Yesterdays Sighs (Serenity’s challenge)

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Open Poetry #20

Yesterdays Sighs (Serenity’s challenge)

2dalimit
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since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

0 posted 2002-05-11 09:17 AM

Yesterday I visited an old friend.
He didn’t have a family,
so we all became his kin.
He used to be fit as a fiddle,
but now he’s old and grey,
he knows he can’t do diddle.
He told me, when he was eighty three,
he was thankful for a long life,
so he confided in me,
and talked for hours of his younger days.
He just wanted to reminisce,
of how he did them in his own way.

Yesterday, there was a vacant look in his eyes…
His last breath, filled with yesterday’s sighs…
His life was volumes of joys and concerns.
When an old man dies, a library burns.

The sigh that I heard yesterday
Was the sigh of relief from pain
I felt the burden lift from him
Now he can have peace again

Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

1 posted 2002-05-11 09:26 AM

A very good read. Enjoyed this...

~Tier

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2002-05-11 11:38 AM

Superbly written, I could feel all of this
through your words... Yes, no more pain..

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

3 posted 2002-05-11 11:42 AM

Ah Melton...thank you for this!

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

4 posted 2002-05-11 09:31 PM

(big hugggsssssss) Oh Melton, this is wonderful, sweet friemd, your wonderful words always flow with such hope and faith and alleviate the pain with comfort and unconditional love! (sigh) This is wonderful, sweet friend, know his whispers of love will always be with your heart, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Melton, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

bsquirrel

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since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

5 posted 2002-05-11 09:52 PM

Amen.

2dalimit
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since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

6 posted 2002-05-14 07:37 AM

Sometimes the elderly just want someone to listen. Thank you all for your responses.

Melton

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