D.N.E.
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- constantine
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D.N.E.
one by one
they take the back door
names forgotten, features
and faces dissolve into darkness
it grieves me that i can't recall
my milk buddies of kindergarten
the name of my second grade teacher
women i've made love to
friends and enemies
the ingredients of my life
i am diminished by their absence
unraveling daily, those moments
that make up our stay, that
finite and limited run
i am selfish and demanding
i want the full package
to remember, to hold
in my calloused, aging hands
to embrace each
one by one
is it not the same for them
how many have forgotten me
they take the back door
they sneak away
as the teacher erases the blackboard
they take the back door
names forgotten, features
and faces dissolve into darkness
it grieves me that i can't recall
my milk buddies of kindergarten
the name of my second grade teacher
women i've made love to
friends and enemies
the ingredients of my life
i am diminished by their absence
unraveling daily, those moments
that make up our stay, that
finite and limited run
i am selfish and demanding
i want the full package
to remember, to hold
in my calloused, aging hands
to embrace each
one by one
is it not the same for them
how many have forgotten me
they take the back door
they sneak away
as the teacher erases the blackboard
- constantine
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- Joined: March 9th, 2008, 9:45 am
- Doreen Peri
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- Lightning Rod
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- Location: between my ears
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- gypsyjoker
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- Joined: May 26th, 2005, 9:01 am
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Just as I was getting ready to give up and google I finally got the title.
Wonderful poem sounds like a song
I am diminished by age
not the memories
but by the people
Wonderful poem sounds like a song
I am diminished by age
not the memories
but by the people
Free Rice
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'Blessed is he who was not born, Or he, who having been born, has died. But as for us who live, woe unto us, Because we see the afflictions of Zion, And what has befallen Jerusalem." Pseudepigrapha
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'Blessed is he who was not born, Or he, who having been born, has died. But as for us who live, woe unto us, Because we see the afflictions of Zion, And what has befallen Jerusalem." Pseudepigrapha
- Doreen Peri
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