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Michael
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0 posted 1999-09-23 04:01 PM


DECAY

I stop and look at the playground -
Where, once, two lovers used to play.
A blemished elegance, quite profound,
A miasma of righteous decay.

Truth, first to fall, lies in the gutter,
Faith, buried somewhere in the sand.
Where every malicious lie you utter -
Softly pleads for me to understand!

Hope is dancing in the cobwebs -
Of silky spun memory.
While a tide of Darkness slowly ebbs -
Away all you once meant to me.

And echoes of Love may still remain,
But honor is the price we pay;
To hold each other through the pain,
Choosing to look the other way.

If Love holds Virtue, Justice quells,
If Pride - arrogant, feel my shame.
If Time - precious, the past foretells -
My love may never know the same.

I would rather rot in the shadows,
Given, alone, a silent death.
Then smell the sweet scent of a rose -
Tainted by lies upon thy breath.

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Michael Anderson


And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
But dreams - of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:


EAP


© Copyright 1999 Michael Anderson - All Rights Reserved
DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396

1 posted 1999-09-23 04:41 PM


Masterfully worded my friend. Challenge well met and exceeded. Many times have I pondered the death of love which you capture so well.

Ready for the next round, anytime you're ready.

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Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©


JennyLee
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since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.
2 posted 1999-09-24 12:13 PM


Micheal,
I find this piece most exquisite!
As always...so very well done...

Jenny

poetFemmeFatale
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since 1999-07-25
Posts 2646
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3 posted 1999-10-20 12:29 PM


You know, the first time I read this, I didn't reply because I felt you wrote this for me...we had had our little argument, ya know? It's good...frigid, but good! hehe

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I beckon you to come...I lure you with my tongue... - poet FemmeFatale


Systematic Decay
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since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301
That place with padded walls and funny people in white.........
4 posted 1999-10-20 03:40 PM


I remember reading this, Micheal....yet I can't remember why I didn't reply....very good poem.

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"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."
-Billy Corgan-

Watcher666
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since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606

5 posted 1999-10-20 04:36 PM


Chilling painful look back at what was.Well done.

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

JennyLee
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since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.
6 posted 1999-10-20 04:44 PM





As good the second time around as it was the first!!!!!


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