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A Gentle Reminder

The light's too dim

To see your face.

Our lives are too grim

To see grace.

 

As we go on

We learn to know

That love is a child

You have to let grow

 

You nurture and water

With blood and with tears.

You slap, slip and swallow

Down foolish fears.

 

The world keeps turning,

Without us it goes.

And into the dark

We fall into snow.

 

Cold winter's embrace

Will take us away.

And all of our sorrows,

Rest and stay.

 

Let love seep in

To the heart hard and broken,

And listen to soft words,

That are just barely spoken.

 

As we go on

We learn to know

That love is a child

You have to let grow

 

You nurture and water

With blood and with tears.

You slap, slip and swallow

Down foolish fears.

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Written by
genevive-louise-sweeney
American
Published
Sep 13, 2010
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Notes

It's been awhile.

I tend to sing random words, and sometimes they form poems.

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