Light (my poem of happy)
August 12, 2012 § 48 Comments
Can I not breathe without you? Can I not dream without you?
I feel weightless- I’m dressed in silk
The suffocating wool has disappeared
I’m wearing yellow with lace and frills
My smile is white; my tongue dances behind each word
I leap from hour to hour
I dance without a stage
There is no audience
no judge
no costume or masks to be seen
I sing aloud
There is no danger of a flat note or a harmed ear
All the risks have been taken
Allowing me room to fly
Can I not breathe without you? Can I not dream without you?
I finally live
I am fully alive
Each finger composing an inexperienced song
A new life
I sing so readily, so decidedly
Is it true?
Is it fair to feel so warm?
Is this sunlight really all my own
May I bask beneath this joy?
Can I run without a guide?
Each bar that held me in place
Each brick that kept me cold
Has left
I seem to be alone
Alone in the glory of this new light
This new place
It is mine
It is all mine
I fear he needs me
I fear he needs my hand for strength
But my feet are swift
My limbs resist
The fatal temptation to re-track
To my prison
To my past
Eyes are bright
Salt tears have formed a castle
Which is a learned satisfaction
I see an orange up in a tree
I want it
So I take it
I taste it
It brings me pure delight
Small satisfaction
Little interactions of what now
does matter
Can I not breathe without you? Can I not dream without you?
I linger in this rain
I feel so overwhelmed with
Each splash
The puddles are forming fast
This moment soon will pass
I must make the most of each drop
Exploding on the slipping street
There are no words for this joy
A fresh tear fills my eye
Who am I
To deserve this second chance at life?
All my fears are not overcome
But my life has just begun
Can I not breathe without you? Can I not dream without you?
No-
So
I walk past you and find
Life after death
A fresh breath
A new scent
An awakened smile
I realize
I never knew how to live
I could never dance like this before
And everything I held so dear
Has slowly faded away
Can I not breathe without you? Can I not dream without you?
I raise my eyes towards the sky
My hands are open wide
My heart begins to pursuit
The depths of all this passion
I can barely regain my stature
I am left startled and changed
Things will never be the same
And as my height transforms
I say
Thank you
You gave me courage to breathe without
You taught me how to dream without
And without
I am offered what I once did doubt
And finally
I am ready to be
Coco J. Ginger Says 
You fill so much optimism into a breakup! That has always been my favorite part in your writing.
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THANK YOU!!! 🙂
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Love it!
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thanks Holly 😉
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I truly enjoy a good poem.
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Yay thank you Besma
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This contained quite a pleasurable little song within.
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thanks friend 😉
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I can relate to this so fully! How wonderfully you have captured the joy of discovering the freedom and yet those tinges of fear remaining. “I could never dance like this before.” How wonderful is the dance. Dance away!!!
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WAHOOO EXACTLY!!! Thx Kathy 😉
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This so wants to be sung! The girl-hero’s vulnerable victory song. Epic and honest. I want to see the movie.
Still your fan,
jk
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awwwwee you are the sweetest John, thank you bunches
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Your poem is so full of optimism and strength! I love it!
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😀 😀 thank you friend
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very nice coco and can certainly feel it. the line “salt tears have formed a castle” i really liked immensely:)
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Such a beautiful, well written poem.
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[…] Light (my poem of happy) by Coco J. Ginger […]
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bask in the glory of your fortitude!
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“And finally I am ready to be” says it all. Great poem. Yes, I want it sung too.
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A beautiful poem to wake up to. Thank you for sharing!
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I don’t know if we invented a word to describe this yet. Amazing does not even begin to cover this! This is just wonderful times 1,000,000! It is just perfect!
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oh my goodness gracious you are precious for saying so, that made my WHOLE morning, oh day too 😉
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😀 Well now you have made mine! 🙂
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this is beautiful…i can’t even begin to describe how i felt when i read this…it has inspired me to stand firm in the decision that i have been turning over in my head…i have been hesitant to let go of things still wanting to find a compromise…but this poem has shown me of the possibilities of pursuing what is to come and to welcome change positively without fear of leaving what is our comfort zones…thank you for sharing this…
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Wow you gave me goosebumps 3X when I read wht you wrote here. Let me know if I can support you in any way. Cheers beautiful!!
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Quite amazing, Miss Ginger. I like it, especially the size of it, but I must seriously come to properly know a little more about Miss Coco J., for I do regularly wonder, when reading pieces such as these, what the Hell you are talking about. I am still trying to figure out the configuration of the mindset you adopt in these writings. Or, perhaps, I need to take a much needed break from my own studies, and try some material just for the sheer fun of reading. A duo of lines of this text, however, hit me hard.
Who am I
To deserve this second chance at life?
Even though I could not really place myself in this writing to grasp its proper meaning, it are simple words, like the one above, that dredge up a foul miasma of putrid and rotten experiences of my past. The memory of which softly caresses my spirit, yet it feels as if it does so with black demonic talons, the touch of which burns me as sure as the fires of Hell.
Thank you, Miss Ginger.
Remembrance is important, so that we not forget our past mistakes.
And rejoice afterwards, for those evils will never return, and the life I gained contains what every human seeks, but which very few receive.
The blessing bestowed on me was definitely worth traveling to Hell for, even though it took and destroyed a full decade of my existence, which was devastating at the time. But there is very little that can ever bring me down like that again, as Hell holds no horrors for me anymore, having become immune to nearly all lesser forms of such suffering of the spirit, due to the fact that there remains very little that hurts in such a fashion. This is how true men are born, from a transformation affected by embracing pain of a magnitude that it shatters the minds of lesser men. But once pain is embraced, it becomes intimate with the man, like a lover, and when fully explored one drinks it in, forever being part of the man now, like a victory scar, not of the flesh, but of the spirit
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Late to the party again 😦 I demand a freakin’ LOVE button! Like just isn’t, like, good enough. Once again (I’m starting sound like a broken record, if anyone knows what that means) your words would have been my words if I could only write as well as you, Ms Coco. I felt every bit of what you wrote and it made me smile through what’s left of the pain and long to just be……..just be bop a loo a wham bam boom.
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Reblogged this on Eliza Shane and commented:
“Thank you
You gave me courage to breath without
You taught me how to dream without
And without
I am offered what I once did doubt
And finally
I am ready to be”
Another great from Coco!
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This is such a truly beautiful piece. Thank you so much for sharing your gift :).
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You are an amazing gifted writer and poet Coco. This is so good and thanks for sharing such intimacy
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Congrats. I nominated you for an award. Come check it out. http://tinyinklings.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/van-winkled/
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Dear Coco J. Ginger,
I nominated your blog for the Reader/Writer Appreciation Award. If you choose to accept, please see my post for details of how to receive the award: http://luxeternele.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/recognizing-brilliance-reader-appreciation-award/
Love, Nikki
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thank’s
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I really like the repetition and the joy you bring with the sense of freedom ~ nice write ~ good read 🙂
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and i feel so strong and rejuvenated now… thanks for the great post
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YAY thank you Neha!
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YES YES YES! I love this. I swear, you have a way of putting into words that others are thinking. Reading your words helps to know that I’m not the only who has ever felt the way I do. Love it!
-Maggie
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that means so much to me.
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and speaking in triplets? did you jump inside my heart/brain?
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What can I say? I litterally said Yes Yes Yes when I finished reading it. 🙂
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YAY YAY YAY
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Another beautiful piece! 🙂 This is a really fresh way of looking at a sad situation… I’m inspired by your optimism. Keep it up!
The Blobbing Fish.
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This is sheer beauty! thanks for sharing…
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And that is how it SHOULD feels 😉 great writing, love it
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wow!! the beauty of a free world that lies hidden within each individual!. This is beautiful. There are great benefits to every negative afterall.
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thank you so much 😀
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Oh yes, wonderful.
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