Lay me down
On a fleeting
Expanse of stillness
Caress the waves
Over my lassitude
As I embrace
The reticence within
Spreading forth
From open vein
Coloring the world
Appeasing the nature
Of chaos that ruminates
Through these halls
As I lose myself to
The validation that
I once had a life
Worth giving
The Stories In Between 
Just wonderful.
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Thank you, Bojana.
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Splendid River.
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Thank you!
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Well done
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Thank you.
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A surrender. Captivating read.
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Thank you for reading, Michele.
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This is wonderful sire!
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Thank you very much.
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I like ‘caress the waves over my lassitude’…wow!
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Thank you very much for reading.
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My pleasure
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I love the way you’ve captured the serenity of release:-)
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Thanks, Suzanne.
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There’s the depressed River we all know and love!
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What?! This is me happy as a pig in shit. You don’t want to see me depressed. Watching a grown man cry while eating a burrito is a helluva thing.
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This is really deep…. I like it
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Thank you.
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Absolutely wonderful, River
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Thanks, Rita.
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Yikes. Very sad, but expressed so beautifully. Reading this, I found myself calm somehow…
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Thanks, Sam.
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❤
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Thanks for reading, Penny.
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Oh, that’s bleak. It’s so moving, too. I got chills. “From open vein/Coloring the world.” Chills.
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Hopefully it was the poem and not a fever coming on . . .
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This is so deep. The way you ended with
The validation that
I once had a life
Worth giving
Takes it to another level .Keep blogging
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Thank you very much for reading and commenting.
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I love this ..
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Thank you.
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flowing and provocative your words have so much depth River!
💖🌞🌟
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Thank you for reading, Cindy.
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