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The Sidewalk
It lies between two hearts
Two doors stand one at each end
Each heart growing ever weary
Of the constant pain within
One heart wishes only to leave this world
The other heart prays each day
The heart at the other end of the sidewalk
Will find the courage to want to stay
Each day the heart is told that walks
There is nothing it can do
With the ending of yet another day
The heart begins to wonder of the truth
It is hard to watch the candle burning
As each day it flickers and grows dim
Hope is replaced with fear and tears
In the daily prayers with Him
And yet each day the sidewalk waits
The bridge between two lives
One life refusing to even try
The other life dreading the good-bye
When the day is over
And each step has found it's place
The sidewalk waits just beyond both doors
To be walked yet another day
How many days can the steps be made
Upon this narrow path
Before one heart opens the door at it's end
To find the other heart has passed
Then one heart will always question
"Is there not more I should have tried?"
When one heart tied the other's hands
Was there really no way the hands could not be untied
Each day a little harder
Than the day before
For the heart that walks the sidewalk
Knows it is loosing the final war
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Dear Lesa!
A meaningful psychological exploration
of our human existence in all of its
realistic predicament as we journey
through this experience called life!
Deeply touching and searching in
its own style of creative and
heartfelt rendition! It breaths
and leaves the reader pondering
about life...
Ugonna
Dear Lesa,
I it is a mixed emotion that boil in this poem. Emotions of sadness despair and love. What a painful path is the sidewalk. But I think it is beyond our love and despair. It is a path that would be all should go through to walk the same walkway. It is a poem that provoked me to thing how unfair life can be when separating us in such away. What would count after all are the love, care and hope. That will always remain no matter where the sidewalk shall take us. Great poem my dear! God bless you.