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You Can Never Go Back Home
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You Can Never Go Back Home |
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Gunslinger Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 901TX, USA 
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I was sifting through some memories- Of bridges that I’ve burned: A hundred “roads not taken”, And some lessons I have learned. I’ve learned that dwelling on them- Will magnify our fears. And not to be the victim, Of a pretty woman’s tears. I’ve learned there is some wisdom, In “to thyself be true”… And don’t depend on others, To do what you should do. The saddest lesson I have learned- As down life’s road I roam… Is, “the past is gone forever”- You can never go “back home”. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Memories are just that, John, and sad memories are birthed in joy and can recall a sliver of that quivering happiness when touching them for a moment under the sun. Lovely poignant poem. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Lord knows I've tried that "going home..." sometimes memories are much more poignant. |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
John...As always, enjoyed very much...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
John, Very few of us get through this sticky business we call life, without looking back with regrets. I don't think if it matters if you are slugging it out alone or duking it out as doubles, you are still running the same obstacle course. You do a great job of telling your time in the trenches. ~L |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Excellent, John. So true and so sad and yet... |
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