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.: What Path Could My Life Have Taken? :.
So down comes the rain (even in the middle of winter). There's a silent moment in the fluttering of the snow flakes.
And you told yourself you would become something! You wouldn't be your parents: you'd up the stakes.
Days away, after your most prideful walk, you feel the walls of reality crumble and collapse. Who are you?
You watch your hands, the ( Read more... ) -
Another First Place Poem... A Crow and A Raven
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.: A Crow and a Raven :.
Dropping beneath the horizon, the sun is burning out.
I once clung to hope, but you are gone without a doubt.
The moon is rising now, while my hopes are fading shadows.
The echo of our cries has passed: the ending of our battles.
And what became of ( Read more... ) -
.: Shadows :.
Terra Faye Nelson.
April 9th, 2012 -
(Untitled)
Everything was dark. I was tied up. All I could smell was gasoline. And I was moving.
I had been moving for several hours by now, slipping in and out of conciousness whenever the situation overwhelmed me. The last thing I recalled was meeting up with her. I forget how it went down, but when I turned to get the rest of her stuff out of the trunk of ( Read more... ) -
Lord Dream, The Lady Death, and Their Epic Tragedy
Tucked far away, in a place that is not real,
There is a place where humans cannot touch, cannot feel.
And cut from the very fabric of dream out of mind,
There rests a Kingdom, far out of place and out of time.
Deep within shadow, a pale hand beckons her.
And out walks the Dreamer, so sweet and pure.
Within time, there is a lie that is spun so close,
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.: "Bearing Witness" :.
"If there's a gash in my left leg and blood is spurting out, my hands don't say, 'Too bad, let the leg take care of itself, we're too busy to take care of it right now.' ... But that's what happens in life, in society. And it happens only because we have an illness called separation. If we don't see that the hands, legs, feet, head and hair are all ( Read more... ) -
.: Dream Country :.
You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose.
But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.
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.: "Fables and Reflections" Quote :.
"Your life is your own.
Your death, likewise.
Always and forever your own.
Farewell.
We shall not meet again."
- Morpheus
(from the sandman comics)
["fables and reflections" book]
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