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Secret Whisper
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since 2001-01-25
Posts 298
Through the Looking Glass

0 posted 2001-06-12 05:33 PM


If not here...


I hear the rainfall in Washington
Makes their red apples shine.
The Autumns on Maine's Oaks
Are something so sublime.
I have to go to the heat of Texas
The Alamo I regretfully forgot.
Or travel to Florida's keys
It's said, they're pleasantly hot.
In Hawaii the volcanoes shoot,
A fiery beauty straight from hell.
In South Carolina the women are sweet,
There is nothing like a southern Belle.

Oh, I would travel from coast to coast.
To leave my broken heart behind.
This cruelest dream reality
Is never benevolent or kind.
So I yell and share why my heart bleeds,
And you have but one question for my tear-swollen eyes.
If not here, then where?

And I tell you time and time again
For better worse whatever
I would rather be in hell,
Anywhere but here.

"We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling."- Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

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Cpat Hair
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since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793

1 posted 2001-06-12 05:45 PM


It matters not where we go
for our hearts follow us
and though they may bleed
or break
in many new places
we will still feel the pain
as if we never moved
Enjoyed the poem.... nicely written and the delivery is strong..



2dalimit
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since 2000-02-08
Posts 2228
Mississippi coast
2 posted 2001-06-12 05:46 PM


I hear it's greener on the other side of the mountain. I hope it does get better.  

Melton

snowpants
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since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061
KS
3 posted 2001-06-12 07:16 PM


Yes, I agree...I can totally relate to this one.  It's often lately that I'm feeling this way, as well...well, maybe, except for the 'I'd rather be in hell' part, but, that's just me...excellent write...

sp  

I hopelessly, helplessly, wonder why
Everything gotta change around me
I’d tell it to your face,
But you lost your face along the way...

Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA
4 posted 2001-06-12 07:42 PM


No matter how far you go, you cannot escape the pain.  You'd just be feeling it somewhere else.  You will be just fine in time.  Nice write.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watersign6
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since 2001-05-25
Posts 823
Hurricane,WV
5 posted 2001-06-12 08:20 PM


this is really powerful and i really like it

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