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S Arthur Grey
Senior Member

since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

0 posted 2003-08-12 02:00 PM

I am?

I am an alter’d ego, imagined
I wonder who I really am
I hear the ghostly voice still haunting
I can see them standing there disbelieving
I want to be real, not be reeling
I am an alter’d ego, imagined

I pretend that I have always been
I feel better in this imagined skin
I touch you with a shadow thin
I worry that you will dismiss this transparent guest
I cry sometimes for the lost little boy in his quest
I am an alter’d ego, imagined

I understand your bitter loss of hope
I say that you must find peace within
I dream of how it might have been
I try to bring my own amends
I hope the means befit the ends
I am an alter’d ego, imagined

© 081203

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2003-08-12 02:10 PM

Excellent...and not so very different from how I feel, except for the little boy part

M/~A~

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2003-08-12 02:19 PM

Challenge well met! Enjoyed. Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul ~
Emily Dickinson

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

3 posted 2003-08-15 04:20 PM

beautiful...bump...helen

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2003-08-15 04:34 PM

I am an alter ego, imagined...

I love that. (Sometimes I question which one of my selves is in charge...if anybody is, actually.)

Thanks for the peek inside, YOU.

Enjoyed.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2003-08-16 02:19 AM

I think this is beautiful

S Arthur Grey
Senior Member

since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

6 posted 2003-08-18 04:36 PM

Thank you all for your kind remarks.
Thanks for the bump, helen.
And serenity, perhaps it's better if no one is . . .

s.a.g.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

7 posted 2003-08-30 09:36 AM

S Arthur

Sorry I didn't see this before...enjoyed!

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

8 posted 2003-08-30 08:14 PM

Excellent job....so many diverse thoughts.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

9 posted 2003-08-30 08:27 PM

I'd say challenge well met...for all of you *Grin
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

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