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On The First Anniversary My Heart Finally Broke (a repost)
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On The First Anniversary My Heart Finally Broke (a repost) |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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Still, I hear the pipes sing Amazing Grace I hear them in my dreams I hear the screams every day, months of cadenced march out of an open pit mine of souls, all day long and through the night in and out of mind until my heart ran out of song. In today's Remembrance bells ring, performers sing and everybody's priests ask gods for treats. Each name a moment held in all solemnity on edge to slip into eternity; pomp and circumstance, a ceremony's tears and choking fears that this will mean an end to the beginning of the years we mark remembering the dead, living dead names all run together, labels on one giant blended bleeding soul. If one more plastic politician says, ‘Let's roll,' I think I will be sick. The dead can sleep, where is peace for heart and soul that could bring quiet to the living? We mourned a year. We buried buttons and a watch, a rock, handfuls of dirt and ash, a shoe or two, some bone fragments, photographs in empty caskets, memories in sleepless nights full of empty arms and empty beds, tears in empty hearts. It's time to leave the past. For some, we became as Death in a time to stalk revenge cold and crafted with precision in deserts, fields and mountains, where we are hated for existing, where gods are left with questions, where evil breeds in men, where each victory brings two graves and self-serving politicians bend the world back into their greed. So, the need, the questions linger empty, there are no answers and so, the killings never end. There is no grief beyond the love of that which death can steal. There is no deal to make, no memorial to shake the monstrous memories, smell, taste of human flesh and blood in ashes mixed with fuel melted steel vaporized concrete, grit that clogged our eyes a blessing in disguise; shame of hoping winds would change, the dream's there every day, turn back and turn away run, no where to go, who died when there is nothing left to hold but memories' deadly clouds thick choking terror floating wild in toxic air, horror grown so full that vision's lost, sounds of bodies hitting ground just beyond the reach of sight within the sounds, quick claws of fright, no where to hide. No where to hide. ©2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 by icebox (written, September 11, 2002; edited as above) |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
This is one magnificent piece of writing, let alone the emotions that it stirs in this reader. |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Thank you for the gift of your time in reading! |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
I HAVE ALOWAYS BEEN A FAN OF YOU FOR JUST THIS REASONL.YOU HAVE HEART AND FEELING AND ALWAYS WRITE IT BEAUTIFULY JO PERRY |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
great emotion reading you, and more remembering this day yann |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
superb write (on this day particularly). |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Ahhh . . . So full of heartfelt emotion. It stirred mine. ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
The way we remember, and the things we do in memory, are so important. Better to keep it honest and tasteful than to cheapen it. |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
I am so glad i stopped by this morning, i really needed a good dose of wisdom. thankyou god bless you My spirit will rise |
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