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Blood and Bones

By Robin Saylor, published Jul 24, 2008
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My heart stopped beating
When I drove away
The rearview mirror
Told me to stay
But I didn't listen
I left anyway

Dead for a year
No life in this soul
Blood and Bones
Have paid their toll
Just half of a heart
Yearns to be whole

A whisper I hear
Your voice I know well
A spark in my heart
To save me from Hell
You breathe sweet life
Into this shell

Prayers to be answered
From heaven above
My spirit is carried
On wings of a dove
I shall return
To my one only love

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This is very moving and evokes mixed emotions of tenderness and the sadness that can only be experienced in such depth by the heart.

Posted on 08/06/2008 at 9:08:04 PM

 
Very bitter sweet. We hardly ever see the depth of the things around us because we as a people are surface swimmers. But sometimes, when we are forced by either love or loss, to take a deep breath of air and dive down to the bottom of the glass that is our life, we find the tiny grains of sadny sugar that we could not see from above. Sometimes they are the truths that hurt us because we did not want to see them ... sometimes they are the realizations of our mistakes or the confessions of our loved ones we did not listen to. But either way, no matter ... we are always rewarded with the swim back to the surface where the light is and the never ended chances to stir that glass and know, that each time we do - those grains land in a different pattern and we must again go and see what it's all about. that is to say, we aren't acutally making mistakes, we're just trying to make it as good as possible.

Posted on 07/27/2008 at 4:07:03 PM

 
very beautiful and heart felt. A feeling all of us have had and some can correct.

Posted on 07/24/2008 at 8:07:14 PM

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