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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2012-09-25 01:40 AM

Love left her there, love left her here,
and so she travels place to place
to test this usual norm
but love’s desertion so entrenched
she knows it’s in the genes.

Not in her genes, oh, no, no, no,
but in the one who cannot love
or will not love not ever, ere,
for fear invaded and conquered
the blueprint of his soul.

And there’s no magic here today
to fix the torn and tattered
and so into the after-life
goes the now ill-fated.

To wander there not as before
forever searching for the lost
must surely be a bad outcome
for one first made intact.

But I just sigh, again, again,
for what the world has torn apart
remains to be forever more
and follows like a shadow does
in the light of knowing more!

Helen / 25 September 2012

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

1 posted 2012-09-25 02:40 AM

I do enjoy your poetry... the way you form
your message, the words you use ... just fantastic!
Ms. E

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2012-09-25 02:42 AM

Thank you, Ms E! I guess the soul speaks as the soul must.

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

3 posted 2012-09-25 02:46 AM

Yes, as the soul must...!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2012-09-25 05:54 AM

I read this with a sad heart, Helen. You have described me, who for so many years was searching in all the wrong places for something he really knew nothing about.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2012-09-25 06:03 AM

Most of us don't know anything about it but when we do, yes, a sadness prevails because - well, just because we're here in a world that also doesn't know anything about it. Thanks for the read, Jerry.

Helen

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

6 posted 2012-09-25 11:28 PM

"But I just sigh, again, again,
for what the world has torn apart
remains to be forever more
and follows like a shadow does
in the light of knowing more!"

Yes, and coming to that understanding
can make you all the better for knowing...
No?
I do understand and I did enjoy your poem.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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