thomas-r-parsonsWhisper

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DecemberYou have again made your way in, / Cold and beautiful. / You are December,
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"Hello?"December 23, 2011 / This time of year, this now sad time when I find myself lamentingly thinking of you, I am yet again crying because I no longer can pick up the phone to hear you say “Hello?” as if you were asking a question and not answering a phone. / This time of year, Christmastime, when families gather, when friends laugh. Gifts are exchanged. Hearts are warm. The color red is all around and supposes to envelope all that it sees. This a time when many people are kind to those that they would otherwise never think of, say perhaps on July 4th when the weather is balmy and fireworks flare.
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in the alley, by the utility poleI see this woman, / A small woman, asian, older maybe 60, gray hair at her temples. / She is wearing a tan short sleaved blouse, darker tan khaki’s to her knees and open toed sandals.
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WonderingAllow me today to sit and talk, while sipping on my cherry Kool-Aid – which by the way, tastes just fine to wash down my prescribed addiction, / I sit and relax today, I so rarely do – well, in truth, I have sat in boredom for months while life, people and chaos have come and gone, only to all visit again over and over and over… / I have focused so much on what is ideal that I know nothing about what actually is.
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Rock bottomWhat does it feel like? / When you hit rock bottom. / Does it hurt?
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I floatYou made me promises, / And I wrapped myself in them like melodies on a hazy Sunday morning, / I savored them, twisted them and made them into fibers that I wove into my existence.
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Too badI used to believe I was being responsible when being irresponsible, / I used to hold hope that time had a life for me that was of brilliance and soft petals, because I'd known a hideous child life. / I was wrong.
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Let it goIt is time to let it go. / It is time to watch it fly away. / So see it down the drain, distant and far.
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FiberToday / is but a day / that I am looking at like
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BundleSometimes parents have regrets, / We have regrets because we did not do right by our children, / We had you young, maybe when we shouldn’t have.
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