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Failing To Understand The Costs
You Do Not Know What You Ask... You Do Not Know What It Costs... Especially When... You are Not Ready. This is perhaps One of the Greatest Challenges in Today's World.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a year ago in Poets
ivrig att behaga
------Drop my heart Eager to please -----Fall ---------Apart Break my knees ---------------Eternally bow Inner scream
By Tanya Leijabout a year ago in Poets
Goodbye to Him, Goodbye to Me
You waited for him, shedding so many tears. If he truly cared, he wouldn't have let you endure all of that before he came back. He clearly hasn't considered how much you've been through. If he had, he wouldn't have acted so carelessly.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout a year ago in Poets
The Evolution of Police Identification: How Digital Technology is Reshaping Law Enforcement Badges and Credentials
The landscape of law enforcement identification is undergoing a significant transformation. As digital technologies reshape how we verify identity and credentials across various sectors, police departments and public safety agencies are adapting their identification systems to meet modern security demands while maintaining the traditional authority that badges represent.
By AMRYTT MEDIAabout a year ago in Poets
Love: Persistence Over Perfection
We're both good, but this relationship isn't simple. Many people fall in love, assuming that once they meet the right person, all their problems will naturally disappear. But in reality, relationships aren't built on compatibility; they're built on persistence.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout a year ago in Poets
The Lantern by the Door. Winner in Lantern Light Challenge.
My father's lantern, dented on one side from when it fell that winter crossing back, hung every night beside the kitchen door.
By Tim Carmichaelabout a year ago in Poets
The Power Beneath The Mask
Sometimes People are Not Ready. We all Develop Perceptions of the World Around Us. At times, those Perceptions are Correct...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHMabout a year ago in Poets
A Song of the Seeker's Way
I have wandered the long paths asking, and asking Through cities teeming with ten thousand voices Across prairies where wildlife share secrets to the wind
By Tim Carmichaelabout a year ago in Poets
Was It a Goodbye, or a Dream We Never Lived?
Sometimes, the loss of someone you were never with can hurt more than a breakup. You never truly had them, so you never got the chance to say goodbye. Your feelings are stuck in limbo, unable to return to friendship or become a real relationship. A million words are in your heart, but in the end, you have to swallow them all. This relationship never even began, so you feel like you have no right to be sad, yet you feel sadder than anyone else.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout a year ago in Poets
The Pain
If I do not change I only have myself to blame For I am who I am Because of the pain Thank you for reading my work. If you enjoyed this story, there’s more below. Please hit the like and subscribe button, you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @AtomicHistorian. To help me create more content, leave a tip or become a pledged subscriber. I also make stickers, t-shirts, etc here.
By Atomic Historianabout a year ago in Poets
When
When the world tells you to shrink, Stretch your arms wide Speak with the voice that is “Too Much” You were not made to whisper.
By Brooklyn Bellaabout a year ago in Poets
Catch the trauma
Release the trauma and let it spread where it should, deep enough to reach with your hand. She still can't remove it, trauma isn't that easy to grasp, but why not try to heal it, calm her nerves, and turn it into something better than it ever was? She decided for herself that it was better to turn it into something happier, more joyful, more meaningful than remaining in this form of eternal human trauma. She decided to pack her bags and move to a dragon's cave, where at least she could fly high and soar through the blue sky and clouds, leading a much more interesting life than eternally tormenting a defenseless human being. She healed her soul. She freed her child from the harm caused by her lies and attacks, and then an adult appeared, completely judged by everyone as a good being, whom no one really wanted to help and save after the trauma, transferred to a cage. The adult came to visit her to see how she was doing and if she was still wasting her life, traumatizing her family and all the people from afar.
By Antea Lumina Kala Matylda about a year ago in Poets