A SLIP OF TIME
What slip of time connected us?
Were you walking by my side,
in your dress of embroidered silk
through those rooms did you glide?
That day I found you`d lived there
centuries before, a rich mans wife.
Elizabeth you haunt me still
there you ended your pampered life.
I need to know the answers
to your story from ages past.
I stumbled through a doorway,
through the centuries I trespassed.
How did the coach overturn
and injured, you returned to die?
Your home became my workplace
gone the finery of times gone by.
Elizabeth, I found your memorial.
Your husband loved you dearly,
he built a Chapel just for you.
I see through the fog more clearly.
But Elizabeth, you haunt me still,
our lives joined more than once.
I have travelled where you travelled
but now all I have is silence.
Author notes
A true story, of a strange event I stumbled upon
of Elizabeth Lethieullier who died in 1727
and how our lives connected. Her coach overturned
and she was critically injured, she died 4 months later
in the house I worked in. In the City of London.
Written May 27th, 2006
A contest entry
- Make me Think - Touch my Emotions by eamarti.
300 points, ended June 1, 2006, 14 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Inspiration!!! by Talia.
475 points, ended May 17, 2007, 14 entries
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I love things like that, espcially when ya watch the supernatural things and the mediums tell you all about the people who lived there and their lives.
Enjoyed this
Good luck in the contest -
Very well written. The lines really told a story. It's funny how we can feel connected to the past. Why not the future?
Great write.
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Many thanks for your comments.
Dixie -
I enjoyed you telling me a story in your poem. This poem has an interesting story behind it. You turned it into a wonderful poem! Great job on this poem and keep up the fabulous writing!!
~Horsecowgirl~ -
Nicely written and telling a wonderful though tragic story. It is strange that we feel a connection with the past quite frequently. Who's to say we are not reborn again?
Ann -
I really enjoyed this story and the flow was really good, I had goosebumps at the end. Thanks for your entry.
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