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Canuckster
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since 2002-01-09

Posts 285
New Mexico, USA

0 posted 2005-06-05 12:29 PM

Journey Through the Mists

There’s a place I go
Where, even I do not know
When life cascades
My glass is full
About to slip from my control

No place of faith this
(Though faith’s place exists)
Where resides a small boy
Who for years comforted me
With fairy tales

Reality here was what you make
And my friend would take
The jumble round me
Mold it to my fantasy
And tell me it was so

Then came a day
I went for an extended stay
I searched but he was gone
Not gone but hidden
And fantasy turned to pain

Search party formed
Led by others trained
To blaze the path
To find that little boy
They had a map, but not success

I returned on my own
Repeatedly to search
But more to grieve
The loss of my friend
Who came no more

I returned not always to search
But to deny
This place which I surrounded
And encircled me
Until denial died

I returned not always to search
But to bargain
With him whom was hidden there
And wondered when no reply came
Until bargain died

I returned not always to search
But to rage
Reasoning it would be better
To never have come
Until rage died

Then came the day
I returned to accept
…and from the grass
Stepped my little boy
To see what I would do

No words
No motions
No deals
No pacts
No more

I turned to walk away
Knowing
I’d not return again
But no matter
He follows me

Where once I went to him
He comes to me
And my reality has become
His fantasy

© 3/21/00 Bart Breen

never try to teach a pig to sing
it wastes your time AND annoys the pig

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-06-05 01:01 AM

what an intriguing write! I will re-read this again, for there are many layers within your word journey

quote:

I returned not always to search
But to bargain
With him whom was hidden there
And wondered when no reply came
Until bargain died

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2005-06-05 10:08 AM

Bart, thank you for posting this for me. I will keep it in my library to read over and over again.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2005-06-05 10:12 AM

quote:
Then came the day
I returned to accept
…and from the grass
Stepped my little boy
To see what I would do

No words
No motions
No deals
No pacts
No more

I turned to walk away
Knowing
I’d not return again
But no matter
He follows me

Where once I went to him
He comes to me
And my reality has become
His fantasy

Impressive! And acceptance is the key!

Love, Margherita

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2005-06-05 10:30 AM

Yes....it can be a long journey to acceptance at times..
but it is worth it all in the long run.
Well said m'friend.
Hugs~Nancy

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

5 posted 2005-06-05 12:56 PM

this was a tightly-held, sophisticated piece of work. like how your content complemented your title [there are several mists to prevail before we can gain inner peace, ya?]

keeping this in my library because i need to think this some more

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