Blog- To write, to not lose my sole remaining small joy
amidst this darkest sea, this horrendous cavern of
epic pain, mournful loss and deepest of darkest sorrows … RJL
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"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again."
Author unknown
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
Washington Irving
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"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us."
Sascha
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When A Briefest Moment Of Light Chases Darkness Away
When deep lonely becomes your faithful companion
Dark fills your broken heart's empty canyons
Grief invades and your happiness washes away
Dawn weeps so very deeply- all life seems all gray
Your tears splash upon the most dreaded, sorrowful ground
And night arrives to your fortress skillfully pound
This world every hour seems a century long
You can only cry hearing her favorite song.
O' god, will this massive pain ever fly away?
O' god, shall this soul ever see a happy day?
As I live in this dark abyss, where fear reigns
And heart and soul swim oceans of grievous pains
Will I, this mountain of heartbreaking gloom defeat
As this black-world sends each morn's darkness to greet
I as a poet know, God's light can gift relief
In a blink, break chains, restoring faithful belief
What can a heart do, when weeping sorrows invade sleep
One finds their fervent wish is her to hold and keep?
O' god, will this massive pain ever fly away?
O' god, shall this soul ever see a happy day?
Robert J. Lindley, 3-07- 2022
First Note- deleted….
Second note--
I pray such heartache and sorrow never ever
touches you my friends. For this is no greater, darker and more painful
experience than this…
This has totally demolished my thought to be fortress,
Shown it to be but a vain and mortal folly. No human alive can face this darkness,
this epic, avalanche of heart destroying pain and not weep..
I cry and yet wonder, shall I survive this??? RJL
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When Death Has Stolen Both Life And Love
Dawn, I beg you- Light return
Do so to soul gift relief
Now pain, all life's true joy burns
And Dark casts its epic stabs of grief.
Robert J. Lindley, 3-07- 2022
Lind30SR
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Note:
To my friends here, forgive me for not
previously acknowledging your many messages of
heartfelt support and condolences. For it is the best
that I can do to respond in this manner now. I post
this now to try to insure that my temptation to never
again write does not take over. For I truly fear that
should it do so. My demise would quite swiftly follow.
I battle this darkness, this temptation to just end it all..
May God Bless you all….
Robert