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Where We Stand

Where do we Stand? Losing ourselves It's not a point An arrival A destination A departure A beginning A never ending An end a time to mend In the groundlessness We’re standing Where we stand Ground shaking, Earth shattering You and me til the end. Its true Unshakable Others will not complete us It's you who I trust They will not save me Here I am Exposing all my wounds The lost fragments of my bones Our raw hearts beating still Share shameful secrets If you will Drop the mask And all pretenses Expose the unprotected The gilded and the jaded Risk being rejected Ridiculed and shamed But I’m not forever maimed My arms are here to hold you We are loved for who we are We stand where we stand Ground shaking Earth shattering You and me til the end. The coming alive before we die It might take a lifetime to discover It might take a long time to recover It is a rare happenstance That the one you always longed for Is the one who ached for you.

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Date: 5/19/2024 11:53:00 PM
This poem is woven with sadness and longing and the last few lines were powerful for me.. as well as the 'my arms are here to hold you'. Oh how the ones we love, sometimes at a distance, haunt and create an ache deep within. A beautiful poem. Sam :')
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Rowe Weiss
Date: 5/20/2024 5:42:00 AM
Thank you Sam. Ironically, the poeple who barely know us, understands the deepest recesses in our minds more than the people who have known us for a very long time.

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