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Separate Roads

Dusty clouds are isolation Confusion obstructs my view As I travel back roads in lonesome Searching for the missing clues Long ago we became separations Worlds away by barbed-wire offences I need to be back within your presence To the much greener grass of our past oasis Although, with every try you set up failure You think I should be kept locked in contempt Getting hung up upon the daily razors But life without you I can never accept Shut out, hours, months and years ago Love is not dead yet, this I know... I must get to you and the other side For I saw, what the future holds...still you and I The long divided road For the shortest while I could bear But, now the burden is an overload As I travel back into the wilds of despair But now, I see new horizons where boundaries blur And my heart overflows with something long forgotten Stretching out my arms to you once more And through the wires I make attempts, more and more often If there were nothing there and then my back I'd turn To the broken road of pits and painless But, mind cries carry on into yonder Please, wife why won't you pull me through regardless Of our frozen moments into complications Where internal needing never dies Praying for a miracle or a simple kind of elation Of some love what's left, just to give us one more try If you would dance with me in raindrops of every second chances Waiting to fall from off your ever distant eyes Like the Spring showers that cleanse away past sins Washing in forgiveness, as you pull me through so once again... I could be standing at your side

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Date: 1/19/2013 12:29:00 PM
heartfelt poem...I hope you dance the dance of your heart.
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Michael Smith
Date: 1/19/2013 7:47:00 PM
This was based off a song by Journey "Separate Ways". I remember being in this situation in my first marriage.
Date: 1/19/2013 11:47:00 AM
Great images and word usage in this. I enjoyed reading your poem, Michael. Love, Kim
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Michael Smith
Date: 1/19/2013 7:47:00 PM
Thanks for the kind comments.
Date: 1/19/2013 11:41:00 AM
Great images and word usage in this. I enjoyed reading your poem, Michael. Love, Kim
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