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I thought much about this before deciding to post. Ultimately, if I am faithful to my own truth, I must to be willing to speak that truth.
As of late, I have hurt others with the mere act of being myself (which I know can be a bit overwhelming at times). If you are among those, then I am truly sorry. Please know that I would never intentionally hurt anyone.
I realize I am at times too open, and too free and too (too)…. I am quick to disregard love with ten thousand rules as being love at all. I love too much and too deeply and, yes, that means that there are times when I step on toes without meaning to. I sometimes forget that not everyone is the same ~ and certainly most do not see things (especially love) as I do.
I didn’t come to this site to be a part of a political movement or to feed my own ego. If you don’t like what I write, then tell me or don’t say anything, but please don’t spend your time on words that have no truth. I am not here for praise (not even close). I’ll only be offended if you go out of your way to be something because you think it’s what I need. If that is what you need, it is here, but I am not that……
I came here to share my words (my ways), and to know others, but if knowing means that either of us cannot speak freely, then what we have earned? What have we gained in the act of trying so hard not offend ~ so hard that, in fact, we never know each other at all?
Whatever you seek, you will find. If I offended, please forgive.
Take me down
the muddy river ~
wash my sorrows out to sea.
Gather now my words
unsettled ~
for where they live ~
another me.
I will love until they cover
every patch of mortal skin ~
til I’m bound by mossy pages
o’er my verses ~
o’er my sin.
Have I none but this
to offer ~
let me love as unafraid.
What will come of love we garnered
~ what shall be our crown
this day?
tornadoday 
You just be your own bad self! You’re doing fine!!
Thank you, Seb. Well, I gotta be me since everyone else is taken. Thank you. ~ Love, Bobbie
Bobbie, you are who and what you are, and that is what draws me here to read what you’ve written. It’s real. It’s honest, and it’s truth, in the way you see it and feel it. To be other than that would be a travesty. Someone in history said it very well (Lincoln, I think). “You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time”. I just would prefer you be you and feel good about it.
…. always ~ xo
Paul
Just an afterthought…., if it’s honest, there are no rules with love
xo
Himself
If I had a way to express it, I would say that love is the same as God and nature. The minute we try to define it, we make it less. Thank you. ~ Love, B
We write what is alive within our hearts, what we feel in our spirits what we share! You do it well, and there are some who never leave a comment or even hit the like button, that read your poems! The brightness of your writing comes from the real you and it is a natural part of your breath, of your beating heart! Never change, when i read your poems i feel alive and also privalege to read such lovely inspiring words. We are all uniquely different, but all the same in the deep desire to create. As some others have spoken do not change, always be yourself…that is the poet whose poems i love to read each day! Blessings and love to you my sister!
Thank you, Wendell. I know that you know ~ that everything that comes through me comes because of love ~ love that I am blessed with and love that I share. I am just me, simply and without excuses. Thank you. ~ Much love, Me
Bobbie, just know that I love you exactly as you are, and I am blessed and fortunate to know you. Thank you for being here.
Oh, Dee, know that I love you exactly as you are ~ for there is no other way you could be that is any more dear. Thank you and for being here as well! Oh, I do love you! ~ Me