Where Are You

Where Are You

I stand upon a precipice 
Where once a battle raged
Between just two... the rest of us
Still searches...unassuaged...

So many questions torment me
(I should or should not done)
A constant torch of agony 
Forbears a love unspun...

Still nothing fills this empty space 
Where promises once were
You vanished! Gone! Without a trace!
In echoes...now you stir...

Faint silhouettes lost in the dark...
Hope's murmurings decried...
This longing bleeds without a mark
Or traces...since you died. 


2.1.2017©deborah burch 


Quatrain

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 2/9/2017 10:30:00 AM
Amen.
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Date: 2/4/2017 2:59:00 PM
- A lovely and touching poems - Great written Deborah - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 2/2/2017 10:45:00 AM
Dear Deb, I love your style, the flow and the delightful descriptive difference! I am a fan! my best to you, chuck
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Deborah Burch
Date: 2/2/2017 3:13:00 PM
*blush* thank you very much Chuck!! Im honoured!! ;) big hugs!! Deb
Date: 2/1/2017 5:26:00 PM
A sad tale but so well written, Deb! I enjoyed it very much!
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Deborah Burch
Date: 2/1/2017 7:01:00 PM
Thank you Wolf!! Big Hugggs!! Deb
Date: 2/1/2017 4:30:00 PM
Very cool and very well written Deb. The flow of this poem is smooth even though the subject is a bit sad I think, I still find it fantastic.
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Deborah Burch
Date: 2/1/2017 4:52:00 PM
Thank you Chris!! Big Hugggs and Hugggs!! Deb
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Date: 2/1/2017 4:45:00 PM
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