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We have mined our mountains,
we have fished our seas,
we have felled our forests,
we have gathered our grains,
but we have not yet embraced
the infinite energy of our souls,
which is love.

Tod Howard Hawks
 Feb 2021 Troy Wylie-Hill
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I am
Completely
Entirely
Fully
Wholly
Utterly
Absolutely
Unconditionally
Unreservedly
downright
In love with
You
 Feb 2021 Troy Wylie-Hill
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It’s rare to find
people who
genuinely
actually
truly

listen
All or nothing
love or ambivalence
ambivalence or avoidance
few to love
alone
waiting
trying for patience
impatience
annoyance
pray for them to come
prepare yourself
pray for patience
impatience
acceptance
patience
frustration
patience
pray­
back and forth forth and back
alone
waiting to be known
waiting alone
I used to smile
with my eyes
without faking
but that was a long time ago.
Now I hide.
I make myself smaller, invisible, so no one looks.

If they do, they may see me.
And what then?

                                      fear.
"empathy for yourself"
and I broke
head down, lips pursing to keep the sobs, suddenly wracking, inside
I need to feel all that
that I felt unseen
that I felt unheard
that I felt unloved
that I felt unloved.
un loved
let it be
feel that
excruciating
excruciating pain
of being
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