When I was praying
For the victims
And for the living
Forgiving
Our enemies
Refusing
To give in
To anger
& Hate
I saw Death
Grin
Pick up its scythe
And go on cutting
Indiscriminately
Enthusiastically
All the while
Laughing
At my sheer naivety
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Fantastic! I fucking LOVE this!!!!
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And I fucking love the fact you fucking love it!
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Fuck yeah!!!
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Excellent! I am sure this cause some debate!!
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I suspect most people who don’t approve will just quietly move away from it ๐
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Haha, yes those people hate confrontation, unless uninformed of course!
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I think quite a few people on here are sick to death of my opinions so they just don’t bother anymore
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Reblogged this on Book to the Future and commented:
I can think of nothing further to add to this…
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Thanks so much for reblogging this little thing ๐
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Always a pleasure!
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Flawlessly truthful and brilliant well said Nat. ๐
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Thanks, Charlie – you’re too kind
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Kindness is what the soul and heart need. The world needs that and so does mother nature herself.
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It’s the Grim Reaper, again. He’s haunted me since childhood. He taunts you, too.
Forgiveness is not necessary. Our wide opened eyes are all we need.
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Too many people walk around with their eyes shut tight though
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So many layers in this poem… Beings yours I canยดt avoid it linking to our World…. Which is pretty violent and full of too many dichotomies and threats, nowadays. I love your writing, Nat… xo โค
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Thank you so much, you Mythology wizard, you! It’s a lovely thing to say and you know the feeling is mutual ๐ ๐
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โค Merci beaucoup, xx ๐ ๐
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Really powerful and emotionally resonant
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Thank you, so glad you liked
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Reblogged this on Brave and Reckless and commented:
Powerful writing from Purpleanais/arwenaragornstar
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Thanks ever so much for the reblog!
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Wow, very powerful statement, Nathalie! I love this! โค
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Thanks, lovely knight ๐
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Tolerance isn’t an absolute virtue – it depends on what you’re tolerating.
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Exactly.
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“God only knows” what people are thinking when they face life shattering events, sometimes there is no answer but to move on however seems fitting – sometimes entire civilisations are wiped out, I think people know in recent decades we had it pretty easy – people just don’t want things to change!
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Wow, this is quite a reply! You wouldn’t know we’ve had it pretty easy though, would you? The way people are carrying on as if EVERYTHING is offensive. But of course they are able to think that way because we HAVE had it pretty easy. Ah, fuck it. Hope you’re doing good ๐
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Ha, ha I don’t even know what you mean? I’m saying we had 2 world wars last century, now we have TV, cars, food on the plate, internet, modern medicine, etc, etc, we europeans are among the wealthiest nations on earth, yeah, compared to those countries run by maniacs in the middle east, and corrupt lunatics elsewhere, we have had it pretty good!
If people are offended, fuck’em! Say what you like, think hard cos otherwise you’ll say nothing worthwhile, but don’t be worried about offence, its a free country! ๐
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I don’t really take a lot of interest in current news and stuff these days cos theres so much crap flying about, but I think you are raising some valid points, I’m bombarded by political views these days via Facebook for instance – someone posted “You can no more blame Muslims for terrorism, than you can Christianity for the KKK – at first I thought what a useful reminder – but then later I’m thinking no, screw that! You Can blame Christianity for the KKK!
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Love it!
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I’m pleased you do – thanks!
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Before I start looking at the other comments, my dear Nathalie, allow me to say that you have hit the nail again.
Forgiveness for those who haven’t?
(Now let me peruse the comments…)
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Ah, thank you! You really are always too kind ๐
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My pleasure my dear. We are all surrounded by so much bullshit, that it is refreshing to read/hear someone call a cat a cat. Particularly for those who took the tube in London last week. (I do hope you and yours are alright, and that the wounded will recover).
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We are all fine here, thank you. But we do live with that threat now, don’t we? I must say it’s colouring my thoughts, I just wrote another ‘rant’ type of thing tonight to do with this and I keep thinking people are going to be so bloody sick of it…but it all came to me in a gush and it clearly needed to get out so…
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I will read it with interest. That is by far the greatest threat the West is facing. And not addressing correctly. Out of Naรฏvetรฉ. But I spent most of my life abroad. In the “South”, and believe me, we in the West, have no idea!
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I’m sure you’re right. And it worries me greatly, more than anything else, actually.
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Likewise.
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Done. Read the comments (which I normally don’t, they seem to me like a private conversation), but, lo and behold, no controversy? Regardless, thank you for your powerful words. (Though if History or Legend serves me right, Cassandra was not listened to) ๐
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No controversy! It makes a change, right? ๐
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Worrisome actually. I think they may have missed the point. ๐
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Or maybe they couldn’t be bothered ๐
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Possibly. A certain form of blindness?
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Maybe!
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Voluntary blindness. ๐ฆ
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I enjoyed your musings โบ
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Aw, thank you! So kind of you to say so ๐
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Fantastic! ๐
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Thank you! ๐
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