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Last Breath
by Dawn Wilson
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Take a deep breath...


It’s funny how she always seems to

attract the wrong kind of people –

you know –

the ones who try to make

your ideas their own in an effort to win

you over but eventually they weaken

leaving you to wonder who you

can actually count on other than yourself,

because if you rely only upon yourself and

your dreams remain only dreams, there would never

be any blame to place or finger to point

cause, like, either you roll over and play dead or pull

yourself up and try again, since, I mean, isn’t life about trusting

yourself and your instincts, because if you didn’t, wouldn’t you

be left to wonder, “what if,” in the end when it’s gotten

too late to come up for air?




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Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 10/2/2009
I love the way you penned this one. These are thoughts we all ponder in our lives. Personally the only person in the world I trust completely is myself...Now that I finally know who I am.

Anna
Reviewed by Gianetta Ellis 8/30/2009
Trust is perhaps the loftiest of gifts - it says so much about the character of all involved.
Reviewed by Bill Broome 8/23/2009

Between two persons 'Trust' is absolutelly the cement that hold them together. Without it there is NOTHING a all.
Reviewed by Cryssa C 8/22/2009
Senseless ramblings? And yet... not so senseless... but words that wish for true loyalty in friendships...
Cryssa
Reviewed by Sheila Roy 8/20/2009
So real, your words are nearly tangible. Excellent write!
Sheila
Reviewed by J'nia Fowler 8/20/2009
Wow! That took my breath away. A great deal of wisdom here. Who to trust is a something so difficult to answer sometimes. I'm one of those people who watches others in a group setting of some sort, usually art people, and watch to see how they treat and talk to others. If I see someone who is down to earth, not interested in stepping on others in an effort to get ahead and who doesn't talk badly about someone who isn't there, then I go for it. It is tempting to align myself with some who are situated at a higher level in the art field than myself but I don't because I know how it feels to be used by others who want only to bask in my pitiful glory. It all takes time but eventually I end up with a few very close and mutually enriching friendships. Such a terrific poem here Dawn. Well penned. Hugs, J'nia
Reviewed by Bernice Angoh 8/18/2009
Deep and thought provoking
Reviewed by Dallas D'Angelo-Gary 8/18/2009
I've know the hollow refections you describe in this poem, Dawn. One often has to wonder, as you poem so aptly does, if there are any people of integrity out there, anymore. I can identify completely with this. Well done.
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 8/18/2009
I agree with richard-you have written this so well with the open questions to leave the reader in thought
Reviewed by richard cederberg 8/17/2009
It is extraordinarily difficult to find anyone anymore with honor, someone that you can trust unequivocally, someone that considers the feelings of another as worthy an undertaking as their own. Your work is always real and touching Dawn, you fluidly express what most of us struggle with.
Well done!
Blessings ...
Reviewed by Felix Perry 8/16/2009
Questions and answers that we all contemplate from time to time in our lives, but you are right...if we do not trust our instincts and give others the benefit of the doubt we may not be dissappointed but then again...what would we have to compare it to?
hugs
fee
Reviewed by jude forese 8/16/2009
i've learned never to rely on no one but myself and never to second guess my gut instincts ... they are occasional moments when the air seems to be running out, so i've learned how to hold my breath for a long time ;)
Reviewed by Liana Margiva 8/16/2009
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva
Reviewed by Georg Mateos 8/16/2009
what if...what if...what if...we never comer up for air, if we get on swimming deeper and deeper into the silence and the weak light, where no sharp rocks of rejection or falsehood blinding flashes, what if we let our ordinary peace live forever without wanting a "better" peace?

Georg

Reviewed by John Flanagan 8/16/2009
Dawn,
I like especially the thinking-out-loud style you chose for this poem, it makes it very intimate, personal and close to the reader...and it's not just self-reflection but a pondering for all who think about its excellent point.

John
Reviewed by Karen Palumbo 8/15/2009
Wow, deep, clear thoughts, well said. We are who we decide we are and project the image...

Be always safe,
Karen
Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson 8/15/2009

As always, the depth and insight of your work is brilliant. Well done.
Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner 8/15/2009
Powerfully penned, Dawn, well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Reviewed by Gene Williamson 8/15/2009
Most thoughtful and moving, Dawn. There are of course
"friends" and friends. But in the long run, I suppose,
we are the best judge of who we are. -gene.
Reviewed by Christine Alwin 8/15/2009
..I think trusting yourself is key...as you can't control another...though so many do I guess now that I wrote that...sad huh???..we need to take that breath!
Christine
Reviewed by Jerry Diamond 8/15/2009
Don't worry about any of that hogwash Dawn
Trust yourself alone and stick to your guns.
You know it makes sense gal

Jerry
Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado 8/15/2009
Excellent thought provoker you've penned, Dawn; well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn.
Reviewed by L Hippler 8/15/2009
Good one, Dawn. I loved the last lines.
Larry
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton 8/15/2009
I have a motto, "Do What You Have To." In other words if you don't do things for yourself. I'm not into the "selective" listening as is Jeanette, but I suppose I could be wrong. It is like the old saying in the State department, "Trust but Verify." That goes for your friends also. Good words to paper here.
Reviewed by Jeanette Cooper 8/15/2009
A very thoughtful and thought-provoking write. Where ever there are people, there is going to be differences of opinion and conflict. The best way to avoid it is to be a selective listener and absorb what is helpful and tune out what is not. The other alternative is to disagree with someone and get into an argument.
Reviewed by George Carroll 8/15/2009
Peace is the absence of conflict. But life would be dull if we only looked for conformity.
Reviewed by Ron Karcz 8/15/2009
Hi Dawn...I've always found it's best to fix the problem not the blame. In doing that one always has time "to come up for air". I liked this very much.

Ron
xo


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