Forgive me the colors they might have worn forgive me their eclipsed faces they dared not venture from the unwritten lines under each inert hour of my silence died a poem unheeded. Even though she's a poet and she wrote about poetry, I think this can be extrapolated and used in our own lives, because Faye had regret that she wasn't able to be all the things she wanted to be
And I think that may be hard for people to figure out on their way to forgiving someone. It's wrestling with that and understanding who you are and giving yourself space. Had the desire to just have some sense of safety throughout this. So what I said may or may not have made any sense, but I'm going to put it out there. Thanks. Really appreciate this week. It gave me a lot to think about and a lot to consider
Becky Butler
@bc75 · 1:43
And I ask forgiveness for all the poems that I have let die within me that I didn't write, that didn't have a chance to touch the world and move the earth and change life. I asked forgiveness for that for myself. And I have a lot more peace and rest. I mean, writing to me is like breathing. I have to do it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Isoellen Writes
@Isoellen · 4:28
I talked about the tooth that you keep going into and the toothache, and you go in and check, is it better? Is it better? Is it still there? I guess eventually you stop checking, don't you? Because you let it go and you just trust that you've chosen to heal. I don't know. I don't know if I'm making any sense, but you made me think, and I appreciate that so much
I look at myself and I say, thank you for stepping forward out of the blocks on this journey to put light on what you need to do to repair and to rebuild your spirit. Because honestly, two things. When you're asking somebody else, oh, I know, I did you wrong, even if you did, and you're coming to the table to try to move forward, you are relying on something outside of you to say that it is okay to move on
Mental Wellness Stories
@hope · 0:24
Hello. What an extraordinary conversation this has evolved into, and I want to thank all of you. Specifically, the comment made that the community sometimes has the answers, and I really, it really resonated with me and it really connected me to the power of this particular thread. So thank you all for contributing to this
LaShekia Chatman
@Sheika_MC · 2:52
How we remember things, right, whether good or bad, is inflated to some degree. And that's the fallacy of memory and also the fallacy in expectations when it comes to reconciliations or any sort of reckoning of a thing. And so in order to deescalate, to reduce that inflammation, to heal, however you want to phrase it, we have to remember that it's a very organic thing, it's a living thing, and it has a period. It has limitations
Mental Wellness Stories
@hope · 1:04
First of all, so great to hear your voice and there's never a wrong time to catch a swell. But I wanted to thank you, Sheikamc, because bringing in the organic aspect of the body's connection to the mind and the heart, I think you're really tapping into something that there's this ancient wisdom and this ancient rage. We have both. We hold so much and sometimes we want to come from a pure place, but we have stuff that we have to get through
LaShekia Chatman
@Sheika_MC · 0:59
You. Yes. Thank you so much. Poetry is really cool that way. It's so much more elastic than a lot of the things, like the other frameworks we sort of feel we must use to approach things. And we always kind of give art the back door treatment in that way. And I think it should be the other way around. We need art to contextualize these human experiences, I think, more than science in many ways, or maybe equally. I don't know
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:55
You okay? I'm just going to try to spontaneously reply to this because this is such a deep topic that if I try to think about it, I would need a lot more than five minutes. So I'm just going to be spontaneous with my gut reaction. I'm a writer, and I love to write poetry. Been writing poems since I was did. So I really related to the poem that you wrote, because I will write myself every day
Elisha Valentine 🐙
@Elisha · 2:43
But on a literary front, Faye's poem reminded me immediately of something Richard Bach said that I found to be both relatable and profoundly beautiful. And it was in his american classic, illusions the adventures of a reluctant Messiah, which is one of my favorite books ever. And in this book Bach wrote, and I quote, I do not enjoy writing at all
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 1:09
You. Hi, Alicia. I just want to thank you for posting your reply because I really related to it. And, gosh, man, Richard Bach, I hadn't thought about him. Like, I think it was the 70s, wasn't it, that he came on the scene? Yeah, he was cool. So thank you for reminding me of him. I'll have to look him up again, but I love the quote that you did of him
Mental Wellness Stories
@hope · 0:15
I, too appreciate your connection back to Bach. I love when art conjures up our remembrance of other art and we get to bring that into the conversation. It's so beautiful and so appropriate. Absolutely. Thank you for this