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Michael
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0 posted 1999-12-09 03:46 PM


MY HOUSE OF DARKNESS

I built this house not long ago,
But now the walls are dark with gloom.
Once filled with friends, now all I know
Is isolation, my living tomb.
I hear souls cry in every room,
I reach for them, to no avail.
Ghost in Darkness I can't exhume
The dead to hear my grieving wail.

I wander the cold, murky hall
Of ever shadowed memory.
Where to the past remains my call,
A time when you remembered me.
The sacrifice I gave to thee.
The devotions held in your stead.
Walk in my house, for now I see,
You are living, I am the dead.


 Michael Anderson

It's the little things you take for granted,
That'll mean the most to you when they're gone.





© Copyright 1999 Michael Anderson - All Rights Reserved
JennyLee
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since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.
1 posted 1999-12-09 05:23 PM


Such a haunting piece....
I really love the last stanza it sums many emotions up into one....
Well Done Darkness.....


Jennifer


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


Isis
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since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
2 posted 1999-12-09 05:26 PM


Hauntingly sad Michael, I too can relate. I have to admit when it comes to the dark you are the master!!  

 The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there IS to celebrate.
~Isis~
(Daughter of Mystery)


Michael
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3 posted 1999-12-10 12:48 PM


Thanks you two, it's nice to know I'm not just talking to walls in here though I certainly feel like it sometimes...LOL  I wonder what it's gonna take to get more reading and replying going on in here, that's really what was behind this poem.  

Jenny, your loyalty astounds even me, TY.
Isis, you offer me too much praise, but know that it is very well recieved.

Michael

DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396

4 posted 1999-12-10 04:16 AM


I must admit to being lax in my offerings to Dark. That will change soon I hope.

The verse truly needs no comment other than to say, "Truly do you shine with Darkness my friend."


 Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©
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"Either kill me or take me as I am,
because I'll be damned if I ever change..."

Count Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
(Marquis de Sade)


Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095

5 posted 1999-12-10 08:08 AM


Very Haunting Michael!! Loved it  

 What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge



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