Branded {reposted from the ramble series}

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Open Poetry #33

Branded {reposted from the ramble series}

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

0 posted 2004-08-26 08:35 AM

Those words you left behind
branded into my heart
             so deeply
that even time has not been
able to cool the searing pain
of that moment
when they were first heard.

Still those same tears flow
as those words are heard
repeated
          {over and over again}
they play.
The volume can NOT be turned down;
pushing stop doesn’t work.

Even now, I know that those days
are gone,
knowing that they have ended….

but still the words are branded

They remain scarred, unhealing...
                  {and I pray to forget ……}

I pray to remember they
hold no merit,
they aren't true now…..
they weren't true then…….

they were just words.

Through the stillness
they  reverberate
like a ghost from the past
that haunt in the solitude
of my tears

flowing into the river
of pain
that sometimes flood
my heart.

In the silence
still is heard
the sound of a hole
ripping into my soul

they were just words.

Sometimes words linger
long after the echoes
have dwindled to faint

they were mere words.....

forever branded~

It's better than I could have planned..
it's made me who I am...
{Trace Adkins}

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

1 posted 2004-08-26 08:42 AM

so sad so true know this and understand this. thanks for sharing

Soleil Noir
Senior Member

since 2001-12-19

Posts 688
USA

2 posted 2004-08-26 08:53 AM

...pushing stop doesn't work...

~*~

Sometimes, pushing Go doesn't, either.

Good repost!

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2004-08-26 09:09 AM

hey sweetie, good morning...this is a reflection of stirring momentum, ones that leaves such stiking effects...we've all been on both sides of this....and it never becomes any easier...

marvelous work of heartbreakingly beautiful

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2004-08-26 09:16 AM

Gentle Spirit
"They were just words."

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-08-26 12:28 PM

much needed today

thank you

GG
Member Elite

since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

6 posted 2004-08-26 01:03 PM

I've been branded with a few m'self...
and, at least for me, time has never healed anything. Sometimes it can cover something up only to be rediscovered and relearned even more, later... but for time to heal? never...
This write says it all so perfectly.

Always, Alyssa

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce kilmer

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