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A Life Divided
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A Life Divided |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida 
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I saved pieces of you. Parts, silly parts that held nothing, really, but a connection in my mind. Some mornings I wake up and forget you are gone and I am left, expected to move breathe, be. A part of me lives behind. Missing you, wanting to hold you feel you again. I didn’t understand before. Not my own feelings, what should have been, nor what should not have been. Oh how I loved you, love you still, cling to you in my soul. I sacrificed pieces of me. Parts, silly parts That held everything, really, and my connection to you. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" ~Unknown~ |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
I think we all hold on to pieces of any relationship we are in or have been in. They seem to mold and shape us to define what we become. Just never let go of who you really are. There is beauty in that heart that still needs to shine. Nice expression of feelings and worded just right. |
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Greeneyes  
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Oh my goodness, you have stated this so well! Brava!!! |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
We all have piecefull lives, don't we? Fortunately, many of our pieces are regenerative, otherwise we could only give our heart away one time.. always in awe of your style....  |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
A part of me lives behind. Missing you, wanting to hold you feel you again. Ah, lady... I know the ache of this well... those silly parts of us sometimes define us... it's so hard to step from being... to simply remembering. Beautiful write!! |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
I Enjoyed this Susan!  ARCTIC WIND |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Slapping your hand sista. I too have kept the good parts so close that I can't see through them to anything else. Maybe we should have a bonfire? A life divided has never been worded more accurate. Well done. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
loss is loss..be it a death or the loss of love from walking away. some just hurt longer and harder. Silly pieces...movie stubs, emails, text, a green foam frog...pieces of a past happy time..I want to keep some of those.  Thank you all for the replies. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Chalmette Guy Senior Member
since 2009-03-11
Posts 1257Louisiana |
This part: I sacrificed pieces of me. Parts, silly parts That held everything, really, and my connection to you. ...is awesome. And awesomely well written. |
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Rick Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 2903Victoria, Australia |
Dear Susan, this is so heart real that it hurts, a wonderful piece of writing my friend. Rick |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
A green foam frog? There MUST be a poem in that somewhere!  |
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unboundpoetess Member
since 2008-05-24
Posts 477 |
I felt this in my chest, as it drew my eyes toward the basement and thoughts of the box downstairs that split everything into befores and afters. You spoke my heart here plainly. Heather |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Some things are better kept to ones self...  Thank you all. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Yep, I have boxes of pieces. The 500 variety and larger. Sounds a bit like Silence of the Lambs, doesn't it? I know what you mean and I like your poem, Susan. Alison |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I am so bereft... Methinks that you are so amazing, simply because you do not know that you are amazing. This is golden. Not sterling, not even in that class-- GOLDEN!!! damn |
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