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To my Valentine....
Contributed by
Mangs
on
Friday, 11th February 2005 @ 01:04:01 PM in AEST
Topic:
LovePoetry
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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love, for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to, be careful,
be realistic,
remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Copyright ©
Mangs
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2005-02-11 13:04:01]
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by jillian_phan on
Friday, 11th February 2005 @ 01:44:19 PM AEST
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| i like your write, it made me want to go on a date... & every date i've been on, was not so good.. . . |
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by xXcrossedXx on
Friday, 18th February 2005 @ 12:41:02 PM AEST
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THIS was a fantastic write! Absolutely beautiful! Everyone has an expectation and a longing for someone but they often can put it into words, you did. This was a very beautiful fantastic meangful write, my favorite of yours. Please, please keep on writing. Excellent job!
--AmandA-- |
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by wyrd_faerie on
Tuesday, 22nd February 2005 @ 03:15:22 PM AEST
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| this...i don't know what to say, not at all...this is so profoundly, deeply beautiful, i'm crying and there are no words to do justice. your depth of feeling astounds me, let alone your ability to portray such indescribeable emotions...in all my life, i will never, ever forget this poem. the most moving i have ever read...xxx |
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by little_genna on
Wednesday, 23rd February 2005 @ 02:45:43 PM AEST
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i felt every word of this in the very depths of my soul.
Your words hit me in the spot where most cant....but every time u manage it....
this is by far the best i have ever read from you in fact from anyone....
.......hunny i love this poem nearly as much as i love you! i will not forget this any time soon
much love as always
your princess
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by ShadowDaughter on
Sunday, 6th March 2005 @ 03:23:19 PM AEST
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This is, quite possibly, the best love poem I've ever read.
Thank you so much for treating us to this.
--Nora
(off to link this in the Best Poem of the Day forum) |
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Re: To my Valentine....
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by Silent-No-More on
Sunday, 6th March 2005 @ 03:43:07 PM AEST
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Thank goodness Nora pointed this out in the Best Poem of the Day forum!!!!!!! By title alone, I may have ignorantly (IGNORANTELY!) assumed it to be something less.
This - yes, yes, yes! - is rather exactly what a love poem should be... and to be perfectly, utterly honest - it breaks my heart that it so often isn't. THIS - is extraordinary. THIS - I haven't words enough for....
You had ths reader by "ache for" and you held me, rapt, until the very last word. Absolutely, absolutely beatiful this is.
Finding great comfort in knowing this is still possible in a world gone mad,
~SNM~ |
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