Re: Poem

@REDLINEZ750

I wish I had a courtyard! 😉My place is a very small one-bedroom unit. I have about four meters of cement for my few plants and table and chair. There's only room for one chair outside. I'm on the bottom floor and thankfully have no one above me. Don't get me wrong! I'm grateful to have the unit! The table and chairs are from my partners mother, who has since passed. My partner lives about two hours away from me. We were both separated after the big flood because we weren't living together (he's a hoarder and I've got OCD). We'd been together over 25 years. Department of Housing had to find us somewhere to live. Because of our age, we don't travel and see each other much anymore but speak fortnightly on the phone. I'm happy where I am! He's in a city, where he loves and I'm in the country. 🙃

sounds like opposites attracting @heartathome

@heartathome @allwellcomehaveasquizzy sorry if too much haoppening for OCD

@fruitisgood

He's on the spectrum and quite deaf. We learnt sign language (Auslan) together which was very special! It's a beautiful language! Does anyone else know sign language?

@REDLINEZ750 @Appleblossom @AlwaysMyself @Bunniekins @rav3n @RebelliousAngel @Shaz51 and anyone else who can see this. I'm sorry but I can't remember many names!

@heartathome pretty sure i know how to rude and say i love you

Wow! 😲 I love it @REDLINEZ750 ! 💚That poem is so powerful and honest!! We have a poet here, my friend! I think that must have taken some guts to post. Thank you for sharing it with me! I hope you don't think I'd think any less of you, after sharing it! I'm not a judgemental person and am a recovering addict myself. I'd love to know the story behind the poem, but I don't expect anything! I honestly don't! It sounds like you're clean from something that had you in chains. I'm glad you found freedom! I have the word 'freedom' and 'one day at a time' tattooed on me as a reminder.

my tattoos all got meaning behind them @heartathome even if one is my son and DIL own and run tayttoo parlours it still a meaning to that one hahaha

yeah umm thats tame, on the timeline of my writing thats nearly 30yrs breezed over, in the ebook its spread over 4 pages i condensed it for sane forum none of them visuals are in book

thank you for not being a judgemental person, i already kinda knew it doesnt take long for me to know 😁

even with your son hanging up i thought nahhh her hearts at home not in the control of societal opinions haha

@heartathome i learnt Auslan a million years ago when my autistic son was small. it was fun learning 😄 x

@heartathome @Bunniekins I am an Auslan user. 😊 I am not Deaf or an interpreter or family-to-Deaf, but use it socially. I've been socially fluent since ~2011. However I a have always been terrible with reading fingerspelling - but feel better about that because I know so many Deaf who are also terrible at reading back fingerspelling too. 🤣. It's a matter of practice, and when I was studying I was much better at it (because I used it more!) but since I became more fluent in knowing the signs for most words I don't use fingerspelling much apart from Names or very specific words that we don't have/know signs for.