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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2004-08-29 12:22 PM

When the shadows turn to daylight
I leave my dreams upon the ground,
staggering to wakefulness,
stumbling
to catch the sad parade,
shedding threads
that came unraveled
in the cheap and restless night,
the penance
a life sentence
of chipping away at time,
the haunting
what-if-insteads,
the passion driven heartbreak
just a memory
that sometimes comes around;
I might believe in love,
I guess,
if love believed in me
but I've been inside the fire
where love's blindness fades
into reality,
where living's just a low rent crib,
where each day blurs the same,
where life and death have meaning,
but only in the abstract
and only wild flowers are free.

©2004 by icebox

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2004-08-29 12:29 PM

a well written melencholic piece

I especially liked that last line

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2004-08-29 12:29 PM

icebox

"I might believe in love,
I guess,
if love believed in me
but I've been inside the fire
where love's blindness fades
into reality,
where living's just a low rent crib,
where each day blurs the same,"

I understand this feeling, but I still believe in love...it is one of the only thing worth believing in!

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2004-08-29 12:32 PM

"I might believe in love,
I guess,
if love believed in me
but I've been inside the fire
where love's blindness fades
into reality,"

What great lines....for the passionate among us. What a poet!

.....jo

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

4 posted 2004-08-29 01:28 AM

Then the solution is simple, isn't it?

Be a wildflower.

I am, at least part of the time -- enough to see that it is the way.

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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2004-08-29 02:50 AM

damn...I know

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2004-08-29 04:23 AM

A truly wonderful poem but I wonder, icebox, are wildflowers really free? They depend on water and soil and somewhere or other weeds are advancing on their domain. They can move but only if the wind blows their seeds somewhere else. Free? Yes, just like us. Just a thought.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

7 posted 2004-08-29 10:50 AM

I might believe in love,
I guess,
if love believed in me

~*~

Sometimes we have to go
on pure faith...

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

8 posted 2004-08-30 02:08 PM

never was much on faith...

but, I do know there are things beyond my own experience and my own understanding that are possible....

nicely done sir

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

9 posted 2004-08-30 02:50 PM

You made me actually stop and think for a while about this and that is something! LOL, I actually don't believe in fate, chance, etc. maybe that is the problem?

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

10 posted 2004-08-30 08:47 PM

There are times when I feel I have walked
this path.  But I think you probably know
it better than I ever will.  A good one to
think and reflect on,  thanx!

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