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For a long time now
I have been lugging
your dead weight around
It lies there
crippling my mind
rending my gut
cramping my style
weighing me down
And yet
I cannot leave it behind
Although
I cannot move ahead
I wish you’d just
Disintegrate
Incinerate
Evaporate
over the mountains
into grey dust
beneath the riverbed
I wish you’d just
bid me a tearless adieu
show me a weightless ray
and let me be
Cuz for a long time now
I have been lugging
your dead weight around…
**Posting this poem for Week 13 of Open Link Night at d’Verse Poets Pub – the favorite hangout for poets and artists! Check it out… NOW… for now is the best time! 
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***Also wanted to let you know that is a poem which Vayavya has kindly featured on their wonderful blog… A huge thanks from me to the Vayavya team for featuring this poem… Luv y’all!! ***
Might it be that way… a longing peace you so well deserve… beautiful words and image.
Hugs
xoxox
Aww.. thank you, sweetheart…. I wish the same for you tooo!!!
Always wonder what Altas would say about his task.
hahahah… as long as he was able to “unburden himself” , I am sure he was ok with it.. unlike some of us down here
I hope you can let go, carrying a dead weight sooner or later can suck you down with it too.
Lovely, emotional write!
Dead weights hang on… I guess we just need to focus our attention elsewhere…
Glad you liked this poem, Daydreamer…
You take care and all the best..
A beautiful poem shows me something I ca relate to pretty welll…
Aww…thanks, Bikram…
What say?
As for being able to relate to this one, well, I can only hope that you are out of that phase/mode now… we all pass thru such annoying/lingering alleys of ennui, but eventually, most of us come out of it too… better sooner than later..
Hugs n Love coming your way…
ugh – some burdens can be too heavy for us to carry..and it’s good to let them go…haha – love charles’ comment…smiles
you can say that again, Claudia… the best way is to let ‘em worries just GO! whewww…
Ugh..hard work carrying all that baggage around. Great feeling when it’s let go…then we can breathe again..well written & congrats on having your poem featured!
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!! Really glad you liked this one, my friend…
And may that dead weight never get close to you…EVER!
Have a fabulous year ahead !
Awesome write! Unbridled, unleashed, cut to the chase, tell it like it is! I love this kind of piece.
Ahaaa.. somebody likes it raw, eh?!?!
Thanks, Elizabeth! Glad you could appreciate this one… (hugs)
The ones you want to leave never do–it requires a strong boot to the nether parts, in my experience. ;_) I have definitely been in this place–very glad to not be. As always, you sew it all up in a neat package for us, Kavita, and top it with a crazy image. Love it.
I too am glad that you (and I) are out of that place, hedgewitch…
and I hope we don’t land there again! Cuz it ain’t easy at all..
Glad you liked this poem, darling… Mwaahh!
dead weight is not easy to carry around….I love the way you wrote this…you have to let go and start new.
Indeed one must, Ayala! Thanks a heap for the nice words you’ve left here…
HUGS!!!
Yes one must rid themselves of dead weight, can only lug it around for so long..haha…really like how your portrayed Atlas.
You bet, Pat! Can’t lug around dead weight for too long… in fact, we MUSTN’T!
Thanks for the appreciation you’ve shown here, my friend..
the weight of the world i am sure would be unbearable…almost as much as love at times…smiles. thank you kavita
Aaahh…what a comparison, Brian! Who else but you, to make that ultimate connection! Thanks, my friend..
Smiles right back at ya..
That was powerful, i understand that feeling all to well.
Thank you, Leah.. and I hope those burdens don’t get too close to you…
Have a wonderful year ahead…
Yes, so hard to let go of these types of weights. Your repetitions show the difficulties.
Thanks for the appreciation, my friend…
Someone has said …”Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.” Lovely poem fleur de-lis!
Aaahh..thanks, Blaga..
May those burdens never find their way to you, dear lady…
We all carry our weights around…but sometimes the burden can overwhelm. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just toss them to the wind? But then…I suppose they help to shape us into the people we are…
Oh yea, burdens too have their purpose, I suppose… to mold us into strong human beings! But the secret is handling them well while they are around, and later tossing them aside, and marching ahead!
What say, Chris?
Hope you are having a great (and burdenfree) 2012, my friend..
Take care..
oh so sad lugging your dead weight around it is hard when people do not try and help out and you carry them along well done
http://gatelesspassage.com/2011/10/11/the-day-of-the-dead/#comment-1682
Oh yea, Sarah.. this weight carrying business is hard indeed! But we really must try and learn how and when to let go of it.. but a little help from others is most welcome too..
You have a great year ahead, my friend.. and thanks a ton for your nice words and insights here… they are invaluable to me!
This is really good… longing to let go but not being able to, yes.
Aaahh.. I think we have been there at least SOME time, no?
Glad you liked how I have portrayed the past (and burden) here, Becky.. thanks a heap!
xxx
Great write. Certainly some burdens are not meant to be carried. Mine is here. http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/the-blood-moon/
you can say that again, Teresa…some burdens are meant to be cast aside indeed! What say?
Hope you don’t have to carry any, dear friend… Have a WONDERFUL year ahead!
xxx
bittersweet read…It sure spoke to me, I love the pic btw
hehehe…thanks a heap, Lynnaima! I too totally LOVE that picture! It’s stunning!
That’s such an exhausting burden. I hope you can leave it behind soon.
Thankfully, the burden’s not mine, Mary.. whew! But it is exhausting, alright… poor chap!
Wonderful poem! And it really does go well with Atlas, doesn’t it? I’ve been away from blogging for a long long time. My writer’s block has gotten the better of me, feels like a heavy weight that I wish to cast aside. :sigh. Everything I write these days sounds stupid to me, and most find the dustbin.
How have you been?
Thanks, sweets… I am doing great! But as usual, I’m suffering from writer’s block (again), and a mild attack of cold too now.. ugh!
Hope your photography is coming along good…
Hugs n Love!
True..haha..sometimes if only we are who we ought to be.. days we can’t move a stone without any barrier such thoughts do arise in mind..let go is a easy word to say *thinking*
you can say that again, Uma! Letting go is easier said than done! But then again, there is no better remedy to sadness than letting go and acceptance.. no?
thanks for your thoughts and insights here, lady… I really appreciate that…
Wish you a wonderful year ahead!!
one word “amazing”
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaannn!! I am flattered, sweetie! THANK YOUUUU!!!
xoxooxox
Really good and intense!
Whoa! Glad you liked this, Madeleine! Thanks for the appreciation you’ve shown here..
Wish you a very very happy 2012!!!
xxx
Just amazing !You are clever I like your style.
hehe.. thanks, Willow… glad you enjoyed this one too…
And a very very happy new year to you!!!
Cuz for a long time now
I have been lugging
your dead weight around…
Who is carrying.. you are Kavita… throw it.. just like that.. don’t even turn to see what happens.. life is a lot more beautiful than this… can say that because have been trying to come out of past with effort and getting guided by Power of Now by Ekhart Tole..
Miss your feedback.. have completed two years and 400 posts the same day incidently..
Take care.. hope all is fine and well..
Ramesh Sood
Oh no no noooooo, Rameshji… I wasn’t really carrying all this burden around
THANKFULLY!
But somebody was.. I hope he learns (sooner better than later) that life is much more richer than he gives it credit for.. what say?
It’s good to know that you too are leaving your past behind you, and looking ahead with a new outlook.. there is a reason it’s called “past”
I wish you a beautiful 2012, Rameshji.. and a million thanks for your ever appreciative feedback here…
(hugs)
wola another lovely piece of urs tremendeous
AWw.. thank you, sweet girl!
And wish you a veryyyy very happy new year, darling… (hugs)
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Wowww! Thanks for making me a part of your world, sweet lady! I am honored and THRILLED! I wish to some day sit and enjoy that cuppa coffee with you…not across continents, but across a single table!
i like everything everything you write, but this one got me today. nice work.
Oooohh… gee.. thanks, Mikey! Glad you liked this one…