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i was a child of lies and compromises
i was a child of disputes and pretenses
they say i was doomed from the start
broken before even i become whole.

i was a child of maybe’s and differences
i was a child of what if’s and controversies
they say i was a disaster in the making
condemned even before born.

they say it made me stronger
they say it made me braver
but i was a child
i don’t need to be strong
i don’t need to be brave.

a child i was
i need to have a playground
i need to be in a safe haven
the womb was not even my haven.

it didn’t matter though
even if i didn’t have a playground
even it i didn’t have a safe haven
for true enough i am stonger, braver.

but if there is any a great woman…

A single line prompt for this week –

The only ghost that scares is a past version of you.

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No one said that loving was easy
No one ever said life and living were easy
The journey is convoluted 
It’s riddled with traps
A one-way ticket that has no returns 
So what scares me is to relieve the past
To face the challenges I have already conquered 
To relive the trials and tribulations of yesterday 
And worst of all to face the past version of you
You…
Who has evolved with me 
You who have changed and mellowed 
You, now a person I’m proud of now
I dare to go into a future yet unknown 
Than to return a past that I have already traveled 

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Written for RXC #241, hosted by Reena

#Keepitalive

#RXC

You never got to fully develop your little body.
But I can picture every detail of your perfectly formed features
As clearly as if you were before me.

You never got to wriggle and squirm in my belly.
But I can still feel you.
A hollowness inside that cannot be filled.

You never got to know my touch or arms holding you tight,
But I caress the memory of you with love,
Hugging my pillow at night, wishing it was you.

You never got to breathe and fill your tiny lungs.
But I take deep breaths to soothe the ache in my heart.
Sighing, for what should have been.

You never got to hear my voice or know me as your mother.
But I speak to you often and the person in the mirror
Wears traces of you, etched in the lines of her face and on the curve of…

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #240

The Sun

My

Radiant

Mighty

Powerful

Magnanimous

Sun

The epitome of my Faith

I was

Revolving around

Imperishable

I thought

Is disintegrating

Slowly

Very slowly

Before

The finale

There is

Nothing to do

But

.

.

.

Wait

The Sun is disintegrating, slowly turning into a red giant.
So is our planet, slowly nearing its fiery demise.
Have we pushed our planet beyond repair?
Or do we still have time to make repairs?
Mars could be habitable by then,
but without the Sun, will there be Mars?

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For Reena’s Xploration Challenge #240

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #240 – The Sun is Disintegrating &
Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Astounding

while it may be astounding
to say the sun is disintegrating
it will

as does everything
eventually, all will
come to an end

maybe not how we wish it
but it will
at last

remember this
as you engage
in living

Astronomers and physicists have been trying to figure out the ultimate fate of the Solar System for at least hundreds of years.  The Sun gets its energy by crushing hydrogen and other atoms until they fuse together, and this energy output leads to a loss in the Sun’s mass because it is converting around 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, which is over 350 billion tonnes each day.  The Sun more or less maintains its size because it has a total mass of two billion, billion, billion tonnes, or two octillion tonnes.  The tonne is also called a Metric ton and that is equivalent to 1.10231 US tons, just to add to the confusion.  Over billions of years, the Sun will burn through so much of its fuel that it will begin to expand, ballooning out to become a colossal red giant star.  It is expected that…

Looking for an interesting place to tour, consider this site rich with miracles, legends, and pagan history.

 This strange prophecy below is associated with St. Odile, who is revered as the patron saint of Alsace and this historic site.   History of Alsace

The prophecy stated below sounds like today’s newscast.

“Before the war breaks out again, food will be scarce and expensive. There will be little work for the workers, and fathers will hear their children crying for food. There will be earthquakes and signs in the sun. Toward the end, darkness will cover the earth. When everyone believes that peace is ensured, when everyone least expects it, the great happening will begin. Revolution will break out in Italy almost at the same time as in France. For some time the Church will be without a Pope.”

That last line…