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The Concrete Garden
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The Concrete Garden |
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Masked Intruder
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since 1999-05-23
Posts 1231Near golden sunsets 
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She has been climbing The concrete stairs of heaven For twelve years now, this December. Traveling the mortal pathways Between grace and humanity, her days Are not numbered nor counted, Just lived. She can look out over God’s steel garden And see her siblings Pass to and fro between The petrified flowers, Smiling and frowning As chance may take them. Liberty’s azure eyes are caught on occasion, Standing proud just in the distance, With her arm raised in victory. She thumbs through papers And files, smiling at a friend’s Scribbled note or a memory Oft picked over for just such moments. A smile and a happy memory Take her the final steps to Heaven As the Angel of Death, Riding rampant on black winds, A crashing bolt of pain and suffering, Rocks Heaven’s Stairway In an explosion of steel and skin. Heaven’s stairway crashes Heavily earthward In a dusty conflagration, Shaking the souls of God’s concrete garden. Liberty’s teary eyes look on, With her arm raised in defiance. The petrified flowers are silent, Cringing in the morning’s sun, Debris-strewn and ashy, Witness to Hell’s wrath And the ascension of God’s children. You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. -- Navajo Proverb |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
The lost will always take wings and fly home in my vision. Still I cry. Thank you for sharing. (Hugs) Sincerely, Regina |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Philip~ This is the tenderest of pieces. Bless you for sharing it at a time when we all need it~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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MaskedIntruder New Member
since 2001-09-09
Posts 2 |
Heaven and Hell can speak volumes with a simple twist in fate. |
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Charisma
since 2000-09-30
Posts 5906lost in blue pages |
thank you for sharing my friend. Charisma |
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