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 Oct 2024 Jamesb
Frances Raeburn
I loved you
yesterday
or at least
I tried
but you were you
yesterday
or at least
you tried
 Oct 2024 Jamesb
Shamai
alone
 Oct 2024 Jamesb
Shamai
Chairs in the room
Vacant
Because
Alone
Requires
Emptiness

On the table
Papers
Requiring attention
Strewn to the side
And left
Alone

Fire in the hearth
No one
To watch it

Empty room
Amply furnished
Ticking clocks
No one
To listen
She's shaking.
Unstable.
For the taking.
Swallowed in fog.
Connection is lost.
She's cut off
From herself.
She's cut off.
Can't get out.
There is no where but here.

"Disappear. Disappear."
She whispers.

"I am here. I am here."
She answers.

"Tell me." He says,
"Tell me all that you dread."

And her fears spoke louder
Than anything ever said.
Inspired from learning about polyvagal theory and the feeling of being "stuck" in the sympathetic state (fight/flight/freeze) or dorsal (collapse). Speaking about where youre at can help you bring back ventral state to the foreground, the beneficial state, the ability to have connectedness at ease.
 Oct 2024 Jamesb
Scrib
Temporary peace
Breaks in the grip of the light
Shattered by the dawn
Daily Haiku
 Oct 2024 Jamesb
one of you
I flicker and struggle to stay on
for I know what happens on this lonely corner
when I'm gone
if I leave them in the dark, nothing good
in my neighborhood, where sirens ring
and sneakers hang
then I go dark - at least I went out with a
BANG!
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