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YOUR SILENT WAYS--updated

YOUR SILENT  WAYS Your silence spoke to me
In your quiet ways
Fear and confusion
Tranquility and resignation
Knowing and not understanding
The insanity within
Eyes asking to go home
Again
Death's irony It was a rainy winter day
Your mind suddenly clear
Your eyes opened to say
Pray
For me.
 Each bead  I touched
Was  worn by your own litanies
As I intoned aloud
Your holy rosary
It was the last time
Mom
I saw you smile I  have your silent ways
My own  numbered days
I fear the  insanity
That some day may  be mine
I hear your silence still
In a  similar agony
Genetically defined
I am your son
And
Out of the three
I am the chosen one,

Non vedi che muoio d  una simile agonia....?
— Geremia, Apr 20, 2010

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Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 1 month ago

How we hope not Longobardolino

Ann of Norway BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TOO  She is sure to hear you,  in your heart the echo of her voice  sends you its refrain  again and again and again. How lovely to be able to peep into those last moments with your mother, to share with you the sad sweet tender  togetherness that denoted a bond for life. You touch a chord of friendship that lasts forever in your reader, a message of love that is so admirable, so strong, so constant and so fine in its expression, that all who come to this for the first time, will be moved to take part and sense the atmosphere, feel the texture of the rosary and hear the tiny chink of the beads as they are slowly and methodically told. A so poignant moment in ones life that sets the foundation for the  feelings of well being in the future. May you find sweet solace in its memory. Annuccia.
Seren

Seren

16 years 1 month ago

out of three I am the chosen

out of three I am the chosen one .... that a damn brilliant ending Joe ... you really are something special never let anyone tell you different love and biggest hugs your JayCee x x x Quote:- It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.---Robert Green Ingersoll