Carrying other people's problems can be just as heavy as carrying your own.
On the side of holding it in street
She cuts down a side street
sweating and out of breath.
Physically she felt weighed down
but she was only carrying a cold bottle of water.
She mentally sifter through her baggage.
There was nothing heavy inside not anything that would cause this heaviness.
She dug deeper with a vengeance.
Well Now Shoot The Devil!
There she found other peoples problems individually wrapped in pretty paper and stamped with don't tell, and a few negative things they said about her deep inside.
She had buried them deeper than she did her own.
So she pulled and laid each one out on the sidewalk.
The order didn't matter.
She left all of it where it was suppose to be on the side of holding it in street.
cause she wasn't carrying it anymore
And she walked down it's All About Me street and she drank that cold bottle of water, yes she did!
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Reviews of "On the other side of holding it in street"
What a powerful, inspiring write, Letitia! I know so many people who walk down that street everyday! Its such a tiring, depressing walk! It can wear one down like a tonne of bricks! I suppose its just natural for the compassionate soul - tends to make the next person's problems her own. Great write, Letitia!
i believe there is a message here...if not for someone specific, we can all learn from it. help a friend, of course, but dont' let their problems bring you down
Excellent poem! We can only do our best when we learn to divest.;-)
Just a little quote of mine that fit your ideas. Well said!
I just wrote a blog with a similar topic, not alike, but in premise
Thanks for sharing
We can only help the souls who want to be helped and even then, it is a struggle. Those, however, who seek not to change are just that, unchangeable. It is all in the mindset and as friends of those who don't see or sense a problem, it is difficult to find a balance between enabling an already manifesting problem and letting go for the sake of our own sanity. Great write, Letitia.
Jill
All right Letitia powerful and so true write, far too often we let other peoples problems bring us down so far that we not only cant help them but can't even help ourselves. Well said.
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
God bless,
Sandie.
Wonderful write!
Sandie Angel a.k.a. Sandie May Angel :o)
Powerful, profound writing here--well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(
Just a little quote of mine that fit your ideas. Well said!
I just wrote a blog with a similar topic, not alike, but in premise
Thanks for sharing
Eileen
Jill
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