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Open Poetry #47

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eminor_angel
Member

since 2003-05-22

Posts 323
Canada

0 posted 2011-07-24 10:22 AM

Frail

I don't see myself in mirrors anymore
My hands are wizened now
Twisted and stilted like tree stumps
My eyes like shards of glass
My skin like glass worn down to sand

I hold my granddaughter
Fresh from the womb
Lean into her soft new ear
Tell her my secrets
Tell her to never get this old

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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-07-24 10:27 AM

. . . and I hope she understands and heeds that advice, my friend . . .

~ Money can't buy happiness, but broke can't buy anything. ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2011-07-24 06:12 PM

Oh, but eminor_angel, there is such grace and beauty in the frail - such delicate fragility, and wisdom, and a wealth of memories just waiting to be told - don't you feel that when you see others who are frail?

Owl

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2011-07-26 10:01 AM

Bookends of life... this is a touching picture! *S*

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