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post Sep 15 04, 14:33
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Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
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SORROW

When you were yet a child, so dear to me,
tummy flat upon the rug, finger on a book
to read the lines, your lips a babbling brook,
my heart went out to you, my busy bumble-bee.

I loved those hours, so full of joyous play,
loved your curly hair, the sturdy limbs
so quick your favorite oak to climb;
better times there never were, nor gladder days,

that now I sit beside your arms upon the quilt,
so motionless, their lifeline out of symmetry,
and cannot grasp the ingrate chronology,
must hide my face awhile, with tears of guilt.

Yet still I marvel at the gallant spirit in you,
understand the battle in those dimming eyes
and guess the nameless sorrow, the solitude,
Youth's body wasted frail his soul to Heaven rise.

By Psyche

Dedicated to my son Patrick who died of Lou Gehrig's Disease (Motor Neurone Disease) in his twenties, six years ago, August 24th., 1998.
"Always present in my heart, always loved."

Copyright 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina.






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dance.gif Congratulations Sylvia,


This is beautiful! The subject thrashes at the readers emotions like waves on the shore. What you've done here, is focused on the gifts given to the narrator and the sorrows the child's strength had helped others to comfort and over come. The smallest details of what is often right in front of our eyes is often overlooked during such grievious times. Yet, this poem shows the reader the ability to make those wonders the main focus and that is what brings this poem a knife to the heart.

Wonderful use of poetics and ability to bring real life, to the reader.

Hugs, Liz


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