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Ratleader

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0 posted 2005-01-31 02:00 AM

I’d Carry You

I’d carry you
if carrying could be,
past all of this, the hurt, the loss,
across the yawning abyss
of an undeserving pain.
I’d lift you softly,
turn your face away
and close your eyes;
float us together
to the other side,
and when the world
was safe again I’d find
a place of joy and beauty,
leave you gently there
upon a steady path.
I’d carry you
if carrying could be,
to spare you this
though sparing is denying,
and some roads
do not grant
a choice of ways.
The canyon must be crossed,
and you will cross it hand by hand,
climb walls of agony to
find the other side.
I’d carry you
if carrying could be,
but I cannot, and so I give
such grace as I can share;
to lay a willing hand
upon your shoulder,
and to let you know
for any comfort it may give,
that you are not alone,
and that I’d carry you
if carrying could be.

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02-2003
Because it's February.

passing shadows
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1 posted 2005-01-31 02:08 AM

very comforting words

nakdthoughts
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2 posted 2005-01-31 08:25 AM

very beautiful thoughts...

M

LeeJ
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3 posted 2005-01-31 08:44 AM

lovely imagry and sound to this...warmth being the overlying sound....tremendous

Marge Tindal

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4 posted 2005-01-31 09:19 AM

Ed~
And ... I would let you~

Knowing the intend of this comforting piece, is enough to make me love it even more~

She knows you would also~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Gentle Spirit
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5 posted 2005-01-31 09:25 AM

oh damn, seems so much I have read this morning has moved me deeply
as has this...
to tears.
God this is beautiful and definately will serve to lift the spirits of the intended recipient I am sure.
Thank you for the beauty in this. The world can be a harsh place sometimes and it is through the caring of people like you that it becomes easier for others.
oh..I blabber on...
but truly, this is lovely.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

Martie

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6 posted 2005-01-31 10:33 AM

Ed

One more day left before February...thank you for reposting this sweet and loving poem.!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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7 posted 2005-01-31 10:43 AM

The first time I read this, I thought it was one of the best poems I'd ever read... as well as being the very definition of loving support.

I still do. *S* Beautiful, beautiful write!

passing shadows
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8 posted 2005-01-31 10:56 AM

look at this circle of beautiful women around you here

you know you did good!

vandana

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9 posted 2005-01-31 10:59 AM

nice

Robert Frazier
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10 posted 2005-01-31 11:39 AM

if the "guys" voice counts . . . you write very well in romantic voice!!

Rf

Ratleader

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11 posted 2005-01-31 12:15 PM

Hi, RF.....

It has that voice, but wasn't written that way....just as an expression of sympathy and the wish that I could help a (then new, now old) friend across one of life's worst chasms, even though I knew nothing could help. I had just learned of it then, a couple of weeks after joining here, but I have the same wish now...so I post it once again.

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Susan Caldwell
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12 posted 2005-01-31 07:24 PM

Ed, this was a beautiful way to help carry someone you care about.

I'm glad you reposted.

LMAO~just read your constructive critiques thingy. "Ratleader has a leather head." oh that is funny.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Ratleader

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13 posted 2005-01-31 07:41 PM

The month when your child died is...hard...forever. If a poem helps a little in any way, how could I withold it?

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A Romantic Heart
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14 posted 2005-01-31 10:44 PM

Just simply beautiful Ed~

Love and Hugs
~ARH

Come,love all of me, mind, body, spirit..feel my passion, taste of me, be filled completely!

JamesMichael
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15 posted 2005-02-02 12:23 PM

Nice thoughts...James

GG
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16 posted 2005-02-02 02:00 AM

My best friend's little brother died in a february. He was 11...

Before you posted it this year I went back and found it from last year and printed it out. I'd carry my friend, too.

Such powerful words...

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

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