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Requiem of the Heart

It is for my heart which I write this requiem

Upon it placed, a pensive moratorium

 

One that could last a life time

Or leaving one more hill to climb

 

I have but one choice

And need my inner voice

 

Do I dare start at the bottom?

I remember that hill from last autumn

 

River bluffs hill we raced up that day

A race U won in an impressive way

A picture of which U gave on my birthday

Hung so that I am reminded each day

That there is always a price to pay

 

The picture may remain

But U, my dear, have become profane

 

At the bottom of this hill I now stand

With the memory of my heart in a cold hand

 

I think back to that first kiss

A moment of perfect bliss

 

I would never trade what we had

Keeping the good and the bad

 

But it is at this hill I now loom

Wondering if another climb ends in gloom

 

I am reminded of that hill from that day

Just as I am the mountain on which I lost my way

 

I should not be afraid this hill to ascend

But daunting it is with a heart on the mend

 

For now I am quite jaded

For love to me has quietly faded

 

Faded away into the dusk

Leaving my heart a mere husk

If the winds of time do not blow that husk away

I may live to love another day

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Written by
shawn-white-eagle
Published
Sep 11, 2012
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Outside the realm of romantic love I am standing tall and strong always able to overcome any hill.  I am merely wrestling with the idea of ever being vulnerable again and do not harbor that ***** four letter word (hate) for anyone currently, or in the past, who has turned the hike up the hill into gloom.

Live 4 Love

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