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Melissa C. Rives

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The Hour's Late
by Melissa C. Rives → (All Poetry by Melissa C. Rives)
  
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I’ve forgotten how to taste
The sweet when bitter seems my fate…
The days have swollen into years
When time arrives a little late.

As cobwebs fill the empty spaces
Captivating though they blind…
It’s futile to attempt to claim
The moments we cannot rewind.

Straightjacket thoughts have screamed inside
Forever kept behind the key…
The darkened room contains the hope
That once upon, a time was me.

The anger passed away too soon,
Now just a dream that tries to sleep…
The tangled words caught in my throat
Embalms the soul I try to keep.

When left behind to resurrect,
Once more the flame of passion’s fire…
The weight of tears becomes the tomb
Where dies the last of our desire.

Too tired to move beyond these walls,
I suffocate beneath the choice…
I live in words upon the page,
For I have lost my only voice.



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 Reviews of "The Hour's Late"
Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on March 4, 2003
good one

Reviewed by Amor Sabor
Reviewed on September 13, 2002
Such intensity resides with these lines so masterfully written. There is frustration in that voice that sometimes can only be released on the page about these choices made.
Amor

Reviewed by Lori Moore
Reviewed on September 12, 2002
Excellent write.

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on September 11, 2002
your voice is sure strong in this poem...

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on September 11, 2002
outstanding write of intense, anger surpressed...frustrations felt!

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on September 11, 2002
It's always great
to read your work
thoughts are something?

Reviewed by Marilyn Seray
Reviewed on September 11, 2002
Melissa this was so profound! Exceptional writing!

Reviewed by Steve Patterson
Reviewed on September 11, 2002
well written. well said. good poetry.


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