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To One Who Lost the Way

Rex
Member

since 2000-06-29

Posts 482
Houston, Texas

0 posted 2000-07-15 01:04 PM

Lift, for one brief while, your eyes,
And let remembrance flood their depths.
Remembrance, not of me...
I would not ask so much;
But remembrance of a dream
Which once you knew.
Cause the sordid, weary world
That now claims you as its own,
To crumble at your plodding feet
Until its impregnable steel,
And its shining rails
Shall writhe impotently
To lie at length, as shadows
On some dark embittered past;
And let each granite block
Fall in moldering dust to strew
The tortuous streets, till buried
Lie their rancors and their lust.
...Raise then once more
Your weighted eyes
That for so long have ceased to dream,
And forgotten in their blindness
That there is more than gold.
Forgotten that a flower,
Or bird, or leaf, or tree
Are older in their strength
Than all the powers man has wrought;
And when the havoc he himself has made
Has swept him in a juggernaut of wrath
To some perdition of forgotten things,
Still, in the far distances shall bloom
The fields he could not touch.
...So stand high on a greensward hill,
And raise to the sky your toil-bent head,
That you may know once more
The cleansing touch of rain,
And mingle with its cooling drops
A fleeting tear...
For he who weeps may never lose
In its entirety...a dream.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2000-07-15 01:32 PM

And now you know why I do not live in CA or NY...but here, in the heartland, where I found my way...

Good stuff, Rex! Thanks for sharing...

Sunny

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~

When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ

ellie LeJeune
Member Elite

since 2000-01-10

Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA

2 posted 2000-07-15 01:44 PM

Rex; This is wonderful....the embittered heart and the moment of tears that allow the heart to know that it is not hardened by the pain, but can live on and dream again. Ellie

Summers haunting melody
that awakens
the butterflies,
calling them to join
the dance
in their silent song
of praise to God.

eL

Songbird
Member Elite

since 1999-12-15

Posts 2184
Missouri

3 posted 2000-07-15 07:47 PM

An exellent read, enjoyed it very much.

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