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HM3
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0 posted 1999-12-27 07:04 PM


You seem so close I can almost touch you
Just beyond my reach, a heartbeat away
What can I say, what can I do?
Tumbling down, so close so far away

When I scream you don't see me
Might as well just talk to myself
When I cry you can't feel me
But I can't reach for someone else

As I tumble you look right thru me
The deafening silence you put me through
Never reaching out to hold me
My friend the statue without a clue




 Work like money doesn't matter, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching...

© Copyright 1999 Mark Ozee - All Rights Reserved
Songbird
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since 1999-12-15
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1 posted 1999-12-27 11:13 PM


I really like this it seems to flow right from the heart, and is honest about the pain one feels when there loved one is unable to communicate. Thank you for the read.
jbouder
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2 posted 1999-12-28 08:32 AM


HM3:

Your poem is quite moving and I enjoyed reading it.    But, damn I hate being a wet blanket, this is CA, right?  Isn't "a heartbeat away" usually a measure of time rather than distance?  Wouldn't "a hairsbreadth away" be more accurate?  But then you would have to change your title.  "A Hairsbreadth Away" isn't so bad though, huh?  

 Jim

"If I rest, I rust." - Martin Luther


HM3
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3 posted 1999-12-28 11:00 AM


To most perhaps a heartbeat is a measure of time, but I think it is also the distance between two estranged people trying to find the way back. And the desired closeness is just a hearbeat away...and so I wait.

 Work like money doesn't matter, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching...

haze
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4 posted 1999-12-28 11:09 AM


oh the tortures of unrequitted love...You have done very well with this in honest and true voice...Kudos
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