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Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2005-09-30 11:58 AM

How Long Does it Take?

How long does it take for a heartache to end?
How easy for pieces of heart break to mend?
As easy as making a rainbow unbend

How long does it take to stop feeling alone?
How long will you ponder the misty unknown ?
As long as the sea birds through breezes are blown

How long to undo ocean’s mightiest stream?
For a star to remember an unanswered dream?
For the light in your eyes to remember to gleam?

How many years for the teardrops to yield?
As long as moon shadows dance over the field
As long a it takes for a heart to be healed

How long does it take to forget and forgive ?
Forgiving is tossed in the sands that you sieve
To forget takes the rest of the days that you live

Elizabeth Santos

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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2005-09-30 12:03 PM

Exquisite write dear Elizabeth...
Indeed...how long...
Hugs & luv, Nancy

~Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.~

darkling
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since 2001-08-28

Posts 90
altered state of mind

2 posted 2005-09-30 12:14 PM

"Forgiving is tossed in the sands that you sieve"
My favorite line. Well-written, thanks for the write.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

3 posted 2005-09-30 12:30 PM

Liz....how beautifully you write these truths. Sounds like another song?

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2005-09-30 12:49 PM

Elizabeth,
Surely not as long as you live. Excellent

Angelheart
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since 2005-09-08

Posts 754
Jacksonville,FL USA

5 posted 2005-09-30 01:11 PM

very well written, thanks for sharing this.

Poetry can get you very far
-Laura

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

6 posted 2005-09-30 11:32 PM

Liz....another great write. Forgiveness is such an important issue, too.

...jo

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

7 posted 2005-10-01 04:15 AM

forgiving ones self is hardest to do. forgiving others isnt hard, for most anyway. even when things could not be kept from happening, you still blame yourself. but even harder for ones who live in denial worlds, and change everything to something it is not so to blame another or not have to deal with own issues. nice writing

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above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

scorpio
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since 2002-10-02

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right...there

8 posted 2005-10-01 09:11 AM

A very powerfully moving write Elizabeth.

believe in what your heart feels...

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

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Oregon

9 posted 2005-10-01 09:34 AM

Reminiscent of Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind." You've phrased a beautiful version of the unanswerable question. Well done! Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

Brian James
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since 2005-06-26

Posts 147
Winnipeg

10 posted 2005-10-01 05:40 PM

I think that the last two lines are the best in the poem, since they are less rhetorical and more directly addressed in the form of conclusion.

It reminds me a lot of the Book of Job, when God is rebuking Job's complaint to Him. There's a kind of hopelessness, but also a lack of control or power---the fact that forgetting takes the rest of your life, means that forgetting is impossible, but you express it ironically and with an almost cynical attitude. I have to wonder how personal this poem is.

Enjoyed reading.

Brian

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