The Genie's Price
Growing power is rooted in mystery like the night, and reaches lightward. ~John Neilhardt~
From every person I meet, know of and speak to.
My mind maintains an intricate filing system I can peek through.
Dewey decimel-esque - recalling on minute details.
Full of life stories and picture mails.
It's almost like unwinding someone's entrails.
Fast forward or rewind - plays out inside my mind.
I can see a life in colour and times when they went dark.
In their final day - or where they got their start.
Don't know if this is what I would call smart
When most of what I see tends to hurt my heart.
So many Souls that have regrets.
And they don't even seem to know it yet.
"Yea, whatever you say", "I'll live my life my way!"
But it's in my mind always on replay.
And continues to haunt me every single day.
I never asked to see anyone's life or maybe I did.
Most times what I see isn't nice, I was just a kid.
Genie granting wishes thrice - just rub the lid.
This is the price - that I was bid.
~Ruby L.S.~
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Relatable quotes:
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
~Aldous Huxley~
The easiest thing imaginable may be difficult to one who has not by trials acquired the power to perform it.
~Albert Raphael~
Hence, no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted - and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.
~Connie Zweig~
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🪶Introverted Sage
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