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Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

0 posted 1999-10-02 03:29 PM

There Were Two

Once, there were two,
sharing all of everything,
in the dusk of day.

Now I,
standing alone,
watching a figure face into
nothing,

and I can only watch.

There were not
many words, and he knows not
of what I feel,
or have felt.

Loneliness
and a kiss
warms my heart, dies out, and
turns cold; empty.

Barren as a tree of leaves
in winter’s white morning.

Silence is loud when alone,
to linger on fading memories
and fragrances,
of roses and dreams.

Don’t come back ~
not now,
as you might want to leave again,
and I would have to suffer
once more.

Would you like it? Change places then,
and breath
the hollow air,
feel the touch
of creeping coldness

hear
the fading
of laughter

smell the sweetness
of old flowers
the now mean
no more.

Then
you’ll want
two
to
be
here.

Circa 1969
©KRJ
2 October, 1999

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Sunshine
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 10-04-1999).]

Pepper
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since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

1 posted 1999-10-02 04:13 PM

it's so painful to watch a love leave and be helpless to change it.......a very poigniant work.....Sunshine thanks for sharing

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

Sunshine

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2 posted 1999-10-03 08:04 AM

We've both been there, haven't we, Pepper? Thanks for reading...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 1999-10-03 02:31 PM

Sunshine,
I'll have to see what I can do to warm you up. Nice work.

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

4 posted 1999-10-03 02:32 PM

I loved the form in which you wrote this,I enjoyed it alot !!

Jenny

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

5 posted 1999-10-03 04:05 PM

You have portrayed the sadness loneliness very well.

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Denise

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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6 posted 1999-10-04 11:00 AM

Sy, things have been quite warm ever since - helps when the right one finds you;

Jenny Lee, thank you for the comment on the form. Sometimes I want to post a warning "Read Slow!";

denise, thank you. If you saw the sorrow, then I did a good job.

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