AnniThyme

AnniThyme
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August 30
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I'm just ... me. And this quote, from John le Carre, really resonates with me: "Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen."

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Salon.com
MAY 30, 2010 8:44PM

Through a released breath

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In every TV show
And in every movie
Someone …

Somehow …

Got to say goodbye.

The audience
Was able to bury their ghosts.
Even if it was through a snowglobe.

Shaking the reality into a dream
Allowing  their pent up fears to be expelled
Through a released breath.

But I …

I?

Never got to shake up my world.
(My world was shaken.)
I never got to turn understanding on its head.
(“This can’t be real, can it?”)

I?

Never was able to say,
“Hey. You? I love you.”
I never



… I never got to say goodbye.

ANNIE 483

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I loved this. Touching. Beautifully written. Thank you!

Rated.
i wish i knew the backstory, anni. but knowing it couldn't make this poem better since it's already perfect. it's good to hear from you again.
Thank you to both Brian and RARoberts.

Ms. Forte - the quick backstory on this one: I'm a sucker (sucker!) for pseudo-medical dramas. I was watching Mercy (I think) and there was a scene where a daughter was able to, at the last minute, come to say goodbye to her mother. Both of my parents died quickly and unexpectedly, so none of us were ever able to say a proper goodbye. And that scene reminded me of it.

I think life is calming down enough so that I can be back more often. (YAY!)
"I think life is calming down enough so that I can be back more often."

I hear your song, sugar...
Very touching. Pretty much explains why an audience has to suspend its sense of disbelief. It's good to hear from you again, Anni.
Grand and strong. I do miss so many that I never bid farewell.
Rated.
Just found you, from Stim's blog, whom I just found from Greg's. One of many I keep finding to say hello to. Touching, eloquent verse.
A fine tribute, AnniThyme. It's hard to lose someone that early in life. I can tell it still hurts.
You captured this so well. Things rarely go the way they do on the silver screen do they?