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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-10-12 02:44 AM



   Not For Me

melted I read your words
though they were not for me
words we all have waited for
the ones that set your spirit free

breathlessly I read them aloud
touching the silk you had spun for her
such promised essence of emotions
descriptions so strong i felt something inside me stir

with every amazing letter you had written
another message where undying love had lead
it was like a love song, a poetic lullaby
melody that I can not release now from my head

the true expression of your heart
stopped my own within mid beat
I hope she knows what she has in you
a pureness that makes you feel complete

reading here frozen ease dropping into your heart
I don’t know you or her but feel the green of jealousy
for I understand the language that you spoke
but the words were not for me

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

© Copyright 2001 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
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Gaia
1 posted 2001-10-12 03:12 AM


So gorgeous! What a beautiful, softly flowing tribute to kindness and love's poetry.
Zinsser
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Calif.
2 posted 2001-10-12 05:22 AM


Helen... this is beautiful!  
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