Transcendence

06/21/12

 

I want to walk bare foot

Until my soul bleeds...

I thought you coming to see me

Was about me.

I didn't realize it was about you

Running away, unable to sit still

Long enough to face your inner reflections

Or make more than constitutions

Regarding your supposed understandings

And resolutions.

I'm off now to eat beans again,

But I will rise above this

Bravely and with dignity.

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Author's Note

Art by wildpianist.

Reviews

[Androglossia]

Rejection? Maybe.. Coming to an end is not uncommon to us all or at least it is as accepted as coming of age. It is painful. It could kill. But the effect depends on our intent upon the situation.

It would have been better if courage was like our biceps. Work hard at it and voila! You have a good body! Sadly, it's not as easy to acquire. Instead, it is something that a person develops over a period of time. There is something beautiful about it though- hope. Hope for anything good out of everything gloomy. And I think this is what you were trying to deliver and I like it.

[Melobldnfr]

Thank you very much Maryanne. Yes, the ultimate rejection: someone being so selfish as to know where you come from and what you've been through, to just take a little piece of you (or a big chunk of you) and toss you as the rest anyway...

Yes, hope. But also sheer anger and determination. If for no other reason than to spite or chap one's a*s. To win. To not be beaten. To be my own champion...

[SkinlessFrank]

"I'm off now to eat beans again,
But I will rise above this"

I guess that's one way to deal with rejection...a Southern way in the style of Flannery O'Connor

[Melobldnfr]

What can I say? I get tired of eating crow. Lol. And "eating crow" would insinuate a wrong doing on my part. Not the case here. However, I am left pinching, scraping, borrowing, and begging thanks to this person. Hence "eating beans again", which could be equated to the south and poverty.

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Good stuff!!!