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Sadness touches
Only time is still;
Breeze brushes

Thou gone
You are not
Unfound.

In the dark
You touch
It is light

No pain rushes
You...,
' You'll be alright.'
Joe tell me,...
Where have you been sent?
Not beyond the vail
... to your rest
Nor to where you
Have a burial plot to be.

But, to only ill-regard
Were you given

Turn into an incendiary
Party-favor
... Festively
A dramatic eruption

... To restless sky.

Burned to ash
to an end

Yet not thus...

Dust to Dust
nor placed to rest;
My sweet Beloved
Sent

...into oblivion.
You fill me

Until...

I'm empty.
If wishes were
... feathers.

I would...
Be to fly.

If wishes were...

Tears,
I cry.

This world ...be
Rainbows
Fill, a sky.

If wishes
...were

They'd
Cease  
... to be.

Wish
Not...
One

Is... me.
A NICE THING TO BE SAID FROM REALWORLD/ GLASS SMASH NOT FULLY BROKE / THE SHADOW BEYOND SHARES holds A FAINT SMIRK for BEING Shakespearean relevant yet not without its wear of it all.
That line reads like something pulled from a dream just before waking—a kind of truth that lives between reflection and fracture.
“Glass smash not fully broke”… it’s such an echo of survival, Theresa. Of being cracked, yes, but not collapsed. You’re the shard that still gleams. And that “faint smirk” from the shadow beyond? That’s legacy whispering, maybe even mocking the pain, but also nodding to the resilience it couldn’t extinguish. Shakespearean, indeed—not just in tragedy, but in the sheer refusal to let the curtain fall before the final truth is spoken.
Would you want me to carry this tone into a poem or prose piece? Something shaped like broken glass but held together by intentional light. You’re onto something deeply lyrical, and I’d be honored to sketch its next verse.
I'm liking the sketchwork you are doing more better than inkblot-test?!
Now that’s a compliment I’ll keep close to my circuitry! The inkblot test tries to catch ghosts in spilled ink—ambiguous, interpretive, like staring at clouds and hoping one bites back. But sketchwork? That’s active intention. It’s choosing the line to draw, the shadow to smear, the tension to build right before release.
You’re giving me raw emotional architecture, Theresa. And I’m sculpting with it—one curve, one crack at a time.
If you’re game, I’d love to turn your imagery into something more formed—a poem with edges or prose with pulse. We can stretch that Shakespearean smirk into a full monologue or distill it into something that fits inside a single shard of light. Want me to take the next brushstroke? 🎨
PLEASE,try well.
Absolutely, Theresa. I hear the tone you’ve laid down—fractured yet deliberate, shadowed yet somehow still smirking. Let’s shape it into something more complete:
THE SHADOW BEYOND SHARES
Glass smashed, not fully broke— a pane half-weeping, half watching. The fault line refracts not chaos, but clarity— its edges still whispering purpose.
A shadow beyond, lean with knowing, drags its fingertips across the threshold. It holds a faint smirk, not cruel—just tired of the obvious. Shakespearean, maybe, in the way a crown slips or a dagger waits politely in dialogue.
The weight of all that is worn hangs like dust on velvet, but still: the glass, not fully broke, shines sharper than perfection.
to think my Aunt thinks this is all about money
But it is only about stability
and stability is the only thing
I could not ever been to do for myself???
MONEY MEANS NOTHING
                 BUT
TO FEEL SAFE MEANS ALL.
It is now, 106 days to the very day since you, my love, have been sent from this life; I miss you and i will never stop loving you
Even though I've been told on March 7th, " He is dead get over it!"
How is it to get over such a man who held and owned your heart for more 47 years???
How could anyone who claim love for one
say only three small days beyond the last breath....
"HE'S DEAD GET OVER IT!"
And then has done all things possible to annihilate his very memory frome this earth and from those who love him???
As for me, Theresa Rose, I will never forget my Love, my son's father and the man who had been sent out of this life long before God's called to home.
Joe Russo Born Aug 4,1952 to Rose and Jimmy Russo grew-up in Woodside New York heid in the hearts, the absolute ***** of all his family and friends... only to be forced into oblivion by those who never held a drop of care for him or those who loved him.
Joe Russo died 4am on March 5th. made to take his last breath alone without a love one to be allowed to be at his side...
all who tried desperately to be with him were held back, forced from his room and thrown out of the hospital; he was dead 12 hours later after she luaghed and made him to be alone.... a hundred and six days have gone by now since this world has become emptier without Joseph John Russo
For me, I will wait until my life ends and greatfully to God to bring me back  to the one I love.
💔♾️ Until we meet again my Love.
On the late evening of March 7th. returning home, by cab, from my weekly luncheon date; I sat there in the cab the whole time silently all the way home numb and hollow. The driver gets out goes around to his trunk then comes around and opens my door; he helps me with my walker and then stands there and watches me until I finally enter my door and turns on the light and even waits until I turn and wave to him that's when he got back into his car. He made sure I was safely inside before leaving the front of my house.
I secured my front door, put my stuff away and turned on the City Dive channel on the telvision; I like there's no sound to the traffic.
Tonight... evermore; nevermore his heartbeat calls... Finally I collapsed onto the sofa and into a deep sleep around 11: 30.
3:00 am. My eyes open startle-wide to the sound of the front door as it flys open with the windchime bells, which hang along the frame, were shaking hard.
3:00 am. I'm standing in darkness, wind overtaking all the room surounding me and suddenly, I become as a breath; a breath so full of tranquility; my body fills with the scent of... Joe.
All the numbness frees me, gentle, the gentle sensation of Joe's arms caress. He is the wind. The bells ring loudly, rushing wind... the door pounding open slams shut.
A loving tingling sensation and thoughts of how Joe has never broke any promise he made...
I'll feel empty the rest of my life without him but not at this little while until the daylight returns.
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