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Angeline
Angeline
83 Followers

Your two faces
have not faded,
but rather are carved
like cameos, lockets
lain against my soul,
voices whispering

Mommy, Mommy.

My arms cannot stretch far enough.
My tears cannot float me back to you.
This distance swirls
between us like a river, always
moving to a destination
never reached.

Time is a river.

One hand over the other,
again, again. This is how
days pass over me,
swimming head above water,
swimming to live,
swimming past hopelessness
to your two faces,

which are my face,
my body, surviving
on a distant shore.

Angeline
Angeline
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10 Comments
tazz317tazz317over 11 years ago
THE UNKNOWN BI-ANGULAR

journey or quest for a memory TK U MLJ LV NV

LeBrozLeBrozabout 17 years ago
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This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 35,000 poems.

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LeBrozLeBrozabout 17 years ago
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A Dad can understand it but only a Mom can truly appreciate it.

Bill DadaBill Dadaabout 18 years ago
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And some emotions demand to be written out. Takes a lot of strength and skill to rise to that.

steve portersteve porterover 19 years ago
some emotions...

just have to be written out...been there...protect yourself...thanks.

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