"Comment allez-vous..."

Ever feel like you ARE - even if it's just a Charlie Brown?  I actually have hot coffee, am sipping it and having some "Great Pumpkin" thoughts, it's that time of year.  I guess we have to take "ooo's" and "aaah's" * (from Ed Hart's "musical cares") as we find them -- perhaps even if it's as we can only remember them?

 

"Comment allez-vous..."

 

s'il vous plait...

I know you

inside

- yesterdays

diamond eyes staring

windows - so brittle

cracks of life ...leaking in

 

si'l te plait...
- but I do,

know

...you

behind the eyes

each cut dripping - moments

of wishes we can't forget

- but God how we try.

Comments... all the how's

 

comment

 

Comme ci, comme ça -

whispers,

thoughts shared - echoes round and around

 

looking

listening... waiting

staring in the ground - so far away

beneath any notice at all

...so

 

...People eventually become who we remember they are and yet as each of us "pass" into what we become and fewer are left, how much of each of us truly remains - remembered?

 

Sometimes we appreciate existings... even ours and yet others only after life happens. So many "froms" make up our lives and beings.

Somedays the "echoes" are too full

- of life

- of breathing

- of silences felt within my eyes.

 

Seems some days are just capital H - hard and others - its like nothing that happens can touch a person, everything just falls away and nothing gets through to the skin.

"How am I?..." 

I used to think I knew

me

but I really didn't know...

 

"...clouds at all...".          *

Chris

 

* ----- "Both Sides Now." lyrics - Joni Mitchell

Author's Note

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[J. J. Nightingale]

I've put away the little things
Can't quite remember where
And taken down framed memories ..
As if anyone still cares.

Where is it written
Where is it promised
Love will always abide
And I'll have ME forever
here inside ..

I am with Emily .. my eyes fill as I read
And for a moment, I forget how to breathe ..

Love Always .. Jazz

[sharonlee]

Thank you.... for every thought you have written...

[Emily B]

my eyes are filling up with tears i forgot to cry and i don't even know why my chest aches reading words like these

much love