Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Forgotten Star















You keep telling me to be glad for what we had while we had it. That the brightest flame burns quickest.

Which means you saw us as a candle. And I saw us as the sun.

38 comments:

  1. Wow. That's really insightful

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  2. And you wonder why I never want to talk about it..

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  3. the sun will burn out one of these days, you'll see. but the point is, a candle, the sun... both illuminate darkness.

    isn't that something worth celebrating?

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  4. that's exactly how i feel..

    and although not forever, sun lasts a little bit longer anyway.

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  5. I'm speechless...

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  6. Well, that just caused some instant tears. One of those days.

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  7. I don't think I've ever seen this feeling so succinctly caught up in words. I can relate to this entirely.

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  8. Wow, another amazing string of words..

    I chose you as one of the bloggers I think deserve the Rock Star Blogger Award - your words just neverendingly inspire and speak to me..

    Thank you.

    Your award is on my page - http://sketchinginwords.blogspot.com/2010/02/rock-star-bloggermoi.html

    And this is the page you've inspired myself and a friend to start - http://theartistandthewriter.blogspot.com/

    ...nowhere near as amazing as you, but we'll keep trying :)

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  9. Thank you for putting into beautiful words exactly how i feel right now.

    I hope you don't mind me reposting, with a few changes.

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  10. oh my goodness,
    i love all of these posts, and everyone just keeps getting better and better [:

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  11. So utterly perfect.
    I am speechless.

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  12. He kept saying that too. I hate it when he does :'(

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  13. I see more Eta Carinae.

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  14. burning bright
    never to be extinguished
    the fire of love
    for some that lesson
    is never learnt
    and some it comes to late
    and to do it all again
    is their fate

    I loved that line...
    candle.... sun...
    pulled me in and spun me

    thankyou :)

    I thouht of you the other day when I found this wreath
    still with all its bows
    laying flat upon the road
    crushed and broken
    what it once was
    to what it became
    was just in the viewing
    it lay right there upon the road
    for weeks never moving
    flat splat green sparkles
    not even the wind could lift it
    so it seems
    the day I acknowledged it's beauty laying on the ground,
    that night the wind blew it
    and now it is no where to be found
    but I know where it was
    and what it showed me clear
    beauty and usefulness
    is scattered everywhere
    waiting to be found

    thank you for pulling this from me and from the sea

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  15. if only i could find it in me to say this to him. its been three months. and ive even almost been able to forget his voice... this post left me speechless and caught me off guard.

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  16. I <3.
    It's too amazing, and rings so true sometimes.

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  17. I read this out loud and then I felt the uncontrollable urge to scream it.

    Because it echoed in the deepest dark recesses of my being. The space where my heart used to be - before he ripped it out.

    Thank you. Even if echoes are simply the reflections of sounds that used to be...it's been quiet without my heartbeat.

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  18. @hp
    try living without the sun. It is not replacable.

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  19. fucking exactly.

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  20. Exactly what I needed to say but never said, and what he said without thinking. One lesser than the other, one weaker and more insubstantial, and one dying.

    I wish he could have seen - could see, what I saw. What I still see. It hurts.

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  21. It seems he prefers us to be this way. That this will make us better beings.

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  22. I've come back tonight to sift through your new thoughts. It's been too long and I miss the comfort and encouragement of your words.

    But there is a difference now, a defined sadness. If you were here or I were there.. this is where I would just hold you.

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  23. I wrote the above to you, and today someone who reads my blog suddenly hugged me and told me she wished I was not sad sometimes.

    It was wonderful to know she reads me, but I was not sad today... still the hug was wonderful

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  24. I have just discovered your words, but I have sat and read through two years worth of your blog in the past two days. I have been moved by your writing more than I have ever been impacted by the words of a single other. But I suspect, not in the way you move most of your readers. It is not the posts themselves that touch me, not the inspirational and meaningful insights. But instead, by the fact there is someone out there who writes such things in such a way with such intentions. I have been moved by not only your voice, but your very existence.

    And I must agree with deb, there is something so different about the posts from recently than in the past. They're beautiful in their honesty, helpful in their shared experience. But they are sadder.

    And I want you to know, there is someone out here with stories that hear you. I didn't keep reading for your words (lovely as they are), I kept reading for you.

    I just wanted you to know.

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  25. If only he feels the same way as I do.

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  26. reposted it with little changes. sorry. thank you.

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  27. The brightest fires burn out the fastest
    is a well known Russian proverb

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