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From: robin@gitpyr.UUCP (Robin Cutshaw)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Poem...
Message-ID: <1350@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 13:21:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 13:21:17 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:12:33 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: poem

I really don't like naming these things.  I never should have named "Guilt...".
I only got one (mixed) response on that.  Voice your opinion.  My CORRECT
net addr is gatech!itcatl!parris.

Meanwhile in a place
    That we all call forgotten
Is a man with a memory
    A piece of what was left.

A chorus never sung
    Waters never tested
A branch in the tree of time
    Where no bird has ever nested

He looks upon its surface
    And sees the dreams he used to know
Before the truth of life had touched him
    Before the tide of youth ebbed low

Every day he looks upon it
    And every day he shines it
He blows hot breath upon it
    And when he sleeps he binds it

But every day the colours
    Wash away with tears
And as it fades so does the man
    Who only now knows what he really fears.


				Parris