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Reluctance
Reluctantly I decided to let you go
Pretending I am strong, believing life will go on.
I sighed a million sighs, wept a million tears
Because I had to let you go;
Struggling all the while, within myself
Trying to accept what is.
My soul remains suspended
Strangled by silvery threads of Reluctance,
The uncertainty of tomorrow,
And a thousand yesterdays in your shadow.
Today's discovery, tomorrow's questions
never ending cycle of you
Reluctantly, I had to let you go...
**worked with Dennis Newman and Joni Ramos on improving the first version
***Many thanks Dennis, Joni!
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| Beautiful, I love how you come around in a not quite cricle through the similarity in the first and last lines. The subject matter is very sad and you definitly convey all that, nice job. |
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Comment by: manoj - 2007-04-09 09:07
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| sad indeed. simple words but deep anguish ... well expressed. |
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Comment by: - 2007-03-03 07:08
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Quite sad, really, but at the same time, the writer is resigned to a fate that was ultimately the only choice. Weep for yesterday, but smile for tomorrow, I guess.
Very lovely poem, Freda!
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Comment by: Ethgar - 2007-02-20 17:36
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| I liked your poem... you repeat reluctance a great many times but it works. I liked the line: "Today's discovery, tomorrow's questions". I don't think reluctance could be defined better. |
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Comment by: jjsmith - 2007-02-05 03:50
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oooooh freda you have started a new trend
reluctance will become the stellar in-word
especially with that image of the soul strangled in its silvery threads
silvery threads of reluctance
sends shivers all through me |
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