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Richbee's avatar

A Novel waiting to be written with a different story by an author. Star-crossed lovers pass by the other. Meteor’s tails (tales) in blink of eyes. A moment to love and lost with a dream that crosses the darkness of sleep, a moment

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Joyce's avatar

‘To sleep, perchance to dream.’ Thank you, Richard. No one knows the low road, we all go it alone and there is no turning back.

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Richbee's avatar

The dream brings the faces that passed closer to you alive in your mind. If you want them to be remembered a prayer helps their images to appear. Spirits in sleep never weep.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Richard 💙🙏

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Rod Bluhm's avatar

The beauty of the words outshines the remnants of the past. Very nice, Joyce.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you very much, Rod 💙🙏💫

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Deborah Brasket's avatar

Beautiful, Joyce. I like to think those intersecting lines of love will spiral back in time, in this life or beyond, perhaps as part of a great tapestry weaving around us, weaving us together.

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Joyce's avatar

Well, for me not in this life, but perhaps beyond, who knows. Thank you, Deborah 💙🙏💫

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Victory Palace's avatar

A beautiful plaintive poem about how our lives come together and go their separate ways. I was just thinking about this earlier today with the metaphor of cars along the expressway. We go side by side for a while and then we take our exit.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, VP. True, and each of us has to follow the road laid out for us.

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Elliot Murray's avatar

Timelines converge, merge and diverge in ever increasing circles of time, and we are never and always alone on a journey that is wholly our own. 🙏🖤💙💚❤🤍🙏

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Elliot 💙🙏💫

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Elliot Murray's avatar

🙏🙏🙏 Keep heart dear one, and The Way shall be made clear by our own doing, along the continuum of suffering and bliss, as one begets the other.

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Joyce's avatar

I know, Elliot, thank you. I’m followibg the Way set out for me 💙🙏

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Precious Stephens's avatar

Beautiful. It broke my heart a little ❤️‍🩹

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Joyce's avatar

Oh I am sorry, Precious. But thank you 💙🙏💫

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Christina Jansson's avatar

To be there…..

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Christina 💙🙏💫

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Saumya Sharma's avatar

This poem awakens some emotions really close to my heart. Every word, every line so relatable I might cry. Great work, Joyce 🩵

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Joyce's avatar

Oh thank you, Saumya, much appreciated 💙🙏💫

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Ayesha Falak's avatar

This is absolutely delightful, Joyce!

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Ayesha 💙🙏💫

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Ahhhh so lovely

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Trudi 💙🙏💫

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Stone Bryson's avatar

You continue to outdo yourself with every post, Joyce - happy to be here to watch it unfold.

Beautiful, as always <3

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you as always for your kindness, Stone 💙🙏💫

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🇵🇸 🍉's avatar

Very nice, I also enjoyed the wolf picture.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you 💙🙏💫

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Angie Maher's avatar

Beautifully sad…I have lived this. Still feel the ache sometimes for what was.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Angie. I’m sorry you still have the ache, it’s usually there when least expected, isn’t it?

Mine was there long ago, death makes everything final.

I do hope you can create a distance for yourself 🙏💙 Meditation helped me.

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Angie Maher's avatar

Oh, sometimes I think death would be easier, Joyce! This is hard…mourning someone who is still alive, but chooses not to be with me. It is likely for the best, as we have grown apart, taken different paths. But I do miss what we once were.

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Joyce's avatar

Oh I am sorry, Angie. I can imagine you miss what once was. However, if that person chooses not to be with you, you need to reclaim your life…I’ve been there in a different setting, and it did cost me the best years of my life. It wasn’t until I got to Substack and came across people like Demi (The Starfire Codes), Tesstamona and Solarah that I learned to sever some emotional chords with people from my past. I forgave some, and it lifted a weight off my shoulders. I wish I had known this long before, but the people on my timeline weren’t the right ones for me and no one reminded me of another way.

I do hope you’ll be able to do the same, and live your life without that weight. Because while you are mourning, the other one is continueing to live their life.

Not lecturing, just speaking from my own experience.

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Angie Maher's avatar

You are so right, Joyce. Thank you. I, too, have found solace and comfort in a few writer friends on Substack. I’m not always stuck in the past, but now and then I flirt with it. Thanks for reminding me that I deserve so much more. Most days, I know this.

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Joyce's avatar

You do! Go out and live! You’re young enough to have a life ahead of you.

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Angie Maher's avatar

Not as young as you might think! Narrowly escaped death twice 2.5 years ago. But it puts things in perspective, for sure!

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Jeffrey's avatar

❤️

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Supernova 💙🙏💫

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you so very much for your beautiful response. What you wrote is so true, linear time is not the overriding truth. Death is a different timeline, what Robert Burns called ‘the low road’.

I love that poem of yours, I feel it.

Thank you. I don’t really know what to call you, but I respect it when people prefer not to mention their name. 💙🙏💫🌷

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Victory Palace's avatar

Beautiful comment 🧡🥰👍

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