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Walter Poe
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0 posted 2002-12-10 08:02 AM


You stand before the emptey throne
in the dark shadows cast by the past all gone
I kneel as i once did in suplicance
long ago in my past life i now see

A love in those shadows before the throne
I remember/see you laughing
I remember/know your beauty and grace
How you played and then hurt indiscriminantly

Perhaps I was one of a great many
Perhaps I was first of a great few
I do not see before or after me and you
I wonder why i did not warn me, I know i love you.

We all have taken new roles
I nolonger the serf merely the seeker
you nolonger royalty merely "princess"
yet it played as it once did history repeats

Long flowing robes impress themselves
over your Jeans and T-shirt
remind me of my dreams and tears
I am lost in this Past/Present

So i stand looking into the future
What is it i will be could i understand
But i know history will come round
I will warn him; yet i hesitate why

I Would have him know your love
For this one great passion
I have all but desroyed myself
who am I to deny him that

Take a good look at my face
Well, don't my smile look out of  place
look a little closer its easy to trace
The tracks of my tears

© Copyright 2002 Paul Weatherstone - All Rights Reserved
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Gaia
1 posted 2002-12-10 10:17 AM


Aching heartbeat heard in this one, Paul.
And a willingness to remain in love while giving up the throne.

regards2you
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2 posted 2002-12-10 10:32 AM




Wow! Very creative, touching and heartfelt.


Warm regards, Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
        "Desiderata"

MARK V SHELDON
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3 posted 2002-12-10 07:12 PM


A haunting sojourn through time, reality, and parallel plains, reminding me of the relativity of it all...

-MVS

"AS ABOVE SO BELOW"

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