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Songbird
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0 posted 2001-05-20 08:43 PM



Just three words
Yet very hard to utter
I am sorry

Just three words admitting failure
But without those three words

A sentence of
A lifetime of regret


© Copyright 2001 Marcia Estep - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-05-20 10:16 PM


This is so true!  Don't know why it's so hard at times to say "I'm sorry".  

Betty Lou Hebert

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2 posted 2001-05-21 01:55 AM


Before reading the poem, I thought it would be about I love you, but it was the opposite. Good work.  

Ronil (One becomes god only when they have fully understood the role of being a human being.)

ellie LeJeune
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3 posted 2001-05-21 06:34 AM


wonderful wisdom...I'm sorry and I was wrong...are easier said from a humble heart, for which I pray every day..love, Ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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4 posted 2001-05-21 07:32 AM


SongBird~
I've never had a problem with saying 'I'm so sorry' ...
and 'I love you' flows just as easily for me.

I find they are a wonderful combination ...
When sincerely meant ... they are AWESOME and flow so easily !

Thanks for this reminder of what a heavy burden we bear if we don't use both of these phrases when the need presents itself.

*Hugs*
~*Marge*~


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5 posted 2001-06-24 01:04 PM


i am one of those who find it hard to say sorry....will keep this one in my library to remind myself of the consequences if i am not big-hearted enough....
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6 posted 2001-06-24 08:49 PM


I dont know it depends what I've done but yeah I feel this way sometimes too.

Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning.


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7 posted 2001-06-24 09:07 PM


Nice poem, Songbird.  I don't think it is hard for me to say I am sorry.  I don't always know perhaps if I have hurt someone.
But they should be easy to say.  Joyce

kitkat
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8 posted 2001-06-26 10:22 AM


Admitting failure is hard. But sometimes being sorry is not failure but a jesture of saying I am not perfect. I enjoyed your view on this subject.

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You got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
and show the world all the love in your heart
Then people are gonna treat

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9 posted 2001-06-26 11:19 PM


I have never found it too hard to say sorry, but if you really, deeply mean it and feel it....it dosen't seem nearly enough.

One's not half two it's two are halves of one EE Cummings

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10 posted 2001-06-27 06:53 AM


I am sorry
           that I missed this before now.
I am thankful
           it was BTTT
You are right


Melton

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11 posted 2001-06-27 07:53 AM


So true Songbird ~ I don't have any problem saying "I'm sorry"...in fact, it seems to be my favorite phrase most days!!!  This is a lovely little piece of truth.  Bonnie

[This message has been edited by BSC (edited 06-27-2001).]

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12 posted 2001-07-08 05:32 AM


I often apologize for the trivial things..like stuttering while I'm trying to clearly explain something to someone. I often have trouble apologizing for the bigger things. I like the thought in this.  

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