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Date Posted: 23:59:25 06/26/02 Wed
Author: sp99
Author Host/IP: pool-63.53.97.176.nwrk.grid.net / 63.53.97.176
Subject: Re: Tightrope
In reply to: Harmony 's message, "Tightrope" on 12:13:56 06/26/02 Wed

Excellent poem Harmony,
giving this reader
a heady feeling of reading
a tightrope of a read, with feeling
somewhat quite exhilarated at the end!!!
Very well done in this humble book!!!

Susanne

>Tightrope

>A step. Cautious, tentative
>Along the wire.
>Place each trembling foot
>Ahead of the other, slowly.
>
>How high is too high?
>How long the fall?
>One slip, one mistake
>And you will know.
>
>Balance is life.
>A precarious journey
>For old, tired legs
>Struggling for equilibrium.
>
>The rope sways in the wind.
>How much breeze is too much?
>Counterpoise the zephyr
>Or take the last flight.
>
>Do not look down,
>No turning back.
>The terminus is shrouded
>In misty uncertainty.
>
>Sway with the rope,
>Find the rhythm,
>Or the dissonance will
>Will harshly unbalance.
>
>Let go of the fear
>If you can. Let it go
>Or it will embrace you
>And drop you like a stone.
>
>How many steps remain?
>How many are too many?
>There may be only one.
>The last one.

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