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Looking Back

Good-bye was never mentioned but; It was Good-bye just the same. I told myself not to look back and I didn’t except; The inside me did and still looks back to this very day. A curse woven by a mountain she wolf perhaps; And me the ever elusive coyote; Chancing the nights away; I often laughed but it wasn’t ever play. She told me she sometimes; Saw me as angel; But the devil; He’s an angel too; I saw her desperate and standing; “All alone against the world outside” But it was only a heat I thought and; The Philly she’s sure to run. And where was the love she once asked. And when I left I thought; I was running from the devil; But I think I was running from myself

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 12/19/2012 4:12:00 PM
A deep and resounding write, Lenny. Sounds like fear of commitment or rejection? I think we all go through this, can certainly restict or restain a person. Still, "she saw 'you' as an angel", and most probably a kind one.:) Keep well, Love, Mikki
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Date: 12/18/2012 10:01:00 AM
Wow. This is deep...i see past the hallows of your ever present humor. I see inside the darkness where a light still flickers. You laugh and curse yourself as an angel fallen here but look past other possibilities that there was another angel there...go Back a few pages and look at my poem called love makes a man do crazy things...this poem reminds me of it in its own way
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Date: 12/14/2012 8:23:00 AM
I didn't get a chuckle. Your one of my faves. And this is why. You are masterful with the way you use words. You use the trick every good poet knows. Proof read.
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Date: 12/12/2012 7:44:00 PM
Got a chuckle at the end..Very creative story told..Enjoyed reading this eve..Sara
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