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    Happy Suffering

    Which is easier to find?Happiness or Suffering?Which lasts longer?Happiness or Suffering?Which teaches us the most?Happiness or Suffering?Seems that Suffering is easier to find, lasts longer and teaches so much more than Happiness.Next time you're feeling really happy see how...

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    • This is a pondering thought. I think some find it hard to let go. There are those who feel locked in place without a key to release them from the suffering. Then those who are extremely happy all the time it is like an endorphin rush that they crave to reproduce.
      Very good, thought-provoking piece.

    • Thanks Fia

      Nobody is always happy…..they may appear so.
      The best we can hope for is to be content with the ‘ way it is’.

    • so true dearest Benny I know I will be happy again different but happy 💕

  • Where’s Ajay, Strangways, Sweet Kitty Cat and Jilted Johnny to fill the space in this music thread? I really miss the dopamine receptors I’d receive from interacting with DUP. It’s next to impossible to replicate that source, but I’m keepin’ the faith.

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    DUP since Oct 6, 2013. Darkpoetry since Feb 14, 2011. Known aliases include ButcherBelial, ButcherScraps, and Sonderninja. You can call me Ben.

    It’s good to see y’all again 🙂

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    Shedding Sacred Skins

          Blooded early,     alone,     but it's a cinch:     just peeling skin on spattered rock to a pooling cry     gleaning god & grief with sharpened ease     fated late to survive (then thrive) with nowhere to hide...     a tear-filled alkahest  taking liminal shade 'neath a cool palisade     always teaching death with a bug-eyed splat or chipping a cough from...

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    • It sounds like that life is taking enjoyment from the pain until you shed of the outer layer and reveling the truest form of you which is joy.
      That is what I am getting from this piece. I could be wrong.

    • Beautifully penned, Ben. Amazing flow, this ain’t your first rodeo my friend. Spectacular write. Appreciate you.

      Damian

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