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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods 
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If there is love, Let us strip it open and suck the marrow. If there is still an attempt at kindness, Let us huddle and survive. I can burn his memoirs to warm your hands, I can humor isolation on my own time, And pay attention. If you would promise the flight, the feeling of absolution, if you would promise passion and adoration. I need to feel more than devotion. I am sick of hiding in the hush 3 am to cry over something I can never resolve. And this endless generosity, this immeasurable kindness… I can't take up any more of your time, Darling. Precious child, I know what you're worth. I am sick of forgetting you in my overdue grief. Your long frustration over equality… needing to amaze me, wanting to blind me with your intelligence (to overawe the relic of his brilliance). I am sick of the reality that you never will. Would you dazzle me? Would you catch my breath and make me stammer? Would you drop your hands over me, speak in tones to ease the dead, remark on possibilities that leave me sleepless four nights after (wide and shuffling, left in the wondering). Somehow shift this existence so I may Jump when you speak, Pray when you breathe, Instead dying of every time I hear his name? [This message has been edited by Elizabeth Cor (edited 11-14-2000).] |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Elizabeth, moving on is hard but you have expressed it very well. write on Kethry Why do yesterdays remain and todays pass by ...unnoticed? Rex E. Alford |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Especailly when there are three poeple caught in the moving... Thank you, Kenthry, for your warm commentary. ~ Beth |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Elizabeth, Intellectual elegance. And well done. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I concur with Sy. . . well-crafted. . . Superb. . . ------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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