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themute
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since 2006-05-08
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Maryland

0 posted 2006-07-26 07:08 PM



Where goes it the love for my mother and brothers
Where goes it the intelligence of my brothers
And the feelings of safety and fear of monsters
Where do my memories of childhood dreams go
And the thoughts I had held dear so long, where do they go
Are they lost in my adolescent mind
Where will my adolescent mind go when it is lost
Lost to the grown up mind I despise already
Where goes the feeling of family
I am so long awaiting that feeling to return
I hope I can make it on my own some day much better
And when my hair is cut and my eyes are closed
Let me see farther and more clearly to the end
The child is never dead, I am still the child inside
Just smarter and wiser than when I remember
And I the child still wish and dream for things
For a family again and a love that dreams are made for
And to find out where it all goes to someday
Someday I will and when I do let me sit and say them
The words I searched for long
On a bed that’s cold and dry and circled by love
I will sleep there forever

I am the two-toed wanderer

© Copyright 2006 Matthew Patrick Holbert - All Rights Reserved
BugBuggy
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since 2005-12-19
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michigan
1 posted 2006-07-26 07:18 PM


that was very well written I think all of miss the child that we were...

BugBuggy

the quell
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since 2006-07-19
Posts 144
Liverpool, UK
2 posted 2006-07-26 08:03 PM


Stunning piece. Tying childhood and death together (at least that's what I read into it; call me morbid) was so poignant. The whole poem really touched my heart somehow.

Where black, bleeding roses await the Thirteen,
I see not the stars, but the darkness between

themute
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since 2006-05-08
Posts 469
Maryland
3 posted 2006-07-26 08:40 PM


you hit it on the nose quell, thanks for reading

I am the two-toed wanderer

elisalie16
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since 2006-07-12
Posts 118
new jersey
4 posted 2006-07-27 06:31 AM


this had a very nice flow. i thought it all came together and wrapped itself up well.

--anne

froggy
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since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893
Michigan
5 posted 2006-07-27 08:44 AM


Beautiful but sad.
Enjoyed the read.

:-)

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize Wi

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