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It’s a trap This dance you do The struggle subtly seduces you catches you, hook, line and sinker. You twist and tango with your soul’s Wildfire delight You take two steps backward And you loop round again and again. When will It end When will you release and receive Your heart’s truth? Bring it, Fall forward And repeat. No one’s evening listening And still you retreat. It’s a viscous ravishing of life’s wondrous feast, in and over and on itself, You starve, And you crave, And you want more of what you don’t have. And then the mirror reveals, That the more is already You just want it closer And That is where it lands. The step you must take isn’t a step forward, Nor a step back At all It’s an allowing
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Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023 at 8:22 AM UTC
Enraptured
It’s a trap This dance you do The struggle subtly seduces you catches you, hook, line and sinker. You twist and tango with your soul’s Wildfire delight You take two steps backward And you loop round again and again. When will It end When will you release and receive Your heart’s truth? Bring it, Fall forward And repeat. No one’s evening listening And still you retreat. It’s a viscous ravishing of life’s wondrous feast, in and over and on itself, You starve, And you crave, And you want more of what you don’t have. And then the mirror reveals, That the more is already You just want it closer And That is where it lands. The step you must take isn’t a step forward, Nor a step back At all It’s an allowing
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41/F/Sydney
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023 at 8:22 AM UTC
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