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FLOATING

I am a hollow vessel in the world floating in space, alone, in a universe without humans There is no fear, merely enduring. Sixty eight years of floating today I feel something loosening around my heart just a small ache there In the world of no one but me I am locked out of anyone I am without the spirits of the past I am alone Today is a first step towards the place where the people are.
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Written by
judi-romaine
American
Published
Dec 6, 2012
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My sister died 53 years ago today and I feel nothing. I grieved for her, as I grieved for my parents when they died but I have no access to them, to my experience of them or to their love for me. This poem is a first step to opening my heart back up to love and letting them love me and me love them.

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