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Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

0 posted 2002-08-10 01:00 PM

Those words you left behind
branded into my heart
so deeply
that even time has not been
able to cool the searing pain
of that moment
when  they were first heard.

Still those same tears flow
as those words are heard
repeated
over and over again
they play
the volume can not be turned down
pushing stop        doesn’t work.

Even now, knowing that those days
are gone,
       knowing that they have ended….

but still the words are branded

so deeply that those scars won’t heal
and I pray               to forget ……

I pray to remember they were
just words,
that they weren’t true then…..
that they aren’t true now…….

they were just words

but through the stillness
              they still echo
like a ghost from the past
that haunt in the solitude
of my tears

flowing into the river
of pain
that sometimes flood
my heart

and in the silence
          heard
those words
as they ripped a hole
through my soul

         they were just words

sometimes words linger
long after the sounds
have dwindled to faint

they were just words.....

forever branded~

somebody tell me, please help me....
understand.......(as sung by Trace Adkins)

{on the wings of words are spirits fly...and our souls are free~me

[This message has been edited by Gentle Spirit (08-10-2002 02:02 PM).]

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2002-08-10 01:07 PM

(big hugggsssssss) Oh Donna, this is soooooo touching, sweet friend, my heart goes out to you and I hope everything is alright as I know how these words can hurt so much too to the heart! (sigh) This is powerful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Bill, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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

Shakira

Madame Chipmunk
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

2 posted 2002-08-10 01:13 PM

and in the silence
heard
those words
as they ripped a hole
through my soul

they were just words….

branded~

A lovely and meaningful write, Donna...
I was just talking about this very subject with my brother in law, last night.
My neice had gone to visit my mother in Florida a couple of months ago...and my mother kept yammering on about how she should go to the gym and how fat she was.
My neice is not fat.  She is 20 years old and very beautiful.  She is curvy and not skinny...but a far cry from fat.
Now...she is so scarred that she will not go and visit her grandma again, and she has been spending her whole summer at the gym.
This is so pitiful to me...because as you say.  Its "just words"  but words can scar so deeply.
My mother has done this to all of us...but over the years we have developed thicker skins.  No one should ever have to be scarred from words...
Thank you for posting this poem, Donna...

~ hugs and nice words

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2002-08-10 01:15 PM

Oh Donna!
This is SO well done!
I love the words and the presentation.
Beautiful outpouring of feelings here sweetie.
~Hugs~

WhiteRose
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since 2002-07-23

Posts 3208
somebody's dungeon

4 posted 2002-08-10 06:09 PM

This is so true. Words are so powerful, and so haunting. A very nice write.

In truth, what defines us is our poetry.

han_tigger
Member

since 2002-08-10

Posts 50
Thundersley, Essex, Uk

5 posted 2002-08-10 06:33 PM

Really touching poem, you can really feel the word, and the rhythm really holds your attention.

Suetang
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 5187
Melbourne, Australia

6 posted 2002-08-10 06:43 PM

Hello Donna

Your words speak so many truths for there is so much power in both the written and spoken words. Some words remain etched in our minds, never to be forgotten. You wrote this so very well and I enjoyed it so very much.

Take care

Sue

I am in motion
I am blue
Love is an ocean
I'm anchored in you
- Shawn Mullins

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

7 posted 2002-08-10 08:51 PM

thank you all for baring with me while I ramble. You are all so appreciated. Hugs.

somebody tell me, please help me....
understand.......(as sung by Trace Adkins)

{on the wings of words are spirits fly...and our souls are free~me

sigheyes
Member

since 2001-04-25

Posts 323
the winds of destiny

8 posted 2002-08-11 10:35 AM

Big hugs my friend
Here if you need me, you know.....
HUGS

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

9 posted 2002-08-11 10:41 AM

The old saying of "Sticks and stones may
break my bones, but words will never hurt
me"....doesn't work for me either....

No matter how many times I tried to say that
to myself....

Only in recent years have I been able to
take most of those words and make them
just that, just words....

Hugs Donna...

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

10 posted 2002-08-11 10:48 AM

I've been trying to respond directly to poems without reading others' comments, so that I could know, in my heart, that I am being as uniquely fresh as I know how to be in my replies...

I know how words can hurt.

I have, unfortunately, been on both ends.

Sometimes, when we speak the truth...it hurts.

Sometimes, and more often, words are nothing but insensitive thoughts said outloud...because the person saying them does not know any other way but to bring you down with them, into their well of fear...

But insensitive truths spoken aloud are the worst...and put into the mouth of the wrong person, seem to create the type of scars that last the longest...

sometimes, if we are fortunate...we do two things. We look past our own scars, vowing never to hurt others as we have been hurt; and sometimes...we see past the scars that have been inflicted on others, knowing why they spit, and have spite, and still, we hold out our hands...

sometimes...

we do that.

Hugging you for this....

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

11 posted 2002-08-11 07:07 PM

Donna, this poem expressed so much and its title, I never thought of it that way but it's true...those words brand us the pain, even though what was said was really a reflection of their own worth, not ours.
hugs
M

Eloise
Senior Member

since 1999-11-27

Posts 1096
Wyoming

12 posted 2002-08-11 09:44 PM

It's amazing how powerful an insensitive a phrase or word can be. Very soul-stirring thoughts you have written here. Thoughts we should all heed to.

[This message has been edited by Eloise (08-11-2002 09:46 PM).]

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

13 posted 2002-08-12 10:21 AM

A sad piece. Well presented thoughts.
The answer is ... time

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

14 posted 2002-08-12 10:49 AM

Time can be a great friend...or a great enemy....I have been on both ends....and there are days, some better, some worse.....but we learn and grow....I am here if you need with unconditional support and love.....