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Skittles

(172,995 posts)
9. dedicated to Rowdyboy
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 01:03 AM
Mar 2015

"For Those I Love" by Isla Paschal Richardson

If I should ever leave you whom I love
To go along the Silent Way,
Grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears,
But laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there.

( I'd come - I'd come, could I but find a way!
But would not tears and grief be barriers? )
And when you hear a song
Or see a bird I loved,
Please do not let the thought of me be sad...
For I am loving you just as I always have...
You were so good to me!

There are so many things I wanted still to do -
So many things to say to you...
Remember that I did not fear...
It was Just leaving you that was so hard to face...
We cannot see Beyond...
But this I know:
I love you so -
'twas heaven here with you!




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I like that one too. I never knew the name of it. femmocrat Feb 2015 #1
Harlem by Langston Hughes NewJeffCT Feb 2015 #2
Walt Whitman: "When I heard at the close of the day' Rowdyboy Feb 2015 #3
Victor Hugo - Apres La Bataille (After The Battle) aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #4
Ah, I like that malthaussen Feb 2015 #8
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost elleng Feb 2015 #5
Yes. That is a classic. applegrove Feb 2015 #6
Well, my favorite poems are my own compositions... malthaussen Feb 2015 #7
You beat me to it! The Second Coming is probably my favorite The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #16
dedicated to Rowdyboy Skittles Mar 2015 #9
. countryjake Mar 2015 #10
Thank you. femmocrat Mar 2015 #15
Continent's End, by Robinson Jeffers petronius Mar 2015 #11
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) HeiressofBickworth Mar 2015 #12
My House by Lou Reed lovemydog Mar 2015 #13
anyone lived in a pretty how town (e e cummings) struggle4progress Mar 2015 #14
Ozymandias by Shelley Chellee Mar 2015 #17
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