` A New Consciousness `
In moments of reflection, often I recall how my early years were altered through addiction. As I ripened, I watched a spirit diminish from those afflictions residing deep inside. It carried with it a heavy burden, inciting my soul endlessly for peace, a peace that never came….
Looking back with a tender sadness, I can now understand it was a time of darkness, a time of complicated euphoria....
These words are a way of forgiving myself, for not appreciating the difficulties of life that can break a young man's spirit...
I have become to view those dark memories with a perspective, that in those moments, I was naive, not realizing there would be more to me than yesterday....
But now it’s in these words I'm able to acknowledge it, listen to its truth, and speak it back to you as poetry, it's a form of acceptance - it's this tender sadness that gives birth to a new consciousness, welcoming peace that finally has arrived...
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Art –Larissa Oxman
"Yemangia"
- Thoughts –
I have such respect for sad poetry, because there are sad things that happen in our lives, and sadness can be a very difficult thing to face. Perhaps we might reject it or try to change it. But a poem that has arrived at the stage where it can look at sadness and say, here it is, and perhaps use some delightful words to describe it, to just let it be.
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