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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23
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of Depression

0 posted 2002-07-17 07:27 AM


What soft shadows cast through my window to the wall,
Is it your silhouette or nothing there at all?
Are you staring from the gray remaining obscure
Lost in silence filled with self-fear and insecure?

Will there be a gentle tapping at my back door,
That opens to nothing and no one as before,
Or will I find you standing there waiting for me,
Will enter when you’re invited of once more flee.

What brings you to be casting long and sad shadows
Sent by neon signs that flicker on my window,
What puts you out there where most walkers never stride,
What makes you so very shy that you always hide?

Gloom


© Copyright 2002 Aszard Drazlom - All Rights Reserved
Sunnyone
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since 2000-07-06
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Staffordshire, England
1 posted 2002-07-17 08:36 AM


Gloom, I am drawn to the questions in this one, the same words I have often left unspoken.  Thank you for this one.

Open the door and let your adventure begin!!!
  
    


Decaflame
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since 2001-05-11
Posts 1635

2 posted 2002-07-17 09:04 AM



Because sometimes the shadows are warmer
than other places
because sometimes the mantles suit me well

[This message has been edited by Decaflame (07-17-2002 09:08 AM).]

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
3 posted 2002-07-17 12:43 PM


yes....beautiful
the_loner_23
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since 2002-06-08
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
4 posted 2002-07-17 12:44 PM


Speechless because of the beauty

Cold hands means a warm heart

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23
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of Depression
5 posted 2002-07-17 01:29 PM


Thank you all
I originally wrote this as a sonnet
With these last two lines

Tomorrow I’ll go and sweep the dirty alley,
Cleaning the place where at night you’ve tended to be

but reframed from adding it.
This is a poem for a friend of a friend,
Or a chaos factor, my cat.
Seems another cat has been creeping around in my alleyway.

Pleased you all enjoyed

Gloom

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