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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2004-01-04 10:02 PM

The message came at Noon today;
they told me you were dead.
I'd always thought outliving you
would liberate me,
instead I find the binding tighter.
Perhaps it's primate grief
some quaint old fashioned chemistry,
a Hominid reaction
to knowing of the dead
ignoring the release.
I'll never know the where or how,
or what you'd lately been about;
they simply said time had run out,
but that blade cuts two ways.
Tomorrow I will think some more
I pace myself these days.

©2004 by icebox

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2004-01-04 10:28 PM

icebox....It seems that death is hardest on the living. Hugs!

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2004-01-04 11:36 PM

This is very true. Surviving is harder.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-01-05 02:33 AM

I know this well

love the ending lines

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2004-01-05 02:02 PM

Icy~

I know exactly what you mean.

"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~

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

5 posted 2004-01-05 02:13 PM

I loved the title you chose for this~

without death , how can we appreciate life~

I once watched a movie where one person wanted to live forever and they got their wish...but it was a curse instead of a blessing...they lived while watching the one and ones they love die~

~hugs to you
~ARH

Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, let me come in and show you love.....~ARH

[This message has been edited by A Romantic Heart (01-05-2004 02:16 PM).]

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2004-01-05 02:35 PM

I've recently come to know that death isn't the end - we merely perceive it to be so. How much harder to watch those left behind take so many wrong turns and have so many wrong thoughts than for us to merely feel sad at their passing and miss them for what in the grand scheme of things must be a short time. Yes, I often tell myself that tomorrow is time enough to think but then there are other things to think about. At the end just one big jumble of thoughts with no conclusion.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2004-01-05 02:46 PM

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iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

8 posted 2004-01-07 02:06 AM

Sir, you have addressed the most difficult situation. It's about forgiveness isn't it? As always, your words are wise and gifts to us.

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