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Use Well the Days

August 1, 2011
By lapisleaves DIAMOND, Durham, New Hampshire
lapisleaves DIAMOND, Durham, New Hampshire
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Favorite Quote:
"...I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."


Be good,
my baby
for love is never always enough.
Remember
what the sweet things are and were and will be.
You will be there
to experience them
to relish the moment until the last star dies from the evening
and the first rays of umber brush across the dew studded horizon.
You,
my baby
have always received love
and now
it is your turn,
your turn to give,
and through giving, you will receive.
Warmth will flood you.
Tears will drop from your eyes.
You will shake without shame, with open palms.
Do not fear emotion,
for it is what gave me love to give to you,
and it is what makes us all thrive,
and live,
and survive.
Emotion will always endure,
even when it seems to break you.
You must believe,
my baby.
I have been there to guide you.
I have given you so many things
and you, in return, have given back to me.
Remember the sweet things,
my baby.
Until I am back,
use well the days.


The author's comments:
I listened to 'Use Well the Days' from the Return of the King soundtrack while writing this- sort of a tribute to Tolkien's work and my feeling about it(?). It's also something completely different, but it's roots are my attachment to LOTR.

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