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Alone Once More |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
It's a feeling of desolation Everything familiar is gone... It seems the only explanation Is that all what we know must go on. A change in time at a pace that is set Faces and places soon to forget A portion of time left behind And you realize: you cannot rewind... Alone once more Behind a door Whose pathway Leads away From things once known And things outgrown To another time and day... Testing all of the things you've learned Resting on all the things that you have earned You still have your dreams to follow Today is yours -- not tomorrow. Despite the fact you're on your own In light of all that you were shown It's your chance now to prove yourself And put the past back on the shelf. Alone once more Behind a door Whose pathway Leads away From things once known And things outgrown To another time and day... (Copyright 1988 by: MARK V SHELDON) |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
A very good write...and this line: Today is yours -- not tomorrow. Priceless!!! |
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MyEnchanted_Melody Senior Member
since 2001-05-30
Posts 1106across the land of dreams. In your heart, I'd always be. |
Alone once more Behind a door Whose pathway Leads away From things once known And things outgrown To another time and day... ================ I think every one of us goes through such feeling of desolation....... As if the earth is not the earth and the sky is not the sky.......and everything seems strangely silent and different. You have expressed it so well........ Thank you for sharing **************************** It's only me.......only me |
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Gemini Senior Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 1203Wisconsin, USA |
Your words are fantastic, very well written. |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
"Faces and places soon to forget A portion of time left behind And you realize: you cannot rewind..." I'm so glad you brought your poetry here......I love it! |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
VAS: thank you much. I've learned over the years the wisdom of the fact that truly today is yours, not tomorrow -- one can plan and much as one wants, but tomorrow may never come so perspective needs to be maintained and real emphasis placed on the moment. My Enchanted Melody (I'm curious what it sounds like...): No doubt those of us who are human and honest have at some point experienced the realization that desolation is what always lurks beside us, waiting for a closed invitation to surround us. Thank you for participating. Gemini: thank you for your response -- just sharing what I've felt before and, no doubt, will continue to feel every now and then... Vandana: perhaps, someday you'll share with me what exactly you like about my work, but 'till then, I am quite satisfied and honored to receive your smiles! SEA: a very warm grin to you -- I'm simply happy to share this stuff with an audience who can appreciate the veins of emotion and experience that until now have mostly remained internal. Thank YOU. -MVS "If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn." |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Hey Mark I write hundreds of lyrics and I recognize them when I read them.....these are very good. I enjoyed the musical speculation I could put into them!! |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Thanks, Eric. This song is a somber piano ballad. It's good to hear a musician's point of view! -MVS "If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn." |
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