Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 1025
Location: that tragic backwater, the gulf coast of florida
Do the Math
When the weight of safety rests
Like a burden on old bones,
When there are fewer years ahead
Than behind us, won't it then
Sound like "so much to lose"
Sounds just like "so much alone"?
It's only time, after all
That's really irreplaceable.
Will the years just be distilled
Into some pictures, barely capable
Of raising any swell
Of joy in recollection?
But perhaps there are a few?
What of expanding that collection?
Sometimes expansion needs defiance
When what remains looms emptier
Than what's already past
And so few days already
Filled more than half the glass,
And then, there was conviction
In the days that truly have
And that's where all the juice was
Of all the days that passed
And the best of love we've had
Had more value when used daily
Than as memories, treasured safely,
And yet so few dare to do the math
That would disclose the cost of that.
Because it's always complicated
And the price of joy and comfort
Must be weighted in the numbers
Against the area of safety,
Divided by the days on hand
And the width of further summers
And the length of further winters
And the distance hearts can stretch.
Is it really any wonder
Few can willingly consider
The generations of a soul
Compounded daily by the sorrow
Of the volume found in lonely,
Which just expands in less tomorrow?
But everything we know
About the depth of time gone wasted
And touch that was abandoned
Even after love was tasted
While we were safe and sound
Must be included in the figures,
Because what's cherished on the ground
Is not protected up in Heaven
And the sum that There is treasured
Is that love is always holy
And never more than when it's chosen
As a life, and not a memory _________________ -
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"...a soul that wakes up to find itself wandering, unwanted, between the spheres."
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Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:50 am
MysteryGirl Moderators
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Posts: 3419
Location: I come from a land downunder
Ae, I gotta either stop reading your work or I have to learn to develop a tougher shell cause your words bore into my soul and on some occasions, like this one, they eat me alive.
But everything we know
About the depth of time gone wasted
And touch that was abandoned
Even after love was tasted
While we were safe and sound
Must be included in the figures,
Because what’s cherished on the ground
Is not protected up in Heaven
And the sum that There is treasured
Is that love is always holy
And never more than when it’s chosen
As a life, and not a memory
_________________ Be yourself.............everybody else is taken!
Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:38 am
Avant-garde
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Posts: 2850
Location: NY
ae,
* takes off shoes to count fingers and toes....Damn that was god but unfortunately I am niether good at math of love....Good write hun like always...
hugs, _________________ ~poetry is the lover ,mine artistic soul, and the keeper of my tormented mind.
Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:53 am
MysteryGirl Moderators
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Posts: 3419
Location: I come from a land downunder
BUMP
Just had to....all this time later this work still eats into my soul. _________________ Be yourself.............everybody else is taken!
Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:46 pm
ae
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 1025
Location: that tragic backwater, the gulf coast of florida
Toldja....I just ached for you, and crying fecklessly wasn't enough....
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Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:13 am
MdmPrez
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 803
Location: US of A
ae
It's great to see you here, ae!!!
You have been so missed.
Please visit us often.
(((((((((((((((((( ae))))))))))))))))))))
Cat
Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:26 pm
MysteryGirl Moderators
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Posts: 3419
Location: I come from a land downunder
OMG OMG OMG.... ae, my darling girl, so wonderfully good to see you make an appearance in here again. PLEASE PM me, we need to talk.
And damn , but I still love this work
HugZ, MG _________________ Be yourself.............everybody else is taken!
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