I had to come back to this place
always heard whispering in my ear
Oh Little girl, somehow I knew
I’d still find you here.
Among the memories waiting
wondering if I was coming back
to find the child I left long ago
forgotten in my past.
I gather you up and hold you close
as we walk through the rooms of our soul
Pieces of you and me once broken,
healing and becoming whole.
Looking inside from the child within
I see all the pain you must feel.
Knowing that we must tend to each wound
before we truly begin to heal.
We walk through the lonely places
that once held our yesterdays
oh how I wished I’d protected you
in so many different ways.
And yet I know that through the hurting,
we’ve gained strength in what we’ve learned.
In all the lessons remembered,
in all the times once burned.
In every tear we ever cried,
and every broken heart,
in every time we were in a crowd,
and felt a million miles apart.
We learned to hold the truth inside
and somehow we got by,
we built the walls around our heart
and “they” never saw us cry.
We learned that fighting to survive
was what we had to do,
and so I lost the biggest part of me
the day when I lost you.
It’s hard to face the ugly truth
and really look inside,
to know I left you all alone,
living with the hurts and lies.
You were the child inside of me
and I failed you the most.
In the mistakes I made along the way,
in the different paths I chose~
But I’ve come back to find you,
to finally bring you home!
So that together we can learn to live
and never be alone!
I want to find the kid inside,
and heal the pain we knew.
I want to learn to love the me,
that I forgot to love in you!
And as I pack up all your things,
I have hope in what will be…
As I learn to love you more…
Cuzzzz after all you’re ME!
Diane Reed
2013
OH wow … thank you for sharing this with me … I LOVE this and it makes me tearful at the same time. I work a lot with the inner child in therapy .. its hard work but its good healing work. I look forward to seeing more of your blog.. I hope to connect more with you 🙂 be sure to add me on facebook as well … I would llove to connect. You can add me personally on facebook if you would like too .. my username is karenbethcourcy
Sorry I had to reset my password for some reason after all of these years. Too weird. But just finding your comments. So sweet! Thank you my email is crafterdi@aol.com I’ll look up your Facebook. 😊
Really moving poem. May you heal completely, find your wings permanently and help many find theirs xoxo
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read my post on the Appalachian trail, you will like that one.
Beautiful words my friend, very touching and so true and explains why we all throughout Society struggle throughout our journey of life.
” We live in a Society that looks on crying as showing weakness, but truly crying helps us heal and become stronger throughout our lives”.
” We all have an inner child within us, when we neglect that child and don’t recognize that child, it hurts deeply, for which we all hurt deeply within, until we recognize and forgive the inner child, it is not the child’s fault only our own fault for not letting that child grow within us, which helps us grow, to be stronger and better throughout our journey of life”.
Lovely poem and part of our journey to healing old wounds. My favorite stanza: “I gather you up and hold you close/ as we walk through the rooms of our soul/
Pieces of you and me once broken,/ healing and becoming whole.” As we advocate for and care for our inner child, we must learn to advocate for and care for our grown up selves. Thanks for the beautiful words.
D,
Thank YOU for taking the time to come by and read! ALWAYS love your comments!
xoxo
D,
Just got back from walking with my ipod and had to share this song! Funny how it was the first one I played today after our conversations!
xoxo
She has such a beautiful voice. Thanks for sharing this. The messages are everywhere, aren’t they?
Beautiful xx
OTW
Thank you! Just catching up with the comments that have slipped past me and wanted to tell you how much they are appreciated!
xoxo
di
This is beautiful, Diane. Thank you for sharing. And God bless.
This is beautiful, Diane. I love this! Wow! Thank you for sharing.
I’ve met so many people who I felt I’ve written this for lately. The ones who have found their voice and will talk for the little kids who can’t!
God bless you!
Thank you for reading!
God Bless you, Diane. This is truly beautiful!
This poem is…WOAH! I think it’s safe to say that each of us can relate to this.
I loved this stanza especially:
We walk through the lonely places
that once held our yesterdays
oh how I wished I’d protected you
in so many different ways.
I relate to this part, the most. You’re an amazing poetess. I look forward to reading more.
Moniba,
Thank you for taking the time to read! I so relate to your writing as well! Even though age separates us! I think that it may be just a number in our case! 😉
xoxo
You’re welcome:) And indeed, it might just be!
I don’t know how I missed you posting this but to say that I can relate to this is an understatement! I saw myself in your words and I felt a familiar faint sting of sorrow for the little girl in me that was once so very neglected… I love this so, so much, Diane.
Oooh Mari, I am so glad. Not that you have a hurting child inside too but that you are working to fix that and that you know that you are not alone!
Reblogged this on One God News and commented:
Thank you so much Diane Reed. This is stunning.
Your prose is so rewarding, that to read but a few refrains, is certainly enough until I return for more lovely verses and lines that speak of life, love, family, God, and what seems to matter in life as far as I can tell. I adore your blogs.
Funny how I keep missing these wonderful comments! But thank you so much for reblogging this and I am honored. That is always such a compliment! Thank you for being so supportive! You are a blessing!
This was truly beautiful and so relatable. I still have a love and hate relationship with the child inside of me. It’s a journey of acceptance and it’s a slow one. Some days it’s hard to integrate and accept her. Other days I feel so much love and acceptance for her. Thank you for posting this =) I felt like I was understood.
Wow. Thank you!
God bless
XOXO
Hi Diane, Thanks for stopping by my site and leaving your wonderful comments. Your site is absolutely beautiful and I am very aware of the depth of your writing. You’re right, I should put down the playstation for awhile and do more writing on here. I don’t seem to communicate well with intellectuals and so I feel like I’m often writing into the void on wordpress. But you are an aware intellectual which is a lovely combination. You should keep writing too, love
I truly do see you writing amazing stories… perhaps to young readers… I am sure growing up on a farm you have chapters of stories that young girls would love to read about! I am not an intellectual! LOL! Believe me… by the time I have a few of my own projects done, I will definitely need to pay someone to edit the heck out of them all! I am one big mess when it comes to the brainiac part of writing. I just stuff the content in and hope people look past the punctuation and other errors! 😉
I love your heart!
That was absolutely perfect! You wrote it so well and with the pictures added, it’s like we were on the journey with you. We do need to learn to love, accept &/or forgive ourselves before we can actually be “real” in another relationship, but that’s just my opinion… 😀 It’s sad but beautiful with such a wonderful ending! I love it!
You definitely have gone on this journey with me. I have dragged you all through all my posts getting to this place! Thank you my friend!
So uplifting!! Your words speak enough for themselves, but I’m so inspired by the images you find that also convey exactly what it is you’re expressing. You’re amazingly talented!
Hey guys… I am setting up my mom’s blog for her so this is just a tester… when we are all set up she would get a kick out of you guys stopping by and saying hello. 🙂
It worked!
Wow, what a beautiful emotion gripping poem Diane! It made me cry. It resonates with all of us I believe who live on a deeper level and want to live our lives with balance, love, compassion, laughter and maturity! May I share it on my FB fan page? And website?
Of course Julie, You inspired me to get to the place where I could finally write a poem like this… I will always always be grateful for the short time God allowed our paths to cross! May you always KNOW who you have changed! This poem was from the seeds you planted. Took me a while… but I found my way back finally! 😉
Always… one of your biggest fans!
XOXO
Diane
This is heart-wrenchingly beautiful Diane.
Thank you Louise.
And I am so impressed with your painting!
Wish we could do art shows together!
XOXO
This is beautiful:) The child in me is always something that I value and make sure to keep alive in me*
Thank you for taking the time to comment! Unfortunately the child in me has been pushed down, trying not to deal with the pain of an abusive relationship when I was younger. In writing my “fictional” novel in the works I have used a lot of my own experiences as I pen it and it is kind of like going back and getting that young girl and bringing her home after ALL these years!
Your time here is much appreciated. I hope we keep crossing paths! Thanks again!
XOXO
This is so beautiful! Every now and then I try to reflect on the things that made me genuinely content and happy as a child. So much of that gets forgotton or suppressed as we age that we do indeed lose ourselves.
You are so right! You have hit the nail on the head perfectly once again! Thank you for commenting!
XOXO
This is so beautiful and so familiar, Diane, it made me cry. Your poetry is so haunting, it really is. Thanks for your nice comments on my post. I like that we are able to give each other pause to think.
Love ya Yaz! You are so sweet! Crying is the best compliment in the world!!!
XOXO
Beautiful (and one creepy) pictures. Beautiful words and even more beautiful sentiment!! Just love this!!
LOL. I agree about the creepy picture but it depicted everything I was trying to say!!! In my head, I tried to find a more whimsical “cutesie” picture but the more I wrote, the more that picture ended up being perfect. Cuzzz what I am going through now is just not that cute. Bottom line.
As always thank you for being my best blog buddy! 😉
XOXO
Wonderful…! I’ve walked that road and today we are one, that little girl and I. We love, we laugh and we have fun. I shall never give her up; ever again…! xoxoxo
Carolyn,
And your writing portrays the ONEness you share with yourself! I am on my way in my journey and my goal is to be there with you!!! You are my inspirer!
XOXO
I like the progression of images.
Thank you! I love finding the perfect pictures. Sometimes it matters more than finding the right words. Today, I kind of feel that they go hand in hand quite well. Thank you for noticing!
Hugs!
It is the worst thing that can happen to anybody, to walk have pass the child in you. great job in putting this together
Charles, Thank you! I was sent music for a song so was inspired by the melody. I was stuck for a long time until the dam broke! I do think I found the words I needed. Now if they fit with the song perfectly, that is another story. 🙂
But thank you for taking time to read!
XOXO
Lovely indeed.
Thank you Alice,
For stopping by and taking the time to read! It means so much!
Hugs!
Just perfect, Di. Just perfect. A beautiful piece of writing.
Paul
Paul, Thank you so much! I think that “we” are each other’s biggest cheerleaders! I have to admit, I always look for your comments! They mean the most!
XOXO
This I can relate to … because I find at times that I left the child in me behind … and I have to stop, turn around and pick it up … to be whole again. Fantastic piece this.
Viv,
I think that a lot of people our age can relate. We begin to return to those places when we look back…. sometimes we have to go all the way back to find ourselves. Thanks for reading and relating!
XOXO
Always a pleasure.
Diane this is truly one if the most beautiful and poignant glimpses of self acceptance and self love that I have ever read. This should be in everybody’s heart and on the forefront of all human minds. I love, love, love this! What a beautiful light! Sheri
Sheri,
And THIS was probably one of the nicest most heart grabbing compliments I have ever gotten!!! I keep re-reading it! You are a wonderful inspiration and these words mean the world coming from you… one of my greatest inspirers!
XOXO
Oh beautiful you, your soul was exposed in that poem and your beauty was made known in a most brilliant way. You are light, love and inspiration. I keep reading what you wrote, it truly resonates a deep understanding of your beautiful existence.
We should keep this as one of your best pieces. Everything is extra good including the choice of pictures, particularly the woman looking in the mirror with the little girl only in the reflection. I don’t like to admit it, but pictures add a lot.
I do wonder whether any punctuation at all is needed. The end of a line implies a pause or a breath just like traditional poetry does. The use of the tilde “~” puzzles me simply because I don’t understand its usage; at one point it seems to want to be a colon, in another place an em dash. A colon introduces, a dash provides a sudden interjection.
It is an interesting art, breaking up nicely flowing sentences into phrases which can each stand on their own. The way you do this here the pictures seem to act as their own punctuation and very effectively so.
The sentiment, the form, the length, all just a little piece of perfection. As is.
Glad you liked it. Maybe you can use something for our song? I know I didn’t do it the way I imagined, counting the cadence and beats and adding the words by counting and replaying the song over and over again, though I did try it that way. It does only seem fair. you wrote the music and now I expect you to sync the words but I truly did write this through the inspiration of your “Finding Diane” idea. I did kind of like this last one best as well. The first two progressed to the “finding” I guess there could be more but gotta go work on my book sometime. Smile.
As for punctuation. BIG sigh. Do you not know by now that I am punctuation challenged???? Even when my book is done, I KNOW that it won’t be me correcting the puctuation. Period! (Get it? lol) Also the ~ is something I just have always inserted like a wave of a hand that means “to be continued” and yet I have no idea what that is used for in real life. Do you know?
Thank you for your support though the punctuation is atrocious and probably always will be. Even if I take a class, it won’t be my strength ever! Tongue hanging out smiley face to you!
XOXO
We’ll see. There’s always going to be the issue of finding a singer which I simply don’t have as I write this. Drafts of ideas are best because later the words can be molded to suit. Something will work out when and if the time comes.
Right now I’m preparing my tribute to Lurch of the Addams Family. Have to see if he’s still alive. I’ve sort of copied your picture additions by putting a picture of him at the beginning and end of a minute-long video of me playing harpsichord. I always loved that guy.