INSIDE...LOOKING OUT. POWERFUL AND LOVELY. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Succinctly powerful in meaning expressed and emotions awakened, Christine. Thank you. Love and best wishes,

Regis

Some times ones emotions can overcome a person and disparity can set in. Hopefully the sun will soon shine....M

Christine, Married 23 years, now i am single with nothing...I think we all feel this way at one time or another. Love, and peace always! Chessly

this is moving....we all peek out from beneath are shells from time to time especially when we need to be replenished....

A bitter feeling. Expressing it in haiku form makes the sadness even stronger.

Axilea

A solitary, and yet still there is a hidden message... emptiness is not all what's perceived... A turtle does live a long journey... Thanks for sharing...

One can feel empty inside. But God simply can NOT create nothing. We must remember this saying: "You may only be one person but to one person you may be the world." Amen

Yours in the love of Christ,
John Michael Domino

If you feel left out

Then give me shout

I'll come running.

Cause I think you're really something special!!

(I keep a jaw breaker in my back pocket)

a rainy day mood everyone experiences periodically -- it is the emergence of the invigorated persona from the shell with renewed purpose and joy that is a thing of beauty and joy Christine -- I bid you love and peace my dear friend -- Jon Michael

Such a sad poem, with such a lovely turtle pic. (Although I am partial to turtles, they were among my first childhood pets.)

VERY NICE!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

gazing at raindrops or the stars above, one can certainly feel the fullness of that special emptiness.
powerfully expressed insight herein, christine.
very much moved,
peace & blessings,
carolyn

Self awareness deserves to bring
about a new awakening of self worth!
~Christine~
from your soft shell philosophy!!

Lady Vivian

Sometimes you have to feel like nothing to let your real self emerge.
love Emile

Certainly not you, Christine,
even if at times you feel that way
and we all feel that way sometimes;
taut and pointed, resonant.

John

A very touching write well done indeed as the picture is so sweet Laura

ahh... but then... the nothing that was there merely masked the everything she would yet become... emptiness is sometimes fuller than one might seem. In the stillness of remembering comes a moment to cherish more than forever. Peace Christine.

Roger

I have been there, my friend, but never again! Beautiful, soulful writing, Christine! Awesome picture...she looks so sad....

Hugs,
Anna

Powerful poetry the way you know how to write it...Love the metaphor with the photo...awesome

Peace, love and light,
Amber

This is a wonderful, apt metaphor, like when the soul needs to go deep into questions, suffering...in the dark, or too this reminds me of the loneliness and darkness a chrysalis has to endure as she waits for her new life and can't go back into her old one even if she wants to...
I hope this is not auto-biographical and if it is just know how celebrated and exquisite you honestly are!
I have gotten too gabby :)
Blessings,
Christine

This is not the stunning person who wrote this. You do not have to cover yourself. You are beautiful and so very nice.
GOD BLESS YOU
Tony

....sorry all, I know this is deep~ and nobody is a nothing, but at times one can feel this way~

Whoaaa!!!!