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Ashes of Wonder

June 9, 2010
By abigail(: BRONZE, Kamuela, Hawaii
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abigail(: BRONZE, Kamuela, Hawaii
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"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know whatcha gonna get"

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If I were to burn into a thousand ashes, would the wind carry me astray with one drift. Instead of strolling in the path of containment, would I soar into the clouds of freedom? Would those ashes rise into the soil of holy gardens, or would they simply disintegrate into the atmosphere unremembered, forgotten? Would they become a memorial to a life well lived, or would they shadow the fatality of a pathetic existence? Would they travel the world in a way no mere mortal could ever dream, or would they disappear into the seas, never to submerge? But the one question with the answer I yearn for the most: will they ever mean more than myself, as a person, on Earth?

© Sarah M., Blairsville, PA

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I like to vent through my writing during difficult times.
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nelehjr DIAMOND said...
on Jul. 18 2013 at 3:32 pm
nelehjr DIAMOND, Lingle, Wyoming
60 articles 11 photos 379 comments

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

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...Seeing as how you like to vent through writing you should give poetry a spin. This was great but really you've got a voice for poetry :)
abigail(: BRONZE said...
on Jul. 15 2010 at 4:49 pm
abigail(: BRONZE, Kamuela, Hawaii
4 articles 15 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know whatcha gonna get"

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Well thank you (: 
lusis BRONZE said...
on Jul. 14 2010 at 12:54 pm
lusis BRONZE, San Jose, California
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"It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself." Anthony Burgess

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This is so beautiful. I can really relate to it. :D
abigail(: BRONZE said...
on Jul. 13 2010 at 10:02 am
abigail(: BRONZE, Kamuela, Hawaii
4 articles 15 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know whatcha gonna get"

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wow! (: thank you! and i will (:
abigail(: BRONZE said...
on Jul. 13 2010 at 10:01 am
abigail(: BRONZE, Kamuela, Hawaii
4 articles 15 photos 20 comments

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"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know whatcha gonna get"

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thank you (: this one actually took about 10 minutes to write. it was an emotional day haha.
givemetherapy SILVER said...
on Jul. 11 2010 at 2:47 pm
givemetherapy SILVER, Mount Vernon, Ohio
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"Hope is what you cling to when reality has left you with nothing else."

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this was great. i wish more people vented the way you do :)
Thesilentraven PLATINUM said...
on Jul. 6 2010 at 12:33 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain"
~Kahlil Gibran

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This piece of writing inspired an indescribable emotion in me; it was so well written. If you vent through your writing, keep venting. :)