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If wishes were trees...
By Narcissa
It just hangs there
Unable to fall
Like a water fountain gone
dry...
And I can't hold anything anymore
I'm so full of empty
No candles or midnight service
No
more pictures of your smile...
It hurts too much to have you
pinned to my chest
I know where you are
Does it matter
if no one else does?
If I could severe this bond
I wouldn't
How silly of me
To think of you
Fidgeting
with wings
...and the angels...
They aren't watching you
They never did
Did they?
There were lilies
on your grave today
And a few nameless roses too.... The ones that
die quickly
Too quickly.
I'll watch them die too...
The mourners will fade from the cemetery
Vanishing with
their veils of black and sadness
...They'll be back
Won't they?
They all come back...
And I'll be here
Clinging to last year's maple leaf
Unable to fall
... No matter how hard my limbs tremble
Trees don't move
...But oh
...How I wish you did.....
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Copyright 2010 Narcissa
Published on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
Filed under:
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Comments on "If wishes were trees..."
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On Tuesday, December 12, 2017, Cassette
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wrote:
crush and ache.
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On Thursday, November 1, 2012, Dreaming in Stanzas
(303) wrote:
"And I can't hold anything anymore I'm so full of empty" ....damn those 2 lines spoke to me so much. You write these heartbreakingly beautiful poems but the last few lines always manage to be the cherry on the perfect poetic sundae. Love it, although it hurts to read a poem so full of pain.
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A former member wrote:
What an amazing ache you put your reader in. Excellent piece. =)
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On Monday, March 29, 2010, Ravenblade
(313) wrote:
this whole write speaks so loudly at me, and all I can say it that it was powerful and thank you for sharing this. I can relate to this on so many levels, especially given the last several days...
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A former member wrote:
your words make the world seem so cold, so still and stone. watching it die, knowing it must, finding in every life the absence that awaits it... and wishing upon heavy air for another way to be..... I saw the leaf.... to be like the voice, unyielding, a refusal to allow this to happen. again. and the mourners... they too shall have their witnesses.... their untimely adornments..... and a leaf that will not leave.... *silent contemplation* thank you.
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On Sunday, March 28, 2010, Dilated View
(583) wrote:
This was quietly crushing. "There were lilies on your grave today And a few nameless roses too.... The ones that die quickly Too quickly. I'll watch them die too..." Gah. I think this is something many can relate to and your words came out wonderfully. Sadly written but written well.
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A former member wrote:
Mmmm it feels so familiar...
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A former member wrote:
there are people [and there are moments] in our lives that are unfathomably imperative and for reasons we never can seem to swallow wholly. i, too, have a moment upon a spiraling leaf that means the world to me. a literal leaf, frozen against a church, cauhgt in amber, caught in a willful wind....and i was torn in two over it. i am only just now beginning to understand the miracle of it. your write reminded me of both halves of my heart. beauty and pain. sewn inextricably.
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