Sometimes, i feel like i’m running through a forest blindfolded when i am searching for something that isn’t quite there. The harder i try the more lost i become running deeper into a place i thought would be your heart, sadly all i found was emptiness and only the echo of my calling out for you. Is this where I’ve been all this time? a memory lost and forgotten in the darkness? is everything we shared really gone? if this is true, what is this i feel? is it false hope. If it is, show me the way out for i’d rather face what is true than pursue what is no longer there..
celinelostintranslation
December 8, 2011 at 1:15 pm
The picture caught my interest at first. Then, I started reading; I felt overwhelmed. Your prose reads like an echo of my mom’s inner monologue. It is simply disheartening but yet beautiful. Thank you.
andy1076
December 8, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Hi Celine, thank you for following and welcome to my blog, I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the post! ^_^
D...
December 8, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Andy, my friend, is there a deep sadness within you? I’m sorry if so…
andy1076
December 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Hi! i’m okay, i had a dream of someone i thought i was once close to. I guess it brought back some memories of he past, so i wanted to put it out there. Thank you so much for asking
CinZilicious
December 8, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Hmmm…….i really can relate to this post right this moment in my life time….thanks for sharing. It may be sad but it doesn’t mean it isn’t that much more REAL! It takes courage to word out all these feelings and so publicly, so i salute you=)
Hope you find peace soon Andy!
Cinz
http://cinzee.wordpress.com
andy1076
December 8, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Hi Cinz! thank you so much for visiting my blog, it means a lot to me that someone understands how i feel
evilnymphstuff
December 9, 2011 at 9:29 pm
The only word that comes to my mind: Wow… beautiful piece of writing yoshi
andy1076
December 9, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Thank you sweet Daphnee
cookiemomma
December 13, 2011 at 9:13 am
This is so sad, I hope that whatever it is you are searching for is found soon. My wish for you this holiday season is happiness. You are so deep and well written, my heart aches for you.
andy1076
December 13, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Thank you, i do hope so myself. If not, i at least have the love of my beautiful daughter and know i mean something to someone
Linda Willows
December 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm
I am glad to have found you, your words press upon my heart. I send love to you,
Linda
andy1076
December 20, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Thank you for your sweet words Linda, means a lot to me to know there’s someone reading my posts and knows how i feel
Ruth
December 21, 2011 at 11:57 am
Do you even realize what a great writer you are? It takes so much skill to put to words anything like that! Seriously, it’s amazing.
andy1076
December 21, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Thank you so much Ruth! you totally made my day with your sweet comment!
Carol Vallu
December 24, 2011 at 7:31 am
Wow I’m enjoying lots reading your posts… Considering the hypothesis to create a link to your blog in my page, if you don’t mind, of course. Cheers and Happy holidays! Xx
andy1076
December 24, 2011 at 10:01 am
I am truly flattered! i don’t mind at all and thank you for following me!
happy holidays!!! 
Carol Vallu
December 25, 2011 at 11:52 am
You’re welcome and thank you so much Andy, am going to do this now. I’m positive that my followers will enjoy reading your blog too
Keep writing! Xx
andy1076
December 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Thank you ever so much!
can’t wait to welcome my new readers 
feels like I’m receiving yet another Christmas gift! 
WordsFallFromMyEyes
December 25, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Wow, can’t believe I missed this one. It reminded me of that scene in Snow White, you know, where she’s running through the forest & the trees disfigure and frighten her & the shadows, etc. Then when you said about all you could hear is the echo of you calling out to her – wow. This was good. Great stuff.
andy1076
December 25, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Hi! thank you for dropping by! i’m glad you enjoyed it
strangely enough? this all came to me in a dream, vividly too. I guess my writing and imagination are finally catching up with each other 
Admin Chennai Focus
January 2, 2012 at 8:32 am
I enjoy solitude and maybe that is why I find this more inviting than being lost. Nice pic.
andy1076
January 2, 2012 at 8:38 am
Hi! true, sometimes solitude really is more peaceful, except when you miss someone, thank you for dropping by
Keilly
January 8, 2012 at 1:48 pm
you had me at Sometimes (:
andy1076
January 8, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Thank you for dropping by
Cold Dead Heart
January 22, 2012 at 6:17 am
This was really good. Sometimes I too feel like I’m running through it blindly. Great piece
andy1076
January 22, 2012 at 12:25 pm
I guess, in some ways we are all searching in the darkness for someone to show us the way. It’s not an easy journey, but when we do find our way it’s like weight off our shoulders isn’t it?
Cold Dead Heart
January 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm
I think it’s true…things you work the hardest for are the most rewarding in life.
andy1076
January 22, 2012 at 2:17 pm
They indeed are
Jude
January 25, 2012 at 1:12 am
Hi Andy
Thanks for visiting my blog. I just love the picture in your post here – quite magical. Intriguing words too. I believe if we follow our heart and our passion then that is the way for us.
andy1076
January 25, 2012 at 7:10 am
Hi Jude, thank you for coming by and reading my posts. I too also believe we must all follow our heart to eventually get where we want to be, that’s the way life is right? hope to see you back again
Lizzie
February 2, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Andy, thanks for the like! I love your mission here – writing clears up so much for me. It helps me to make sense of the world.
andy1076
February 2, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Hi Lizzie, Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog! writing indeed has a way to put all feelings and thoughts out there, I love it!
fgassette
February 3, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Just continue to write, because you never know who you might encourage and be a blessing too.
Follow your heart.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
andy1076
February 3, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Thank you Francine and welcome to my blog
Judy
February 5, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Wonderful piece….full of emotion and feeling. Great writing!
andy1076
February 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Thank you Judy
Freedomborn
February 6, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Hi Andy I’m not sure you will appreciate my comments as they usually have a lot of wordage although I use links to help sometimes.
Wow did your message sock it too me, it brought back deep hurts of when I thought I had lost my best friend Jesus, at that time I was told I came from an Ape and Jesus was just a made up person, I ate ratsack wanting someone to notice I was hurting but I didn’t even get sick, so in a childlike way I tried to express the hurt and I wrote a poem, which was strange because I’m Dyslectic and at the time I could read and write very little and I couldn’t rhyme, this poem has an ending but I only received it 5 years ago even though I wrote it when I was in my very early teens, it also has a deeper meaning …..
A Love That Would Not Depart
In the moonlight on a bank covered
in a carpet of moss a mermaid sat
watching for her long lost love,
Her golden hair was like a veil in the
breeze her eyes were
bluer then the deepest sea,
A tear fell upon a peach glow cheek
where a tint of crimson lay beneath,
A love song whispered from her red
rose lips to the foam which touched her fingertips,
She sighed, she cried for her merman love but his
breast was foam his life had flown he had gone
and now she was alone.
Penned by Annie
The ending that was given to me 5 years ago, shows that Jesus never stopped Loving me even when I didn’t think He was real, I was an agro Atheist until I was 30 because I thought I had been lied to by Christians but it turned out to be the Atheists that had lied to me in their confusion..
Thank you for letting me share Andy – Christian Love Anne.
andy1076
February 6, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Hi Anne, I appreciate any and all comments. So thank you so much for coming by and sharing your message with all of us, it is beautiful and I have to be honest. When I say I’ve been down that road, god bless and wish you all the best
Mona
February 11, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Andy, when I read this earlier this week, I was busy and gave it a cursory glance. Not, Saturday night, I’m reading it again and find depth and soul and longing and aching and acceptance (or at least the beginning of acceptance). You write, “…into a place i thought would be your heart, sadly all i found was emptiness…” I believe that many of us can identify with this.
As a poet, you pack power and meaning into just a few words. Many writers (me) wander on and on in an attempt to make themselves understood. It is a gift to choose just the right word to carry meaning without wasting space.
Congratulations. (Oh, the shot is just perfect.)
andy1076
February 11, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Thank you Mona, It means a lot to me to know someone who can understand my feelings and words, it’s more rare than you might imagine for me to find this sort of connection.
That’s so sweet of you to say, I value my reader’s time so I never want to bore them with never ending words
Mona
February 11, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Pete Armetta
February 20, 2012 at 5:59 am
I totally relate my brother.
andy1076
February 20, 2012 at 7:25 am
Hey Pete! thank you for dropping by
Pete Armetta
February 20, 2012 at 7:46 am
Always.
mysterycoach
February 20, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Exactly right.
andy1076
February 20, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Thank You for reading
mysterycoach
February 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm
By all means! You’re welcome!
Carrie
February 21, 2012 at 12:15 pm
That was beautiful, very touching. I could relate.
andy1076
February 21, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Thank you, Carrie!
andy1076
March 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Hello Sabine, Thank you for sharing my post
jennysserendipity
March 10, 2012 at 9:15 am
Thank you for liking my new post and I am back
I can relate Andy
andy1076
March 10, 2012 at 9:20 am
You’re welcome! well said words on your blog and welcome back
jennysserendipity
March 10, 2012 at 9:22 am
Miss blogging
andy1076
March 10, 2012 at 12:22 pm
There’s the withdrawal
lol
fgassette
March 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm
What you have written is very touching. Praying strength, peace and blessings surround you. If you are feeling a need turn it over to the one who fulfills all desires. I am glad you visited my blog. Hope you come again.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
andy1076
March 15, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Thank you for visiting and your kind comment
jennysserendipity
March 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Hello Andy
Thank you for liking my post about Hitchcock on Happiness | Open Culture.
Enjoy!
Jenny
andy1076
March 17, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Thank you Jenny! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend
jennysserendipity
March 17, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Today is Sunday here was gonna go do something but since it was a very hectic week, I decided to stay home. Catch up on blogging.
andy1076
March 17, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Great decision! for a while I thought you forgotten all about us lol!
jennysserendipity
March 17, 2012 at 8:49 pm
No way, how can I forget you guys! LOL!
andy1076
March 17, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Well …. you see..once upon a time someone called Jenny said she took a break from blogging! ah hah!
jennysserendipity
March 17, 2012 at 9:28 pm
You don’t know how I missed blogging. It surpassed my addiction of Facebook.
andy1076
March 17, 2012 at 9:39 pm
CHEERS! lol
jennysserendipity
March 17, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Alright!
misty maples farm
March 25, 2012 at 6:30 pm
A familiar place, perhaps I have been there before…
Be well.
Jess
andy1076
March 25, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Thank you Jess
Paula Kuitenbrouwer
March 29, 2012 at 5:01 am
You get out of there, don’t worry.
See these blocked sun-rays?
You will find a small clearing that leads to a bigger one, and finally you find a meadow.
We all are in the dark from time to time. It is part of life.
We learn from it and we put an arm around the shoulders of people that have to find their way out.
Beautiful photo & touching text.
Paula
andy1076
March 29, 2012 at 5:12 am
Thank you Paula, I am still hoping to get out of this forest I am in. Sadly, I still continue to be disappointed by people.. Thank you for visiting my blog
stuartart
April 3, 2012 at 2:14 am
Hi Andy, you have a gift my friend. You have put these words together beautifully. I’ve just finished my book but am itching to get onto the next. I guess all writers feel that way. Keep it up.
andy1076
April 3, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Congrats on finishing your book! I’ve yet to even start mine. Thank you for your compliment
fiztrainer
April 3, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Beautifully sad … beautifully written.
andy1076
April 3, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Thank you
Wendell A. Brown
April 9, 2012 at 5:38 am
Andy, very deep, moving and powerful! I loved it! Thanks for visiting my site also my friend!
andy1076
April 9, 2012 at 5:43 am
Thank you Wendell!
jhasmoments
April 9, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Love the image
Authentic Imperfection
April 14, 2012 at 9:52 am
Hi Andy, I am here for the first time. After I read your ‘about’ and why you write I decided to follow along with you.
“I would rather face what is true than pursue what is no longer there..” Me too. Looking forward to more.
andy1076
April 14, 2012 at 10:26 am
Hi! thank you so much for coming by and reading my posts, I often just write what comes to mind. I really enjoyed your blog and will be following as well.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Authentic Imperfection
April 14, 2012 at 10:34 am
Thanks fantastic! You as well!
Authentic Imperfection
April 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Thank you very much. You as well Andy!
andy1076
April 14, 2012 at 12:06 pm
You’re very welcome
michael
May 24, 2012 at 1:26 pm
hi this post was really deep ( i have depression as well so i can relate) im writting a story and ur pic matches the setting for a scene so thats y i came here initialy but then i read the pose and.. WOW ur gonna be a good writer
andy1076
May 24, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Thank you Michael! means a lot to me to hear that
LadyBlueRose's Thoughts Into Words
June 6, 2012 at 10:23 pm
words entwined within the pictue…
emotions spilled out…..
I really Like this Andy…
Take Care
)0(
maryrose
andy1076
June 6, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Thank you Maryrose, means a lot to me to hear that
LadyBlueRose's Thoughts Into Words
June 6, 2012 at 10:45 pm
you are very welcome Andy….
I am enjoying catching up on your thoughts
Take care…
)0(
maryrose
isabella
September 21, 2012 at 7:53 am
Hi, can i use your forest picture for my grade 12 surrealistic art assignment?
andy1076
September 21, 2012 at 10:35 am
You’re welcome to use it, thank you for asking
Mona
November 6, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I got captivated by this again … I was about to comment but thought I’d read through other’s comments first… and find that I had already responded back in February before my life turned upside down and I found myself, at 62, living alone again
As I read this tonight, I thought “Oh my goodness, he is describing ME! How did he get inside my head?”
Andy, in your youth, you have successfully captured and expressed universal themes and feelings. I hope that you are compiling your pieces (both words and images) and that you will one day publish them. They speak to your reader’s soul.
andy1076
November 7, 2012 at 5:24 am
Hi Mona, thank you so much for your sweet words. They mean so much to me. Especially grateful for your support in my writing. I hope things are better for you now over there, I’m definitely publishing my writing and photography some day but I just wish I knew how. Guess I will have to do tons more research!
*HUGS*
wordwatcherdawn
January 16, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Wow, this post is just very deep and touching. I know what it all means, I have been there – but then God graciously found me and brightened my dark forest, leading me out to His green pastures. But for my Savior I would still be lingering there – and my forest had been very dark and sinister…
Thank you for sharing it. And thank you for visiting my blog. Greetings from Hungary. God bless you.
andy1076
January 16, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Thank you so much for coming to visit my blog, I still got quite the journey before I’m out of my dark forest. I hope, some day there will be light in mine. I hope you are having a wonderful week! god bless..
Mrs Bushranger
January 23, 2013 at 4:46 am
That was absolutely beautiful. Thank you.
andy1076
January 23, 2013 at 4:53 am
Hi! Thank you for visiting my blog
millercanning
January 23, 2013 at 6:47 am
wow. it’s early in the morning for me to respond to the depth in this piece. wow. that’s all i can come up with!
andy1076
January 23, 2013 at 10:08 am
Good morning! Thank you for coming by
Hira Nazir
February 19, 2013 at 2:15 pm
A hug for you just because of this post.
Not that it is gloomy and it may depict that you’re sad but only for the reason I love to hug the writer of that every writing which directly touch my heart and so it did.
very impressively jotted down and the feel is awesome!
andy1076
February 19, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Thank you Hira, This is one of my very first posts. It was written in a time that I was getting over a tough heartbreak, thus the dark forest. Aimlessly trying to make sense of it all. It’s also kind of a reference point, an anchor to something I went through this past year. If it makes sense?
Hira Nazir
February 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Yes, I can see that. It shows as a write up written earlier. But it really shows the true emotions and feelings. I can apprehend.
It is as pretty as you.
Oh no, you’re cute.
*Oh, I am not flattering*
andy1076
February 19, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Trying to make me blush sweet Hira? well, You did! *BLUSH*! thank you so much but I am just an average every day guy
ksbeth
March 24, 2013 at 2:17 pm
sounds like a tale of disappointment and disillusionment. find your way out and back
andy1076
March 24, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Many disappointments during this period of my life, It’s taking me time from one bad end to another but slowly finding my way out. Thank you Beth..!
moore314
March 25, 2013 at 6:16 am
Andy – stopped by to thank you for visiting and dropping me a “like” and for following! Funny thing that I randomly chose this piece to start looking over your blog; very touching and reaI. I have a friend that should read it, so I’ll send her to you. Looking forward to diving into past posts!
andy1076
March 25, 2013 at 7:57 am
Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words and coming by my blog, I hope you will enjoy your future visits
willowdot21
April 8, 2013 at 11:00 am
I really empathize with this poem!
andy1076
April 8, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Thank you for coming by! ^. ^/
willowdot21
April 8, 2013 at 12:10 pm
my pleasure!
lifeonwry.coml
April 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm
I like the realness of the post. Takes courage. Something I’m working on.
andy1076
April 8, 2013 at 4:41 pm
Thank you for coming by, Life will move you along. It all takes time, at least. That’s what I’ve come to realize.
Melvin
April 15, 2013 at 4:12 am
Great post! Something I currently feel and can relate to
andy1076
April 15, 2013 at 5:07 am
Thank you and welcome to my blog Melvin!
Leslie Stockton
April 18, 2013 at 2:50 pm
I stopped believing in those dreams. They are just dreams and nothing more you see. I will never touch or hold my dream ..kiss it or tell it I love you with all my heart ..You see its not real, its just a dream .. but sometimes they feel so real. When i am super sad they comfort me now. great post
andy1076
April 18, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Thank you Leslie, Funny thing is. It still feels like a dream, About 4 years ago now I wrote this post expressing how deeply I loved someone but could never be loved back. Yet, Now she is a part of my life and a friend and it is as though nothing had ever happened between us. Crazy how life works huh?
Leslie Stockton
April 18, 2013 at 4:54 pm
You have a happy ending. I will not. thank you.
andy1076
April 18, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Sori
Bella Remy Photography
April 22, 2013 at 4:36 pm
This is such a powerful post. From the dark and foreboding forest. Feeling lost and can’t find our way. The prose is so insightful as well.
andy1076
April 22, 2013 at 4:41 pm
Thank you, It is from a time. When I was falling deeper lost in a moment in my life, Tried so hard to find my way out and even now there’s still a part of me still there. Does that make sense?
Bella Remy Photography
April 22, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Absolutely ! As I frequently have been there. I think it makes our souls older and wiser.
andy1076
April 22, 2013 at 5:54 pm
I’ve found that it definitely does, also gives me inspiration for what I write