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The Theran Mystique - Volume 7, Issue 2
Enough
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You can't capture many things with a poem.

You can't capture the scent of fresh earth and pine,
of wildflowers breathing;
You can't capture the soft whir of your wings
or the crickets' pulsing rhythms;
You can't hear the wind sighing in your ears
or feel the sunset sinking cold into your skin.

You can't catch the trail a leaf leaves in the sky as it falls,
nor the way the birches shiver in the wake of a rumbling storm.
Even the waves of the ocean abandon their playfulness and stand still,
and in doing so lose the momentum that makes waves waves.

You can't ensnare the elusive reason why
your heart hurts when the sun touches the bowed heads of wild grasses;
You can't trap the tininess you feel standing between the trees.

You can't capture many things with a poem,
but you can trigger a memory with it,

And sometimes that's enough.

(Continued in poem2)


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