Today I am very happy to host my closest friend Lizzi and her blog post on bullying.
BUT FIRST…
I want to start your day with a poem we wrote several weeks back. I saved it because I love the message and feel it represents a wonderfully compassionate attitude. We all have moments when we need someone to LOVE US ANYWAY!
Written by Lizzi (considerer) and Hastywords
Bring me the storm clouds of your sky-strewn mind
Bring me the flotsam and jetsam the tsunami left behind
Bring me the dark corners you want nobody else to find
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the tears that constantly flood you with fear
Bring me the consternation that makes logic less clear
Bring me the worries derailing you and allow me to steer
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the screeching of voices which never cease
Bring me the bitch and the whine and the nag and the tease
Bring me the flint-eyed growling of a soul never at peace
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the joyful smiles and all those filled with sorrow
Bring me your hopes and dreams your wishes for tomorrow
Bring me your weakness when it’s my strength you need to borrow
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the light and glory of a final sunset morn
Bring me the best of the future, the past and the pre-dawn
Bring me the place where we cried, with our knives drawn
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring your self-hatred and avoidance of truth
Bring your demand for things impossible to prove
Bring jagged ugliness no-one else can smooth
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me your frustration and anger misshapen
Bring me your turmoil and hurt worded weapons
Bring me the pain that beats you plum flattened
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the voices which tear you inside
Bring me the you that you wish you could hide
Bring me the knots your emotions have tied
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the sadness so deep in your bones
Bring me the ‘Lonely though you’re not alone’
Bring me the lostness and lack of heart’s home
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the whatever’s and the I don’t knows
Bring the feelings you just can’t diagnose
Bring your hopeless and twisted morose
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me your hurt and your empty insides
Bring me the times when your mirrors all lied
Bring me the curves of your heart – never hide
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the silent tears you hide so well
Bring me the jealousy before it swells
Bring me the torment your memories yell
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me your ugly, your warts and hard work
Bring me ‘high-maintenance’ and when you’re a jerk
Bring me the place where the truth of you lurks
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me your monsters, your slayers, your slain
Bring me the shadows which still haunt your name
Bring me the way that you feel it’s *your* shame
And let me love you
Anyway…
Bring me the ways that your show must go on
Bring me your nightmares when daylight is gone
Bring me the dull bits which once brightly shone
And let me love you
Anyway…
HASTYWORDS 
Beautiful and appropriate for the subject at hand. Actually it’s applicable to so much more. Beautifully written. Of course. It’s Lizzi!
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Thanks Cathy. Hasty and I wrote this together. I love poeming with her.
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Words a victim of bullying can hold on to.
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Indeed, though easier to love another than ourselves sometimes…
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Sunset, my love, thank you SO much for writing with me. I love what we made.
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You both moved me so deeply with this. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
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Poetry is amazing when it does that 🙂
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It can get under the fences we put up. There are so many ways we reflexively react against concepts and ideas. But art can dig right underneath, or fly right over, all those walls. I needed to read this.
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It can, and I think one of the things I love MOST about poetry, especially when I’m under an Attack of The Feels, is that in putting those awful things into something artistic and creative, it somehow redeems the awfulness, a little bit.
Art can. And love can, too, in fairness 🙂
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Absolutely! 🙂 🙂
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Love it. That’s what it’s all about, right? Taking one another – and ourselves – as we are.
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Absolutely 🙂 That’s the idea, though it’s easier to write than to live, sometimes.
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sniff
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I know – it got all Teh Feelz, this poem…
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It was good.
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Oh this is just beautiful in EVERY way. What a comfort. May we all be able to say these things… always.
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I know. It’s beautiful when you can say these things and mean them, and have them reciprocated.
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Brilliant! 🙂
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Thank you so much. We had a lovely time writing this.
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Reblogged this on georgeforfun.
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Thank you 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Dependent Independent and commented:
Something tells me you two should write more together. Powerful results here.
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Thank you! I will ALWAYS write more with Hasty, if she’ll let me 🙂
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yes please!
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Beautiful
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Thank you so much, Sara 🙂 xo
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Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing these beautiful words with us
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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OMG yes please! I love this so much. You made me cry. I want to be loved anyway. ❤
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I’m sure you are 🙂 You are worthwhile and from what I’ve seen, a wonderful, flawed, incredible, vulnerable, determined, strong, ShinyBright man. I’m glad to be making your acquaintance.
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Likewise Lizzi! Thank you so much ❤
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I have chills reading this… this is what true love is. Gorgeous.
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HEY! How is it two months and I never saw this? Sorry G! You’re awesome. And Hasty’s taught me a lot about love. I’m learning so much from my friends.
Today it’s to love extravagantly. I want to do that.
Thanks for your beautiful feedback ❤
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Ah the two of you this is so totally beautiful.
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Thanks so much Sarina xo We tend to make lovely poems together but this is far and away my fave
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Hasty & Lizzi, you poerty utterly beautifully together. There are in this world so very many to whom such should be sincerely spoken.
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We have a long history of poetrying together, and it’s such a wonderful game and pleasure to do. I think the sentiments definitely go further than the two of us, but it’s like our little friendship commitment to one another, which I adore.
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I’m getting quite fond of the results.
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*grins indulgently* awwwwh ❤
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Thanks, Hasty for putting this up again – it still works.
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I hadn’t seen this before, so thank you for posting again. I loved every bit of this poem. The repetition of the lines reinforces that no matter what, they will always be loved. Ahhh… yes!
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I love this one more every time. Love and friendship – what more to say
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I sure love my Lizzi
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I’ve noticed that. [making happy face]
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Love and thank you.
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❤
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