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openthoughts
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since 2006-01-16
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Where the child can be free

0 posted 2007-02-16 12:53 PM


Delirium

From the safety of my bed,
my room,
My empty house
I can stop by the stone, the eroding stone
On once, many years ago
My name could be easily seen.
And I, thrilled after avoiding the stone
Since it was placed years ago
See it as a sign, such a beautiful sign
Of new life, of new light, of new hope.

So I lie back from my motionless journey
To imagine all the roads
I can travel now that I’ve left the world
Without meaning beneath the stone
As a voice comes to me
In the darkness and haze
To whisper what I’ve known

“A life anew?  Why you get none.
We have far better in store.
New life means another chance to die,
And you wouldn’t want that,
Would you?”

So from the place I thought was safe
I creep back beneath the stone
That long ago once held my name
But now, no longer does.
A simple field it’s all become,
Overgrown and faded.
Who could ever dream to guess,
Now that the stone is just a stone
With nothing imagined underneath
That once there was the memory of life…

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Isis
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since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
1 posted 2007-02-25 05:39 PM


I can relate to this on a big scale just lost my Mum last year... there is much in these words, i really like it..
Isis

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