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LoveBug

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since 2000-01-08

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0 posted 2004-07-31 10:36 PM

After yet another long while between writes, another poem.

The fire roared
The flames licked back the cold
The light fought back the dark
Comfort, safety, belief in life
Belief the fire would always burn

The fire lowers
The cold approaches
The dark creeps in
Everything I always had
Seems to fade away

I still draw close
The fire still burns
Sometimes it grows
And I believe
That it will be full height again
And once again, I will be safe

But then it dwindles
To barely a flicker
But it’s still there
It’s still there!

And so I stay
Until the fire lives again
The way it used to be
Or all the time
Stay as it is
Small, barely there
But it’s there

So I will stay
If it goes out
I will let the cold come in
I will let the dark take me
For nothing else shall remain

And for now, I stay
In the tiny little orb of light
Of heat, of safety, of comfort
In order to stay within
I diminish

I try not to think of that
Because it’s still there

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

Kellie_Cantrell
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since 2002-05-22

Posts 1667
New York

1 posted 2004-08-05 01:25 AM

Quote:

I try not to think of that
Because it’s still there

End Quote

This was a very good poem. I really liked the end.

Local Parasite

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since 2001-11-05

Posts 2527
Transylconia, Winnipeg

2 posted 2004-09-06 11:11 PM

You see a fire that you believe is small and dying. I wonder if it seems that way because you are slowly moving away from it?

Approach that fire, grow closer to it, and it might be more warm, larger than you thought it was. It is only waiting for you to come back to it once more.

I wish you all the best, Erica.

Brian

"God becomes as we are that we may be as he is." ~William Blake

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3 posted 2006-09-29 09:57 PM

And so I stay
Until the fire lives again
The way it used to be
Or all the time
Stay as it is
Small, barely there
But it’s there

So I will stay
If it goes out
I will let the cold come in
I will let the dark take me
For nothing else shall remain

And for now, I stay
In the tiny little orb of light
Of heat, of safety, of comfort
In order to stay within
I diminish

I try not to think of that
Because it’s still there

I TRIED to choose one verse, I truly did....but this whole sequence, this whole poem.....sigh.......

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