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- From: nagji@ntc02.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Though I have released you
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.193935.1@ntc02.tele.nokia.fi>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:39:35 GMT
-
- I'm posting this on behalf of a special friend
-
-
- Though I have released you
-
- -----
- In my mind, in my heart,
- I have let you go.
- I will never understand
- what caused things to go awry,
- unless someday,
- you choose to tell me why.
- But I have let you go anyway,
- Because I must.
-
- But this does not mean that
- I will stop caring.
- I can never do that,
- though it seems to be something
- that you are capable of.
-
- No. I have let you go,
- I have purged the painful
- memories from my heart.
-
- I am certain now, that
- to you, I have become
- nothing more than
- a dusty, tattered memory.
- A yellowed, fading page,
- stuffed in the back
- of a junk drawer.
-
- I too, am putting away my
- memories.
- It has taken me longer,
- because my caring runs deep
- like a vein of gold in rocky ground.
- I am slowly putting away
- the painful memories.
- In time, I will discard them.
-
- But there is one set of images
- I will never discard:
- The softness of your touch.
- The sound of your laughter.
- The sparkle of mischief in your eyes
- when you smiled at me.
-
- Though I have released you,
- Though I no longer need you,
- These are memories which rarely
- occur in one's lifetime.
- Memories to cherish.
-
- These I will keep,
- Close to my heart,
-
- Always.
-
-