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Portia
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since 2000-05-18
Posts 157


0 posted 2000-06-09 04:11 PM



Sometimes it's nothing. But it prompts,
"My goodness, what's wrong?"
"It was just a movie."
"What did I say?"
It's a little spark, the snap of fire
that blows the cap on the gunpowder that is

childhood
(please don't fight anymore, please
somebody make him stop)
or just
(weeks, barely able to meet his gaze for all the loathing there)

mourning
(the accordion at our wedding...
the cookies and making ice cream...
the blight that filled her days with
morphine and dementia
invented images of a shattered glass-like life)

losing
(what were you thinking? didn't you see
you were heading down the way you wanted to
avoid?)

fear
(you have to face it sometime)

Sometimes they breed their own kind
trigger after trigger
multiplying, crossing, overlapping at the shore
of your heart, your memory...

Sometimes it's nothing.
But only
when someone is there to take the gun away.


[This message has been edited by Portia (edited 06-09-2000).]

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X Angel
Senior Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 1521
Oregon
1 posted 2000-06-09 11:05 PM


incredibly powerful words Portia, I have been there, I AM there! Great job!
~Heather

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