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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2013-01-02 03:13 PM

Thorn

I've taken time to dance with Misery,
I've taken time to walk with Sorrow.
I've clutched this thorn for all to see,
I will, ever unto the morrow.
With an aura of dark shadow –
With a nimbus emptied of soul,
There is a path I must follow,
Though I may never face it whole.

Where, once, the river guided me,
It's only now Silence which bends
The voices through this ebony
Forest emptiness simply rends
Upon the unsuspecting eye,
Incarcerating true belief
In hope, in love – those things that I
Have witnessed only bring you grief.

I stare up at the blackened sky,
Can trace where the stars used to shine.
Too exasperated to sigh –
The curse of thinking a thing mine...
Or that something could lift me from
This byway of obscurity,
Not falling to belief I'm some
Damned result of depravity.

...And still these voices call to me,
I close my eyes, and hear them true.
They know my name, they sing to me
All I could never be to you.
They call me out, but still I wait,
Today marking another year.
A prisoner to self chosen fate,
What can I say? I like it here.

Michael Anderson

13/01/01

Death's but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God.

Thomas Parnell

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

1 posted 2013-01-02 07:38 PM

That last line sums it up, doesn't it,
"I like it here"! I guess we like to be where we
are most comfortable. Well done, Michael!
With understanding,
Ms. E

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2013-01-03 07:44 PM

If you like where you are that is all that matters.
Or perhaps it's just easier that way, instead of fighting it.
There's a lot to be said for coming to terms, for all of us.

You write a good poem~

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

3 posted 2013-01-10 08:40 PM

Nicely done Michael. I like it here too and the older you get the more comfortable you become with yourself.

~Victoria

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2013-01-10 11:37 PM

"All I could never be to you."

"What can I say? I like it here."

Nice writing, my friend.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2013-01-13 01:07 PM

Where you are produces lovely poetry, Michael so I like it here too.
Ida

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2013-01-16 09:25 AM

Grief sometimes can lead you into the most sublime and stalwart feelings, Michael. For, to pen the poetry, and the focal point of the verses, you have come to a place in the road where you are happy with your misery and would not have it any other way you must be strong or you would surely break. And beware the fool who tries to divert you from your selected and chosen path. I speak from experience.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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