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Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
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0 posted 2005-03-17 06:07 PM

                       Fading

there is no                            stunning blast, no
                          earthquake sudden rending
                                            severation
                                   of the soul
no fall so relieving as a rockslide down a canyon wall
                         no, it is
                                                                closer
                                                              more eroding
                          than the
                                      realignment           when
                                                                           the closest
                                                                                dearest
                         friend has said
                                      “acquaintance”
and more threatening than than the unease as you notice
                                      after all these
                                                                                   years
                         a wall is very
                                    slightly
                                            out of                 line
more subtle than the small distress, there on the warming sand
             while waves
                         break with
                                                                      tones of the
             eternal symphony,        that the song has
                                        never been for
                                         you
yet it yearns more personal and somehow less significant than
             the scrape dry             turning
                                               turning
                                of an empty
                                               tumbleweed down
                         the drywashes of                  time
and hollow as the understanding that although the weed is
                wearing stick by
                            stick the                            prairie
                         has no                  end

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03-03-03

I'll think of a reason why I posted this again, but right now I'll just say it's because I wanted to. Sometimes it's like that....and sometimes, maybe without your even knowing it, it's like this.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

1 posted 2005-03-17 06:19 PM

how to stop the fade.

How ya doin Mr Rat, *smile* miss ya!

Enjoyed.

Mxx

and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
~Buckingham/Nicks

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2005-03-17 10:57 PM

Ed

This is one of your best...such a powerful blast of emotion comes through your words...but my wish would be for a happy feeling, not this sad.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2005-03-18 01:12 PM

Fading has always been a gentle term for me... but here... it packs more power than an explosion ever could... the volcano of fade rains tears and helplessness rather than rocks and lava... but the effects are no less devastating.

Superb work, my friend... I wish your life a joy that's absent from these words.

EvocativeVerse2
Senior Member

since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

4 posted 2005-03-18 02:20 PM

love it...this is wonderful

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

5 posted 2005-03-18 02:35 PM

I love to see you revise the wall effect.

It is one that I will seriously think about stealing.

Good words.

dave

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