Your Footprints Poem by Michael Shepherd

Your Footprints

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You left your footprints across my life

I hate to see your photographs:
passing history impossibly frozen,
demanding out-of-date thoughts.

You left your footprints on my life

I hate it when people talk of you:
as if they were asking for my blood
to warm their own false memories.

You left your footprints through my life

I hate it when I find a letter from you:
I read a richness and a loss in them
and am torn apart by myself

You left your footprints in my life

Footprints claim nothing, offer nothing;
they do not ask to be preserved, or to be erased;
they are clean, yet they are there;
where they lead, I have yet to find

You left your footprints across my life

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
JoAnn McGrath 11 April 2007

Sorry to hear that person is still walking all over you, A problem we humans have with memories.....we can't forget the bad.....if we could only remeber just the good. Ah Utopia were are you......Great write Michael : O)

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Michael...Sterling work, my friend....you never disappoint. Frank

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Cj Heck 11 April 2007

Hello Michael. I've missed reading your wonderful work. This poem reached down inside me and touched my heart. A wistful poem about a lost love - who among us cannot relate to such an emotion? An excellent write as I've come to always expect from you. Love, CJ

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Michael Shepherd

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Marton, Lancashire
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