consolation from the damned

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Open Poetry #15

consolation from the damned

mirror man
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since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

0 posted 2001-07-11 09:33 AM

consolation from the damned
(on the death of someone
I didn't know)

Sometimes it takes more to get through to me
than anything I understand.
Evil I know well enough.
But it is the good that slips too often
by my sight
as I look constantly into the night.

This is not an excuse.
I ask for no special handling.
Nor do I take pride in it.
Nor do I explain, or can.

But there are things I see in light
here and there
that tell me what I am.

I would be lying if I said
I knew the man
or paid much attention
to him or his work when he was alive.
Or know this loss you feel
that I can only imagine
multiplied by my worst fears.

I would look the other way,
but there is this feeling I hear
in the outpouring
of so many of the good.
I do not know,
and there is nothing I can say or add.

So I can only offer this,

small consolation
from one odd corner
of the damned.

text and music by mirror man
copyright 2001

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 07-11-2001).]

Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

1 posted 2001-07-11 10:39 AM

...there is this feeling I hear....

Well done, Sir.

Thank you for feeling to all you hear....

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-07-11 10:53 AM

yes, some things just can't be explained

your poem certainly epitomizes that

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

3 posted 2001-07-11 01:18 PM

I'm intrigued by the loss of one not known and the finding of one's self in the light here and there. This is a frightful comparison.... to think that one can die without knowing their own identity. Your peom leaves me thinking......... Oh, I really liked your format.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-07-11 11:09 PM

MirrorMan~
Very nice presentation of your thoughts ! !
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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mirror man
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since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

5 posted 2001-07-12 07:45 AM

Thank you all very much. I wasn't sure how you would take this. Thank you again.

Bob: Perhaps, if it bothers you, this is a good thing.

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 07-14-2001).]

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