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Kaoru
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0 posted 2003-07-02 11:06 PM


I've been thinking a lot lately..
I'm thinking we should have a little talk..
But time's wasting and I've got to pack, because I'm taking a little walk,
I'm taking a few steps back.


I wish I could allow
one less caress.
One last kiss
to my forehead
before I went..
But, love, you see I'm all bent
out of shape over
leaving you..

It's time I grew up and faced the truth..
That birds with twisted togues couldn't
live in harmony for, you see,
they couldn't sweetly sing..
Like those who did when waking up
in a bed we called
our own..
In a space we called our

       Home...
    a place you can't
come home to..


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1 posted 2003-07-03 12:02 PM


That is too painfully true, and told here with all the pain of it intact....

...but you can take home with you, and over the years time will help you filter out the parts you aren't at home with....

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2 posted 2003-07-03 02:52 AM


ouch...this one hurts
Margherita
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3 posted 2003-07-03 08:48 AM


Sad, but so very well written.
Love, Margherita

Patricia
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4 posted 2003-07-03 08:54 AM


Home...
a place you can't
come home to..

Oh, did I know this.  Now home is home since he is no longer here.

Great write!

Patricia  

Susan Caldwell
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5 posted 2003-07-03 11:10 AM


"I've been thinking a lot lately..
I'm thinking we should have a little talk..
But time's wasting and I've got to pack, because I'm taking a little walk,
I'm taking a few steps back."

Oh I love those lines!!!

Susan C.


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6 posted 2003-07-03 06:11 PM


This is painful... especially to all of us who know... But it's excellent... Great write! *S*
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