Even God Blinks

Excellent write...

Thank you, LDF.  
It's miserable being human sometimes.  And yet, sometimes it's remarkable.
Breaking even is a pretty good day.

How beautiful to pause and feel that deep connection. Wonderful write.

Heya Pink.
Thank you much. I go back and forth with faith, and my own value towards it. Yet, I want to believe that there truly is a greater good, after we all go through life getting our asses kicked somehow.
 I do know that we can never succumb to bitterness.  Find a joy. And focus there.  

Wow...beautifully written. "We are but vessels for the heart." That line found a home in mine. Makes me sad for those you seem to have sold or forsook theirs. Your writing always leaves one thinking

Good evening Willow.
Thank you for that. But I'm confused about what you mean by what I sold?  Perhaps it's a typo?  
  I like knowing my writes cause thinking. Because I spend a lot of time thinking what to say!  Lol.
I don't ever want to be "boring".  I appreciate you letting me know when I'm not!

No no, I wasn't saying you sold anything. I was referring to people who give their hearts to greed...or forget they even have a heart. Sorry for the confusion! 🙈

Ohhhhhh.  :-)

I write in metaphors a lot. Which also allows others to maybe have their own interpretation. Which in turn can open the writer up to a whole new angle.
I get pretty motivated by good writers. And there are several in here. Lucky us!

When you write like this it gives me a whole other reason to love you even more.
Giving courage through words can be really difficult but this reads so fluid like.
Like an offering of hope in a way.

Fight like hell
Write like heaven

Just beautiful.
What a gift you just gave sweetie:)

You know me well now, so you know I'm a hell of a fighter. Lol.  And having hope is a form of tenacity, is it not?
Maybe I'm a little different than most, but being on DUP long enough, we "adopt" other writers into our circles.  Eerie is a good soul, whether she reads this or not. We need her strong. Because she's a part of us here.  If words are what we offer to encourage her (and one another), then that's what we do.

Thanks love, btw. For being you.

Love the perspective, love the craft.

"Because God may really be a god  
Yet perhaps the clouds muffled my pleas"

"We are but vessels for the heart"

Terrific lines.

How's you?!
I go back and forth with my beliefs. I don't dwell on it much. Because like many, I'm just trying to get through life best I can with what I've got. I do know that it's the little joys that sustain us, in between the crappy parts.  
Thanks for the nod, Alviola. Good seeing you around these parts!

This reads in a fairly profound way to me. I understand your reply to Willow about the use of metaphor, allowing it to be considered at the reader’s interpretation. It’s why I write the way I do.
I find strength in the outpouring of hope and love that so many people have sent to me. It’s been a wild ride this year, but never have I been so at peace about so many things. I am grateful for what I have learned.
Thank you for the beautiful words. They are much appreciated.

No matter what transpires in your future, you are a writer.  And you are our friend here, Eerie, because you write in a way that makes us feel compassion.
  This is your personal battle to fight perhaps. But we share in the hopes with you. Some writers have a way of making it about humanity, when they write. It's their selves, seeping out and touching someone else. You're that type of writer. You're one of the good ones.

  Your mind is the strongest thing you've got. Be determined. Get mad. Be defiant. Beat it, again.
You can and you will. Because you have things to write. And we want to read it. You're wanted here. So beat it for us too.  
  A year from now, when you're writing about it, how much it sucked, we will read about it, and cheer for you.  

 Kick it's ass.

This is the first piece of God speak that I feel akin to my beliefs or lack thereof.  I admit to not being a profound believer but hopefully not foolish enough to totally discount what can't be explained.

I go way back with Eerie.  She is one of my favorite poets on DUP.   She's been through so much with disappointments but very little "poor me".  I am in awe of her strength and candor.  Eerie will always tell you straight up what she's thinking.  

This is definitely a thinking piece and I thank you for it Mark.

Well done !

RL AWARD

I agree completely with your first paragraph.
And the second one.

  I myself honestly think that "god" is indifferent to strife.  But, I do not discount that humans achieved some kind of awakening somewhere in our beginning. So, with that is hope. Because who ever knows what's to come.  

Thank you so much, Gary.  I admire fighters. Thus, I admire Eerie.

God didn’t blink and over look you. You are green and growing, inside out. “ God will never have that  
will never know that feeling  
How love humbles us, after all  
We are but vessels for the heart  
as it follows the sun back out  
through the cracks of the barn walls  
When we see our majestic destiny  
above us.  
 
God, remember mercy, after you blink  
Leave me an eye, at least  
A hand, and some light  
so that I can write  
how fortunate life is  
 
How lucky, when it rains  
it's not tears this time  
shining upon my face  
It's the flow of life  
being renewed  
all through me  ”.      This went right through me, what a feeling this brings. Such a hopeful and spiritual poem, like a looking glass into your current state of hopefulness.

This was written with Eerie's situation in mind.  But it can be applied to several of us, in times of darkness.  
I have a pretty steadfast belief that things work out if we stay strong. Obviously it doesn't always go to plan, including for me. But hope is all we have sometimes. So I load up on it.
 We have to fight back from darkness, with the light inside us.