By Charles Robert Lindholm
Some times you take your chances
you roll the dice and stay
you bet your heart and risk it all
living in harms way
you’ve heard about the rumors
but they’re not scaring you
you’ll beat the odds of losing
with you they will be true
and so it goes
but with some time
the truth starts sinking in
as you’re picking up the pieces
of a broken heart, again
Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
2-7-2017 at 4:10 a.m.
Been there, done that! Not so much fun when it’s over. It’s hard to explain the magical thinking that comes over you when you actually suspend rational thinking in the face of reality. Gambling is that way. You know the odds are stacked against you from the “get go” but hey! You are going to beat them and come out the winner, right?
Sometimes love can be that way too. We are so hyped up on the thrill of “being in love” as we are speeding past the multiple warning signs that the bridge is out that we can’t understand how we ended up in a crash – “It seemed so right?”
I’m guessing this is the kind of thing they (other crash victims) are talking about when they say, “Love is blind?” Sometimes your love interest may be hiding behind a mask but more often than not they are actually hiding in plain sight, right before your eyes. The problem is that you are not seeing straight.
Everything is blurred and tinted by “being in love”. Amazingly, some will even come right out and tell you the way it is but you don’t believe it because with you it will be different. What you believe is that your love will “conquer all”.
Picking up the pieces is painful after a crash. Hopefully, we learn to be more careful, to make better choices, to listen to better advice from others who love us and from our inner self, instead of just dusting ourselves off and starting to look for the next “ride”.
Your Soulmate is out there! It’s just better if you let them find you rather than you trying to “Hunt them down” and trying to make it happen.
I hope you have or will find your Soulmate, sooner rather than later!
Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
You giving hope to others by explaining it so beautifully. This is an amazing post:)
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Thank you, My Dear Kritka!! You just made my week!! It’s so wonderful to know that my words have spoken to you and will hopefully do the same for others!! Bless you, My Dear! Hope you have a great week!!
xoxo
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You too have a great week 😊 💕
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Congratulations on your 50th upcoming!! Your comment says it all – so true! So, sad! Thanks so much for your view and comment!
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Your poem is so true…the odds are really stacked against making it for the long haul. I think attitudes have changed and the commitment is only there as long as it feels good. Working to make it in the down times is very rewarding in end. We are heading on fifty this year. Lots of ups and downs but we are still together and enjoying life.
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Well, I’m thinking that may not have been all fun??? A learning experience?
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This poem is a mirror of my life. Bravo!
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Oh my! You should have warned me to sit down before reading that – Wow! You make me feel so honored that you take your time to read my poems and even more so that you care enough to tell me so in your comments and sharing. I appreciate being able to do that. I’m really glad you got to my blog too. You are too, too kind. I love to read your work also!
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wise words – i could spend my whole day here reading you Charles! I am so happy I got to your blog, it’s like you speak to my heart from the place everything good lives.
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You are too kind! I appreciate your taking time to visit!
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Beautiful💝
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Thanks!! So, love is an addictive behavior they should have people just say NO too? I don’t think the government can sell that one. I’ve heard about that Dopamine thing. Isn’t that the happy chemical? Maybe they should put that in the water supply with the fluoride?? The world might be a happier place? Thanks for following.
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Apparently Charles it is all to do with Dopamine. Love can create the same chemicals in brain as other addictive behaviours. Good poem by the way.
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