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Martie
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0 posted 1999-10-21 08:36 PM



I read there was a miracle child
undead
I saw her smile from the newsprint
her dark hair curled

I could not read
the screams that had rained on her spring
with no sound
her heart slowing to almost stop
again and again
and sleep far deeper than night

Those who loved her must have wished
her free of life
in their secret souls
lost hope to weight
that crushed inside
till death was in their eyes

But
she lived
through the scream
the unimagined soundless terror
and found her way
in darkness
with no breath
fought her way through chance
and lived

My own gamine girl
took to death so quickly
that same year
that same spring
holding the same soundless scream
inside her

Oh I would be the mother
of a miracle child
and not me

© Copyright 1999 Martie Odell Ingebretsen - All Rights Reserved
Watcher666
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since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606

1 posted 1999-10-22 10:02 AM


Such a sad and heart breaking poem.*Hugs*

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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.
2 posted 1999-10-23 10:54 PM


This tore at my soul!!!
{{hugs}}

Jenny

Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
3 posted 1999-10-23 11:17 PM


Wow!...There is much pain behind this one Martie, very well done.

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Michael Anderson

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



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