Old Poems for Old Loves

Our feelings are a yo-yo. Forever seeking more, something different, something ultra energising. As if different is better. We are not able to figure out the difference between excess and endurance. Everything around us moves so rapidly - technology, circumstances, opinions - that even relationships fall victim to the syncopated rhythm of indulgence & desertion. And in this cornucopia of life, we lose sight of what is actually enduring, what is flippant, what we need to hold onto, what we need to release.

 

We indulge in a hurry, and regret at leisure. And in the hullabaloo of choices do not even realize what we've lost. Till, someone recognizes our gold, and realises the unmindful flippancy of our directions - and refuses to let us take them.

 

And in the blessings inherent in our lives, the accumulation of the good we've done in this world, we are able to embrace what finally endures. Our life is changed, we go past the nightmare of options, and find both the compass and the perch, the arc and the direction, the zen of the passing and the depth of what endures.

 

We are then blessed, because we have been found.

 

If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems full of nostalgia for love  - 

• Living Tragedy Forward
• Of Love (& other bouts of sadness)
• Favourite People (who we love and leave)

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The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -

The Children Of MH17 by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/268-the-children-of-mh17
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license