The Invitation

[jillianfish]

"The Invitation"
by Oriah

It doesn’t interest me

Comments

[stereosymbiosis]

A long-time favorite of mine <3

[jillianfish]

I found it a couple months ago on a site where someone had changed "Beauty" to "God" and I struggled with it for a long time because I adored the poem and I'm kind of a stickler for keeping things as original as possible, but as an atheist I wanted to cut that line out. I finally looked it up on her site (duh!) and found the original version.

tl;dr people should not ever change poems. lol

[stereosymbiosis]

D: I can't even imagining altering someone else's poem

[with_rainfall]

Agreed, changing someone's poem is horrible. D:
Idk why the person couldn't have written a poem about God themselves - for themselves if they were so religious.

Anyway, thanks for sharing. :) I'm not a fan of those inspirational-type books she writes, but this poem had a couple of lines that really struck me:

I want to know
what you ache for

and

and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.
(So many people don't, unfortunately.)

:D Memming, I think. Thanks.

[jillianfish]

welcome! glad you enjoyed.

[polyptych]

Wonderful. Not come across this before, thanks so much.

[jillianfish]

Isn't it lovely? You're so welcome.

[maiden_heart]

love love love

[poetic_self]

thanks :)