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Difficult

Is it difficult to be you? did someone slice you open like a letter.. or a bill way past due. Can someone make it better, can I find the words.. can you? I'd like to think you'll be just fine, and you know I pray it's true. But what I lack, the precious time.. maybe you lack it too. So I'll ask you once again... Is it difficult sometimes., bein' you?

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Anisha Dutta

Date: 1/7/2022 9:06:00 AM

Is it difficult? I am also thinking. Yet sometimes

Lindsay Laurie

Date: 10/15/2021 4:28:00 PM

Hello Richard ... interesting; it can be difficult being you, with advertising promising the world; politicians making things better if you vote for them; so it is best to hide under a rock - thanks Richard - Lindsay

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/19/2021 7:39:00 AM

Lindsay, Thanks, that's an interesting comment! Going back under my rock for the time being. -Richard

Panagiota Romios

Date: 10/7/2021 3:21:00 PM

I think you know my answer. No. I started being me at 18. All of us get smacked down by a bully’s whip on occasion. These spineless goobers are always around..like rotting garbage on a barge to Nowhere) kindof sad to see their chests Puffed out. And obnoxious..they are forever in life. Add nothing to our lives. You are perfect the way you are, me too! Move on. Pangie So I remain deaf

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/7/2021 9:48:00 PM

Hello Panagiota, Reminded me of a lover who spoke in timeless poetry. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” -Rumi

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 10/6/2021 3:04:00 PM

Hello Quote The Raven, It is difficult being me. People want to change me , but i know I can only do that. The only person that can change me is me. Many of times I have said I can only be myself and no one else. So don't change me being you. It will not work. yet some still try.

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 10/8/2021 10:49:00 AM

Hello Richard, you are welcome my friend. Yes I am okay. i have had a rough journey SoI have left that part of me behind. I thak you for telling me I am okay. I sense this to. Now I will see where tje rest of my journey will bring me. Darlene

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/7/2021 9:42:00 PM

Hi Darlene, Thank you for your comment. Stay just as you are, it'll be okay, you will be okay, you've already come this far. -Richard

Heidi Sands

Date: 10/3/2021 7:38:00 PM

It can be difficult to be me because I can see the big picture all the time and so much truth at once, that others are unable to see . And I want to save everyone too and I can't. Great powerful poem. . Well done :)

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 9:54:00 PM

Hello Heidi, Thanks for this comment, it's brave of you to want to rescue a few. Though the saving or sacrificing may be out of your hands, it's an admirable quality, the best any of mankind ever had to offer. -Richard

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/3/2021 2:54:00 PM

seems so simple and yet I find it profound in meaning. For me personally, it's only difficult thanks to what the medical community did to me. Other than that, I would be very fine with my growing old!

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 9:39:00 PM

Andrea, Thank you, I can always count on you to find best weakness in the sidewalls. And its name is time. I only wish I had no concept of the adjective used to describe it. Though it truly is precious now. The loss of Carolyn and all that she was made the lesson so much more important. -Richard

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 10/3/2021 1:42:00 PM

There are days when it is difficult being me, other times, I breathe easy, your words ink deep ;)

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 9:18:00 PM

Mystic Rose Rose, Thank you for your comment and candor. I'm happy so many look to their own lives in introspective contemplation. The difficult, the easy, the important, with no thought to the impossible. Never put too much stock in never. -Richard

Vijay Pandit

Date: 10/3/2021 6:08:00 AM

It can be--- but better to be yourself that imitate someone else. Your thoughts make me pause and think, Richard.

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 9:06:00 PM

Hello Vijay, Thanks for your comment. I hope we can always look to ourselves in the search for what's important inside. -Richard

Gary Radice

Date: 10/3/2021 1:08:00 AM

The older I get, the easier it becomes. Wise and wonderful words Richard. I loved the poem. Cheers - Gary

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 8:55:00 PM

Gary, Thank you, there is a certain truth that can't be denied in this comment. -Richard

Eve Roper

Date: 10/3/2021 12:10:00 AM

Time doesn't stop for anyone, and every minute counts. Need to have hope and faith that things will calm. We never have it as bad as others.

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 8:52:00 PM

Eve, Thank you, time was always an illusive friend at best. But still, I'll take hope and faith over despair and doubt everytime. -Richard

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 10/2/2021 10:26:00 PM

There never seems to be enough time to be the person you would like to be. It is difficult too many times to be yourself. Interesting poem, I enjoyed reading it. Thank you, Richard.

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 8:40:00 PM

Hi Shirley, Thanks for an honest reply. Want to change yourself to fit inside another's world, do so only if it makes a better person outta you. -Richard

Justin Worthy

Date: 10/2/2021 10:04:00 PM

Yes lol

Quoth Theraven
Date: 10/3/2021 8:36:00 PM

Thanks Justin. I hope it gets easier. -Richard