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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-06-11 05:06 PM

Innocence, naiveté, and the purity of thought
contained within a heart receptive and ajar
stands amidst the sand on the sea shore
and for this tale could be a mermaid, woman, me.

There’s longing in her eyes, blue like the sky,
of no consequence to the mysterious unknown,
and a sense of resignation flies from her lips
wrapped invisibly in the middle of a sigh.

Rain begins to fall, a little trickle, no downpour,
not moving she recalls from beginning to the end
how the sea, maybe you, once fulfilled her every need
and brought back to life what should have never died.

She knows the sea is there because it never leaves
but ferociously the waves pound at her core belief
with seaweed, sand, and the sting of this life’s disdain
as a barrier, a wall, between reality and dreams.

She stands still and silent knowing she must turn
waiting, watching, hoping, she never has to change
but the sea begins to rise, higher, higher, higher,
and innocence, naiveté, succumbs to the force.

As heart and purity fight to overcome a fear
the undertow of sea unsettles confidence
and undignified they fall, together now no more,
into the vast and bottomless hell hole of the sea.

Such is the plight when one no more can fight
the advance of modern ways and modernistic tales
that from a worldly base distort the truth of soul
and advocate survival of strongest, hardest, fastest.

And we meld into a mould cast from iron and steel
till finally we die, sometimes before our time,
and the sea remains the victor with the truth unto itself
as to how, when, and why, goodness and mercy died!

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2004-06-11 05:57 PM

Helen~
The pure depths of this make it an outstanding piece~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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

noles1@totcon.com

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

2 posted 2004-06-13 12:07 PM

I enjoyed this, immensely, especialy;

...the sea remains the victor with the truth unto itself
as to how, when, and why, goodness and mercy died...

Thanks, Melton

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2004-06-13 05:10 PM

Thank you Marge and Melton for suffering through that long wordy write and for so kindly commenting.

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