Monday, May 27, 2013

Love and Fear

I am thinking of a time
When
I will choose to live
Rather than be defined
By limitations
The shackles that bind me
Do not define me
But the breath
I breathe
When I am free
To breathe
Under the Sun
Without constraints
Without bonds
Without suffocation

If I choose to leave
If I choose to stay
I will not stay
Because of any fear
I choose to
Live
And
Be alive

If I am not alive here
I will be alive elsewhere
I want to
Rejoice in the love
Rejoice in the sun
Rejoice in being alive
I want to
Be alive
Fly with the birds
Live with the dolphins
Become a blade of grass
Bend with the wind
Be a snowflake
In midsummer
Be a grain of sand
Blown across the dunes
Sway in the breeze
Be a drop of rain
I want to live
I want to love

Do not fear
The choices I make
Be not defined
By fear


Live and love



Posted for Open Link Night - 98 on dVerse ~ Poets Pub



10 comments:

  1. i hear you man...often our choices are dictated by those fears...and choosing to leave for life that is a great choice...better than losing it and still being alive...

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  2. If only we can and believe in it ~ I admire the courage to live life freely and to rejoice in being alive ~

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  3. Amen. I want to live too. A strong voice in this strong piece.

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  4. The second half reminds us that to make the stand for freedom often takes us to the other side of the veil where we are freed from the bonds of this particular "life" and its shackles, its constraints, injustice, and prejudice.

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  5. "I am thinking of a time
    When
    I will choose to live
    Rather than be defined
    By limitations
    The shackles that bind me
    Do not define me"

    Powerful words. There are many forms of "shackles." We should be defined not by who we are outside, but who we are inside, by the content of our hearts. Nice composition, Shawn.

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  6. Great advice. Choosing the light, choosing to live.

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  7. This is beautiful and you deserve all of these moments you desire.

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  8. Go for it . . . fear be damned!

    The pace of the piece matches the strength of your resolve. I like the roaring rhythm.

    Nicely written.

    Cheers!

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  9. Take flight with those things that give you freedom and do it with resolve. A strong write.

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  10. Yes, live and love and do not fear!

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