http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-now Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 10:50:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-now#post-290893 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:41:55 +0000 FrysTheLimit 290893@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Thank you for reading and commenting on my poems FranRose. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-now#post-290877 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:23:13 +0000 Rose 290877@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I see your post, and wait for a time I think I can read and not let it grab at my heart. That time never comes. Please tell me it&#39;s not auto-biographical?</p> <p>This bit:<br /> there would never be a need<br /> for you to know anything<br /> but my love for you</p> <p>reminded me how in my profession we can feel revulsion, horror, pain, sadness and disgust, yet all our patient will ever know is our smile and kind words, because we make it that way, for their sake. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-now#post-290515 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:34:25 +0000 FrysTheLimit 290515@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>what now?</p> <p>fingers prised from their grip<br /> on the slippery slope of selfbelief<br /> a backward slide<br /> a tiny word no bigger than a seed<br /> becomes a mountain of doubt</p> <p>a pain too big to hold<br /> lies within<br /> seeking reassurance<br /> without the love that&#39;s promised<br /> the future cannot be</p> <p>words so small<br /> light the fires of no worth<br /> and fuel the thoughts<br /> to extinguish the soul</p> <p>a burden sucking leech-like<br /> on the goodness in you<br /> thoughts come that you deserve<br /> so much more than this</p> <p>my parting will be quiet<br /> if only you would let me go<br /> there would never be a need<br /> for you to know anything<br /> but my love for you</p> <p>no harsh words or act<br /> just peace and calm<br /> an ingested fugue<br /> that pulls me down<br /> to sleep forever </p>