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Corinne
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0 posted 2000-07-02 06:41 PM


A Secret

I’ve been looking back in time
To a place colonized by loss
Where no ray of light shines
And Dreams are empty spaces.
Something triggered these images,
I wonder who this girl was
Wallowing deep on the dark side
As though depression were romantic.

Just a girl with a secret, nothing unique,
World falling down around her,
Tormented by teen madness
Thinking recklessness cool,
Twirling ever downward
Lucky the pit wasn’t bottomless.

Now I see NOT how easy it would have been
But how hard it really is.

© ’00 Corinne Bailey


© Copyright 2000 Corinne - All Rights Reserved
Denise
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1 posted 2000-07-02 06:45 PM


Wow! Very powerful writing, Corinne.

Denise

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2 posted 2000-07-02 07:19 PM


Corinne~
Too dark for that pretty face ...
there is always a ray of light, hon.
Sometimes it's just more difficult to see.

Deep thoughts, my friend.
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~


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3 posted 2000-07-02 07:20 PM


Bravo, Corinne. Very powerful writing...
Corinne
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4 posted 2000-07-02 07:27 PM


Thanks, Denise, Marge and Balladeer. Not a place I like to visit often, but sometimes reflection is necessary.

Corinne

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5 posted 2000-07-02 08:03 PM


Corinne,

Always good to look back on where you were and compare it to where you are now.  Powerful and thought provoking piece.  

LW


Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
--William Wordsworth

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