Written by Jacob Ibrag
‘You saw this coming?’ From
the beginning. ‘And you didn’t stop us.’
Both of you were blind with lust. Anything I’d
say would leave you to believe that my intentions
were laced with jealousy. ‘All the time I lost, all the
time I’ll never get back.’ All the time that was
needed for you to learn about yourself.
Photography by Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho
Eyes + Words 
Time can be wasted with good intentions to help someone unwilling to help him self .
Time can be wasted because of lack of desire in one of them or both of them.
Lust is not the only culprit .
Nobility need not achieve its purpose and be thought of as futile.
Pure love with out lust wastes more time than desire.
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Great poem! You can only lead a horse to water…
By the way, I nominated your for the Liebster award in my most recent post!
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Thank you very much 😀
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Very welcome!
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Damn this was so good!
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Thanks Nandita 🙂
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You’re welcome Jacob. Good to be reading you again.
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😀
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Beautiful & wise words.
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Thank you 🙂
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Wow this is so relevant to what I’m going through. Investing so much time in a relationship, in someone, only for them to leave you after they have learned something new about themselves.
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wow! I thought it was me alone. This hits the nail.
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Thank you 🙂
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I wonder if the speaker’s intentions are good. The narrator reads as condescending. Patronizing. Smug. A voice barely containing its “I told you so” beneath the veneer of purported wisdom.
Kudos for eliciting strong feelings with this snippet of dialogue.
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Thanks Jane 🙂
The speakers intentions could very well be that of good. Then again, maybe they’re selfish in their words of ‘wisdom.’
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The other didn’t see it, however both were blind…and you position yourself as a guide.
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No time passed is wasted if we can learn something from it.
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