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Having drifted apart

Having drifted apart,
Why should folk
Despise each other? For
Not known and unknowing
Times there were once before…

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  • I second NanAnd100's comment.

  • NanAnd100
    August 21
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    Interesting to know that feelings of the folk are timeless. This could have been written in 2009 and still have the same meaning.

  • They say that "absence makes the heart grow fonder" but as Saigyo indicates, this is not always the case.
    Maybe we should reach out to these old friends occasionally.

  • Taranand
    September 7, 2005
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    Yes...How easily we forget love. We allow the sweet wine of love to become bitter. Yes, It is ignorance; This state of not knowing. Saigyo, You help us awaken.