Haunted By The Ghost Of Your Passing (Repost from some time ago)

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hoot_owl_rn
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Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 2004-04-14 09:15 PM

Haunted By The Ghost Of Your Passing

I am haunted
by the ghost of your passing
near the window
     fleeting glimpses of your reflection
fingers splayed to catch the sunlight
your giggling childish voice begging me
to come outside to play

My mind has frozen
still picture images
of blond ringlets sprung
to frame angelic face
     and time has thieved
ten years from me
or was it only yesterday

My hands still feel
the subtle texture
of downy hair
that softened tiny back
     like velvet beneath my fingers
as you curled
bath damp upon my lap
and slowly drifted off to sleep

I am haunted
by the ghost of your passing
weeks on end
in colorful hospital rooms
     as daily you paled and thinned
dissolving into yourself
and the bed on which you lay
fighting battles
there was no hope of winning

My mind has frozen
still picture images
of tiny white casket
covered in blanket of pink roses
and in a moment
     I’ve lost all sense of time
your tombstone claims you lived
three short years
though it couldn’t have been more
than a heartbeat, a second, a breath

My hands still feel
the subtle texture
of sifting dirt between my fingers
ashes to ashes
dust to dust
     and I crumble to the ground
longing to feel you close
as you sink further
from my reach

Ten years have passed
and still I wake
     longing to hush your cries
and soothe your pain
if only in my dreams

and tonight you danced for me
golden hair sparkling
     ephemeral vision disappearing
leaving me haunted
by the ghost of your passing

~ Ruth

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Nightshade

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just out of reach

1 posted 2004-04-14 09:19 PM

This makes my heart ache.
Hugs to you dear lady. Chris

Earth Angel
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2 posted 2004-04-14 09:20 PM

Words fail me, Dear Ruth. I am so choked up with emotion after having read this poem of such pain and sorrow ~ yet of incredible beauty and grace.

Love & Eternal Light,
Linda

Martie

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3 posted 2004-04-14 11:24 PM

Ruth

"Ten years have passed
and still I wake
longing to hush your cries
and soothe your pain
if only in my dreams"

Time has no meaning for love and loss...it just is. Heart hugs.

passing shadows
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displaced

4 posted 2004-04-15 02:10 AM

the ghost never goes away...but it's just tolerable

Marge Tindal

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5 posted 2004-04-15 09:03 AM

HootieGal~
Such a poignantly moving read~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Jeffrey Carter

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6 posted 2004-04-15 09:07 AM

Ruth,

First of all let me say that this poem made me

I have never been more touched by a single poem in my life, this piece is exceptional in it's longing and the love that one can tell it was written with, if ever there was a poem that should be published for all the world to read, THIS is it

Take care,
Jeff

Sunshine

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7 posted 2004-04-15 09:26 AM

Ruth, this is one of the reasons
Passions is so great...it gives a venue
to those who truly have compassion, and
who can write about life.

This is why we love you so, and miss you
even more. Welcome home, lady...

Grover
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since 2004-01-27

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London, ON, Canada

8 posted 2004-04-15 10:09 AM

So sad...

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

9 posted 2004-04-15 11:02 AM

hoot,
An excellent write. Children should outlive the parents. But no one ever said life was fair. Take care

Dark Angel
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10 posted 2004-04-15 06:00 PM

Ruth..so very sad.

Maree.

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

hoot_owl_rn
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Glen Hope, PA USA

11 posted 2004-04-16 08:31 PM

It's always good to come home if even only for the minutes I sneak from my busy life.
Thank you all for the comments and the support you continue to show me through these years.
My muse seems only a fleeting image nowdays and writing in scattered. Perhaps sometime soon words will flow from my pen once more

Ratleader

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12 posted 2004-04-20 01:02 AM

Some poems end before the last word...and some, like this one, never end whether they're ever written or not. Well done.

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