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sgreybe Member
since 2000-04-28
Posts 209London, UK |
MY TROPICAL EXPLANATION The tropical rainforest of my life in an instant turned to grey The day I heard from you the truth, its safety ebbed away From far across a chasm wide I saw you watching me It remained between us though I tried To cross eternity Instantly from child to adult, the truck developed me Experienced then and many more, living fearfully Somehow the colours of my life managed to shine through Though I had to be a double me A silver-birch for you A grey depression fills my soul as my world comes crashing down I try naively to hold on to some as pieces fly around Suicide waves its darkest clouds; I readily give in I wake to find myself still here, not in sweet oblivion Existing, walking, I long for the past When all was simple I was free Now emotions rule my life, and govern who I must be The silver from a tall, deep birch who talked and made me feel Consciously, dead inside - you're gone; is this real? Leaving loss, my cycle starts I walk as if in a dream This isn't real, it can't be true "Come back to me!" I scream Self-pity has a field-day, or make that field-weeks She my fruit-tree also hurts, I don't notice 'till she speaks "I miss the birch as you do too" In an instant we are one Our eyes speak volumes, I'm drawn to her Something new's begun A magnetic force - vaguely familiar "I need to believe in you" "I'll never leave you" yet I fall As I return to take you through You recognise it all in me, it's all too familiar too You hold me close and see me stripped "Hold on 'till you're renewed" Bit by bit I start to grow, leaves start to sprout With genuine joy and your branch in mine I start to peel off the doubt Only once this tree stands free Tall and evergreen Will I find my place in my tropical rainforest Seeing what I've never seen It's what I want - Evergreen - tall and sure of me Not a birch or conifer Interdependent Free. |
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Dawn Eclipse Senior Member
since 2000-01-31
Posts 637The Horsehead Nebula |
Wonderful story! I especially like the line, "You recognise it all in me, it's all too familiar too You hold me close and see me stripped "Hold on 'till you're renewed" " Great Job! "It is in our aloneness that we recognize our oneness, even as the single droplet of water knows also that it is the sea."Daniel *Cassie Roseen* |
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WolfsMate Member
since 2000-01-14
Posts 121New York |
Awesome story. Well done!  "You never have to worry...Never fear for I am near" |
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