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Date Posted: 15:22:28 11/23/02 Sat
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB01a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.163
Subject: Re: Ring
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "Ring" on 03:25:07 11/23/02 Sat

Mmmm

Well, just so you know...
When love is forever,
It's obvious...
You never let go.

Yes those lines say it all, underpin the theme of the poem, the strength of the thought, the power to connect to others.

R

>Ring
>
>A flake of ash falls
>On the joint of my thumb,
>Shaped like a heart,
>A little white heart
>I brush away.
>
>On another finger
>On the same hand
>I wear a secret ring
>I bought myself...
>You've never seen it.
>
>Some love really does
>Still last forever...
>Despite anything,
>Everything...
>Despite any change.
>
>Let it go!
>Frustration.
>And God, how the hours
>Draw so thin,
>Just to thicken again...
>
>But forever, forever...
>No matter how lonely,
>Or how long, or
>How far apart,
>No matter delusions,
>Or need, or greedy
>Self regard...
>
>That was your name just now,
>On a television show,
>The X-files, and someone asked
>"Did you hear anything I said?"
>No I didn't.
>
>No matter shallow demands,
>Or laughter from a world
>That wants things clear...
>Inside of me, here...
>And outside, there...
>
>I walk this room angry,
>No this poem doesn't end,
>It's a thought, not a poem,
>It's a nervous spinning thing
>That wants to mutter.
>
>And all the wanting loves,
>That want to let go,
>That struggle to know
>A freedom of realization
>And peace...
>
>Well, just so you know...
>When love is forever,
>It's obvious...
>You never let go.
>
>Let my heaven crush beneath
>The bitter weight of servitude then,
>And the seven million times
>I wish I hadn't said "bitter"...
>
>Seven million is just a speck
>Within forever, don't you get it yet?
>Everything is nothing when
>You really mean it...
>Forever.
>
>Forgive me for the spite, then,
>For the right to say the
>Sour end of living melts away,
>For that isn't why I love,
>I love because it's better.
>
>Always better...
>And never too long.
>
>This poem doesn't sing
>Like I want it to...
>So what?
>This poem says the same thing
>Over and over...
>So what? So what? So what?
>
>This poem drives a reader crazy,
>And why would he make it so long,
>So over and over, and obsessed...
>Ha ha! Did you here that?
>Obsessed!!!!
>
>I don't care, I mean, it's there...
>It's still forever...
>Stop arguing with me, everything,
>You know you aren't really there...
>You aren't the feeling at all,
>You are nothing...
>Ever forever.
>
>I could write the same word over and over, right?
>Would that be something, itself...?
>Not really... I could fight...
>Oh, nevermind.
>This isn't for anyone but
>You and me, and if you don't want it,
>That still doesn't matter.
>
>I'll just wear it.
>
>-Gray Squirrel

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