Life�s REVELATIONS

   

What are we searching for – where does our yearning lie?
I am not quite sure, I have the feeling I am destined for something bigger than I... (I know THIS - what I am becoming). I don’t intentionally provoke immorality... But why then, do I welcome it with open arms? Why do I enjoy it so? Why…, (What I have desired for so long) -A place I could feel safe, call home is anything ‘but’…

In life, there comes a time when we must ‘stand and recognize’!
I’d like to think I’ve earned this right, paid my dues if you will... I have managed to hold my own, infusing with-in - what is right and wrong... I know who I was and what I am becoming... Are others exempt?

Put your hands together as you look to the sky...
For years gone-by, more than I would like to remember ‘I have done just this’… Where have YOU been? Why do I feel YOU have forsaken me like the rest? I have believed in you when others have not. Have I been ‘dismissed’?

Auspicious signs will then reveal,
Hmm~… this indeed, they do. Beware though… not everything appears to be an open book.

Life is ambiguous… even-handed it is not!
Open to interpretation – how true is this! No apparent objective – it depends on how you view life. Unfair and cruel – THIS I am all too familiar with.

Don’t inspire with apprehension,
I do not have the luxury of encouraging fearful expectations.

We might have one – forcing its threshold...
I’ve had the drive to push forward for so long. Why now… am I giving in, giving up this fight? True is this - boundaries are only as we imagine them.

- Love and compassion a vital quality
Interesting traits… do they really exist?

Purity and Innocence, a distinguishing feature...
Forsaken me - these have done.

Life has a path ‘to each its own’.
To claim it as mine… this I do not choose.
Ours dreams lose their way, To say I’ve had them once – I guess in ‘goals’ I did.

Legacies ‘somewhere’ have become obscured...
Does such a word or belief still exist today?
For this is the 20th Century - People are not here for their names to stay...?

© 2007 Legacy

 

Reviews

[Gary H]

I have to say that I agree with Ms. Belsito after reading this. Indeed you have put together a very imaginative piece. I think the object seems to be more thought provoking that spontanous agreement of the masses. There are certainly parts that we can all debate upon and I think by writing this you have increased awareness of where we are all heading or at least could be.

[avant security guard]

yes, you have your own style--
love, compassion, purity, innocence--
also, truth--
concentrate on these things--maybe only these things--and you will succeed, and be happy--
yes, I believ this--I just have to keep reminding myself--
thanks

[Lauren]

DANG! That's good!!!

[Sharon Miller Bolander]

Sometimes writing is simply meant to offer more questions than answers and to get the minds of readers turning whether in agreement or not. I'd consider this piece to be that type of reading and my mind is spinning as to what my response can or should be. I will say that you kept my attention and that I did read every word! Yes, I shall continue thinking past this brief response, too. :-) Sharon

[John Fitzgerald]

It is true this is the age of the 'sound byte.'
However, most things cannot be generalized and packaged if they are to mean something.
It is our communication, or the lack of real communication, that i percieve to be the biggest problem facing us today.
Keep up the good fight my friend!
Sincerely,
John Fitz

[The Musings of Mary H.]

At first I was taken back but the underlining of certain sentences but as I read this, I really enjoyed it. You have shown me a piece of art...a particular style of your own, which I love. You ask questions which tells me you are always on a quest to find truth...this draws me in to read your other works because I know your discoveries will be within the writing. Great work!

Mary

[Brenda Sue]

Absolutely wonderful. Makes one stop and think. Beautifully penned. Great job.

[Leah T]

this is so original, reminds me of whitman. there's something that struck me as FEMALE about it from the first few lines, which i love because it's not a cliche or a stereotype of femininity. I think it's the self-questioning inner monologue, the conversation with oneself character of it. the realization of the difference between what we grow up thinking our lives would be like and the reality of what life is. well written. the word "beautiful" seems too precious to use for it - it's striking.

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"Life is ambiguous� even-handed it is not!
Open to interpretation � how true is this! No apparent objective � it depends on how you view life. Unfair and cruel � THIS I am all too familiar with. " I think there is so much truth in your words in this, I can really relate ... "Life has a path 'to each its own'.
To claim it as mine� this I do not choose.
Ours dreams lose their way, To say I've had them once � I guess in 'goals' I did. " this is honest to the core ... some are so compelled to a spiritual journey ... so hard it is for us to believe that there is just nothing more to us than simply "to be" ... living where I do I have felt compelled to seek through history, I have never escaped a deep rooted feeling of belonging to this place. I have travelled, pulled away, reached across oceans and I am pulled back ... there is real pagan heritage here, deep in the soil, and it is also rich in ecclesiastical history and monastery ... I have never stopped learning and wishing to, it has a magnetism this place of my birth. I guess that's my legacy. You are an amazing writer and express your words well. Best wishes, Pammy.

[Barbary Chaapel]

This is very innovative writing. Big questions in progress here, Legacy.
Wouldn't each of these thoughts be perfect to read and contemplate each month of the year.

[Kelsmiles]

Interesting writing form. I agree with most of what you had to say here, and everyone has different views to what life has taught them. It all depends on their own personal experiences and expectations.