old black and white films.

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Teen Poetry #7

old black and white films.

electricxheart
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since 2004-09-05

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far away from home.

0 posted 2004-10-08 03:54 PM

note//_this is dedicated to my grandfather who passed away when i was in second grade. any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.
old black and white films

my mind keeps a file on his face
just so i will never have the chance
of forgetting the way his eyes seemed
to smile like the sunlight.

and i was so very young to be robbed
of someone who would always make
me laugh; so young to have to understand
why i would never see his happiness
again.

everything became so unstable; breathing
in just became a useless chore. the tears
never taking a break to let you exhale
the dirty image of his casket.

your ears would echo of sympathy after
sympathy for days on end and the
picture was blurry but all you kept saying
was that you were fine even though the
nods and frowns proved that you weren’t.

i think my heart is permanently missing a
piece, which he took when he faded away
like those black and white films we used to
watch together.

in and out, he slides through the memories,
repeating the same old lullabies of a beautiful
life now forgotten.

but i would like for him to know that his
smile has become my hope in which he lives
telling me everything will be okay.

i could be an accident, but i'm still trying.

*Alli4000*

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1 posted 2004-10-08 05:39 PM

"My mind keeps a file on his face
just so i will never have the chance
of forgetting the way his eyes seemed
to smile like the sunlight."

I know what it's like to lose someone you love. My Papa (grandpa) passed away when I was in 2nd grade too. He died from cancer, and I understand how the pain never gets easier.

This poem was beautiful...

~Alli~

*:.AIM = Alli4000.:*
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened...

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