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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2014-03-16 03:19 PM

When walking hand in hand,
It was not to help each other stand,
But to feel the warmth of touch,
For the glimmer in the eyes
At the beauty of the skies
As the sun fades on our return.

When walking in the woods with you
Seemed to come to a world of just two
A silent hug that meant so much
Then as the day slips into night
A kiss as soft as the moonlight,
That kiss is what I still yearn.

When walking all alone,
Listening to wind softly moan,
There is a cold to the wind’s touch.
Solitude is my lifestyle
With you left my only smile,
Your touch makes my soul burn.

When reflecting in my easy chair
I know why there is no one else there,
I’ve grown old without a warming touch,
I wonder if I shall fade all alone,
A hermit in my urban home,
My heart to ashes in a slow burn.

Gloom

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-03-16 03:32 PM

You touched upon many variations I certainly can, and do, relate to. I remember Marionette and our walks among the piney woods in south Arkansas. This grabbed me . . .

quote:
When reflecting in my easy chair
I know why there is no one else there,
I’ve grown old without a warming touch,
I wonder if I shall fade all alone,
A hermit in my urban home,

has flashed through my thoughts lately also. Still, I can honestly say I am at peace with myself. I thoroughly enjoyed this work.

~*~ Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.--James Joyce ~*~

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

2 posted 2014-03-16 07:04 PM

So sad!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-03-17 06:57 AM

You made my heart ache PG! You keep this up and you are going to have to start putting hankey warnings on your poems.

Lori

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2014-03-17 07:55 AM

Far too many live this lifestyle, Gloom. You express it eloquently. I wish for you to find that touch again

springtao
Junior Member

since 2014-03-04

Posts 25

5 posted 2014-03-18 04:23 PM

Great pen and excellent close ~

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