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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

RING BELLS









There wasn’t much that I could do for her,
Now that she had chosen him,
Not that I am better than he,
Or that for her, I’d even go out on a limb,

But her conversation needed my answers,
Her heart still wanted wisdom,
It was like removing the blood from her veins,
After having tasted it, in her system,

And what could I do?
She was a dazzling bride,
A new found princess to her prince,
Yet and still empty inside,

She needed me,
But I would never utter such a thing,
At least not again,
I’d rather just suffer the bells to ring..

Ring thunderously, ring annoyingly,
Do chime, and clamor away,
Chime for our futures sake,
Ring bells until the pain drifts away..

I hear that you love him,
More than the moon adores the night,
More than the stars love it’s twinkling,
More than the blind desires sight,

And am I a madman,
Creating an insurmountable steeple?
That none may climb to the top of it,
And congregate with the sane minded people?

When the night falls upon the earth harshly,
And the shadows appear on walls from candlesticks,
When the minutes become hours,
Do you not think of me within each tick?

I’d rather cast this dreary thought,
Into the puddle of hell..
And watch it sail across the ocean,
With the sound of the foreign bells..

Ring thunderously, ring annoyingly,
Do chime, and clamor away,
Chime for our futures sake,
Ring bells until the pain drifts away..

9 comments:

  1. Paints a picture not often shared. Excellent!

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  2. the most tragic of unrequited love.
    nicely written.

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  3. Thanks for sharing this poem, a poem that must be painful to write and share.

    Take care.
    Yvonne.

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  4. Loved it..!! its touching..!!

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  5. Hi Lucciano:)

    Frist of all let me wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS ANDA HAPPY NEW YEAR.

    Your poetry pulls at my heart strings and I feel a pain. The pain and anguish of a ditched lover. I think she was fooling with you. Many times men fall for the wily charms of a woman who just wants to have fun for sometime and then marry someone else and thus ditch the fellow who pines for her.

    Your lovely heart breaking poem reminds me of the song MY HEART IS IN ROSA RIO sung by JIM REEVES. I do not know whether you have heard this song. In not you will get it on the internet.

    Ther is a stanza like this:)

    THE LADY I LOVED NEVER LOVED ME
    THE LADY I LOVED NEVER KNEW
    THE DAY THAT SHE MARRIED ANOTHER
    THE POOR COWBOYS HEART BROKE IN TWO.

    Your last paragraph says it all. RING THUNDEROUSLY---------UNTILL THE PAIN DRIFTS AWAY. I can feel the excruciating pain in your heart, an unbearable pain, a relentless pain which never seems to subside. It will take a long time for the pain to pass. Only jilted lovers will understand this.

    I assure you time will heal everything. The best thing to do is to find another girl and you will find your pain vanish into the thin air.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS LUCCIANO:)
    Joseph

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  6. thanks for sharing and... today... merry christmas

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  7. goodness, this is so sad. I hope its more symbolic than reality. There's no way I could endure this.

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  8. powerfully emotive.....painfully uncomfortable....GREAT reading...Thank you, Mr. Lucciano!

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