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exhale
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since 2003-06-13
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Alberta,Canada

0 posted 2007-07-10 01:46 AM



Ground
can be hard to keep beneath your feet
like a carpet pulled from underneath you
catch your breath before you lose it
I always was one to breathe
can you?

Footsteps on damp pavement
feeling the reverberations underneath my skin
if I fall
do I fall alone
or will a hand be there to hold me
careful
the wings of this phoenix may burn
no gold plated cages for me
I need air
I always was one to breathe

But even air has restrictions
and one can only fly for so long
before they are scared to come back down
knowing that the ground that held them
is gone

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Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665

1 posted 2007-07-10 04:22 AM


An interesting poem..some introspection...some pleas...some hope..some fears too..but all very good poetry..thank you for your mind words..

Goldenrose.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, ring out the old, ring in the new,ring out the false, ring in the true..A Lord Tennyson

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2007-07-10 08:20 AM


Nice writing...Reminded me of a song... "Sometimes...all I need is the air that I breathe, and to love you."...Semisonic... James
ecrivan
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my own state
3 posted 2007-07-10 11:14 PM


I think it is the introspection that works well here too


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