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Dr.Moose1
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0 posted 2004-12-29 08:56 PM


On being over-whelmed it hurts
the dust to ashes, make it curt.
The one, the only's passed away,
yet I remember other days.

Of kites, and fishing poles, and streams.
Of Father, son, and real dreams,
made more the real by this fact,
that time for us did not distract.

I cry, yet knowing it's for best,
my father has been laid to rest
and so where once were fathered five
his memory will stay alive.

The five may not at times agree,
their bridges burned, hap-hazardly,
The Mother, long since gone to rest,
instilled in us to do our best.

The mother-less, the father-less,
who're left to deal with all this mess,
yet all remember well it seems,
the kites, the fishing poles, and dreams.

The water's still, the sky is fair
we feel a presence in the air
of scattered ashes, time in freeze,
and thoughts as this upon the breeze.

© Copyright 2004 William E.Kleist - All Rights Reserved
Martie
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1 posted 2004-12-29 09:01 PM


Doc

I'm sorry for your loss!  

Gentle Spirit
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2 posted 2004-12-29 09:04 PM


Doc this is so very full of love.....and I felt every word of this lovely write.
serenity blaze
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3 posted 2004-12-29 09:07 PM


c'mere you...

I am so sorry.


nakdthoughts
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4 posted 2004-12-29 09:14 PM


I know that feeling and am still over whelmed by the losses..and I, too am one of five( except having lost my sister this summer)...and what you say is very true


M

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