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Tessa
Member

since 2001-04-21

Posts 67
Ohio

0 posted 2001-04-22 10:44 PM

Branded
by my mistakes
I shall always wear my sins
splashed in red
across any part of me
that might have been beautiful
in your eyes

So many times I wished
my tears of genuine sorrow
might have washed me clean
in your eyes

They didn't
But yet I found
forgiveness granted elsewhere
Everywhere else,
except with you

And in the end
forgiving myself
meant losing you

A terrible cost
until I realized
your love of perfection
came far above
your love for me

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

1 posted 2001-04-22 10:54 PM

I would have to record every line of this to tell you which is my favorite. Incredible write! Thought, emotion...to words! A great strength of humility to this.

Speak when you are angry--and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret...Laurence J. Peter

[This message has been edited by JLR (edited 04-23-2001).]

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2001-04-22 11:30 PM

Tessa~
How quickly we learn that there is no such thing as perfection ...

'And in the end
forgiving myself
meant losing you'

A difficult, but wise, decision.

Nicely done.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Amuse_mi
Member

since 2001-04-22

Posts 110

3 posted 2001-04-22 11:36 PM

This is exactly how I feel! Get out of my head!!!!! Hee hee!
I love it.
A.M.

Tessa
Member

since 2001-04-21

Posts 67
Ohio

4 posted 2001-04-23 09:20 AM

Thank you so much, JLR! I appriciate that. Was very unsure of this one.

Marge, Thank you!

Amuse_Mi - LOL, Thank you!

Nate Dogg
Senior Member

since 1999-11-15

Posts 1658
Georgia, Fulton

5 posted 2001-04-23 10:57 PM

A very nice display of your pain...thanks for sharing!

Nathan

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

6 posted 2001-04-25 01:14 AM

Outstanding!!

"I am not now that which I have been."

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

7 posted 2001-04-25 01:33 AM

tessa....sometimes we are punished for sins never done...your crimson scars are your badges of courage now....& forgiveness?? .....for nothing done?...& your cost??...was the cost of yourself !!....welcome to passions ......your words touch me....helen

"...the rest is silence" (Hamlet) Shakespeare

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