Whisper

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Whisper

     By Marsha Marie



long ago

too far now

just a memory

is it fair?

a unknown voice says, yes


wish i were there to keep you warm

to heal the scars time has scattered between us

again i feel i have hurt you. i cannot reach.

if only i could hear you whisper my name.

a gentle breathing of our love into existence. 

a tender touch to the face

a gentle kiss of remembrance


but silence is deafening

and distance agony

a reminder of the judgment called down from high

youth trampled and left us searching 

but we shall never find

…….we shall never find


i concede oh great prophets 

you have won this round 

but in the shadows i will continue to whisper his name until my dying breath….


“daniel, i love you”

THAT they can never drown.


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