Don’t tell me how to feel, when I have no idea what I am feeling
Don’t try to unravel me when I am coiled up in knots but manage to bob along
Don’t tell me I should get up when all I want to do is sleep
Don’t tell me to rest when I can’t sit still
Don’t tell me
Don’t tell me
Don’t tell me
And I won’t tell you that you have no idea…..
Let me sit in my silence
Let me lounge in my pretence
Let me walk with my shadow
Let me be, in this moment, all that I am….
Let me tell you, to not tell me…..
To think we’ll never see you
Chat to you
Spend time with you
Argue with you
Is arguably the most numbing, surreal, preposterous reality we could imagine
Love you forever, mum
Its easy to love when all is going smoothly. When expectation is met with desired result…but when things get rough, love can be tested and then love becomes a choice……
The answer to the old question…. what is love….?
Love is many a splendid thing…. Love is that first flutter in your belly when you see someone you like, whether you are 7 or 70.
Love is cradling your baby for the first time, not knowing, really, if you will do a good enough job at being it’s mother,/father, but you do your best anyway.
love is being so tired and sleep deprived that you still put your child’s needs before yours.
love is hating your child’s tantrums and behaviours, especially when they are teenagers, but still having their back and mopping up the mess.
Love is putting on your best dress and perfume, or best shirt and after shave and being on time and showing up for him/her.
Love is being so consumed with their wants and needs, you put yours on the back burner.
Love is allowing someone to say how they feel and not trying to negate or trivialize what they are saying.
love is putting yourself in their shoes.
love is patience, and patient.
love isn’t stagnant
love is holding yourself together, even when you are falling apart, and doing for others.
love is standing back, so someone more in need, can go first.
love is taking a minute to decide if your want/need can wait.
love is praying for loved ones and praying for strength to help you through difficult times.
love is letting go.
love is forgiveness.
love is a choice
love is learning to swallow down hurtful words and not allow it to penetrate.
love is picking yourself up, dusting yourself down and taking one step at a time.
Love is not always patient, not always kind and love is sometimes arrogant and rude and hurtful
because love comes in many disguises, depending of how safe love feels in the hands of the beholder and how wounded or lost the injured are
love endures, love lingers and love is not easily broken…….because love, is a choice…….
Love is both delightful and a curse, but love is love, and love is what drives our soul, our essence, our purpose.
When all else fail….. chose love.
How many things can a woman be? How many things can a woman endure?
how many things can a woman do?
A woman is not a thing, she is mighty…..
What is a woman, what are her needs
Certainly not scrubbing down on her knees
She is flesh and bone, body and soul
A mind full of ideas, working on goals
She flicks with her hips
And stretches her view
Sees what’s inside and outside of you
She arches her back, and senses her breasts
Are taking your focus and all the rest
She’s courage and wisdom rolled into one
She’ll keep on surviving, long after you’ve gone
She’s gentle and kind, but her will is so strong
Do not be fooled, don’t get it wrong
She is not so weak as a delicate flower
Her scent is like nectar you want to devour
She gives what she can, again and again
Endurance, resistance to insatiable pain
Up she will rise with her nerves of steel
You can’t take away what you think she should feel
She’s sexy, she’s confident, she’s a sexual being
Make sure you are ready, if not, get fleeing
She’ll look for a man that can handle her will
Tell me now sir, do you fit the bill?
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
1. My birth date… I didn’t choose to be born but I’m certain I have choices in how I live.
2. One day I will die, of that I am certain… I just hope it’s a long long way off and i hope its natural causes!
3. I am certain I could have done much better in school and college if i had studied more, but I was always happy to just pass… Life has to have balance…. And i’m happy to be average….
4. I am cerain that night will follow day just as sure that we will experience good times and bad times…. There’s no stopping it.
5. I’m certain that no one knows everything…. Even if they think they do. There’s an infinite amount of things to know and learn and that’s marvellous.
6. I’m certain of the love and commitment I have for my family. It doesn’t stop me however, taking time to still be ‘me’ .
7. Im certain that wars are rooted in mans power and greed.
8. I’m certain that I can only live and experience my life, no body elses.
9. Im certain that little things bring me joy.. A beautiful flower in a garden. A walk in the forest. The sound and sight of the sea. The taste of sweetness, the feel of my gran children’s arms around me and the sight of people being kind and compassionate.
10. I’m certain that I am uncertain about how today will end and about the future but, I am certain I will face and embrace it….
What do you think gets better with age?
Some are born with more than others, but I feel, as we age we grow more wise.
A poem I wrote a while back for young girls/women is, I think, an example of wisdom.
This Body…
Don’t be fooled by this body
so slim and so lean
Caressing the contours
Having boys wet dreams
These arms are so strong
Though feeble they look
And the breasts are more
Worthy, than for you just to suck
These legs are so shapely, smooth and long
But will only be open for who I say, belong
Do not assume that it’s yours for the taking
This body of mine, took years in the making
It stretched and it grew, filled out and amazed
the strength that it carried in the blood and the veins
This body of mine one day will grow old
The breasts you desire will sag I am told
The legs long and shapely, may fill more with fat
I cannot be fairer or clearer than that
So do not be fooled by this body of mine
Instead you must love what is there in my mind
For there you will find the truth, I confess
The sexy, the funny, the intelligent prowess
My mind is the thing you must first desire
For my body will only, set yours on fire
And too, one day yours will fail to perform
So for me I make sure, it is you I adore
The body is nothing but bones and mere flesh
But the mind you see is where we become enmeshed
A wondrous source of beauty and wit
It’s here where the fire of desire should be lit
For it will grow sharper and lead us the way
To a future together in all that we say
The body of course, will bring pleasure and joy
But do not be fooled or distracted, dear boy
If you’re up for the challenge, then of course let’s begin
Soon we will know which one shall win
The pressure is on, you must decide
But do not no fear, there is no place to hide
©️ Caroline S. T
What are you most worried about for the future?
I need to live, healthily to the age of 100 at least!
I am very easily bored and very curious… This combination gives me ants in my pants…
What worries me most, apart from the usual health and safety of family, is that I won’t live long enough to see and do all the things I do not yet know exactly what it is that I want to see and do…. I just know i dont want to stand still….
I want to taste food I’ve never heard of… Walk paths I’ve never trodden, see sunsets and sunrises in places I only dream of.
I want to not sit still, or be tamed or claimed and walk freely, unburdened and grateful for the blessing of each new day.
I want to hear the genuine laughter of the people who think themselves poor. Who have nothing but hope and love to give. I want to dance barefoot with them in the sand and let them understand that they are richer than the richest people who measure their wealth by the material things they own and by the size of their bank balance……
My fear for the future is that life passes me by…..
What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?
The most delicious thing I have ever eaten was a variety of tastes from all the members of my family, that was sat around the table, each vying for attention, giving their opinions and each throwing in their two penneth worth and showing me how to eat my humble pie, listen, apologise and learn from my own mistakes….
This is when I knew for sure that they knew they had freedom to express their feelings and views…. Mother is not always right, even if her heart is in the right place….
The most delicious thing I have ever eaten was a variety of tastes from all the members of my family, that was sat around the table, each vying for attention, giving their opinions and each throwing in their two penneth worth and showing me how to eat my humble pie, listen, apologise and learn from my own mistakes….
This is when I knew for sure that they knew they had freedom to express their feelings and views…. Mother is not always right, even if her heart is in the right place….
I saw a girl running across the green, the park, the garden of the pub
A camping ground attached to the side and the shannon river running at the bottom of it.
Im sitting at a table, enjoying the sunshine and my cool glass of beer quenching my thirst.
As I look at her it strikes me that she looks like me when i was her age, 11, perhaps 12.
Her dark hair lapping and slapping off her back as she runs.
Her calves carry her slight frame with ease.
And as she dissapears out of view
Like a Gazelle my mind races through the last 4 decades or so
Knowing time was so fleeting
And soon that 12 year old won’t know where the time went…..
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