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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-07-09 12:26 PM



Cold sheets

A fitful night
filled with raging tears
screams of anguish, anger
torrents of agony,
waves of loneliness.

All spent
crumbled into the past
blowing away
as dust
just above
the place where we
consummated our vows.

And now
it is only the place
where the sheets
are more knotted
than the ties
of our promise

and even amid
the heat and pain of angst,
they grow cold
and bind no more than
the fate of the future.

©July 8, 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

© Copyright 2002 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
the_loner_23
Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
1 posted 2002-07-09 02:38 PM


I know how this feels. Good poem here.

Cold hands means a warm heart

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2002-07-09 04:03 PM


I've had cold sheets for a long time...thats why I'm seriously consider getting married again...James
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