the past presents the future

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Open Poetry #38

the past presents the future

elisalie16
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since 2006-07-12

Posts 118
new jersey

0 posted 2006-07-29 03:19 AM

i was told stories of a time
that were said and done before i had a name or face
and had lessons sealed inside them
that were learned from loves long lost.

i saw a picture of a woman
held in the highest light
that's now sank so far below us
and heard she spoke in tounges much like my own.

our eyes burned bright, clean holes through glass
where our chauffeur could not see the shine
and our lips stretched thin and turned upwards tight

knowing the past had begun to replay itself in us
and that despite our consciousness
we would continue on as the world's greatest actors
reading scripts off pages
that were torn from books other's had thrown to the fire.

we were given our guise by
the history we carry
but were never aquainted with
and now we can see how it was so easily
shoveled over with sand and covered in dust
to be unveiled only by a short breath
and a breif scheme.

well...let's live through our prime
by the lines from long ago
and make sure the old age we'll meet
causes our bones to ache
from breaks we'll get slipping on spilt milk
and our lungs to heave heavy,
exhausted from chortling loudly at the misfortune we escaped.

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