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mermaiden
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Posts: 33
From: India
Registered: Jun 2009

posted October 21, 2009 03:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mermaiden     Edit/Delete Message
This is something I wrote a week or so back.

Bless me, Ishtar

What can I ask for?
I, who am no longer entitled to more,
than a stray afternoon;
a bus racing the sunset, perhaps
an entwined finger or two.

What excuse can I cite?
Except that I love hard
and long;
and do not quit quite
so easily.

I like to say I am strong.

What rights belong
to one who has abdicated
pride;
forfeited all claims
to privilege?

I can no longer afford to demand.

Only hope will not be denied
and dangles instead, from a thread
of the most delicate silk.
Catching the rays of the sun,
throwing up glimpses
that spell fruition.

I walk on, I walk on.
I dare not look back.

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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

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GypseeWind
Knowflake

Posts: 1755
From: Dayton,Ohio USA
Registered: May 2009

posted October 23, 2009 04:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
whoops, how did I miss this one? You have some very lovely imagery there Mermaiden, I especially like, "entwined fingers."

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mermaiden
Knowflake

Posts: 33
From: India
Registered: Jun 2009

posted October 23, 2009 10:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mermaiden     Edit/Delete Message
thank you

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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

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