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Array ( [sid] => 158901 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => You [time] => 2010-04-13 18:14:52 [hometext] => What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? ~George Eliot [bodytext] =>
~**~**~

You carry in your hands, the fate of too many
And you won’t even hold them with care
But though you never asked for it,
The task is now yours

We are begging for protection
To be wrapped in love and safety
Never to feel the cold of the world
But it’s all up to you

Please look down at what you clench
Open your fingers and take stock
Of who and what you’re strangling
Before we all slip through
Like falling sand

~**~**~ [comments] => 4 [counter] => 301 [topic] => 48 [informant] => Loende [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )

You

Contributed by Loende on Tuesday, 13th April 2010 @ 06:14:52 PM in AEST
Topic: EmotionalPoetry

~**~**~

You carry in your hands, the fate of too many
And you won’t even hold them with care
But though you never asked for it,
The task is now yours

We are begging for protection
To be wrapped in love and safety
Never to feel the cold of the world
But it’s all up to you

Please look down at what you clench
Open your fingers and take stock
Of who and what you’re strangling
Before we all slip through
Like falling sand

~**~**~

Copyright Â© Loende ... [ 2010-04-13 18:14:52]
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Re: You (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Tuesday, 13th April 2010 @ 08:20:26 PM AEST
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This great responsibility seems it has suddenly been thrust upon this "you" you write of. It can't be God; it can't be a leader because both would choose to do what they do...so I find my self puzzled and intrigued at who this you is that has had the weight of the world put upon them.

Or, on another note, it simply could be a glass factory associate.

It's like a riddle that must be solved.

Quite intriguing.

Re: You (User Rating: 1 )
by aliopterix on Tuesday, 13th April 2010 @ 11:58:45 PM AEST
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I liked this Loende because it is open to so much interpretation. You can apply it to so many things and the imagery is moving. Thank you.xx.Aliopterix

Re: You (User Rating: 1 )
by venkat on Wednesday, 14th April 2010 @ 01:15:42 AM AEST
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It is a moving write...
Addressed to the one who could save us from the misery of life and carry us to the other shore..God bless Dawn:-) venkat

Re: You (User Rating: 1 )
by spud on Wednesday, 14th April 2010 @ 07:03:36 AM AEST
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Hi,

Addressed perhaps to heads of state (?)
If so, politely put without missing the crux of
the message.

Tommy

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