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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
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Between the Lines

0 posted 2004-04-24 08:30 AM



To Be Even Keeled

It is the thought of what isn't
that creeps into my soul,
the pounding of my heart
holding me back, as life
is being sorted and the piles
to the left of me are becoming
weightier than wished.

When nothing seems important enough
and everything hinges on importance,
each scream becoming louder from
somewhere in the hidden past

I can feel the anticipation of,
the anxiety of,
the strangling of,
each  day
possessing me
with nothing left behind.

I watch as the living is made breathless,
as the need to
becomes lessened
and the pains that run through my body
are the results of ...
and even that warm vanilla  bath
no longer has its affect on me.

M


"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

© Copyright 2004 Wynter Bliss - All Rights Reserved
Sunnyone
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since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England
1 posted 2004-04-24 08:47 AM


Oh, there is so much in this that I agree with, and understand...especially the vanilla bath.  You said it all here, my friend...~S~

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla
2 posted 2004-04-24 08:48 AM


Maureen,
There is a rod that touches all
The largest large and smallest small.

Local Rebel
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since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia
3 posted 2004-04-24 11:23 PM


Time teaches us a lot M... but, it kills us all too doesn't it?

The absent never change though do they?


azblond
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since 1999-07-01
Posts 637
The Steamy Desert
4 posted 2004-04-24 11:42 PM


I hear you all too clearly...

Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

EagleOne
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since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
5 posted 2004-04-25 12:10 PM


As Sunnyone has said, there is much in this. An awesome write!

"A spring shower was cause to run
Until you twirled me in the rain" ~ BDC

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
6 posted 2004-04-25 04:29 AM


painful write...you know I can relate
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