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Decaflame
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since 2001-05-11
Posts 1635


0 posted 2002-03-28 02:08 PM




Trying
it is very trying
to think about what I would say to you

When the mind goes 40 miles a minute
and feet are in clay

I would want each word to mean
so much

And yet the silence bears
quite heavy

The road falls under my feet
a long strip
the black
beckoning

The longest road yet unmet

In pushing myself to talk
my mind grows blank

And I feel perhaps that it is
because you have already
overwhelmed
my heart

How easy it is to head
west into the sun and let
it glimmer the smile

And in heading west wonder
if a right or left turn
could make all of the difference

It is easy for me to imagine
to put myself in your footsteps
or at least
in your shadow

For I have walked those sandy dunes
and have burnt under that bluest sky

I have seen the palm trees sway
in the blast of a hurricane
and felt the arid
under my skin when I have
walked the desert beside you
with nothing but the prickling cactus
leaving life in an eye

I have visited your peaks
while you delved into my valleys
and which of us
sought sustenance
more?


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lunatic
Member
since 2001-04-20
Posts 172

1 posted 2002-03-28 02:20 PM


God loves the searchers
where you find the greatest risk
resides great reward

Let thy moon arise.  William Blake

Cpat Hair
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Member Patricius
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793

2 posted 2002-03-28 02:24 PM


only by searching do we find what it is we truly desire...

I wish for you waterholes along the way and some shade to rest in once in a while...


Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla
3 posted 2002-03-28 03:01 PM


Decaflame,
Some of the symbolism is awesome. Enjoyed

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