Today I said goodbye
To my sanity
Going to live
According to my
Inner values
Listen to the wolves
In the middle of the desert
The wasteland
Of my own thoughts
The one-way streets
Of my brain
The black holes
Of my consciousness
Listen to the owls
Flying overhead
Their infinite wisdom
Pointing the way
Today I said goodbye
To my former self
Going back to
Virtuous thought
To living in the moment
Hearing sounds
So pure
They transcend
Reality
Seeing colors
With eyes closed
Rainbows of
My mind
Today I said goodbye
To the world
Around me
To the stress
Of everyday life
To the lies
And illusions
To the bears
And the bulls
To the ups
And the downs
To friends
And enemies
To false promises
And hollow pleasures
I am me
I am free
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Author:
Alfred Peyer (Pseudonym) (
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Thank you. Very uplifting.
I appreciate your comment David!
Cleaning out the closest. Sometimes losing things from life is the greatest gain 🙂 freedom, nicely penned my friend.
Thank you Renzi. You are right, most of us carry much too much baggage around with us. Getting rid of at least some of it does help a lot!
A very uplifting poem! A great message attached to this that others should follow!
Thank you Shannon!
Sometimes we attach much too much importance to what is happening around us, to what others want from us, instead of listening to that quiet inner voice.
That's okay! And I totally agree
VerY good Fred...
As we say in the uk
It's a cracker !!!
Thanks P.H., speaking American English as a third language, I would like to assume that "cracker" is a positive thing!
Absolutely
A formidable and noble challenge you have given yourself, Fred! I like your poem and admire you for setting this goal.
Thank you Louis! You are right, it is a challenge to disregard all the demands from around you, even if it is only for a little while, like one day. But it is also very liberating.
Nothing like shaking the dust off of your soul.
Heather, you are an incredible poet! Love your expression "Shaking the dust off your soul"! I guess I should have titled my poem "Shaking the dust off my soul", that would have been much more poetic than "Today I said Goodbye". Thank you for your comment!
Love the message and the presentation. Good stuff!
Thanks so much Augustus!
I said goodbye to myself long ago
and whats left over is me.
You know Paul, I honestly don't think we can say goodbye to ourselves without dying while doing it. We can undergo transformations and emerge sparkling new, or at least different. Are you referring to getting rid of the person we think we have to be in order to become the person we feel should be?
yes, something just like that.
Very profound. I like that you could fit the bulls and the bears there on your goodbye. They are so annoying. I said goodbye to my unreal self so many times but it is like I can leave it but it never leave me. I have only feel holly moments with my truly self and it is only when I can quite my freaking mind.
Your poetry is very truthful. Thank you.
Sorry malu, just saw your comment today.
Thank you. You are right, we often try to get some distance from ourselves, but a lot of times it just doesn't work. The who we are and the who we would like to be are both stuck in the same body.
I know, we are kind of a diversity.
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