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emily
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0 posted 2001-01-01 06:53 PM




A young lover of sixteen
I flew through your pages
and read much too quickly.
How I missed so many things of you,
the way of you,
the depth of you.
When moonlights verse fell gently
and the steel blue skies
of joy descended I read on
and yet they did not cloud my eyes.

Each chapter, every line
revealed your penmanship
where passions flowers
bloomed and isn't it strange
how fresh each paragraph was
read like morning rain?

But through the years
I placed you on a shelf;
dog-eared promises and
yellowed vows that
gathered dust though
still maintained.

Bound in an epic still
unfinished
and if I had only known,
I would have read you
from a June summer
to the snowfall of forever.

One day I opened you
again and found
new words and more and
through burning eyes
I shed the tears for I read
you as I had never
read you before.  

I bled through with pain and yet
doors that had been closed
were still unlocked,
and now opened again
in the library of my heart.

And when, through age,
my failing eyes succumb,
my fingertips will read
you once again,
my dearest,
every line and every
worried brow in
sweet Braille.

For you once wrote of loving me.
And when my hands fold in death
and others read an empty stone
they will know I took you with me
for only with eternity can
I read you, my love.

Because for all of you I read,
I will also there,
be free to read again of loving you.

For heaven will sustain the many
volumes of our love,
so finely penned and only there
can I read with
angelic eyes that shall never dim
I will forever read you.
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Emily





[This message has been edited by emily (edited 01-02-2001).]

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Charisma
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lost in blue pages
1 posted 2001-01-01 07:11 PM


heart moving words.....love can be so strong and full of promisses...wonderful penned.

Take care

((warm hugs))
Charisma

Nan
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2 posted 2001-01-02 07:12 AM


Very nice, Emily... This is just how love and commitment should be...  
brian madden
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ireland
3 posted 2001-01-02 02:13 PM


When moonlights verse fell gently
and the steel blue skies
of joy descended I read on
and yet they did not cloud my eyes.


A very tender piece, beautiful. enjoyed the read.

It's in your eyes a fire that's wild and glorious
Unhibited, unfinished in everything I do Let the morning rise like our hearts desire" whipping boy

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4 posted 2001-01-02 04:57 PM


Lovely!! Well done!
dgvarner
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5 posted 2001-01-02 05:21 PM


"Bound in an epic still
unfinished
and if I had only known,
I would have read you
from a June summer
to the snowfall of forever"

makes me want to know this person you read with tender touch...

i love the way you wrote a person and his/her passions as a book to be read..very nice..i love this one!

will be finding you in my library if thats ok with you...  

hugs, g

"people who need people are the luckiest people..." barbra s.


dgvarner
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6 posted 2001-01-02 05:23 PM


oops...forgot to click the 'library' button...definately library material....  

g

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7 posted 2001-01-02 07:29 PM


this. . . is beautiful. . .

wonderfully done emily. . .  

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That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


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