TheWanderingPaddy

“Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right,

forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.”

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I saw a young mother

With eyes full of laughter

And two little shadows

Came following after.

Wherever she moved,

They were always right there

Holding onto her skirts,

Hanging onto her chair.

Before her, behind her—

An adhesive pair.

“Don't you ever get weary

As, day after day,

your two little tagalongs

Get in your way?”

She smiled as she shook

Her pretty young head,

And I'll always remember

The words that she said.

“It's good to have shadows

That run when you run,

That laugh when you're happy

And hum when you hum—

For you only have shadows

When your life's filled with sun.”

Two Little Shadows

by

Author Unknown

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Don't go far off - Pablo Neruda

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --

because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long

and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station

when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because

then the little drops of anguish will all run together,

the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift

into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;

may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.

Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far

I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,

Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

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Author :- Catarine Hancock

And I'd like to think that if we never speak again

One day you'll look back on me fondly as someone

Who didn't fear the future when they pictured you by their side I'd like to think you'll remember me as somebody who loved you the best they could

Even if it wasn't always what you wanted or needed...

I'd like to think you'll remember me as

Somebody you could've spent your life with,

If only the timing had been right

If only we'd worked for it just a little bit harder.

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Letting go

Tonight I don’t want to be strong,

I want to be soft and vulnerable and just want to be held,

strong and tight in a way I know I won’t break, because you won’t hurt me.

I want to be saved and I don’t want to feel ashamed

or feel less of a strong woman for wanting so.

I don’t want to be Wonder Woman tonight,

running a house, single mum, working full time.

No. Tonight I want to be just a girl, no thoughts, no responsibilities.

I want to forget that I am 40 years old, divorced and lonely.

I want to be okay with being fiercely independent and still saying “I miss you”.

I want to melt in your arms and just breathe,

breathe until my heart slows down, as it does when I feel safe.

Tonight, I want to return to softness and love and warm feelings,

I want to ditch any logic.

Can we do that?

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