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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2005-05-04 06:28 PM

Women leave
and that's a fact,
one day they turn
and don't turn back,
the trick's in learning comfort
with duplicity,
to ignore the hurt
avoid the pity,
since it is built into their genes
like accepting mold and damp
when living where it always rains,
like learning that a dog
having bitten once
may always bite again.

As they close the door
I watch them walk away,
I don't ever stop to say
or ask why
they choose a single day,
over any other;
it’s two steps forward
two steps back,
new hearts always
can be bought off the rack,
the hardest tack for memory
is the simple art of knowing
when the pains should not be showing,
that I was never meant to take it
personally.

Always reasons are too loose,
the walls of self
no more define existence,
no chance left upon reflection,
"mine eyes have seen the glory"
only other's introspection
and the loss
of that which had been sighed upon,
promised as a thing,
tangible in dreams alone,
that should have been forever
and yet
becomes always gone
in time,
becomes that which can not be contained
within.

Shake the rattle,
ring the bell,
meet me at the gates of hell;
if you really want to see a ride,
when you stare
into the soul of another
see what happens by forgetting
it is polite to stand in shadows
on the side.

©2005 by icebox

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

1 posted 2005-05-04 07:17 PM

Hmmmmm.....sounds like, "Women and gila monsters -- only dangerous if you let 'em flip over on their back....."

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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2005-05-05 05:17 AM

I love it!

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

3 posted 2005-05-05 09:24 AM

not always...

but I wish there were a better way, until then, it's good with bad for as long as it last.

either way...I love reading what you have to say about it.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2005-05-05 04:42 PM

icebox

"Women leave
and that's a fact,
one day they turn
and don't turn back,"

Not "all" woman! I, usually stay too long!

Cloud 9
Senior Member

since 2004-11-05

Posts 980
Ca

5 posted 2005-05-05 04:56 PM

I,too, stay too long. But one day something in me just snapped. And there is no turning back for me.

Excellent I like this one.

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

6 posted 2005-05-05 09:59 PM

excellent write sir. laughing at ed's reply. honestly, they scare the crap out me, but as norm peterson once said..'women can't live with them...pass the beernuts'

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2005-05-05 11:58 PM

Dear Box of Ice, it may be that it was the wrong women that have done you wrong. The right women would do you right!

EA

Lady Goodman
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since 2012-10-04

Posts 193

8 posted 2013-08-07 08:59 PM

perchance it's one of those self-fulfilling prophecy things...

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