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Old 03-11-2005, 03:28 AM   #3 (permalink)
little_tippler
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Sorry is all I can say. I can feel your pain. In recent years I have had my share of family woes. My dad passed away 3 years ago now, so I can relate a little to how you feel. I was only 21 at the time, so it was hard. About a year later my mom had a burst aneurism and nearly died...it was a very low moment for me, where I had to look at my life and think, what will I do without anyone? (I'm an only child). I think I dealt really well with my dad's death. It hurt so much in the first year. But somehow I found peace in visiting the cemetery where his ashes are. Now I sometimes go there, it's such a quiet place, with trees and birds singing, not worried about the world...I just came to accept it as a natural part of the cycle of life. The memory stays forever, but it makes you stronger and wiser. And in time your wounds will heal. One of the things I miss the most is his smell...funny that.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.


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