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icebox
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in the shadows

0 posted 2004-04-29 11:46 PM

There is a saying in the East
that if you go seeking treasure,
and dig too deep,
you will awaken the monsters
whose intent it is
to keep the prize within their grasp,
and if you clasp the riches to your bosom
you must accept the monsters in your heart.

You bring old memories
in your bag of forgotten times,
disjointed memories,
the left behind
abandoned crimes of passion,
or of greed,
disconnected from the past
by selective blessings of amnesia.

While your eyes implore,
do I have the threads
to make sense of the past we lived
in a time when there was no going home,
and the lines of right and wrong
became too blurred along the way;
I could fill in the blanks
while this candle dimly glows
but who beside you is alive to give me thanks
and whose conscience is to say we deserve
to have survived the lives we chose?

Maybe you are right,
maybe it would help you to pray,
but for me
deciding it's god's will
that I live every day in pain
is like talking to the wind
when it only wants to blow away,
it is like seeking dry shelter
by dancing in the rain.

©2004 by icebox

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

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USA

1 posted 2004-04-30 01:22 AM

Excellent poem. Should be further examined.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

2 posted 2004-04-30 03:53 AM

you make me want to cry sometimes

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2004-04-30 06:55 AM

but who beside you is alive to give me thanks
and whose conscience is to say we deserve
to have survived the lives we chose?

as passing shadow articulated, cry and then some...this was amazing...thank you from my heart.

Bonnie j
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since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

4 posted 2004-04-30 08:52 AM

The title caught my eye on this one. So many lines that give imagination a wonderful ride.
Liked very much.
Bon-Bon

Aenimal
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the ass-end of space

5 posted 2004-04-30 08:54 AM

Maybe you are right,
maybe it would help you to pray,
but for me
deciding it's god's will
that I live every day in pain
is like talking to the wind
when it only wants to blow away,
it is like seeking dry shelter
by dancing in the rain.

exactly.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

6 posted 2004-04-30 01:31 PM

icebox

I could fill in the blanks
while this candle dimly glows

Not everyone can give the gift of memory. I feel the struggle of this encounter in your words.

serenity blaze
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7 posted 2004-04-30 01:33 PM

"There is a saying in the East
that if you go seeking treasure,
and dig too deep,
you will awaken the monsters
whose intent it is
to keep the prize within their grasp,
and if you clasp the riches to your bosom
you must accept the monsters in your heart."

But you do know that the only way to be rid of demons, is not through the slaughter of them, but through their transformation by way of love.

Oh.

Well, I'm singing to the choir again, ain't I?

This is wonderful Icebox...as are you.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2004-04-30 03:15 PM

IceBox~
Though I love the all of this ...
these lines stand out in my mind~

'You bring old memories
in your bag of forgotten times'

Wonderfully done~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

9 posted 2004-04-30 03:26 PM

Wonderfully said...

Loved the last stanza.

Seems like I am always caught out in the rain.

(My Chinese sign is a dragon).

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 760
Alberta, Canada

10 posted 2004-04-30 04:45 PM

Yes, well done.

The last two lines are exceptional in their closing.

CG

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

11 posted 2004-04-30 05:00 PM

"Like seeking dry shelter .... by dancing in the rain." My, what a wondrous thought. Thank you for sharing this fine poem. Bob

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