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17. Sonnet: VULNERABLE

(With all deferrence to propriety & kindness: I love you.)



I never expected to find you are lonely again.

I've prayed as often as I've thought of you.

I've prayed as hard as I "used to" love you.

I've not changed: I still pray you'll be loved again.



      "Never truly a wife"* is not an eternal fate,

       for I KNOW God has your heart in His hands.

       Gentle Sister, my heart your heart surrounds.

       I know its depth of Hope, yearning for its true mate.



Hush!  Listen to your lovely heart, still beating true,

beating yet, ne'er haunted by doubt, ne'er daunted.

I know that God's best is all you ever wanted.

Hush! Sleep!  Dream!  I pray sweetest dreams for you.

      

       I have but one heart; oh! how hard we tried!

       You've always gotten my truth:  I never lied.

                                      toujours

      

Author's Notes/Comments: 

On & on.
Wait on Fate.
Do & Die.
Never lie.
Tears & dreams.
Hopeless schemes.
{*"Never TRULY a wife", see "LIE or CAGE".}
(I know it didn't work.
& now I know WHY it didn't work.
But doesn't God give points
for those of us who follow all the rules, without cheating?)

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©22 January 2002 - 10:21pm — TREXPATTON
30 November 2002 - 6:29am — Mary L. Lamb (not verified)
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Oh, so sweet and so powerful. I could cry sometimes reading your words.

Mary

4 February 2002 - 11:06am — J. W. Counts (not verified)
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For some strange reason I felt like I was reading personal mail here. And it is so very sad. You write well and if this is any indication, you express silent feelings with words that scream.

J.W.