The world is fraught with disappointment at times...

The world is fraught with disappointment at times
I have learned that no emotion is small
Every one carries with it a load that is large
Inescapable
This life of human emotions
Human things
Abandonment
Attachment
Loss
Human things
Inescapable
One cannot live and avoid these things
To do so would be to live with a closed heart
Which is the most painful thing to experience in the way of being human
A closed heart
Solid and indestructible
But we should be able to be chipped away
More like dings to the heart
As reminders
That the heart is still there
And we are
Still here
And positioned to love and be loved
And to be hurt
Both of which I am learning more and more about
How dare they hurt us?
We think
It is all well and good to grow from the cause of pain
That is all fine
But how dare they hurt us
The anger in the audacity
Apparently
I would love to float away in my day dreams
But there is no real work there
There is no real love
No real pain
No real gains
Nothing concrete
Like the knowledge that we will all feel growth and expulsion
And I live with this knowledge
As I know pain very well
Even as I find defenses against it
Though I am just beginning to know love
And I live continuously here with the knowledge and the reminder that I know nothing yet about the strength behind pain and the elusiveness of love •

Poem from Acres of Shadow
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