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JOY 14
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since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

0 posted 2000-03-25 08:02 PM


Always watching you
Always there
They picked you
You live in fear of them
Wondering when you'll see them again
When they will be there
You live in fear
You don't know
When they will be there again
Waiting for you
To
Be
Alone
So they can make you insane
Because they want you to see
Them
And their dried blood
They want you to be afraid
So the power can be theirs
So your power is lost
When staring at them
Staring right through them
Seeing their rage
And pain
That seeps out
In one long blank stare
While you just stand frozen
Staring back
Knowing in reality
Nothing is even there.


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John the cat
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since 2000-03-23
Posts 357
England
1 posted 2000-03-25 10:08 PM


Booo!!!
Joy..that is so 'haunting'. It's 3-55am here and I was about to sleep. I'm not sure I shall now. I am disturbed by this, was that the intent? I like it too though.

JOY 14
Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA
2 posted 2000-03-26 12:16 PM


John,
I am sorry to have disturbed you.  I just got inspired to write this, I don't know where from, just from inside my head I guess.  The intent is the ghosts that haunt us are really comming from inside ourselves, we are creating them and we don't even know it.  That is what I meant by this poem.  I am glad you liked it also.  

Joy

childomine
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since 2000-01-25
Posts 818
st. petersburg, FL
3 posted 2000-03-26 10:34 AM


Joy, as the ghosts are in us, so is the power.  We can be our own worst enemy or own own best friend depending on which we draw on.  Shall it be then, the ghosts or the power???  You have written this hauntingly.

 ...Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is....
Black Eagle
Oglala Sioux holy man


Denise
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4 posted 2000-03-26 02:19 PM


Great scary poem, Joy!

Denise

StarrGazer
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since 2000-03-05
Posts 679
Texas
5 posted 2000-03-27 07:52 AM


Great poem Joy  it's so easy to fool others but  in a sense we're haunted by that in the end ... how I related to this anyway  

 "A poet is one who spends a lifetime standing out in thunderstorms, waiting to be hit by lightning"
~Randal Jarrell~



Lost Dreamer
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since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464
Somewhere near the Rainbow
6 posted 2000-03-27 10:05 AM


Joy, You made your point very well, and I can relate to what you are saying, it's hard to always have the power up front and not fall from it now and then. I am as guilty as everyone else when it comes to letting forces beyond our control influence me now and then.
Sasikat
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 290
St. Petersburg, FL
7 posted 2000-03-27 11:05 AM


Joy,

The ghosts sure can haunt us if we let them.  Have been there myself, but we must try not the let them overcome us.  Very well done!!

Sheila


 ...the earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same........... Joseph, Nez Perce Chief

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