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I found myself, once, longing, To be hated by you. To feel the burning shame of guilt, I won't say any more about feelings, Because that place, I'd occupy without them, To see this nonsense through. So few people seem to really give a **** And you actually do. You really do. Maybe if I wished too much for you To love and respect me, To see me as as a friend, then maybe I risk the capacity to be hated by you, as well. but I tend to see you as a force of nature. If you ever began to love me, as I hope, Then I have to realize, Your capacity to hate me would also materialize. And, like a force of nature, I know, You would spare me: Nothing. Help me: Not. Trust me: Never. but you would do nothing to me Out of malice or for ego or for personal gain. And I would have to trust, With a child's trust, happily, even to my death, That it was better to be loved     by a force of nature, Regardless of pleasure or pain, Beyond reproach or false intent.
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 3:41 PM UTC
Force of Nature
I found myself, once, longing, To be hated by you. To feel the burning shame of guilt, I won't say any more about feelings, Because that place, I'd occupy without them, To see this nonsense through. So few people seem to really give a **** And you actually do. You really do. Maybe if I wished too much for you To love and respect me, To see me as as a friend, then maybe I risk the capacity to be hated by you, as well. but I tend to see you as a force of nature. If you ever began to love me, as I hope, Then I have to realize, Your capacity to hate me would also materialize. And, like a force of nature, I know, You would spare me: Nothing. Help me: Not. Trust me: Never. but you would do nothing to me Out of malice or for ego or for personal gain. And I would have to trust, With a child's trust, happily, even to my death, That it was better to be loved     by a force of nature, Regardless of pleasure or pain, Beyond reproach or false intent.
Hear this, read by the author: https://soundcloud.com/warmphase/force-of-nature 2 June 2014:  love, trust, loyalty, and the equal capacity for hate( also spelled 'dishonesty' , 'indifference', you name it).   This is a work-in-progress.  Make a suggestion, if you wish.  It is still half nuts and bolts.  Something like this can be written in a thirty minute flurry, left alone for months, read sporadically with disdain, dropped again and again, nearly abandoned, until I load it up with fresh eyes one day and it falls together, bit by bit, with each subsequent reading.  A new concept can enter into it, fictionalizing inspiration into a new creation.  Will it have wings?  Who knows.  Maybe it doesn't matter, so long as it is coherent enough to register on the human mind and heart with a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio.
wesparham
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 3:41 PM UTC
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