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IntoTheFlames
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since 2003-06-21
Posts 92
Va, USA

0 posted 2003-07-24 05:13 PM



I wish I'd never brought up the subject
I wish I'd never told them the truth
And while I'm at it
I wish I'd never even met you
Then they'd never have known....

So many dreams I've lost because of you
And all the things I'd never dreamed I'd ever do
I do because of you
I'm not who I was before
An innocent child to adore
I've changed
I'm not the same
I am corrupted not even deserving of a name

I see what you have done to me
A beacon of light in my mind
I see what I do to others
And all the things I left behind,
Or passed by

I stare into the mirror
I look into those eyes
I shut the door and throw away the key
To this thing that used to be me
Never again to hide the light
That burns so bright inside

I put the past back into its time
Innocence once again returns
Only lost not forgotten
For now is the present
Where I and NOT you
Choose the path for
MY future

~*Summer*~

© Copyright 2003 Summer Dawn Harris - All Rights Reserved
JingleBear
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since 2003-05-08
Posts 76
Pennsylvania, USA
1 posted 2003-07-24 05:23 PM


This is a very nice poem, it shows true recovery. It's always good to recongnize what's holding us down, and get past it.
walker
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since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240
Florida
2 posted 2003-07-24 07:34 PM


Full of emotions and hope.
SharaRose
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since 2003-07-19
Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~
3 posted 2003-07-24 11:44 PM


Much needed read. Thanks for sharing.

SharaRose @-->--

Of sound, and speech let all lift the hearer!

angelblueyes
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since 2003-07-19
Posts 2148
Oklahoma
4 posted 2003-07-24 11:47 PM


I can so realte.This was sad, but glad to see the recovery.Nothing is worth shutting our spirit and light out.May you always shine.
angelblueyes

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756
U.S.A.
5 posted 2003-07-26 05:25 PM


wonderful write n read,,,
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with you
6 posted 2003-07-26 05:29 PM


"Never again to hide the light
That burns so bright inside

I put the past back into its time
Innocence once again returns"

that's the way!! leave it where it belongs, behind you great job!

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
7 posted 2003-07-26 10:48 PM


IntoTheFlames - great write of this subject. I especially liked the ending knowing that one must live for themselve and not how others wish it to be. I only wish I could have learned that a long time ago...

BC

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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8 posted 2003-07-27 03:45 AM


I say "YOU GO!"

awesome powerful self-confident write!

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