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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #102

Who is the public? 

By Christine Bialczak

Who is the public, who would yousay

Makes you cry out and run far away?

Why do they matter, why do youcare?

Why do you cry or pull out your hair?

Do they matter, do they understand?

Do they know how they hold your hand?

Don’t feel so trapped as you can get out

Run from the public, privacy no doubt.

Only if I knew it then.

I was never good at economics. I always went for people over monetary considerations. Where other people would see dollar signs I would see a person in need. I was content with food and shelter……and perhaps a few books. I married and found another kind of existence. My wife would assign a value to household goods that we were willing to sell on and I would debate and then give them away for free. How do we define value?

Some children of wealthy parents are expected to follow a certain path. It’s the child’s choice. Conform and follow the path or be a starving artist and suffer the consequences. The path of economic stability always wins out. How do we define value?

An ancient oil…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #105

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WISHES AND WHISPERS

Wishes and whispers
if only I knew it then
unrequited love.

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Repeats and repents
if only I knew it then
bewailing sorrow

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Knowledge and knowing
contented with here and now
happily alive

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तुझसे न दिल लगाता
अगर मैं यह जानता
मुहब्बत की सज़ा क्या है ।१।

बहार तो न दी मुझे
तूने यह समझा दिया
बेमौसम खिज़ा क्या है ।२।

फ़ेर ली आंखें तूने
तू ही न पिलाये तो
पीने का मज़ा क्या है ।३।

क्या हुई वो कसमें
जब तू साथ नहीं तो
जीना क्या, कज़ा क्या है ।४।

क्या मेरी ख़ुदी अमित
ऐ ख़ुदा तू ही बता
अब तेरी रज़ा क्या है ।५।

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 105

environment gone
no wistfulness shown by birds
just by bird watchers

for Reena’s Exploration Challenge

only if I knew it then
I would never let you go
that we’d never meet again
only if I knew it then
silence can cause such pain
I would let go of my ego
only if I knew it then
I would never let you go

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 105

Written In Response To:

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #105 – PROMPT:  “Only if I knew it then” – Wistfulness.

   Oh those “only if” or “if only’s” that at one time held me down in such unnecessary melancholy.  Through the many seasons of growing I have come to realize that the wisdom I know today would have been futile for me to know back then.  I was not spiritually enlightened enough to receive it. I had to go through those years of the foolishness of “spiritual bankruptcy” in order to grow into the wisdom of  “spiritual riches.”  

     Today I have learned not to dwell in the sad longing of  “what ifs” and instead use the lessons learned through hindsight that become the wisdom of foresight.  By doing this I have broken the cycle of insanity’s “doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result” to a sane mind…