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A Moment in Time

Only moments and he will be here,
must collect my thoughts.
Legs weak, can't stand;
empty feeling in stomach,
knots in kidneys.
Breast heaving,
must take slow breaths.
Heart aflutter,
such pain!
But oh what joy,
he is here...
I will soon see his face.
What was that?
The door?
He is here.
Dear God in heaven give me strength!
He hasn't changed.
He has not changed!
Still my Frederick,
but no.
Not my Frederick!
What's that?
Oh, a chair,
I'm holding on to a chair.
He can't see,
he must not see!
He is going now.
We talked.
What did I say?
No matter,
its over,
I've seen him and it did not hurt.
Did not hurt?
But its over,
I'll be better next time.
Maybe I'll even remember what I say!

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in this is palpable.
Is the inspiration for this from Persuasion and is it Captain Frederick Wentworth? In which case, these would be Anne's words.
A powerful piece and has just caught that utter turmoil when someone you love walks in the room.
Jx

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It is the scene where he is visiting the Musgrove family and the sisters visit Anne and Mary, who is tending a wounded child (he fell from a tree). Mary has no hesitation in abandoning her motherly duties to Anne.

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But it went over my head.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I thought what was written could stand alone without further explanation. I failed. Sorry.

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No, I think it holds Keith. You don't have to get the connection to understand the poem.
Jx

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I really like the way the near vertical form of this reinforces the emotions..........stan

that was a deliberate attempt to impart a feeling of haste in the reader, therefor driving the emotions.

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