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themute
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since 2006-05-08
Posts 469
Maryland

0 posted 2006-08-08 03:26 AM



I feel the tingle in my sinus
But why, we were nothing to each other
And just as the tingling is gone
I hope the memories of a hope will go
If time exists then with time they’ll fade
And this emotion will be forgotten
And so the eyes and hips
Those hands and lips
So hopeful, so hopes are but a longing
And so this longing makes me sad
I see her beauty in a picture
And that emotion hits me back
I wish I were a better man
Someone who lets her hold so tightly
Without words or harshness
Without anger and ideals
I feel she knows I have such sins
And so she left my hand
Went over to another man
And loved him without guilt or contradiction
This hope has led to longing
This longing led to love so lost
My love is lost and so I’m saddened
My sadness caused my tingled sinus
But my tears will never come

I am the two-toed wanderer

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Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945
Texas, USA
1 posted 2006-08-08 11:59 AM


This is a lonely poem-- I'd been reading something light, and this one sobered me.  The tears that won't fall, or the tears that can't fall?  Either way, it's a harsh world.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

seraphin
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since 2000-09-24
Posts 1004
Michigan
2 posted 2006-08-08 01:09 PM


As luck would have it, I read this while listening to Chu Chulainn. The bagpipes' mournful notes accented this work perfectly. Two beautiful works. You are a wonder.
the quell
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since 2006-07-19
Posts 144
Liverpool, UK
3 posted 2006-08-08 01:57 PM


I can really relate; that feeling of having accumulated tears, and nowhere for them to go. Loved it.
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