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Architect of the Third Path's avatar

Ah - I once thought:

We will be gone so quickly:

Because they will not understand.

They will think we disappeared

In a blinding cataclysm

Leaving sedimentary footprints and an iridium trace:

But we simply chose our best life.

To love our lizard brains

And sing the song of the universe to each other

Flying on the weightless wings of our infinite pinions

How absurd

And perhaps you made that true with such beauty.

I will remember it like that.

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McCall Erickson's avatar

When poetry incites poetry, the world is more beautiful.

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Ela Bochenek 🎨's avatar

‘I flew sideways once.’ This line! What a tender poem. Thank you! ♥️

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Thank you for your tenderness in return 🖤

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Glenn DeVore's avatar

McCall, this is one of those poems that doesn’t just tell a story — it feels lived. Real, specific, and quietly luminous in all the right ways. There’s something in the way you name the ache of knowing. Of trusting a vision before it has form. That struck a deep chord.

It brought to mind a film from the early ’90s called Made in Heaven, where two people fall in love in the afterlife, then return to Earth with no memory, only a promise to find each other. They live whole lives apart until, one day, they cross paths, and something ancient stirs. Love like that isn’t built. It’s remembered.

That’s the feeling your words capture. The sideways flight. The refusal to settle. The sacred foolishness of chasing a truth only the soul can see.

Thank you for sharing this. It’s a reminder that some searches are worth everything they cost.

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Glenn, you sum up my life in a perfect line: "The sacred foolishness of chasing a truth only the soul can see." :) Once again, I smile reading your reflections and word weavings in response to mine. Thank you. 🖤

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Shannon Seale's avatar

This stirs my soul in so many ways…for I have my own faceless, nameless Mystery Man who came into being💗 I knew with all that I am, this love existed…what an overwhelming, beautiful gift to experience.

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Oh, Shannon. This fills me with so much comfort and gratitude to know there are many of us across the globe cultivating this type of relational experience. It is truly an overwhelming gift. 🖤

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quiet reminders's avatar

So beautiful McCall

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McCall Erickson's avatar

🖤🖤

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Miguel Cizin's avatar

Loved your story. In spite of the difficulties, and while looking back on our lives, as you are doing here, we can see its hidden beauty, and how benevolent the Universe really is.... if you are ready to surrender to it... and you have.

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Thank you. What a beautiful reflection.

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Vivienne Helen's avatar

Beautiful, soulful poem

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Thank you 🖤

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McCall Erickson's avatar

Oh, YOU. Your love is the biggest, deepest, brightest, bestest witness of all. WYN!

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