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John Yaws
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0 posted 2001-12-17 01:14 AM



Today I stopped to think awhile-
Evaluate my life.
Relationships I have at home,
With children and my wife...

Love? I wonder what that is?
Why do we all pretend?
I am the loneliest of all...
I'm outside, looking in.

I used to be a drifter-
Footloose and fancy free...
The siren call of wanderlust-
Once placed her hold on me...

I am alone, with company-
Without a single friend,
My home's the place I hang my hat-
I'm outside looking in...

I miss the lonely desert-
The Arizona sky...
I miss the Rocky Mountains...
Their grandeur wild and high...

I hear the wild geese calling...
Their brother to the wind...
I long to spread my wings and fly-
I'm outside, looking in.

© Copyright 2001 John R. Yaws - All Rights Reserved
Sunshine
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1 posted 2001-12-17 11:37 AM



You, too?  Well done, Sir!

Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2001-12-17 11:44 AM


John,
Can't help you but enjoyed the poem.

Startime
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3 posted 2001-12-17 11:48 AM


*sigh* I know the feeling well. You twist the heart with sorrow for you, my friend. Well said. **hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

peaches73533
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4 posted 2001-12-17 11:50 AM


John,
Sorry you are feeling low.I've been here.Hope you work it out.If you need me I'm here for you.
Peaches

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5 posted 2001-12-17 11:52 AM


Boy do I know this feeling.  But, you expressed it so very well here John.
Hugs, Nancy.

"A dream is a wish your heart makes..."

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6 posted 2001-12-17 12:00 PM


makes me want to just get in my car and go somewhere   this is a great poem!  
Bill Charles
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7 posted 2001-12-17 02:37 PM


John - I also have been on the outside looking in, alone but with someone right next to me in the same house. You can have friends, for their are many here. Peace be with you...

BC

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