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Array ( [sid] => 49544 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Can't Stay Here [time] => 2004-05-28 22:46:48 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Yesterday is on my front step
Rapping on the door
Wanting me to step outside
Yet I remain unsure

If I could see Tomorrow now
I’d move on without doubt
But the future is lost to me
For I have shut it out

In the present tense I linger
Though I’m unhappy here
Moving forward, going back
Each one of these I fear

Yesterday keeps on knocking
Tomorrow is a tease
They keep calling, tugging at me
Increasing by degrees

I am hopelessly undecided
Listening to their call
Dancing on an invisible line
Wanting so to fall

Tomorrow cries from the dark
Offering only the unknown
Yesterday whispers sweetly to me
Telling me how I’ve grown

Their voices tumble together
Making it so unclear
I do not know to which I’ll go
But I know I can’t stay here

[comments] => 10 [counter] => 192 [topic] => 61 [informant] => Silent-No-More [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 14 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => selfstruggles )

Can't Stay Here

Contributed by Silent-No-More on Friday, 28th May 2004 @ 10:46:48 PM in AEST
Topic: selfstruggles

Yesterday is on my front step
Rapping on the door
Wanting me to step outside
Yet I remain unsure

If I could see Tomorrow now
I’d move on without doubt
But the future is lost to me
For I have shut it out

In the present tense I linger
Though I’m unhappy here
Moving forward, going back
Each one of these I fear

Yesterday keeps on knocking
Tomorrow is a tease
They keep calling, tugging at me
Increasing by degrees

I am hopelessly undecided
Listening to their call
Dancing on an invisible line
Wanting so to fall

Tomorrow cries from the dark
Offering only the unknown
Yesterday whispers sweetly to me
Telling me how I’ve grown

Their voices tumble together
Making it so unclear
I do not know to which I’ll go
But I know I can’t stay here

Copyright Â© Silent-No-More ... [ 2004-05-28 22:46:48]
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Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by bttrflynajar on Friday, 28th May 2004 @ 11:03:11 PM AEST
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this is a really good poem, i enjoyed reading it. it reminds me of the way i felt when i was going through some major changes of my own, it feels like you stuck, dont wanna move back, dont wanna move foward!~BttRFlY

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by UnfallenTears on Friday, 28th May 2004 @ 11:06:11 PM AEST
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this is one of the best one's I've read so far. I like the symbolism. Really great, don't stop writing.

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by Sylvias on Friday, 28th May 2004 @ 11:16:07 PM AEST
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I like it. It has a good rhythm to it.

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by blueheart on Friday, 28th May 2004 @ 11:18:55 PM AEST
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Wow, I'm so glad I read this, thanks for sharing.

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by ladyfawn on Saturday, 29th May 2004 @ 12:31:34 AM AEST
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this is great, let go of past and future and just breathe:) hugs n' love nessa

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Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by Whisper on Saturday, 29th May 2004 @ 12:54:57 AM AEST
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Nice write my heart knows how you feel.

Whisper

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by Vitreous_Soul on Saturday, 29th May 2004 @ 06:33:38 AM AEST
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Fascinating poem. I enjoyed the way you addressed Tomorrow and Yesterday as not only periods in time, but as entities unto themselves. Very creative, you have quite a vivid imagination.

"In the present tense I linger
Though I’m unhappy here
Moving forward, going back
Each one of these I fear"

That particular stanza really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing this sterling effort.

Pummelled by cast stones,
-V.S.

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by holderofthestone on Saturday, 29th May 2004 @ 02:27:14 PM AEST
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remember the more we fall the farther we get from the brink! great poem here keep writing ill keep reading!

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by brigitte7735 on Saturday, 29th May 2004 @ 10:14:38 PM AEST
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i really really love your poems, but this one is so classy

"But i know i cant stay here"

that is so glorious

Vanessa

Re: Can't Stay Here (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Friday, 5th May 2006 @ 04:18:38 AM AEST
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I like how you dealt with the retrospection in this one...at least as for as not letting yesterday in and knowing you can't stay. I can relate to not being sure what one wants to do and you give a glimmer of hope in the end to move on...to see what tomorrow will bring.

Awesome poem, Snemmers. :-)

Tim

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