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caroline
Senior Member

since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
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0 posted 1999-09-23 07:43 PM

I've held your tears
puddled in my hands...
Bathed in their tragedy,
I cut open my own heart
as a place to keep your
words safe from those
who would not hear you
and could not understand
Your pain, like brittle glass
shattered my own eyes
But I let no liquid languish
in umber depths, so that
the color of the sky would
not be dimmed longer
than rain was needed
And storms have become
my life, absorbing the
thunder and lightning of
yours as expected,
even demanded as my
Responsibility
Now when threatened
by my own forecast
I reach for a
vessel to hold my
tears and find that
I've forgotten
how to cry

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caroline 1999
all rights reserved

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

Lynn
Member

since 1999-09-20

Posts 316
Jasper, Alabama U.S.A.

1 posted 1999-09-23 07:47 PM

.....Reading your poem left me in a very saddened state. I actually felt sorrow as I read it.......
........Very beautiful poem........

DreamEvil
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

2 posted 1999-09-23 08:26 PM

Well now, this is both surprise and not. It is not what I expected and it is very good to boot. Thank you Caroline for penning this and posting it.

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Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

3 posted 1999-09-24 10:32 AM

"I reach for a
vessel to hold my
tears and find that
I've forgotten
how to cry"
Wow!! Caroline....this is very tragic, but oh so well written. The flow is smooth, the message deep but well stated. You did a wonderful job on this.

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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints in our heart and we are never ever the same.

Thank you all for leaving footprints!!

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

4 posted 1999-09-24 12:35 PM

so well written Caroline....I do relate to this piece....touched me much

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-04-18 03:03 PM

what an ending! nice!

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