slingshot



lacking gravity
to keep you in my orbit,
I had to let go

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by howard

March 17th, 2009

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  • http://www.extemporaneous.wordpress.com Heather

    Oh yes. I love it. I'm there.

  • http://nonbreakingspace.com/ howard

    Thanks. Can you relate? Sometimes accepting fact that someone just doesn't fit in your orbit is the hardest pill to swallow.

    Oddly, in terms of format this one was a slight oversight. I was torn between trimming the third line to make it a strict 5-7-5 and adding a syllable to the first line to make it a 6-7-6. Either way, my intent was to make it symmetrical. Looking at it now, though, I may break with that compulsion and leave it like it is.

    Or I may change it.

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