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JLHunter
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since 2006-10-08

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0 posted 2006-11-02 05:27 AM

To Love Alone

Sunset’s fight against the day brings a fitful night.
Moon and stars go wandering by, in the fading light.
Rush of silence splits the air, cowing daylight's sound;
Deafening roar—nothingness--gathers all around.

Looking into midnight dark, fear is close at hand.
Spreading as a murky pall all across the land.
Could this veiled, secret place, deep inside my heart,
Be a place to trust the fates, love I hold apart?

Long ago, far away, I loved her all alone,
In my mind-made prison cell, not of steel and stone.
Will my unrequited love know the time I spend?
Can a love who knows me not last until the end?

For I loved her from afar, known to only me,
And I waited, silently, for eternity.
Still I pondered all alone, on that fateful day
Was I wiser to have loved, when she passed away?

Dawn’s old fight against the night brings a fitful morn.
Sun and clouds march solemnly, as with her soul borne.
A rush of laughter splits the air, from I know not where.
Do I feel the warmth of love, floating on the air?

If in life I loved alone, as the years went past,
Now in twilight life I know, love had held me fast.
For this love--a secret joy--known to only one;
Marked the time ‘til Heaven called, and her heart was won.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

jarrett
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since 2006-05-10

Posts 72
Ut, USA

1 posted 2006-11-02 09:47 PM

Wow, this piece has no words for me to describe it. it's just Wow

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2006-11-02 09:58 PM

When a man can describe, poetically,
or just in a word or two,
his emotions that belay a vastness
of soul...

then he is a poet of art, and heart...

and singularly wonderful.

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

3 posted 2006-11-02 10:33 PM

This is one exceptional write !
Placing it into my library - thankyou.
hugs, Chris

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

JLHunter
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since 2006-10-08

Posts 557
CA United States

4 posted 2006-11-03 05:15 AM

Thanks, jarrett.

I was in a contemplative mood...comtemplating what happened, that is. She isn't dead, yet. But in reality she IS gone forever, so my eternal love will remain unrequited.

Thanks for writing.

John

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

JLHunter
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since 2006-10-08

Posts 557
CA United States

5 posted 2006-11-03 05:17 AM

Thanks, Sunshine.

Aren't you a wonderful responder! I could stop eating and live off of healthy doses of that kind of praise!

Thank you for being so kind!

John

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

JLHunter
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since 2006-10-08

Posts 557
CA United States

6 posted 2006-11-03 05:20 AM

Hi, Chris.

I'm glad that you liked it so much. I agonized over whether to post it or not, as it is rather "mushy!"

However, now I am very happy that I took the chance.

John xo

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

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