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rosepetals25
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0 posted 2001-02-04 05:21 PM


Drift Away


As you slowly drift away,
my eyes watch you.
My arms outstretched.
My lips calling out your name,
begging you not to go.

As you slowly drift away,
my heart randomly grasps
at the memory of shared love.
I want desperately to hold on,
I'm not capable of letting go.

As you slowly drift away,
my soul screams your name,
ripped apart by denials and excuses,
left so alone and so lost while
searching for it's other half.

As you slowly drift away,
my mind refuges to accept
the reality and the pain
that threatens to completely dominate
my every sense... my every nerve.

As you slowly drift away....
I feel my spirit... slowly die.

© Copyright 2001 Tara Baldridge - All Rights Reserved
Kethry
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1 posted 2001-02-04 05:33 PM


Rosepetals,
this is so sad, drifting and fading are like little deaths. *HuGS*
Kethry


Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.



Marge Tindal
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2 posted 2001-02-04 08:44 PM


RosePetals~
Sending *hugs* ...
This is a poignantly written piece of a sad heart.
The spirit will live again - to love again.

~*Marge*~


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CD
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3 posted 2001-02-04 08:46 PM


I agree so much with Marge.

Life will go on.  And our hearts, being ever so wandering, will live and maybe even love again.

Loved this one

CD

Celeste
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4 posted 2001-02-04 09:16 PM


Painful and heartfelt.  You express your emotions wonderfully.   *gentle hug*

To capture and live a moment is truly living


VAS
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5 posted 2001-02-04 10:03 PM


May I echo dreamkeeper without seeming lazy?  She has said it so wonderfully well.
Jesse Jaymz
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6 posted 2001-02-05 12:53 PM


tara
*hugs*  i wont let you drift away.  you never let me so i aint letting you.  *hugs*  stay strong my heart.  *hugs and kisses*
love ya
jesse


True beauty is often hidden in darkness...

Honeybee
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7 posted 2001-02-05 12:57 PM



Oh Tara, this just broke my heart reading your plea.  I relate very much so, and offer you angel hugs, my friend.  Very well expressed.

Take care,
Melissa~

dragonpoe
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8 posted 2001-02-05 08:01 PM


Very well written. Soft and moving.


With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free..
dragonpoe

JLR
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9 posted 2001-02-05 08:11 PM


Touched my heart, my reality.  But I must say goodbye to mine.  Thank you for the strength.
Lone Wolf
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10 posted 2001-02-05 08:17 PM


So powerful and yet so sad.  I can feel the pain coming through your words.  May you write to heal and may you heal to write.  Well done.  

LW


Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Sunlit Soul
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11 posted 2001-02-05 10:27 PM


I can definitely relate to the feeling.  Sorrowful and wonderfully expressed. I enjoyed the read.

"Every man dies. Not every man lives."
-Tim Robbins

rosepetals25
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12 posted 2001-02-10 11:35 AM


I would like to thank everyone for stopping in and reading.  I know my poetry has been on the downside lately.  I thank you all for letting me share the pain I'm going through with such open arms.  I return all the hugs a thousand fold.  Thank you.
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