Comments : Toll Booth: Part I

  • 11 years ago

    by Jenni Marie

    Ohhh this is gorgeous!

    Breathtakingly overwhelming but written so elegantly.

    I found this style to be a little different than what I'm used to from you, but I loved it!

    There's so many lines that really stand out and speak to me, and I can't choose which is the most impacting...because all of this is so incredibly strong with emotion and depth.

    "And the time isn't ours"

    This really made me think, because..is time ever really our own? We spend so much time with our personal commitments and life's little chores and, of course, we never know when our said time is going to end, we don't know when He will decide to take us..and this made me reflect on the previous poem I wrote about living instead of just existing. it made me want to grab the time I have and really make the most of it.

    I just reread as I was commenting and decided that this is my favourite:

    "Are we taken, in parts?
    Maybe, you reply.
    Maybe, I look at you back."

    It stands for so much, holds so much feeling, and allows me to picture two people debating and discussing something so incredibly important.

    "and our tickets haven't been printed, just yet."

    This brings me back to my earlier comment of we never know just when our time is up, and makes me reflective all over again.

    Nominated!

    I love this!

  • 11 years ago

    by Tara Kay

    MaryAnne This was beautiful, totally breathtakingly gorgeous,

    I love the story and it's message, and how time goes so fast, and next week catches us unaware, how everything moves without slowing down, and the minute to do something awesome passes quicker than we know, and life and love, and people just slip in and out, and all those questions, all those chances, that aren't taken, left unanswered and the end approaches faster than we know.

    It's a strong, powerful, thought provoking write, that I love, that just blows my mind.

    xx