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JP
Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 1999-12-10 01:31 AM


He sits quietly,
sickly glow of monitor,
casting face in death's radiance,
wondering how he will survive.
Her death was well deserved
and long time in coming,
evil demon of lust and greed,
who passing from this coil,
will give life to this heart.
He places fingers on keys,
to begin his life anew,
painting portraits in rhyme,
sculpting statues in prose.
the very life's blood again,
that once made him a man,
but which she stole violently.
He taps the squares of the muse,
watching verse flow before him,
feeling the power of creation,
in his abiltiy to pen joy.
Somewhere, in labrynth of thought,
he senses her soul stir,
the soul of doubt and fear,
the soul of the mute, the numb.
He feels her seethe deep,
weak, not quite as dead,
as he had prayed for.
He races with poem,
trying to put down each line,
cause he understands,
with the certainty of the dead,
that she will come back to him.
for like sorrow, and the misty ocean,
all things shall return.

Ex nihilo nihil fit
JP


© Copyright 1999 JP Burns - All Rights Reserved
danni
Senior Member
since 1999-11-20
Posts 688
wisconsin
1 posted 1999-12-10 02:51 PM


Wow! So vivid and true. It's not the most pleasent reality. But bad things and hard times always do return.
Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
2 posted 1999-12-10 05:55 PM


Darkness and sorrow, she will return to him tomorrow.  If he feels hard enough he'll feel her.  This was a great piece JP  

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


JennyLee
Senior Member
since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.
3 posted 1999-12-11 02:37 PM


This is my favorite of yours.
really had me from beginning to end.

Jenny


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


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