The Point of Departure

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The Point of Departure

by ChimesofFreedom @ Friday, 10. Jul, 2009 – 20:41:43

It tells it's own tale...and is sadly true.

Hirundo Rustica

You left upon a falling tide
Just made it through the harbour mouth
Before the weed and rocks rose up
Before your energy to leave had died.

You took to flight on a rising wind
Gathered speed in your new made day
Blown towards a fresh horizon
Right decision underpinned.

You walked away from the dying embers
The warmth no longer kept you there
For you the burning time had ended
The time that only smoke remembers.

Gone before the snow blew through
Bags packed, paid up, checked out
Are those raindrops on your cheek?
And your sky's what shade of blue?
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6 Comments to The Point of Departure

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- dancetotheradio
- Friday, 10. Jul, 2009 @ 21:15:01
Lovely poem.
Very touching.
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- ChimesofFreedom
- Friday, 10. Jul, 2009 @ 22:15:40
Thanks for saying that Tess. A less universal poem I know, but writing it helped me at the time.
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- jollyweez
- Saturday, 11. Jul, 2009 @ 19:05:04
"All that's bright must fade, -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest."
Thomas Moore

That is so sad. To stand back and let the bird fly free. Like the wild goose, she must go to new climes. God only knows where.....?
- - ChimesofFreedom
  - Saturday, 11. Jul, 2009 @ 19:13:15
  Thanks for the beautifuly wrought Thomas Moore lines C. The event wasn't quite like that unfortunately, things are - and I know that you know this - rather more messy in real life. There was no release by me involved; it was a wriggling free from an imagined grip more like.
  
  I sincerely hope that she is happier now but will probably never know the truth of that (your wild goose analogy). It was therapuetic to write the lines though, and the sun has started to shine again for me since then.
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- la_spice
- Saturday, 18. Jul, 2009 @ 14:53:41
Sad but lovely - thank you for sharing it
- - ChimesofFreedom
  - Saturday, 18. Jul, 2009 @ 16:30:09
  Thank you. As I said in reply to another commentator, writing it helped me out at the time.
  
  I like to think that she is out there now, at rest or travelling as her heart desires.
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