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You tasted as many as you could...
🕑 Added 2020-06-15 18:03:46 +0000 UTC“Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
-Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
(Self Portrait, May 2014)
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Heart
Absolutely. Like tonight I’m just focused on how sad the apples wasting their sweetness are. ✨
Jéssica Soares Lopes
Sometimes words hit differently when you are down. When you posted this poem I kept only the final words, as they gave me the positive feeling I was already fostering. One week later and I focused on all the heartbreak that is still to come. In the end we taste as many sensations as we can, right?
Fcking Julie
Love this poem.
