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PortuguesePoet
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since 2001-04-24
Posts 34


0 posted 2001-04-24 07:43 PM


She asked me,
Turn it off,
Send me onwards.
But I could not,
Could not extinguish,
So precious, so dear,
Could not send her onwards,
In spite of the tears.

She begged me,
Turn it off,
My veins are molten iron,
My heart already still.
Yet I could not,
Could not answer her plea.
Her tears cut me deeply,
Her suffering left me drear.

She wept as she asked me,
Turn it off
And the wall collapsed.
Bitterly I wept,
I had to send her onwards,
I had to begin it now.
But knew if I did,
My sins I’d be left to pay.

I turned it off,
She left,
I left.
I wept,
I slept.


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wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)
1 posted 2001-04-24 08:00 PM


wow this struck me hard.... i am glad you are here
Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
2 posted 2001-04-24 08:17 PM


PortuguesePoet - I am glad that I came by for a read. Wonderful write.

BC

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA
3 posted 2001-04-24 08:19 PM


The definition of agony and sadness would be this poem.

"I am not now that which I have been."

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