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Jonas
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since 2000-03-03
Posts 796
Oregon

0 posted 2000-03-25 10:42 PM


Blind

Lying in the dark
My only company
the skeletal sound
of tree limbs
scraping against the window
Huddled on a worn couch
with tears of shame
coursing down my cheeks
Drawing a searing trail
straight to my heart
My mind reels
from the devastation
of realization
The cursed blindness
that prevented me
from seeing the obvious
The pain caused
by a misspoken word
Self doubt gnaws at me
but I have to let go
And I learn
I will face tomorrow
stronger and wiser
with the knowledge
that I am fallible

© 2/11/00
by Gary Pence



 Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allen Poe


© Copyright 2000 Gary - All Rights Reserved
For_Never
Member
since 1999-10-27
Posts 125
Cincinnati, oh, United States of America
1 posted 2000-03-25 11:44 PM


Surely..ye are more tahn I can ever be...for...I hold the pain too close...more like a friend...for it makes me feel real...
But..yours is a moral I wish to follow...great prose...

EAB

dhuron
Member
since 2000-03-19
Posts 476

2 posted 2000-03-26 12:51 PM


Oh this is great.

I have felt like this many many times before.
Excellent!

Jannel
Member
since 2000-01-18
Posts 492
Muncie, IN, USA
3 posted 2000-03-27 01:32 PM


very nice. i especially liked the image of the worn couch.
jannel

 Dont wake the dead,
Wake the dying,
Don't change what you've said,
Change what you're saying.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

4 posted 2000-03-27 09:44 PM


The cursed blindness
that prevented me
from seeing the obvious
The pain caused
by a misspoken word
Self doubt gnaws at me
but I have to let go
And I learn
I will face tomorrow
stronger and wiser
with the knowledge
that I am fallible
---------------

excellent look within the soul gary...well written and expressed

 Do you live by the book, do you play by the rules
Do you care what is thought by others about you
If this day is all that is promised to you
Do you live for the present, the future the past...
tracy chapman


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