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Offline Halo

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« on: December 10, 2011, 12:44 AM »
for your mom and mine



beneath my breast
my heart races -
aches with intensity
I clutch at memories
some yours, hers
tangled with mine

I see you two-stepping
your life dancing in front of me
the scenes I imagine
cause a melancholy
to rise up inside me
in ways I can�t find the words for
only emotions
beyond my comprehension
wound around love
sight unseen

on my left my mum
the girl she was
beckons me to tell her story
on the right you hold my attention
marigolds in your hair -
a baffling connection

who am I?
who were either of you?
I cannot see the fullness of the past
have words too few to do us credit
love you � is all I can say.

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Offline witt

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Re: connections
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 09:03 AM »
I sure can *connect* with clutching at memoires!


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Offline Halo

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Re: connections
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 07:54 AM »
Loss does that...we try to hold onto the person and we go through a season (more than one sometimes) of clutching for fear they will fade.
Thanks for the read witt.  :cheekiss
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Re: connections
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 02:54 PM »
The memories are as alive as we make them. My mom died in 1989 and dad died in 1999, but to this day something interesting will happen and my first thought will be, I have to call mom/dad to tell them this. Its only an instant mind you, but to me they're still alive.
Hold on to that Halo and Witt. It eases the pain.

Nice write Halo, very personal and heart warming.
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Re: connections
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 04:39 PM »
Everything we do from this day forward is a reflection of everything that has happened throughout our lives up to this point, everything is relative to what shapes us into who we are and what we will become. Our own immortality could be defined as the fingerprints we leave on everyone we "touch."

It is in my opinion that death is strictly physical and that our loved ones live on through us. When one feels their most distant from another, they are in all actuality the closest. Embrace the pain and smile through the tears, because at that very moment they are not only with you, they are at one with you.

Thanks for sharing.
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Re: connections
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2011, 11:19 PM »
A-FRIEND, I have experienced that...something happened and I wanted to tell my mum. It took quite a while for it to sink in that she wasn't there to tell anymore. You're right of course, people leave us physically but the love and memories don't die unless we let them.
Thank you for your kindness.   *hug*

Hi 7, I do believe that about our fingerprints, I find it very comforting. I think death is more than physical, more spiritual in it's finality.
Thanks for the read and the comment, very much appreciated.   :angel:
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