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Full-Time Job

living without love is a full-time job
a difficult task to accomplish
yet as workaholics we manage
through daily practice 
we achieve mastery

fools we are

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Diane Christian

Date: 4/5/2024 8:46:00 AM

A nice poem, I got married at age 21. I have grown up children now but I can honestly say, I prefer to fly solo now, Some relationships work others don't, But no more headaches or heartaches for me. Relationships are very very hard work these days. I remember my dad used to say you can't please everyone so please yourself, it's true, some people are never happy no matter how much we do for them.

Timothy Ray

Date: 10/28/2023 12:17:00 PM

it was Gibran who said "Work is love made visible" What he meant it's about connecting to something greater than the task at hand. but i take the point as when it is a selfish endeavor..... if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

Otto Vox
Date: 11/13/2023 8:16:00 PM

oh so true. And as long we can taste the difference, there is hope

Pivotal Poetry

Date: 10/27/2023 7:07:00 PM

Love your take on this, Yes, wish I had come up with that myself. :P

Daniel Schack

Date: 10/27/2023 12:50:00 PM

nice write. it takes more than a job to be responsible or just to be. real. nice. enjoy/commment mine, please.

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 10/14/2023 8:06:00 AM

A very pertinent poem. I hope you earn a nice retirement in your later yesrs. Everyone deserves some down time. Thanks for the poem. It brings back memories.

Susan Mills

Date: 10/9/2023 3:06:00 AM

Some people see relationships ad a job. I wish I came up with the idea to write about non- love as a full- time job. That's the boat I'm in. Thank you for enlightening me.

Otto Vox
Date: 11/13/2023 8:20:00 PM

and... I think I know quite well how you feel... Then I remind myself of this sentence: "The distance we have to others is the distance we have to ourselves"

Otto Vox
Date: 11/13/2023 8:18:00 PM

ideas rarely come from one person, there is only the one who puts it on paper...

Full-Time Job

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