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Who will stay?

April 22, 2016 13 Comments

Who will stay
Until we are old, pale, and grayed, bodies fallen?

Who will stay
When we are broken, when we haven’t words
Knowing our silence, taking our hand as we are stilled by fear?

Who will stay
Through our whispering insanity
Finding forgiveness, though unfair, their crucifixion?

Who will stay
Cut by razor-tongue
Bleeding from confusion’s wounds, yet still drawing us near?

Who will stay
Through the rain’s gray pain
Until distant morning sun gifts us hope again?

Who will stay
When summer’s butterflies are gone
When perched love birds know only lonely songs?

Who will stay
Through the tumors, illness, through disease?

Who will stay
Longer than a warm, summer evening’s dream?

Who will stay
Who will prove themselves not a fantasy?

Some may look the sky
Their question, merely, why?
All I ask, tell me, please
Who will stay?


An older poem, tho timelessly relevant to me.

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  1. Maureen says

    April 22, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    I know someone. Ask me about her.

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    • Eric says

      April 22, 2016 at 9:51 pm

      There was a poem I wrote one time, that brought tears, a few actually. This may have been one of them.

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  2. Maureen says

    April 22, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Publish it. Maybe she will cry too. Life is short, my friend:)

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    • Eric says

      April 22, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      Didn’t I just do so? 🙂 I don’t think this is in any books tho. And yes, life is short. I’ve been writing about it for years. You might remember the phrase, ‘we haven’t much time.’

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  3. maltuh123 says

    April 22, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    Some of us. Some of us will stay.

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    • Eric says

      April 22, 2016 at 11:26 pm

      Thank you 🙂 Yes, that’s what it’s really all about.

      Reply
  4. thoughtsgather says

    April 23, 2016 at 12:43 am

    The eternal question. The answer solves all.

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    • Eric says

      April 23, 2016 at 1:54 am

      Unfair, but it’s a trick question.. and a universal one. We never know for certain, until the end. It’s why I don’t use the word ‘forever’, except in juxtaposition, or in reference. Thank you for coming here 🙂

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      • Steph says

        April 23, 2016 at 10:32 am

        And I was obviously well into the wine when I may that comment. It’s like I was trying to sound all existential or something

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        • Eric says

          April 23, 2016 at 10:40 am

          Lol. I thought I was the only one 🙂 Good morning..

          Oh, and never mind my other replies to this. I got myself confused.

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  5. Nancy G says

    July 1, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    This is beautiful, yet sad at the same time. I have seen both ends of the spectrum, and one is devoutly, beautifully sad while the other irresponsibly sad. One day I hope to find the devoted one. That is the most beautiful of all.

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  6. LayLa says

    September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    I like this

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    • Eric says

      September 13, 2016 at 5:24 pm

      Thank you. I hope you’ve been well

      Reply

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