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Where You Are and Where I'm Not
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Where You Are and Where I'm Not |
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Lucie Senior Member
since 1999-06-20
Posts 1077Houston 
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This morning when I woke up my hand reached out for you, but your not here, it was a dream, my dreams had not come true. While standing in the kitchen as I watched the coffee pot. I looked around my modest home at all the things I’ve got. But I would gladly trade them all just to have you here the chance to kiss your lips again or just to pull you near. The hardest thing that I must face is knowing you are there I want to throw a fit and scream, like a child "Its not fair!" Before you came into my life I thought my mind was set I thought that if you did the crime you deserve just what you get. And though I still believe this, sometimes its hard to hear that in the justice system the facts aren’t always clear. That a small infraction of your parole can get you years in jail while the man who just beat his child.. with the right money’s making bail. Each year when they deny you and won’t send you home to me I realize they don’t see you’ve changed they just see history. Forever youthful mistakes will follow you I know but in my mind it doesn’t matter where you’ve been but where you go. No matter all the changes you will make within your mind the past is not always in the past… and not always left behind. There are things in life we all have done of which we take no pride little secrets that follow locked within us deep inside. There really is no difference between where you are and where I’m not the sad fact of reality is that baby you got caught. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Very sad...I hope all works out for you ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Oh Lucie! I know just how ya feel-this really touched me.  *sighs* This is "life" in its most unfair essence. What else can I say besides good luck, and I hope it works out for you and him...------------------ *Elizabeth* "Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd by high and low, But with autumn leaf she perish'd, long time ago..." |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Let's see what happens when this is brought up to the top. ------------------ *Elizabeth* "Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd by high and low, But with autumn leaf she perish'd, long time ago..." |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very well done, Lucie and very tragic and very true! ------------------ Denise |
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Tara Simms Senior Member
since 1999-08-12
Posts 1244Honea Path, SC USA |
I liked this, it makes you look at things from another perspective. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Lucie, those last two lines are really grabbers.....and so true. |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Very well written! Things are not always fair, especially our justice system. Good luck to you both! |
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