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Open Poetry #39

Tell me no more

RedStoneEB
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since 2003-06-08

Posts 772
uk

0 posted 2006-11-15 06:32 AM

Tell me no more: I am what I am;
the depressor—hollowed by himself,
with folded greatness without his colours shown--
But I too fond seek not the answers
Tell me no more.

Tell me no more: I have been too egotistical!
I loved my own—ask me of my own,
And I shall say “with greatness comes a price--
these friends I have no longer wish to frame me
faded I have become in standing to reach above;
stood on the higher peak alone with no-one--
to share my thoughts.” tell me no more.

Tell me no more: I have seen the mine, and they;
We are but of equal streams flowing all the same,
But I in vain have tried to swim upstream faster--
but looking back they are all at rest
no boundaries to achieve, a poet instead;
But of all these years of trying to swim upstream--
no matter how far I go, tell me no more.

But O was that I a butterfly
painted for a day in colours of the rainbow.
That greatness would soon but die--
yet leave a beautiful thought upon the world
That I lived for a day in colours that did shine
and died a day in greatness, so please;
Tell me no more.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2006-11-15 07:22 AM

good thoughts here

enjoyed this

marcel
Senior Member

since 2003-03-02

Posts 660
az, usa

2 posted 2006-11-15 10:36 PM

fantastic! colorful! sad, but beautifully hopeful..............

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