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November 2009 
Boxes ...
Posted on Jun 16th, 2008
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Naumadd
Naumadd
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Within a surprising moment
back many surprising years
back many surprising moments past
after many
many
unsurprising moments before
I broke from boxes:
mind boxes
and heart boxes
boxes of cruel memory
boxes of false memory
shouting scratchy voicey boxes
and twisted faces boxes
and pointy-finger boxes
and silly shadowy craving yet-to-be boxes.
I broke from boxes
by pushing
and shoving
by stretching
and growing mad
and bursting beyond boxes,
or perhaps,
such boxes
are themselves madness.
Did I finally push
and shove
and stretch
and poke and curl
and grow
and burst sane
beyond those boxes
in that surprising moment
on that surprising day
in that one
surprising year
after many
many unsurprising moments before?
I do not know which,
and I do not care.
I only believe ...
I now see
what I would not have seen,
I now hear
what I would not have heard,
I now savor
what I would not have savored,
I now feel
what I would not have felt,
now my thoughts are thoughts
that would not have been mine,
my hands are hands
I've never used before
and now my revels
are revels beyond those
... in boxes.
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Boxed up love
Boxed up emotion
Boxed communication
Devoid of devotion..
Boxed up symphonies
Devoid of your melody
Focus on living
And don't avoid giving
Be boxed when there's doubts
Be open to question
But when your'e not certain
That box saves from hurtin'
Boxes hold good things
And boxes protect
And boxes are used
To hold the value within
So don't go on beatin
Those boxes of worth
Cause you might be suprised
To find boxes save hurts
Keep those boxes at hand
They work to defend
Your heart when there's doubt
That someones a friend.
Keep them closed on a shelf
Tied with a bow
They'll sit and look pretty
And no one will know..
How those boxes that held you
Put a stop to a show…
And kept you from losing
A part of your soul…..
Boxes, barriers, borders, all necessary to balance opposite attributes; no borders, expansion, leniency and kindness when not in balance create havoc…sloppiness, over flow, over sentimentality…Take a look at the ocean…without borders, we would be drowned in the waters, in life, in the sea of emotion…
blessings to you Ric
yaffa
I hear what you are saying in that last stanza, and it is good, obviously suits you, and having compartments is different to being boxed in completely we would all want to break from that I think. I like your choice of metaphor.
thank you zephyr, and we would want it both ways, neither is an end or be all, It took some time to get to the end, after all it wasn't my work or thoughts, lol, too bad i didn't get to the last stanza first~!! I was stumbling, fumbling, tumbling my way through..lolol haha
I dont' know why ric never answered since i took the time to reply…i think he didn't like it….:(
Ric, did you not like my boxes???? ::)_
yaffa
I am glad SOMEONE commented…thanks! I often wonder why i bother here so often there isn't any feedback when you have taken precious time to reply to someone…and taken time from other things…it feels to me like talking to the wall…….
lol