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JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA

0 posted 2005-01-23 12:49 PM


City of Lights and Strangers


If I had been the bold darer
I would have dared you to love me
anyway…

But you decided against openness
and blamed it all on:
“Just the way women are”,
as you sometimes say…

Couldn’t you have forgotten all that?
Living under that musky old hat?
Maybe, trying another drummer’s fray?
You know
I can’t carry a tune, or remember verses
I have only my word, what more is there,
except the truth, or curses?

My heart is high above the sea
among sea birds, and the wind.
Yet I was the willing not to hesitate capture
and, you being the netter, caught me in your words,
and, joyous laughter.

Then you witnessed a gray cloud or two
the height of soaring wind, and the solitude of the sea,
and your conscientious gender enlightened you,
to the city of your dreams.
-
Your city of lights, and strangers.


[This message has been edited by JL (01-24-2005 05:04 PM).]

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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2005-01-23 01:08 PM


Different visions can cause hurting decisions.
You are better off soaring high ...
I think this is a great piece of writing.

Love, Margherita

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
2 posted 2005-01-23 03:46 PM


Fantastic poem JL~  
The lights are merely shadows play.
It is the power of our wings that take flight and keep us soaring.



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