I’m where my voices led me, I’m exactly here accompanied by their soundtrack; their keening fear I have challenged them and won at various times but they soon start up again, their endogenous whine. The truth is, they’re an indelible part of me woven in, as sure as salt is meshed with sea. And without them, their incessantly loud refrain echoey silence would likely arrest my brain. I’m not rich or brave or beautiful or scary but I’m me: at that I’m quite extraordinary.
A late and much muddled over response to Miz Quickly’s Oct 18 challenge:
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”- George Eliot
lovely ❤
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Late maybe, but not too muddled. Thanks for sharing your sea-salty inner voice(s). I hear you clearly.
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An extraordinary poem, and thank you for sharing the word endogenous, a gift from you to me! 😂
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😊 that was a weird one. I had the word “pitchless” there and was looking for alternatives. I don’t think Google thought pitchless was really a word. A bit further down it had a list of common questions the first of which was “what does endogenous mean?”. And it was pretty perfect. But what it had to do with a search on pitchless I don’t know.
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🤣 Spooky! the word fit your poem perfectly!
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I know! So bizarre. 😀
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Love the revelation that we are extraordinary at being ourselves. Fabulous.
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Many thanks. 🙂
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a lovely, honest piece, Worms, with a strong affirmative ending: Danny Kaye once said, “You will always become what you were meant to be”:) Have never forgotten that —
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Thanks, John. I think Danny Kaye is right… I mean in my head it’s the only thing that makes sense. Although, there are some life shattering events which kind of flummox you for a bit and you feel totally off track. I explored that in my poem “Richard” a couple of days ago. But in the end, your life is the sum of (mostly) your decisions. Mostly.
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thanks, Worms; will take a look at ‘Richard’
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