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Michael
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0 posted 2013-09-14 02:21 PM



If Once


If once I had a vision,
I assure you I don't now;
Clamored up, with indecision
Furrrowed deep unto the brow.

If once I had a purpose,
Well I must've lost that, too.
All that lies beneath this surface?
Fading images of you.

If once the sky opened above,
And the world, itself, stood still...
While an angel adorned me with love,
And I lost my free will...

I assure you it's but storms now
That drown me in their sorrow.
Yesterday's chill, it won't allow
Procession towards the morrow.

A morrow believed in, if once,
When seasons still held sway.
Now Time's very concept affronts
All beyond this cursed gray.

And so I cling to memory,
Never having moved on...
If once I had somewhere to be,
I'm guessing it's long gone.


Michael Anderson

9/14/2013

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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1 posted 2013-09-14 04:48 PM


No, it still waits for you. When you are ready Michael it will be there. Not when we want, but when we are ready. And that determination isn't always up to us.

Liked this one much.

Lori

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2 posted 2013-09-15 02:56 AM


you keep writing this way you'll find where you need to be as always one hell of a write
Kit McCallum
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3 posted 2013-09-15 10:23 AM


Lovely writing as always Michael, beautifully rendered.

Best wishes,
/Kit

nakdthoughts
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4 posted 2013-09-15 12:16 PM


"And so I cling to memory,"

just ~~sighing~~

M

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