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LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

0 posted 2004-05-10 01:41 PM

The gaze on your face
Wanting someone to blame
Straining to catch morning,
For the sigh to sleep
It eats me like a disease,
Whimpering profanity
Like a CD reverberating
Her lies, bulleting
Your anger slapped my face
A hundred times
Bare branches weighed
Down with snow are those
Empty faces in the crowds where I go…
Where you sent me, you’ve forgotten who I am

Familiar roots seek to call my name
I shall keep my child eyes, simply by virtue
Where the thick pulse beats
You sold off family heirlooms
Colored me missing…
I pray winter’s floods never find you
Or defeat you….
Or that you never feel
Gnarled quaint accusations….
By columns without minds or souls
I forgave you, before your anger was born
And I always will….love you~

I have packed your toys away and pray
Someday you will sit in a luminous plain
And forgive yourself for trading spaces
Life may sometimes be a wilderness, faint with gravel
Wherein dreary days shall swallow you whole
You are from my flesh and I shall wrap that 1st lock
Of hair by my heart
Spring and summer shall come to you…like the season
Winter forsakes it’s barren grip of all that is life
It lets go…and so should you
Do not forget the golden chalice of change and purpose
For everything…even our hostilities

Sometime the greatest gift of love you can give to someone
You love,
Is to let them go.

quatro
Member

since 2003-04-29

Posts 392
Galveston, Texas

1 posted 2004-05-10 02:50 PM

LeeJ,

"I have packed your toys away and pray
Someday you will sit in a luminous plain
And forgive yourself for trading spaces
Life may sometimes be a wilderness, faint with gravel
Wherein dreary days shall swallow you whole
You are from my flesh and I shall wrap that 1st lock
Of hair by my heart
Spring and summer shall come to you…like the season
Winter forsakes it’s barren grip of all that is life
It lets go…and so should you
Do not forget the golden chalice of change and purpose
For everything…even our hostilities"

I had to read this several times and each time I reached this stanza, I was overwelmed with your pain, your suffering and your love. Letting go is always hard to do.

quatro

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2004-05-10 03:02 PM

It indeed appears as tho' you are struggling ~ and that is an uncomfortable and painful way of being. As you implied, at times all we can do is to let go and let live ~ and pray with our fingers crossed!

Healing hugs,
Linda

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2004-05-10 04:17 PM

Oh my Lee...this really pulls at the heartstrings.
I do hope you are okay..this is so sad.
~Smiles & tender hugs, Nancy~

~ Trace my body with your words,
in doing so, you touch my heart ~

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2004-05-11 03:28 PM

I like this poetry very much, but the last stanza:

“Sometime the greatest gift of love you can give to someone You love, Is to let them go.”

Easier said than done, I think….
JL