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catalinamoon
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The Shores of Alone

0 posted 2000-11-02 08:23 PM


I request early release,
deserving of parole.
Not happy in this prison,
I have a future goal.

Someone bring a file to me
to saw through pain of steel,
a shovel to go under,
come one, lets make a deal.

Let me out of vacant dreams
and lonely, aching nights.
Freedom's a necessity,
to pass from dark to light.

I don't belong here, really,
I'm not a criminal.
I loved a bit unwisely,
I think I've paid the bill.

Hurry up, the jailer comes
to force me in my cell.
Surely someone cares enough
to free me from this hell.


[This message has been edited by catalinamoon (edited 11-02-2000).]

© Copyright 2000 Sandra - All Rights Reserved
Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
1 posted 2000-11-02 08:39 PM


catalinamoon - sadness I see, pain I feel. You have described both in your writing, perhaps more. I wish for you to smile, and to have all the sorrow that you may feel disappear.

Bill


inot2B
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since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205
Arkansas
2 posted 2000-11-02 09:18 PM


Sometimes we are our own jailer. Open up the door and walk out into the light. You have to be the one to take the first step.
Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
3 posted 2000-11-02 09:45 PM


psssst...this way Sandra...come out in the
sun and dance!!!   You've opened many doors
with your poetry as of late and it's going
to be the key that you need...I can feel it
in your writing.  Great work~


Victoria
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4 posted 2000-11-02 09:51 PM


nicely written Sandra...I think inot2b has something there..but sometimes its not as easy as it sounds...

             ~Victoria~


A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)


Tara Simms
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since 1999-08-12
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Honea Path, SC USA
5 posted 2000-11-02 09:55 PM


How much pain will you suffer
before you open your eyes and see
Nobody else can help you escape,
you alone hold the key

Reach into your aching heart
find your light within
share your gift with the world
leave behind your prison



Take me as I am or watch me as I go

Sven
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6 posted 2000-11-02 10:35 PM


Sandra, you have to be the one that opens that door. . . and that can be the hardest thing to do. . .

Well written my friend. . .

---------------------------------------------------------

That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


catalinamoon
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Member Rara Avis
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The Shores of Alone
7 posted 2000-11-02 10:48 PM


Thanks for all the hand holding and advice, I know it is my jail, and I can break out myself, but Damn, it would be ever so much better with a wonderful man to walk with me, away from that prison, to make it seem worth the trouble..
No worries, I will be back  to writing delirious love poems sometine soon,  

Love to all of you,
Sandra

Ron K. Fox
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since 2000-10-24
Posts 925

8 posted 2000-11-02 11:04 PM


sometimes we are the one who hold the key to our own imprisonment...but, sandra, I've baked a cake.(theres someting inside)and I'll meet you by the fence.with the get away car. Mad Maxie and Brone crusher Bob says hello.

Tossing words like wishful coins into the deep well of an open heart. R. fox


Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04
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Wilmington, Delaware
9 posted 2000-11-02 11:16 PM


We all hold the keys ourselves to free us from such prisons - we only need look deep enough inside ourselves to find them. Great poem in any event - very well constructed - Hope you find those keys ~S~
peppermint35
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since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106
Texas, USA
10 posted 2000-11-11 02:12 AM


You've written this so well; surely it has helped you find the key!!  

Pepper
"I honor the place in you, that when you are in that place, and I am in that place in me, we are in the same place"
Ram Dass


Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17
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missouri
11 posted 2000-11-11 11:53 AM


Sandra...I'm certainly not a man...but girl I've been there too, and here is my hand...a friend you have to help you out of the darkness of that hurt. Cry on my shoulder...scream...just be quiet...I'm here no matter what you need ok? I know this pain you are feeling...I KNOW. Hugs sweetie
brian madden
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ireland
12 posted 2000-11-12 06:17 AM


Here is a feel better cake... be careful there is a file in there somewhere and a lock pick.. but seriously, huge hug and I hope you find that open door soon. wonderfully written piece. Take care.    

"an afixiation a fix on anything the line of life the limb of a tree
the hands of he and the promise that s/he is blessed among women".
Patti Smith

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