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What do you do? What have you Done?
(From The Woodsman's Notebook)
Does anyone know what a man should do
when he feels as though he is placed between two walls?
When the crank is turned and the walls draw closer
together,
Where do you go? What do you do?
When everything you say and do are just not enough,
Where do you go? What do you do?
When the one you love is blaming you.
You can't walk away, or can you?
You can run, but can you really hide from the bitterness
and pain?
How do you duck and dodge the little communication which
you have left.
What do you do?
You feel as though everything you have worked for was
only put together with old bubble gum and a broken lace
from an old shoe.
You come face to face with the long lasting fear of
opening your heart and soul to that someone special to
feel the tear.
To have your love tossed to the side as though it
doesn't mater anyhow.
She calls you on the phone say's she won't be home,
maybe tomorrow I don't know.
The blame is upon you, but what did you do?
What have you done to get blown away again?
Work your forty plus, come home tired, and come home
beat but come home with a smile on your face never
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For that is one of the many rules
not allowed. No long days, no bad days, no days
of pain especially days of rage.
Just get up in the morning with her on your
mind.
Take her to work, have her join you on break
even though she is not there but only there in
your minds eye.
After all, it's her that you love and it's easy
to carry the pain through the day.
Was it something that was said last night?
Did you even say it at all?
Is it a figment of your imagination, or did the
crow really call.
Is it the honeymoon that is over or has your
lifetime of dreams come to an end?
Has the dove really gone and the crow taken it's
place?
I don't need to dream for myself. I don't need
to care. I don't even need to carry the burden
that once said we share.
- The Woodsman
6/19/99
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