Why no pleasure without pain?
Why no love without loss?
Why must I once more pay
Such a cruel and terrible cost?
For every choice
A price tag
For every chance
A hardship
For every love
A heartache
For every try
A letdown
For every day
A lesson
For every life
Some sorrow
Have I not paid enough?
My only wish to just be me
And find a man that wants to be
Through good and bad
The one with me
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August 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm
dumakey
Life is crule like this at times, we ride the waves of good times only to come crashing back down to the sea bed unable to breath. May be prehapes though the hard times we learn lessons, find ourselves and this paves the way to the future when we ride those waves up high again.
I guess we are all still trying to figure out life, sometimes I wonder just what the point of all the maddness is, why we must hurt suffer, or be alone. Some how in trying to live I think we have forgotten to live!
August 22, 2008 at 6:39 pm
oracleofthepearl
“Some how in trying to live I think we have forgotten to live!”
dumakey—this, in and of itself, is a great line. I keep rolling it around in my head, for it says it all. Life is for living.
Live and love with all your heart!
Miss D.–I think we have a winner here–the answer to the question in this piece. The why of it all. It’s in the not forgetting how to live, but diving in with all ones heart, that we ride that crazy horse.
I’m honored to get to ride along a ways, on my own crazy horse.
Alright! Who’s riding?!!
August 24, 2008 at 2:55 am
dracegannon
A superbly written poem. We must learn how to give and receive. This is the price we pay to live. Rent is due and bills are paid. Poem rings like a truth-bell
Keep sharing.
Please see the following poems:
http://dracegannon.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/spirit-ask-thy-soul/
http://dracegannon.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/lemon-raindrops-fall/
http://dracegannon.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/the-bare-backs-of-mountains/
http://dracegannon.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/thousand-pieces-of-light/
http://dracegannon.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/we-whisper-wind/
August 28, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Free to think, free to believe...
There’s that horrible phrase of ‘there’s always a dawn…’ ’silver lining’ and all that but sometimes the hard truth is before the dark recedes – it get darker yet…
but despite this, apart from the possibility of getting too used to the dark as then – What can go wrong? is still passing and the crushing breath can yet be released as the light glimpsed and onwards we go.
Ever climbing onwards. Despite the risks.