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September 29, 2016
By E.Moore14 SILVER, Chattanooga, Tennessee
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E.Moore14 SILVER, Chattanooga, Tennessee
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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I want to listen to the wild calling out in the dark
to those who know how to be afraid, and
stay anyway.
I want to find you in this
pale ghost of morning,
and write you down with pencil and memory.
I want to climb up great rocks and wonder at
the breath of earth,
the inhale of gravity.
I want to look back and love all that was mine,
all that laughed or sang or trembled.

I want to one day find the flower in the growing
of this heart,
and pull back each petal.
To let them whisper as they fall:
now,
now,
now.

© Garrett M.

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on Oct. 6 2016 at 12:17 pm
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AAHHHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS POEM!!
isuess GOLD said...
on Oct. 5 2016 at 1:31 am
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This is a beautiful poem. You have real talent!