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A Moment Of Pain

For this one moment, I will stop and feel the pain that a lifetime journey bears upon me.  I will sit by this stream in the quiet and look within that secret place in my heart and fearlessly touch my pain.  It is locked deep within, frozen in ice, cold and unfeeling, yet it burns like a supernova scorching planets across the night sky.

My journey has been long and today I will feel the pain of countless losses, dreams destroyed like broken toys tossed aside never to be seen again.  My body cries out from the many roads traveled and my boots are worn and the soles paper thin.  I weep for the ones left behind and their memories fade into a collage of my life.

Today at this moment I would play the saddest song I know, and I would embrace the song living within its hurt and sadness.  The song would reach deep and caress the hurt and paint my life in despair.  Pain is like a painting with dark purples and grays colors, with crows nesting in the limbs and making a sound that is otherworldly, mournful and filled with sorrow.

All these things I will feel for this moment, and I will embrace the pain and surrender to its depths.  When the thunder passes, the darkness returns to the night, and then the sun returns to the sky with its warmth and healing.  I will put the pain away maybe to never embrace it again.  I will call my old dogs to my side and I will walk another mile.

Point Of View

At some point in life, we must embrace our pain and feel its darkness so that we can own how we feel about our journey.  From time to time we should lighten our burden and leave it to hang on the leaving tree.  Life is full of joy and great beauty, yet to see life with a joyful heart, we must never forget our pain and remember we left it to hang alone deep within the forest on the leaving tree.

Larry Tyler
Larry Tyler
Awaken the possibilities … then unleash them. After 55 years of successful retail management, I have returned to my passion of writing. I write Poetry, Storytelling, and Short Stories. As a child, I grew up on front porch storytelling. I would sit and listen to my Dad and his brothers tell these great stories that were captivating, and I always wanted to hear more. I wanted to experience the things they talked about. I started writing at a young age and reading everything I could get my hands on. At twelve years old I started a storytelling group and several of my friends became writers or poets. At 16 I hopped box cars and worked the tobacco fields, orange groves, picked cotton, and spent many nights around a campfire listing to life stories. Someone once asked me why I wrote. It consumes an amazing amount of time and I assure you it is not going to make me rich. I write so that my children can touch and feel my words telling of the ones that came before us and the stories they told me. These are the chronicles of our family and even though they come from my childhood memories and are deeply rooted in a child’s remembrance at least they may feel what it was like in the time before them and cherish the things the elders left behind. I am a Columnist & Featured Contributor, BIZCATALYST360 and I have The Writers Café, a group on LinkedIn that features Poets, Writers, Artists, Photographers, and Musicians . On Facebook I have two groups and one page; Dirt Road Storytelling, From Abandoned To Rescue Dogs And Cats, and About Life, Love And Living. As writers, it is true that we honestly do not know what we hold within us until we unleash it. When our words inspire others only then will inspiration return to the writer. I will spend my twilight years in search of the next story, the next poem, and the next image. I will take the time to enjoy my Wife, our Dogs, and Cats, and our amazing new home and I will always find the time to walk down a dirt road I truly hope is that I never have to read another book on Leadership, be on a conference call or see another plan o gram as these were the tool for what I did in life and not about who I am.

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9 CONVERSATIONS

  1. L’intero percorso dell’essere umano, le sue ricerche, i suoi progressi tecnologici sono in qualche modo legati alla sofferenza: dal fuoco per tenere distanti i predatori alle case per proteggersi dalle intemperie, allo sviluppo della medicina per curare i malanni alle religioni per provare di capirne il senso, il dolore è un tema onnipresente nelle nostre esistenze; è quindi inutile demonizzarlo perché ci serve per crescere, per evolvere, per migliorare e portarci uno scalino più su, a condizione di riuscire a superarlo.

  2. Fascinating how strong the urge can be to cling to the memory of painful experiences so hard we can almost squeeze them back into a tangible present, because those moments make us who we are. Beautiful piece, Larry.

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