Forever Is a Long Time (free verse)

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Open Poetry #6

Forever Is a Long Time (free verse)

John Yaws
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2000-03-11 01:41 PM

Musing in the silence of my study-
I’ve been told that “diamonds are forever”.
Maybe…but if people aren’t…who cares if
diamonds last; when the fingers which they graced
have long since become dust?
Forever is an abstract concept. We have no yardstick
By which to measure forever, or eternity.
Some things last a long time: the pyramids… the Coloseum
at Rome…. The ruins of the Mayans. Jerusalem, the Golden.
Some memories seem to last forever- memories of moments of intimacy
Memories of the first time a baby says, “Mamaa” or Dada
The most lasting impressions in our lives are those of sorrow.
A trust betrayed, a heart broken, a loved one’s death. These
are the lasting things. A boy’s thirteenth birthday ruined by
an uncaring parent, a brother’s untimely death… These are the
lasting things. Forever is a long time, but sorrow is longer.

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Diana B
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since 2000-03-10

Posts 97

1 posted 2000-03-11 02:49 PM

it seems that is all too true...pain is more striking in intensity...it is hard to refocus it on the joy that existed first...you expressed yourself very well...i enjoyed reading.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2000-03-11 04:17 PM

Nice thoughts gunslinger...yes, sorrow does lay its heavy hand on us for way to long sometimes. James

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-03-11 08:09 PM

Well done with some heavy thoughts.

Denise

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