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Dark Poetry #1

The Long Road Home

Walter Poe
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

0 posted 1999-11-11 12:44 PM

I am walking in the desert
Hot sand burns my feet
All around water sits
All time I cannot drink

My voice dry cracked
My belief broken gone
Where are they the old ones
Sworn to protect me

They I pray to in the night
They I gave my belief
why do they so great
Not rest my aching feet

Can so old beings as these
not help my old frail bones
Nor stop these sores from burns
Am I alone is there no one

Can I really be the last
dieing in the sun
Is this my end or a beginning
of the Long Road Home

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Pride of place in the human race goes to one without a trace,
of subtlety style ego or grace for this position, I wish to say, i would be proud as i am greater than any other face in the crowd

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

1 posted 1999-11-11 02:24 PM

I like your Long Road Home...good read

Jenny

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being,But it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

JOY 14
Senior Member

since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

2 posted 1999-11-13 01:54 PM

It was like others, a poem, that I like to think about for awhile. Good job.

Deep Blue Me
Member

since 1999-11-04

Posts 396
By a big lake

3 posted 1999-11-13 03:41 PM

walking forever on hot sand is well put despair and pain

DB

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And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart.
===RUSH===

FreeByrd
Member

since 1999-11-03

Posts 267

4 posted 1999-11-14 11:23 AM

I read this many times. Extremely thought provoking. I have felt this way many times myself, awaiting an answer. Most times feeling abandoned. When the anger set in, that wonderful human spirit gave me what I needed to begin the Long Road Home. It was a lesson hard learned. Taught me by the old ones.

Wonderful piece WP.

-RS

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Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

5 posted 1999-11-15 10:28 AM

Enjoyable read, Walter. I don't know where I am on my road either.

Michael

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