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scoff
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0 posted 2008-07-07 07:16 PM


The world echoes hollowly
in the heart of me.

I'm searching in vain,
but you've gone too far,
and I'm lost in this wide world
of illusion.
I'm listening closely,
trying to detect
your voice in the mind-numbing roar
of confusion.

I still hear you now and then,
not as I once heard you,
but distant and dim,
as if I were lost in a maze
and you had found the end.

I still see you now and then,
not as I once saw you,
but distant and dim,
as if our destinies had
settled like a cloud between us.

The fog slowly shifts
as the wind blows your voice away.
I can't hear what you say.
I can't see you today,

and the world echoes hollowly
in the heart of me,
the lost part of me.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Max Ehrmann

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SEA
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1 posted 2008-07-07 07:19 PM


my goodness this is so sad...touches the heart...and drips with ache.
scoff
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2 posted 2008-07-07 08:00 PM


SEA,

It's something I wrote ages ago. I was reminded of it when I read your found you, so I figured I'd post it.

Thanks

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I'm glad you did


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4 posted 2008-07-08 11:16 AM


Excellent!, scoff.
               Ida

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