“Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” – Author unknown
“We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.” – Author unknown
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” – Richard Burton
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Once burned…
You flash a grin
My way
I feel my spine
Relax
Slipping farther
From caution I
Slide under your spell
Memory dishes up
In your favor
I feel confidence
Abandon me
As you close in
That split second
Your head turns
Calculating your options
Gratefully my senses return
Your attentions return
In a flash
–
Yet a veil has fallen
Your strengths fade to frailties
Sliding irretrievably from
Possibility
The seas are rich
I am patient
And deep
Your shallow waters
Cannot sustain me
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Bisous,
Léa
poetry, photos and musings oh my! 
I particularly like the subtley and nuance of your poem. All it took was for the veil to fall was a head turn. Brilliant!
Liz, you are too kind. Just don’t ask where it came from. So much has appeared in my journals ( my handwriting) and on my laptop that just seems to tumble out. Thank you.
My pleasure, Lea. Isn’t is wonderful to come across something we wrote and have to say, Where did that come from? Did I write that?
Absolutely. Especially when it isn’t too bad… A friend who is a marvelous poet tells me when I am down on my writing that we are our own worst critics, alas, he NEVER has that problem. He got my helping of confidence and that of others as well… but he has been a dear friend for over thirty years.
I’m finding that a shift in my thinking from is it any good to does it do what I want it to do helps a lot with the inner critic. Ultimately, thinking in terms of good and bad isn’t really helpful. It just closes down my thinking and other possibilities.j
You are absolutely correct. Although I’ve exorcised many if not most of those demons from the past, at times one can hear their chains rattling…
Sometimes the past sneaks up on us when we are not at our peak and hurls its judgments down upon us, and our learning has to regroup to stand once again.
Yes, I hear those chains rattling from time to time, but I’m used to them, so it’s easier to regroup now.
Absolutely. How ever, when they dare appear while I’m writing, I have the last word!
Of course!!
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Great quotes and I love the poem.
Mary, thank you for your support. You know how I love a good quote.
Keep them coming 🙂
Merci! 🙂