“I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life ….” John H. Johnson
Wanting Everything There is always a price for a life lived in fragments between passion and pain, and when the experience leaves us ragged and drained, we conspire to throw ourselves back into the beginnings and repeat the frustrating cycle, rather than be relegated to silence, wanting everything to take shape, never stepping back, always to the brink, desiring the crisis of possible futures, never the still calm or the disorienting ordinary, never teetering, always confident on the edge. Copyright ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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Haha, we wish! 😜
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Ha, yes indeed 🙂
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Wonder poem Paul. Yes, always on the edge. More recently, I have found silence to be an expanding place to be
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Yes, years ago I thought it was to good to be true, but that’s it really, expansive.
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Yes, many of us repeat the fragmentation over and over again… never fundamentally changing. We don’t need to be like an old, damaged phonograph record.
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So agree Tom, yes indeed, many thanks.
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Ah! Great meditation for a Monday–or any day really:) That “still calm” is so important to remember. Cheers!
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A very thought-provoking poem. I would much rather relegate myself to silence than live on the edge of tumbling into the abyss.
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Yes, I agree Liz, but once upon a time …. 🙂
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Fantastic. There is a certain amount of surrender needed to step into the silence.
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So true Michele, we have to let go don’t we, many thanks for your insight.
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Such is life so often straddling both spheres Paul and so true.
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Yes, but once you reach a certain age it seems easier to let go. Thank you Cindy. 🙂
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Very true, plearuse and have a great day❣️
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Hi Paul, Be sure to add the year to your copyright.
Copyright © 2021 Paul Vincent Cannon
All Rights Reserved ®
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Ah yes, colander brain 🙂
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At least this only is the real life. 😉 Michael
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Absolutely so! 😉
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😉 Thank you, Paul! xx
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I have repeated the fragmentation yearly…I just stopped,looked back from my previous year’s and stopped the cycle to become more☺I loved your thoughts with fragmentation on this poem🤓makes you people wonder😕
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Thank you for sharing your inner response, much appreciated.
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Great poem – not me but is you
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Yes an enneagramatic reflection really.
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