שפכי כמים ליבך

I am me. I have flaws. I own up to my mistakes. I know exactly what I like and want. Most of the time. When I don't, it's because I haven't taken the time to word it in my head.

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Location: Ramat Gan, Israel

I am a mystery!

Saturday, August 27, 2005

I FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!

A heart as big as the Texas sky...
stretches for g-d knows how many miles, k"m, any measurement.

this heart is as big as the Canadian sky,
from British Columbia to Quebec...really far.
It stretches over India, and China, and all those huge places.

But what happens when your heart is as big as the Texas sky?
And in spreading your sunshine, you miss a spot?

What happens when your heart is as big as the Texas sky,
and wants to grow?
Texas is big, but only so big.

So what happens when it wants to grow,
and shine further, beyond the borders of Texas?
What if this heart wants to touch, just a finger in the pie,
but still shine on a piece of California?
Or even somewhere far in Asia?

What happens when this heart that is meant only for the Texas sky,
is only big enough ("only") to shine on Texas,
what happens when this heart wants to expand?

I'll tell you what happens:
the fabric of light coming from this shining heart, thins.
Like a bubble bath. When it's spread over a whole tub of water,
there are less bubbles to go around.
Whereas if just one end of the tub had bubbles, there would be a thick layer.

When a heart wants to reach beyond its limits, its capabilities,
(how can a heart give too much?)
Some of Texas is left in the dark.
Some of Texas, doesn't get enough light.
And everything needs light to grow.

Maybe all this is too obvious, too pitiful.
Who cares?
When making cookies with a cookie cutter that shapes them, you cut away the scraps.
This heart is a cookie cutter that wants to keep the scraps, and the shapes its made.

But then the shapes lose their beauty.
They lose their wonderful shape that the cookie cutter made them to be.
Not everything needs to be kept.
Not every state has to have Texas's sun.
The Texas sun only has to worry about Texas.
Not California, not Vermont, not India and not China.
Just Texas....

4 Comments:

Blogger Ernest Scribbler said...

Jelly, did you write this?

7:21 PM  
Blogger AMUS1 said...

yup

9:51 PM  
Blogger Lela Harbinger said...

so what's your texas? i mean, batya's found hers in a rock - what about you?

10:59 PM  
Blogger Ernest Scribbler said...

it's amazingly beautiful! you should try to publish it

9:23 PM  

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