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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2006-12-27 02:44 AM

Do you lie awake on these nights,
you know well these nights,
the ones that take your sleep
as if it was alms
you'd forgotten you had pledged
to give the poor,
dark nights
with cold sweat
when your bed clothes don't fit,
and shedding those,
you find
it is your skin that doesn't yield to sleep?

Do you lie awake remembering
those long gone nights with winter hovering
and the feeling of my body
inside your soul,
how we chased away your tears,
how we saved the last desperate hold
you had upon your mind,
now all these years gone by
do you find you cry within the yearning
lingering inside the empty arms that hold no warmth
that find no comfort in the night?

©2006 by icebox

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

1 posted 2006-12-27 03:12 AM

oh my! this is wonderful! RDB

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2006-12-27 05:30 AM

you find
it is your skin that doesn't yield to sleep?

I wasn't sleeping either...

M

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2006-12-27 06:05 AM

no, but I do wake up early when I'm off of work, and want to sleep in when it's time to get up for work.

Seriously, this was throught provoking, you've taken an event in most of our lives, at one time or another, and made it well worth contemplation.

thank you and Happy New Year

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2006-12-27 07:34 AM

lately, it's been just like that

maybe I need more exercise

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2006-12-27 10:46 AM

icebox

I used to spend nights awake....now, I have found my dreams, not always good, but sleeping with me.

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

6 posted 2006-12-27 11:34 AM

Warm memories are very good, indeed.

kaila
Junior Member

since 2006-12-24

Posts 37
PA

7 posted 2006-12-27 12:24 PM

I did enjoy this work--especially the lines:

Do you lie awake remembering
those long gone nights with winter hovering
and the feeling of my body
inside your soul...?

You made a frustrating experience (to which I can relate) truly poetic.

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

8 posted 2006-12-27 12:47 PM

Oh my, I like the way you turn this one around. It's usually you who is feeling the emptiness-I like the way we wonder if she feels it too. Excellent.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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