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Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2003-11-17 09:44 PM

When someone reaches out to you
heart in hand...
what do you do?
Accept without reservation?
That would seem to be the easiest choice,
the path of least resistance
on the road to love and happiness.

Have you ever found yourself
empty handed at the end of that journey,
when you've not stepped back,
not allowed more space and time
between offer and acceptance?

Do you accept too soon?
Or reject altogether
out of fear of losing?
Rejection would be an impossible
scenario for my heart.
And maybe that's why
I've some times been caught
holding only my own heart
in shaky hands,
after having it handed back.

[This message has been edited by Midnitesun (11-17-2003 09:52 PM).]

wintertao
Member

since 2003-11-17

Posts 366
Okaloosa Island, FL

1 posted 2003-11-17 09:59 PM

Excellent! I love this....

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

2 posted 2003-11-17 10:40 PM

hugsss lady...have been there too....you write it with more then I ever could....

Lauren~

i carry your heart with me
i am never without it
you are what a moon has always meant sky of sky
the wonder that keeps stars apart-
e.e.cummings

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2003-11-17 10:45 PM

thank you, winter tao

no way, lady Greeneyes, no one emotes with more soul than you

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

4 posted 2003-11-17 11:07 PM

I've some times been caught
holding only my own heart
in shaky hands,
after having it handed back

Oh, how sad. This really touched me. Your sense of feeling is amazing. hugs, Chris

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Tagore

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2003-11-18 11:31 AM

It's so hard to know... and even when you think you know, you still end up clutching your rejected heart sometimes... Well written, my friend! *S*

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2003-11-18 11:36 AM

anytime one hold their heart..in offering or in being handed it back..our hands shake..sometimes, our souls....

well done... and Happy Birthday...

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

7 posted 2003-11-18 12:30 PM

*nodding*

"if you won't let me fall for you
then you won't see the best that I would love to do for you"
~Dido~

James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

8 posted 2003-11-18 04:13 PM

Yes, I have.

In fact on one level I just did -- today, this very morning. This poem eases it, at least such of it as can ever be eased.

~~J

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

9 posted 2003-11-18 06:11 PM

My sentiments exactly Kacy

Rejection would be an impossible
scenario for my heart.
And maybe that's why
I've some times been caught
holding only my own heart
in shaky hands,
after having it handed back.

xxoo

SimplyGold
Senior Member

since 2002-07-10

Posts 1453

10 posted 2003-11-18 06:34 PM

Excellent, been there too!

SG

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