Well it is the final day of the Spread Your Love Challenge. I am happy I completed my 30 poems-even if it did require writing several in one day. It always feels nice to achieve a goal.
To be honest however, I am not sure when my next daily challenge will be. It definitely was a stress I felt, knowing I had to find something to write about and then to write it-ah the reality of freelance 🙂 I will say that the challenge toward the end was picking people I really didn’t want to send love to and sending some off anyway. Perhaps a bit begrudgingly and not wrapped very nicely but I sent some. Admittedly sometimes a, “eh, here alright?” as I tossed some love, or something that could pass for it, in their general direction.
Hey I am only human.
I do like the challenge though-having to pick the last person in the world you want to send good energy too and send it. I would feel a knot in my stomach, I would grit my teeth. Sometimes I even found myself shaking my head as I sat at my laptop.
The release though when I sent it was definitely noticeable. All that angst, and feelings of, “they don’t deserve love or happiness” was tough to overcome but even if I did just a bit-I could feel the lessening of some great big heavy burden.
As it would turn out, anger and hate are quite heavy. (Hmm could that explain the scale? 😉
The nice part is when you set down and feel that release of weight-if only for a moment; it kinda makes you want to leave it on the ground. It makes you feel so much more free.
So, using that theory as my inspiration, my final Spread the Love Poetry Challenge is going to anyone who is carrying around anger, hate, regret, shame-you get the idea. Here’s hoping you can set it down for a bit, and feel some love.
Heavy and dark, filled with grease and slime
yet unable to be released in time
Tied in knots, wrapped in rage
Feeling so weighted down inside of this cage
Wanting to let go yet unable to fill
This space with love-that anger built
May you for a moment, just try it if you can
Set down the pain, give me your hand
Together we hold inside our hearts
The spreading of love-this is where it starts