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Open Poetry #10

--- Let Me Be ---

The Lonely Stranger
Member

since 1999-06-18

Posts 361
Upstate, NY, USA

0 posted 2000-10-21 12:20 PM

When asked who we poets are, what we feel I wrote this as my response. After looking at it over and over I realized this is so much me. so here it is.

--- Let Me Be ---

We are not just poets,
Our feelings are real.
We have all the heartaches
That everyone feels.

What do I tell you
Where do I start.
What do I feel in
The depths of my heart?

I'm just a man like
Most men you see.
I want to love someone
Who will also love me.

I want to live life
With the people I've met
To float on the lake
And watch the sun set.

But the center of life
The core of my world
Is that ponytailed angel
My sweet little girl.

It's like it has been
My whole sad life long
I've lived out the words
Of Clapton's sad song

"When I walk, stay behind;
Don't get close to me,
'Cause it's sure to end in tears,
So just let me be."

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Some men see things as they are and ask "WHY ?" I see things as they could be and ask "WHY NOT ?"

[This message has been edited by The Lonely Stranger (edited 10-21-2000).]

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

1 posted 2000-10-21 12:42 PM

Oh man...I did not want to start my day in tears but thats exactly what you have done...I'm just a man like
Most men you see.
I want to love someone
Who will also love me.

This passage just aches...and this one...But the center of life
The core of my world
Is that ponytailed angel
My sweet little girl...this one just sings to me, telling me what a special man you truly are.

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

2 posted 2000-10-21 12:50 PM

Beautiful..makes me remember when my daughter was small..i use to fix her hair in two ponytails...shes all grown up now..she looks just like Darryl Hannah..very tender poem...

~Victoria~

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

Rosebud1229
Senior Member

since 2000-04-05

Posts 1813
North Carolina

3 posted 2000-10-21 08:25 PM

Beautiful and words can not describe how this makes me feel

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