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Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

0 posted 2001-07-16 03:15 PM

                       holding

what it feels like

is to combine
breathholding
with sun’s heat
flickering cosmic
radiation
over skin

that tingling sense
of agitation
that causes one to
brush away non-existent
gnats

the gut-wrench
remaining of
recalled fears
after having
swallowed a
fly

you only hope
it will
pass through

~*~

                       sorting

it begs release, this feeling,
I stand
willingly alone
thinking I am strong enough
to recognize
my failures,
wondering at my tenacity
to hold on
to ways that should be
shed

even in my turnings
I shy
away from burnings
I find
no one here, as this
is of my own
accord, but not
anxious to rid myself of
me, only thought
processes that brought me

here, so
perhaps I need to
wonder if last night’s
lack of sleep
is telling me I
deprived myself of
something yet again or am I
simply being a figment

of my own imagination
but in
that turning of corners
not even I want
to imagine something this
inescapable as it is
unpalatable to think
I did it to me

for I would not
have done it
to you

~*~

                         discarding

finding what is
key

and what is trash

I find

I am my key

and you?

let’s just say it’s good
today is Monday

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2001-07-16 03:19 PM

Ouch! sounds like hard emotional feelings wrapped around a lot of resentment...

nicely written...and well told...

I enjoy the talent it shows...but am sorry for the feelings that seemingly inspired it.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-07-16 03:56 PM

I hate being an echo so often, but I just don't think I can respond any more succinctly than Cpat, so I'll echo his words.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2001-07-16 03:57 PM

Decaflame:

"I find

I am my key"

Hold on to that thought...it is important!!
Hugs!

Auguste

Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

4 posted 2001-07-16 04:43 PM

What a tremendously introspective piece. I applaud this. Wonderful work!

Michael

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

5 posted 2001-07-16 05:50 PM

you are key and lock
all else is trash and garbage
put it on the curb
experts will haul it away
determine your destiny

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

6 posted 2001-07-20 03:59 PM

Decaflame-
   WOW!  Some powerful words you've penned!!

      "finding what is
       key

       and what is trash

       I find

       I am my key

       and you?

       let’s just say it’s good
       today is Monday"

   I love it!
   Awesome write!!

   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

7 posted 2001-07-20 04:13 PM

Nicely done.

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