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jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

0 posted 2005-05-16 10:55 AM

If all the stars fell from the sky
and a wish was hung on each
and every one, this harsh world
would still not give back
what it has taken from me;
so tell me, why wish?

There isn’t any amount of hoping
that will make it one day shorter
to get from here to where you are;
So tell me, why hope?

And if I dreamed you every night
upon waking will your absence
be any less real?
So tell me, why dream?

If all the words in the world
were at my disposal,
could I write breath back
to your still lips?
So tell me, why write?

A million screams
cannot heal
this emptiness;
so tell me, why cry?

Lord please take from me
this false futility and Lord fill me with
a reason
to try

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2005-05-16 11:21 AM

Honey?

For the children
left behind...

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

2 posted 2005-05-16 01:09 PM

Why? For our own sanity and because there is nothing else to do...

very poignant

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2005-05-16 01:13 PM

I can't tell you the why of wishes or hopes or dreams, my friend... but why write? To remind ourselves we are for as long as we are... to remember... to make sure the love lives on... to give something to a little one who's had too much taken... to touch another's heart... as you have done here.

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

4 posted 2005-05-16 02:56 PM

I could have prefaced this by saying I know, I know a hundred reasons why, but this is what had need to be written, and so I wrote, and now after reading your responses, I know why, for *you* are one of the biggest reasons why, you are all so special and I thank you with all my heart

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2005-05-16 07:34 PM

BeautifulPoetess~
This tender render left me in tears ...
I can't answer 'some' of the 'whys' ...
but, know that by writing it and sharing it ... you've given a thoughtful *gift* that stays with the reader~

I love you, lady~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

Email noles1@totcon.com

El_Campeador
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since 2003-01-29

Posts 761
Ohio, USA

6 posted 2005-05-20 02:36 PM

Wow, this one really touches the heart. Thank you sharing this...

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

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