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Deverone
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since 1999-10-13
Posts 136
San Antonio, Tx, USA

0 posted 1999-10-21 12:37 PM


As the sun sets wildly upon my back a
shadow of a child falls to the ground before.
So frail and thin is this shadow,
the heart torn.
I reach down and put my hand upon it,
I feel his pain
I hold his heart
I touch his soul and know his heart.

Abandoned and ashamed,
locked in total loneliness.
Reaching down to him
my heart hurts with his.
Desperation and Humiliation
raging in his mind.
I cry with him
and for his frailty.
I understand
I cannot help him.

I stand
and dry my eyes.

I look down once again
and look upon
a shadow of a man
standing in a pool
of a lost child's tears.

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Deverone

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out".

----Ray Bradbury---



© Copyright 1999 Shawn - All Rights Reserved
Systematic Decay
Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301
That place with padded walls and funny people in white.........
1 posted 1999-10-21 02:56 AM


I got confused on the last stanza....care to explain?

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

Watcher666
Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606

2 posted 1999-10-21 08:46 AM


Excellent! Liked this much.

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

Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
3 posted 1999-10-21 09:07 AM


Wow!
I really like this one Deverone. I felt like I was reading about myself here...
Awesome reflection of a scarred past.

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Michael Anderson

Is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream?




Deverone
Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 136
San Antonio, Tx, USA
4 posted 1999-10-30 09:21 PM


Thanks everyone for the replies.....
Hope I got everything cleared up for you SYSTEM.

Michael.......I to feel for you cause I know how you feel also....very harsh for anyone to have to endure.


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Deverone

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out".

----Ray Bradbury---



JennyLee
Senior Member
since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.
5 posted 1999-10-31 07:50 AM


Really good work Deverone..it brought tears to my Soul.

Jenny Lee

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