Poetry: The Dead-Weight
@innertalks (22400)
Australia
October 28, 2020 9:01pm CST
Life was like a dead-weight,
hanging around my neck.
I felt so weighed down by it,
I felt like my life was wrecked.
Waiting for someone to remove the weight,
I carried it around, always around with me.
I didn't know that the weight was weightless,
and that it was merely my own weight as me.
We cannot ever lose the realness in our self.
The weight was my own way of seeing it.
I liked to lug my heaviness, around and around,
thinking my life profound, in its unsteadiness.
We can solve the same problem with the same thinking,
as long as we go passed past thinking to decision.
I couldn't decide if I was just a deadbeat of life,
so I carried a reminder in this dead-weight of strife.
It's hard to walk away from a problem, when it weighs us down.
I had to cut myself loose, from my weighty dead-weight,
and only then, could I see, nothing waits for me, if I wait.
Love brings us to itself, but we must drop our dead-weight.
Photo Credit: The photo used here belongs to me, the author, of this piece
We need to drop things held weightily in our lives to feel lighter in love.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
29 Oct 20
Too much baggage from the past. Dispose those quickly. You need positive vibes. Negativity is detrimental to the health and mind.
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@innertalks (22400)
• Australia
29 Oct 20
Yes, thanks.
There is not much positive about being negative.
What are the positives of negativity?
Well, perhaps, it might eventually, lead us out of itself, if we go deep enough into it.
At the very bottom of everything, is usually a small touch of the opposite.
Negativity has no resources to deal with it, because it won't allow them in, and so to get rid of negativism, we need to drop ourself into resources, such as love, positivity, and life long friends, and relatives.
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@innertalks (22400)
• Australia
29 Oct 20
@eileenleyva Yes, love lives in God, and so praying to God creates a positive terminal in us, which links into the love in God then too.
@Shiva49 (26964)
• Singapore
29 Oct 20
It is said a clean conscience is the softest pillow assuring a sound sleep.
Likewise, grudge and jealousy are the weightiest stuff to lug around.
Learn to let go - is what the Buddha advocated to lighten our burden.
As for myself, I think whether I can do any better to solve the problems I face and then I leave it to time.
An attitudinal change changes our landscape and we then see things differently.
We have programs to weed out accumulated trash in our computer but in our case, we have to do self-cleaning from time to time with critical introspection rather than pointing fingers at others for our misery.
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@innertalks (22400)
• Australia
29 Oct 20
Yes, generally, a good clean up, and letting go are good recommendations, as long as we do not go overboard, and throw the baby out with the bath-water too.
We need to keep discernment, as some things are good to hold onto, like to putting our hearts first, listening to our higher self, giving God a chair in our study still too.
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@innertalks (22400)
• Australia
30 Oct 20
@Shiva49 Yes, if we live our lives on the right side of God, everything that happens to us, carries a silver lining to it then too.
Only deliberately living on the underside of God, away from him, sinning purposely, will bring us karma and pain, but even that has a plus factor, and severe pain has been known to turn people's lives around too, sometimes too.
@Shiva49 (26964)
• Singapore
30 Oct 20
@innertalks Yes, then we see everything as part and parcel of our lives and are there to enrich our lives than see a few as burdens.
Most that I saw as a pain became worthy experiences that enriched me and worth recalling.
The baptism of fire proves our mettle just like some scariest rides in theme parks.
After all, is not life here like a theme park though we worry that the exit gate is nearing!
What more do we want when we take God aboard with us too?
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