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Thread started 07/21/16 6:06pm

perfume

Three Months - A poem

I'm not a poet, so y'all can drag my literary tribute for filth if u please, but this is how I processed my grief today through an unexpected mess of tears. Like to hear it, here it go:

Three Months - By Perfume

It's been three months today

Three months that I've lied to myself

You're not gone

You retired

You're hiding

You're healing

You made off through a network of underground tunnels at Paisley Park and

Drove off into the sunset

You escaped

You're not gone

Your guitars aren't somewhere collecting dust

You're sitting in the South Sea playing your piano on the beach

You're not gone

You can't be

gone

You grew me up

You taught me to dance

You taught me that being different is ok

And to be ok you have to be

different.

That God and Sex aren't mutually exclusive

You were my friend in my head

My big brother in my head

The music doesn't just stop

it can't

not after all this time

is a trick

You're not gone

You'll never be gone

Too many hearts you've touched

Too many minds you've opened

Too much of you poured out on this earth, spilled onto our ears and into our hearts

But.

You're gone

But only the smallest part of you.

The you that we love has returned to Source - the Giver of the gifts you so generously shared

The world sounds different without you

yet it's more beautiful because of you.

Thank u for your time

And 4 living ur design

You're

never

gone.


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Reply #1 posted 07/21/16 6:12pm

gandorb

thanks for sharing your lovely poem, Perfume. touched

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Reply #2 posted 07/21/16 6:13pm

perfume

gandorb said:

thanks for sharing your lovely poem, Perfume. touched

My pleasure. Thanks so much for reading it. heart

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Reply #3 posted 07/21/16 7:06pm

anangellooksdo
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Perfume! I loved this!
That is true love. Unselfish love.
He would LOVE it, I believe.
Really really good.
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Reply #4 posted 07/21/16 7:55pm

perfume

anangellooksdown said:

Perfume! I loved this! That is true love. Unselfish love. He would LOVE it, I believe. Really really good.

Thanks angel. I'm glad u liked it! I had to get it out. heart

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Reply #5 posted 07/22/16 6:10am

DMarieIsMe

Wow, I love that there is a community for talented ones to share their poetry. I like what you did here. I would share some of my material, but it is entirely too long. I had written a story called 'Somewhere Here On Earth'. i too wish to believe he is retired. Thank you for sharing. I hope there will be more posts here in the future.

[Edited 7/22/16 6:11am]

✿It's only mountains and the sea.
There's nothing greater, U and me.✿
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Reply #6 posted 07/22/16 7:41am

perfume

DMarieIsMe said:

Wow, I love that there is a community for talented ones to share their poetry. I like what you did here. I would share some of my material, but it is entirely too long. I had written a story called 'Somewhere Here On Earth'. i too wish to believe he is retired. Thank you for sharing. I hope there will be more posts here in the future.

[Edited 7/22/16 6:11am]

Thanks for reading my poem, DMarie! Please share some of your work...would be awesome to read! heart

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Reply #7 posted 07/22/16 11:02am

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Beautifully expressing what so many of us feel and what we are going through. Thanks for sharing this. Three months, indeed... hug

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #8 posted 07/22/16 11:08am

perfume

purplethunder3121 said:

Beautifully expressing what so many of us feel and what we are going through. Thanks for sharing this. Three months, indeed... hug

hug Thanks so much for stopping by and reading, purplethunder! It's still surreal... heart

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