So do it.
Tear my skin
Let it be rent and runneled
For the sake of shadows.
Don’t know who I’d prefer to win.
Just do it:
Gouge my soul
Let it be burnt and harried
Run through, bled out, discarded;
A battered begging-bowl
I knew it:
Break my heart
Let it be drawn and quartered
Railroaded; keelhauled
Unheeded – torn apart
Yet through it
Is it because you know me well?
Can’t help but be reminded
The thousand ways I love your kindness
So. I’m set to run through hell.
The Well Tempered Bards 
gets right to the heart. thankyou
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JNY!!! I’ve missed you so much!!! How ARE you?!?! *hugs*
And yes. The poem. I’m trying very hard to manage myself better, emotionally. Not sure I’m quite there yet.
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FRIST.
*plucks arrow from heart*
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Almost FRIST but I had to moderate JNY (yaaaaaay!!!! I’ve missed her so much – you’ll like her!) And yes…slings and arrows and going *splat*
*sigh*
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Wow that left me with so many emotions
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I wrote it a few days ago. It became pertinent again today but from a slightly different skew. Love how poetry can be a bit adaptive like that.
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Wow. Very powerful Lizzi.
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I felt (/feel) very strongly about it. Sometimes I find poetry is the safest (or only) way I can deal with these things.
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I’m here whenever you need me!
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Thanks Sweetie xoxo
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WOW! x
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Yeah? Maybe. It doesn’t *feel* wow. I guess I’m pleased my reallyreallyNOT wow reads with such punch…
(Aware I’m being difficult – am an hour into pain meds and a bit loopy)
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“Yet through it
Is it because you know me well?
Can’t help but be reminded
The thousand ways I love your kindness
So. I’m set to run through hell.”
Brava! Very good!
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Thanks đŸ™‚
It mattered to note that I will still do that.
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I love the chomp and flirt and fury of this. Beautiful!
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Thank you, Sparkliest one. It hurts to live it out but I am still absolutely set on that last line đŸ™‚
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I don’t even know how to describe the feelings I’m left with after reading this. It is that good.
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You’re very kind. It’s a jangly one but I was feeling jangly when I wrote it.
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