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Open Poetry #6

Well-intentioned Arms

PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

0 posted 2000-02-18 11:39 AM

It’s not that I choose to destroy
That which only brings me joy,
Or tear asunder, with words or deeds
Those are things I avoid
Yet, always seem to feed

But she can’t possibly believe,
She cannot believe in me

Every fault is named, and all are mine
Though I would take them back, in time
Of course, those fates are never true
She can plainly see the signs
In all the damage I do

But she can’t possibly know,
She cannot know the more I show

I won’t allow the mind to fret
Over such sorrows, just yet
A pall over the bad and the good,
Enflame in fires I watch myself set
Only because I could

But she can’t possibly wait,
She cannot wait – it’s too late

If control was not so dearly bought,
Many a man, it would have sought
Before the damage irrevocably done,
That’s what this empty embrace has taught
Pain I bring, even if she’s the only one

But she can’t possibly harm,
More, than my well-intentioned arms

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2000-02-18 11:53 AM

This is so sad

and well written.

Denise

PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

2 posted 2000-02-18 11:57 AM

thanks d, it is the most true statement about love.

Cerenity
Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 2637
Escondido-California

3 posted 2000-02-20 12:11 PM

I am so suprized at this wonderful poem, it had alot of admitting of what some of us do even when we know what could happen.
Very nice,

Cerenity-1

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