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John Yaws
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2000-09-26 02:32 AM



Tonight I reached out for you-
And I found you were not there.
Though your presence was beside me...
I could tell you did not care.

Where there once was love, I crushed it.
By my need to be alone...
Now I find I’m longing for it-
But, alas, I find it’s gone.

I have always been a loner,
Even when I’m with a crowd.
And pushed away those nearest-
And their love I’ve not allowed.

I simply can’t explain it-
But it’s all a part of me...
Why am I such a prisoner-
As result of being free?

I isolate, and insulate,
From all I’ve ever known-
I’ve pulled away so many times,
I find myself alone...

Is it hurt, or is it fury?
This emotion that I feel...
I really can’t define it,
You may rest assured it’s real.

"You come into this life crying, while the world rejoices. Your goal in life should be to live it in such a fashion, as to leave this world rejoicing,

© Copyright 2000 John R. Yaws - All Rights Reserved
JP
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since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA
1 posted 2000-09-26 02:55 AM


Yes indeed... this one spoke to me.  Very well done.


Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
JP

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
B. Russell

Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136
Mobile, AL
2 posted 2000-09-26 03:19 AM


Painful, this...
The ones you push away that come back are the ones you are entitled to keep, and they are entitled to keep you.   Does that make any sense at all? Those are just my thoughts. It seems I'm having lots of those tonight.


My name isn't Baby, and I don't want to cyber.

Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354
Listening to every heart
3 posted 2000-11-12 12:35 PM


did she ever come back?

Karilea
If I whisper, will you listen?...
I would rather be silent and write, then speak loudly and be bound.
KRJ



inot2B
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since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205
Arkansas
4 posted 2000-11-13 03:48 AM


The things we do to the ones we love. Hopefully you can let her see you are nothing without her by your side.
Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

5 posted 2000-11-13 08:50 PM


That's so sad. Those we love have to be nurtured or the love may indeed die. You've expressed that very well, John. Great poem!

Denise

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