusing on the beauty of now "middles where things really transpire" as you wrote. I love being reminded of that.
Hey that was really good (your piece, not the song!) :-)
very cool.
That's funny.
Oh i just love the crazy 80s! Specially the music and John Hughes movies! :D
This is nice! Sounds like an anthem, an ode to life and living! And I must say, Boy George was a pleasant surprise! You should write more poetry as you really do have the juice (sorry can't think of a better term but I'm sure you get my drift) Thanks for sharing :D
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