Why I've stopped

Such wisdom here. 🙏🏽🕉🙏🏽, R.

Thank you, Rachelle! ❤

It really is sad that such a great invention as the Internet is so often used to piss all over other people. So many are image conscious, while some feel it necessary to tarnish another's image to raise their own up.  A lot of ugliness on parade.

Evolution is a tough process; it's good to see things for what they truly are. Thank you. ❤

Hope yr not talkin'bout me. (just kiddin).  
 
I'm not so optimistic as you re: our individual efforts to help the collective human species tu turn it's nasty karma around. Too many eons of fucking things up. Extinction is the only "solution".  
Karma is a collective-species issue, not an individual reward-punishment system that ego tells us it is. No way. Just gotta do-the-right-thing one day at a time WITHOUT any mind toward fulfillment of ANY human expectation. Especially your own.  
 You heard it here first, super evolved being that Iyam! Ha! The joker "fool" knows more than even he knows he knows. Figger that out. Arf!  oh, blessed Dada!  
   
Meanwhile, shame on anyone who's putting burrs on yr saddle, or under it, whatever cowboy allusion to irritation be appropriate.    
   
The doc told my sister that essentially I am "dead man walking".....so better get yr "piece" of me whilst you can. You and JB take a Florida vacation & visit. The window of such an opportunity is shrinking. Cmon, say: "yeah, Kozak. Yr gonna outlive us all." Right, you betcha. I'm on house arrest for the forsee'able future. I guess The Plague would complicate such plans. My brother is no socialite, by any means, and like Hank said "I'm so lonesome I could cry." and I do....everyday. Being on this house arrest is a big step more difficult than "shelter in place". I marvel that i have enough will to live that I survived. When i was in my coma, the medical experts told my sibs "this guy is a goner". So what do I do.....unconsciously pull out my intabation (sp?) tube, & get up stumbling away from fckn coma. Within 2 days, you wouldn't know anything had happened. I didn't know anything had happened, & was wondering how i had gotten so hoarse. A week later sis tells me what went down. All i could say was ":Y'gotta be kiddin'" about 20 times.  
I really think I don't want to live anymore. Now, along with plague, the country is burning over a 20 dolla bill. Ol'George had no idea he was about to become the most famous corpse that USA has seen.    
    I have NO palpable "future". Lord, let me go,so's I can visit my Leah (and George)..........i don'know how long i can "live" like this.  
   Again....shame on your tormentors.  Yes. Gotta try to ignore them.  
      Sorry for being such a bummer.  
Golly, speakin' of bummer. Curious  to see how the virus stats are going to be effected by the dozens of bonfire gatherings we've had this week, (and beyond.).   Man, that could be some SERIOUS shit. Yeah. Open all the bars, goddamn'it!
*******
"Enjoy yourSelf.
Enjoy yourSelf.
It's later than you think"
----great old song.

Just be whoever you are, Danny.  Know that we love you.   ❤

Likewise, dear.

"Who loves ye, baby?" -------Kojak

Great write A. Sad but true... we are sad/mad when we are the victim but take no notice when we are the perp... definitely fucked up! Well done...🙏

True observation. Thank you.

I was sadly lost a little in the middle stanza but enjoyed it, especially the first two. Yes, it’s not even you they see, is it? And read the original.

It's okay to be lost.

💖💎🕊

I like that.  But I think I get the gist of your message. I’m gonna read that sometime down the road. I like to give mysteries fresh eyes... so.... I feel I little dumb but anyway...😁

Good idea.

It's like one of Covey's 7 habits of highly effective people "first seek to understand then to be understood" but unfortunately many times folks just want to be heard, at the highest volume.
Thoughtful and insightful piece Ahavati.

Thank you, Wally. I truly appreciate your insight. 👃❤

👊 right on! 👃❤

I would find that very difficult.

Commendable.

It was at one time.  Now I feel a bit sad when it happens, Lozzamus.  For in much knowledge is sorrow, I think the saying goes.

Dear A,

Matthew 10:14.
Somedays I think the universe has gone completely rabid. I think Wally has succinctly said it about folks wanting to be heard at the highest volume. The din of it all. Well done. H🌷

Thank you, Honoria.

Ironically it's the whisper that's heard the loudest. 👃❤

preach, queen, preach  🙏
"and, no matter how hard          
one attempts to disguise an affront          
—after-the-fact—          
it will never be the Truth          
until they accept responsibility      
for their choice"
^^^^^^^^^
this!
it's not an involuntary response, it's a conscious decision to say/do. one is not  suddenly overcome/possessed to habitually abuse before tucking tail when called out...
... it's sociopathic really.
brava, vati 🖤 kept this classy

Sociopathic is a perfect term, particularly for those who keep repeating the pattern, Katja.  Unfortunately, the internet is full of them because they think they have free reign to act how they want behind a screen. I seriously doubt they'll ever get the help they need.

If they had decent friends, those decent friends would tell them their face is dirty, and they need to clean up their act if they ever want to be truly happy in life.

Bravo to you for standing up strong, my friend. 👃❤

f*keries fakeries... the hypocrisies ..the so much weighing down lies.. Gaia is sinking down in shatters..
you say so much here.. incisive truth .. the words actions reactions responsibility.. Only in Utmost Truth, Love- aligns as One..
else Karma strikes back ryt away.. evolving, in the web of micromacrocosmic interconnectedness.. is nature. else those malign darkness deviant shadowy shady shadows in any veil.. are death traps to themselves.. No One is above Nature..
Stark & Truthful verses A.. shine on x

Amen, Uma, my friend.  ❤

I don't have time to designate attention to negative energy or emotion. Not anymore. People are entitled to their opinion, and I am entitled to ignore it and focus on something else.  Let them dig their graves.

Much love to you and Rob. ❤

Some are so narrow-minded and/or egotistical they don't see any view but their own and will bellow and belittle until the opposition cowers or gives up...reason, logic, sense are dying attributes but you hold them

It's to be expected with people, Tim. That's for sure. But when it's the same people over and they don't seem to be learning or evolving, it gets fucking old. Ergo, nope; not anymore.

Thank you for your comment.  Much appreciated.

Dear Ahavati,
I think one should be very careful when he criticizes. If I were you, l would forget it.

While I understand you are viewing through our own filter JZ, I am not criticizing. I am poetically expressing/sharing my experience as well as learned lessons—neither of which are worth forgetting.  
 
Thank you for your comment.

Dear Ahavati,
You are a vey important poetess, and you have the characteristics of this person. Forget it, and go on in your work, l mean your poetry.

[. . . ] I am poetically expressing/sharing my experience as well as learned lessons—neither of which are worth forgetting.    
 
Thank you for your comment.

I feel like a simpleton- I’m having a hard time understanding this poem and I desperately want to.

Yes, it is rather coming from personal angle - so don't feel out of the loop, Kumar. Some people in the DUP forums can't seem to accept that Ahavati has her own opinions and they feel compelled to counter such as if they weren't doing so voluntarily - i.e. she made them reply! LOL And if they were nasty replies, well ... it was Ahavati's fault!

To expound upon that, I have been publicly attacked, stalked on and off site, shadowed, harassed and so forth.  I use to defend myself against these blatant attacks; however, have come to learn two things through wisdom: 1) it's not action but reaction that begets conflict and war; and, 2) how these factions act and what they say is a reflection of them, not me. Their opinions do not define me; therefore, I don't take anything they say personally, and see it for what it really is: a reflection of themselves.  

Thank you for your query. It's a wise person who wants to understand.

Thank you. DUP is a challenging place sometimes, because the thing that unites us all cuts across so many ideologies that we are all so many strange bedfellows. This helps. You know I love you both :)

And we love you!  ❤

First response was to Johnny. Thank u Aha- it makes more sense now and I am glad that you are forging a way through that harmful BS.

Right on! So true oh wow Ava, absolutely perfect!
Thanks for sharing
Love
Jackie 🤗❤️

Thank you, Jackie.  ❤