All I Ask

All I ask
Is to live each moment
Free from the last
Take the road forgotten
Don’t leave me here
Oh, please let me stray
Far from familiar things

All I ask
Is to live each moment
All I ask
Is to live each moment
Free from the last

Strange roads
Going nowhere
Going nowhere in particular

All I ask
Is to live each moment
All I ask
Is to live each moment
Free from the last
Free from the last
All I ask

– Crowded House

4 Responses to “All I Ask”

  1. Melba Says:

    Donna,
    I really could relate to your comment on CaC’s Dialog Day. I think there is a BIG difference in wanting to be part of a group…and enjoying that experience and making other’s outside the group uncomfortable and feel like they don’t belong. I have experienced feeling left out and it sucks!
    Hope you always feel welcome at CaC!
    XO,
    Melba

  2. Donna Says:

    Oh, Melba.

    If you read through my blog you would know exclusion was the story of my life… my fears of abandonment used to be *huge*, and led me to a complete breakdown at one point after a bipolar manic episode.

    Thankfully I am beyond all that, and offer hope to anyone that there is oh so much more on the other side. I am connected to everything now, through Tao, and to everyone, whether they know it or not. ;^)

    The best part is, I no longer have to care who likes me or who doesn’t. I enjoyed Holli’s post - but her fears shown through so much. I don’t have those fears anmore - and it gives me the freedom to say whatever I like.

    I don’t fear exclusion any longer -

    “I drew a circle that took him in”..

    He drew a circle that shut me out–
    Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
    But Love and I had the wit to win:
    We drew a circle that took him in!

    “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham (complete poem)

  3. endment Says:

    How I wish I could live free from the past…
    I like your Markham quote.

  4. Donna Says:

    endment, you are back!!

    Yay!!!

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