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not all strong women are strong enough
to fall out of love she whispered from the silvery screen as if she really knew something important worth memorizing some women are strong differently than other women are and some men learn to be strong differently this was the dialog of an actress I admired in a movie about a woman at a crossroads in a moment of dangerous opportunity I was thinking then in that moment: if only ALL hearts had regenerative properties like those of the starfish if I injured any part of my heart would it not be a feat if I could instantly regenerate it and that I could regenerate any piece of it whenever something went wrong... statistically speaking life and love do go wrong being fraught with occasional complications I think some women have eyes like oceans and stormy as seas salt water flows from them endlessly I've been that woman at times I have known men like this too sensitive and open tears can flavor poetry as salt makes food palatable and tears too clean and clear the tangled gardens of all hearts I've been amid the ruin of a storm enveloped in gales of tears not knowing what island is out there a haven in which to land tears are never wasted just as a strong woman may cry many just as a strong man may cry too it matters if no one notices tears are not temporary inconveniences but a necessity why then do tears sometimes receive inattention, a turn of the head could it be we all don't possess paddles and oars the skill of navigating water? tears spring from the wounded soul and provide the one who cries with healing tenderness is a kind of mending when a soul is exposed believes itself broken tears stitch it back how it takes great strength great resolve to cry to undertake a perilous journey and heave that line out onto the ocean how lucky I am when I, when this little star fish found herself attached to one and then another star fish and how we became not one but part of a throne of little stars (how we've regenerated our hearts navigating through life and love we are a throne of stars...) original copyright December 29 2017 for this work/poem and also for this little star of an author Melissa A. Howells and also for this legally copyrighted site title Meloo Straight From Her Tilt-a-World Vote for this poem |
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