V1

She quietly left on a starlit night

I couldn’t make her stay

I thought I was her anchor

But those stars pulled her away

No fight,

Or angry tears

Her blue eyes held no rage

In my mind I poured half a dictionary

Onto an empty page

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PC

She touched my lips

With her fingertips

And whispered

Don’t follow me down

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CH

Fifty thousand stars

Frame you in my memory

Fifty thousand times

I saw but didn’t see

I had fifty thousand words

But I could not find the few

To show you all the feelings

That I always felt for you

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V2

All those many words I kept

A crop for me to reap

I tried to use them miserly

Each word had to earn its keep

Now I write to repair the silence

I write but never send

I write to seek the ending

To a never-ending end

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CH

Fifty thousand stars

Frame you in my memory

Fifty thousand times

I saw but didn’t see

I had fifty thousand words

But I could not find the few

To show you all the feelings

That I always felt for you

–

BR

I dreamt I saw you distant

on a winter night

I ran

but couldn’t catch you

Then you faded

into spiral mist

rising from the sea

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CH

Fifty thousand stars

Frame you in my memory

Fifty thousand times

I saw but didn’t see

I had,

Fifty thousand words

But I could not find the few

To show you all the feelings

That I always felt for you

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Copyright : Rod de Lisle