trying on your shoes (for krawdad..)

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dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

0 posted 2001-01-20 12:17 PM

your pain touches me
in a place i'd not expected
the more you speak
the deeper i ache
and i sit still now
with this hole in my heart
watching life
slip through the core of me...

i've been here before--
here where you are
and i screamed and ranted
and raged like a frightened child
but release was not within me
there was nowhere to hide
from the morbid realities
that stung my heart
there was no salve
to treat the wounds
and i lay helpless
in writhing agony...

your pain is in me
i mourn your loss
i ache with you
my friend
gather such a moment of relief
while i try on your shoes
and lace my cheeks with
your tears
for a little while

your pain touches me
i did not expect you
but i welcome you
as you stand in the threshold
of this receiving heart
be not shy of me
come in
     come in
where you can loosen your tears--
and regain your laughter
in between

-dgvarner
   1-20-01
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"oh baby baby, its a wild world..its hard to get by just upon a smile..."  cat stevens

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Ginners
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since 2000-07-22

Posts 339
Mullica Hill, New Jersey

1 posted 2001-01-20 11:39 AM

This is very true and very touching, it is amazing the way a person you care for and slip into your heart unoticed until you begin to feel there pain and realize how much you care for them as a friend or maybe more. Good write!

-Gin

"I'll build a wall if we can keep them on the other side"---NIN
"There is no always forever, just this"-the cure

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

2 posted 2001-01-20 03:21 PM

thanks GIN, for your reply

some people touch us very unexpectedly, and without warning

hugs, g

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

3 posted 2001-01-21 12:34 PM

dg,
Thank you, thank you, thank you dg. I'm touched, I truly am. And blessed by the kindness of a "virtual" stranger. I'm beginning to deal with this in verse, but of course I really don't know where that will lead. You'll be the first to know.
Krawdad

He
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since 2001-01-15

Posts 41

4 posted 2001-01-21 01:15 AM

"In a place i'd not expected"  Well said.

so true
  in
the knowing
      another

   Light

that
   opening

we discover

      ourselves

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

5 posted 2001-01-21 08:58 AM

KRAWDAD..
may an angel guide your pen--that you may spit and spew and laugh and cry and scream and whisper all that you may need to...to find release...
know that i am listening my friend..

-------------------------

HE.. 'we discover ourselves'... yes..it is true

thanks for your reply..

hugs, g

"i was thinkin'
if you were lonely
maybe we could leave here
and no one would know
at least not to where we would think so..."

Joel the wolf
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 1333
Angels Camp

6 posted 2001-01-21 11:35 AM

To welcome someone into your heart is a very large thing, it takes courage and a very large heart, that has been offered to me here in DP many times and it just strikes me flat footed when it is offered, this is so kind of you. well enough said.

love the work kid.

Joel.

I howl a mournful song, that echos within my chambered heart, for all to read? nay for all to feel.

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

7 posted 2001-01-21 01:07 PM

JOEL..big heart is me...

courage..i dont know..maybe knowing that my heart could be turned down...but everybody needs somebody..in one way or another..if only someone to listen..i have room for many in my heart

new, old, virtual..

thank you for your reply JOEL

hugs, g

"i was thinkin'
if you were lonely
maybe we could leave here
and no one would know
at least not to where we would think so..."

Swamp¤Faeryie
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since 2000-12-04

Posts 393
fairyland....of course;)

8 posted 2001-01-21 04:55 PM

I really liked this,thinking about quoting it to a friend i've just met a few weeks ago and who is going through a very bad time now,i'd like to let them know i've been there too without sounding superficial. Wonderful poetry you've written here!!

swamp

Do i contradict myself?Very well i contradict myself.I contain multitudes.~walt whitman

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

9 posted 2001-01-21 05:40 PM

SWAMP..i'd be honored if you wanted to quote me to a friend

thank you much for stopping in to read me..

hugs, g

Parker
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since 2000-01-06

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ON

10 posted 2001-01-23 01:45 AM

dg, very nice write. Your wonderful heart shines in neon.

Parker

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

11 posted 2001-01-23 05:14 AM

PARKER..your wonderful mark left on my poetry makes my smile shine in neon..

i thank you for finding me wherever i may roam...

hugs, g

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