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Robert Frazier
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0 posted 2009-02-25 05:06 PM


I watched the sun sink slowly, from the corner of my room
And waited on the darkness to replace it soon
The surrender of an open window, a chilling breeze slips in
I shudder to consider, were we lovers to the end?

In the distance a mother calling, to her children in the yard
Through dying sounds of laughter, could it be that hard?
So I’ll make another empty promise, to pacify myself
Hearts are only weapons, when abandon on a shelf

It doesn’t have to be this way
That’s what you said
I don’t have to walk away
But that’s what you did

A little more understanding
Was a little less than enough
While the sky fades red
Nothing more was said

I never had much of an understanding
I confess it now, as if I’m planning
Change don’t come easy, but I believe
If we had it to do all over

You’d say,
A little more understanding…


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1 posted 2009-02-25 08:27 PM


"It doesn’t have to be this way
That’s what you said
I don’t have to walk away
But that’s what you did"

this has such a painful ache to it...
you've written this well

ethome
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2 posted 2009-02-25 11:04 PM


Captured lonliness here very well. Great mood poem and the ending says it all.

Eric

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3 posted 2009-02-26 04:00 PM


Thoughts on this:

Sometimes the hardest answers
come far too late.

Seems to me that "stubborn" is the
theme to this one.

But I might know...I have a streak of that
along this backbone.

Good to read you again!


Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now
4 posted 2009-02-26 06:37 PM


Robert - great write, liked the way you changed to the shorter sentences in the verses. Doing this did not change the meaning though. Nice write...

BC

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5 posted 2009-03-01 09:09 AM


Nice to read you again.
Spellbound in the emotion, which your form here accentuated very well.

Inspired me.

Margherita
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Eternity
6 posted 2009-03-01 10:09 AM


Dear Robert, it's good to read you again. You offer us a very melancholic write, but I am sure many can relate to the intensely expressed emotions here.

Love,
Margherita

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