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Meeting Dennis
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 05-14-2005


Age Rating: 10 to 127

 
Before I first met him at the airline gate,

I didn't know a tap on the shoulder wasn't followed by a
flying fist or a heckling howl,

I didn't know that voice could come from a
five-by-five frame like my own,

I didn't know another man's breath wouldn't
throw me down cold,

I didn't know the embrace of crunching, black leather
hid men who longed to be known,

I didn't know that angels roamed the earth, dressed in black,
gleaming from head to foot,

I didn't know the "Serenity Prayer" wasn't a plaque tacked above
a toilet full of beer-smelling piss,

I didn't know that a hundred praying black Georgia folk
could look just like me,

I didn't know that what I would find there was given,
and would help set me free,

I didn't know that what congealed between my ears,
paled to what was beating in my chest,

I didn't know that by leaving,
I had arrived--

That just one meeting
could last a whole lifetime.

Now I know.




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06-10-2005 Debra Rose    

James,
This poem is intense, and very very wonderful. THe flow of it kept me going and the sencerity behind it was something that made my breath catch.

I have to ask more on what this is about....maybe you could email me the whole story? I'm dying to know.
05-15-2005 Anthony Lane Stahlhut    

In God's eyes we are all the same. The body that you are in is only borrowed. Your soul will be the thing that moves on. I think that in heaven we will find that our love with the knowledge we have gained, will let us truly be free. This is very thought provoking and could run in so many ways. Good write, Anthony
05-15-2005 David Pekrul    

This makes me appreciate my father (now deceased) more than ever. He was a gentle man; when he spanked me it was for a reason; I never needed to be afraid of him, for I knew that he was always there to protect and comfort.
I can't imagine what it would have been like to fear the one who was put here to take care of me.
I don't know if I have interpreted this poem correctly, but those are the thoughts and feelings that they brought out in me.
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