<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448274" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Affirmations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the slippings of my mind-<br>the errant misses<br>the missing blisses-<br>gather together all the remisses<br>all cousins<br>each making statements<br>proud and forelorn<br>joyous and now shorn<br>of all excuses and illusions<br>and pretty color smoke mirrors<br>to state simply and clearly<br>how each in accounting for itself<br>could explain<br>my great and small decisions<br>each bickering with one another<br>each casting subtle blame<br>as to how the other<br>had ruined me, my name<br>caused trouble and mayhem<br>whilst I looked on</div><div style="margin:10px 0">saying: <br>'Each of you made me what I am<br>merely human.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a start they all looked up<br>one stating<br>'you are merely the sum<br>we are the parts<br>without us you lack meaning.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yes, we' they said 'are your constituents<br>we gave birth you and all your musings<br>our parts are greater than your whole, true this.'<br>they said blending together in chorus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They stepped back all celebrating their often stated contention; <br>We are all you are and can hope to be'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I blanched, stammering out my truth to wit: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Parts are called parts because they are merely parts not wholes<br>and I am not you because I have in my life<br>assumulated all of you<br>and in doing so have become something other; <br>that you, mere parts, cannot comprehend having only the vantage point<br>of the past, while I present the Present Whole'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Can a nose comprehend a face? <br>Can a mouth understand speech? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'While all you parts are there<br>you are not my person whole<br>and that whole is who I am.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'More' I said proudly<br>'even as each of you may be flawed<br>I am hope, promise and reality not a part<br>but the whole.<br>Each of you is not I, the whole.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They all went slinking away from the shimmering light<br>my words bring.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love this dream.<br>Each morning<br>it makes me wake smiling<br>from the knowledge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can do anything I want; <br>After all it is My dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448274" data-title="Affirmations de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="In the slippings of my mind- the errant misses the missing blisses- gather together all the remisses all cousins each making statements proud and forelorn joyous and now shorn of all excuses and illusions and pretty color smoke mirrors to state si..."></div> </div> </div>

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