A Haunting Experience

#29
many many thanks Paul Walters 👍

Pascal Derrien Great post...Bravo !

#27
ah you are kind not perfect but my best effort Jerry Fletcher 👍

Pascal, Dazed. Confused. Taken aback. Our ability to probe the depths of despair as if it were your own is truly remarkable. I bow to your brilliance.

#25
cheers Bill Stankiewicz, \ud83d\udc1d Brand Ambassador 👍

wow, thx for sharing

#23
thanks for that info I did not know that Praveen Raj Gullepalli

#20
ah Many thanks Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic I have spoken to transgenders and frankly I was not quite sure I could mention it, write about it or even fully understand what they were going thru but decided that maybe an attempt to remotely walk in their shoes was better than nothing ?

Pascal, I won't tell you that I can relate to how a transgender person feels being stuck in a biological coffin. No one can fully understand another person's feelings until you walk in their shoes. But you expressed such strong feelings as if you experienced them firsthand. Only a true writer or poet can write about an emotion authentically without ever experiencing it directly. By the way, I love your rhymed prose.

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Like any attempt there is indeed friction, imperfection, forceps and unbalance on the narrative Praveen Raj Gullepalli maybe its because there is more than likely a lack of fluidity when you are stuck in those moments, I was reading a book on Vietnam war from the the Vietnamese view point recently the general sentiment was about broken lives etc I suppose our lenses are blurry and unprecise when it comes to those things and its hard to master the translation of those feelings :-)

#16
I quite like the sound of an outcast coalition Ken Boddie :-)

Perhaps, Pascal, we need the isolation, the kiss offs, the abnormalities, the put downs, the WTFs and the societal arseholes so often dwelling in mere normality ... before we can feel the occasional magic???

#10
I am always amazed at the time you dedicate to decorticate obscure posts like this :_) You always provide food for thought and guidance better than I could ever do CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit THANK YOU

#11
that's a great quote Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador I have never come across it before !!!

#12
a lot of turbulences in those territories when one needs to tread carefully :-)

#10
It is where angels fear to tread CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit...Your insights are spot on;-)

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.” ― Kurt Cobain

This certainly tested the limits of how much I could follow into this deep exposition of human experiences that reach a point many of us will not go beyond. Not because we don't want to, but because we cannot. The one group of people who will understand this exposition even more than I are indigenous people who know the history of what happened to them. They too don't want us to empathize or relate but simply recognize that there is an experience we have never felt and probably will never experience whose raw realities is only known by the few who have been that deep into the human condition. It is on this count that i view this as a remarkable piece of writing because in recognizing own limits of understanding that which I cannot possibly know beyond that certain point, is what I reached as I got slightly below the surface but yet no where near the abyss. It is like pushing your head into these deep waters, knowing that there is a depth that we do not have the breath for - but at the same time get to recognize that a few experiences are of such kind that humility is our only out. So it is an admission of our own weakness as well as the strength and endurance of those who deal with life's darkest moments with a capacity unfathomable to us.

#4
agree John Rylance it’s about strength 🤔

#3
I agree Ali Cyndi often find the right words 👍

#5
many thanks for this generous comment Debasish Majumder

#2
#3 #4 Thank you very kindly to each of you...Pascal has tapped a mindset that is so terribly misunderstood... He is an ambassador of light among this sky full of stars...Bravo my friend;-)

the nexus between dolphin and coffin, one is a nature's gift, while other is human's innovation and how one inimical with other in the present milieu is nicely crafted dear Pascal Derrien! great buzz! enjoyed read and shared. thank you for the buzz.

#1
Thank you dear Cyndi wilkins was in a specific mood to write this buzz and I am still trying to figure out what state of mind he was in while writing this heart-capturing buzz

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Cyndi, loved your phrase "light in shining armour", it raises all kinds of positive images. 

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wow must say this is just my take I have extrapolated some feelings some are mine some are not but some elements are probably ringing true from experience many thanks Cyndi wilkins

My heart wept with this one Pascal Derrien...There seems to be an interesting synchronicity of our spirits happening here...We just had a young family member admitted to a treatment facility for bulimia nervosa...This piece has provided some very precious insight into the very dark corners of the troubled mind...Thank you for being that 'light in shining armor.'