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mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

0 posted 2001-07-05 06:09 AM

I Know You

I know you. You’re the one
I should have loved
so long ago.
You’re the one I didn’t see
and so I lived another life
and never knew
that what I missed
was you.

I know you
from all the things I never did.
And all the things I never said.
And all the dreams of all the things
I could have been and couldn’t do.
I know you.

I know you from a forgotten year
in a forgotten time
when, but for time,
I would have found you here.

And if I did not see you in the moon
or in the sun’s day shadowed noon
or in the wind’s blustery rhyme
or in the winter’s frost,
forgive me, the cost is mine.
I was lost.

So many things I could count undone,
unsaid, unseen, undreamed, unbegun,
too many for even two lives to do,
so let us begin with one.

You know me.
I am the one you never knew.
You are the one I didn’t love.

I am you.

music and text by mirror man.
copyright 2001

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with your reading pleasure.
A quick trip to my home site and back.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2001-07-05 06:43 AM

You’re the one I didn’t see
and so I lived another life
and never knew
that what I missed
was you.

very beautifully written ~soft smile

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

doreen peri
Member Elite

since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

2 posted 2001-07-05 09:11 AM

this is wonderful writing.... it is heartfelt, succinct, vivid in imagery... the line breaks, the phrasing, all of it... excellent work!!

i just spent about 1/2 an hour at your website and will go back... very well done... the music is also excellent!! i'm very impressed and will go back and read more and enjoy the accompanying music...

did you write the music, too? are you a musician?

great stuff !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for sharing....

Brad Majors

Member Elite

since 2001-04-03

Posts 2647
Georgia

3 posted 2001-07-05 11:56 AM

Very well done and extremely thought provoking!

Fancy
Member

since 2001-06-05

Posts 189
TN/USA

4 posted 2001-07-05 12:58 PM

...Be Still My Heart....Wishing you were the one I knew.....This is a KEEPER!!!...

"...don't ever stop loving, don't ever stop believing, don't ever stop dreaming your dreams..."
Warmly...
Fancy

mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

5 posted 2001-07-05 02:47 PM

     Wynter -- thank you.  Written in one of my happier moods.

     Doreen -- thank you.  I'm glad you enjoy my site.  Visit as often as you like; it's open to everyone.  Am I a musician?  Not in the sense that I play an instrument.  I only write it.  I think of myself as a poet, but I like writing music almost as much as poetry, which is beginning to be a problem.  The words don't match.  Thank you again.

     Brad -- thank you also.  Regret is the word, I think.

     Fancy -- you're making me laugh.  thank you.

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

6 posted 2001-07-05 04:15 PM

Amazing write and music, mirror man. Liked them both. Regret is never easy to cope with, yet we all feel it at one time or another. You describe it well.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

7 posted 2001-07-05 04:23 PM

this brought tears to my eyes.....I love this....and yeah, it is a keeper

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2001-07-05 04:28 PM

Good mirror man..James

doreen peri
Member Elite

since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

9 posted 2001-07-05 06:49 PM

wow!! you wrote all that music? it's really wonderful!! what a combination of talents!

who's playing it?

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

10 posted 2001-07-05 07:18 PM

Well said, Mirror Man, Well said...

*smiles*
~Tier

mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

11 posted 2001-07-07 12:31 PM

Thank you all very much.

Sea: visit my site, and cry your eyes out.

Doreen: that would be a long explanation. Email me, and I promise to bore you with technical trivia.

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 07-07-2001).]

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