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A young heart with an old soul.
How can there be peace?
How can I live in the depths of solitude
When there are two inside me.
This duo in me causes the perfect opportunity
To learn and live twice as fast
As those who accept simplicity.

There is a saying among soldiers ( Read more... )

There is.

In sleep I sing to you. In dreams I come.

It hurt to be awake. It hurt to sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, there you were. In the dark with the demons. I used to be brave. But seeing you, hearing you sing to me, I couldn't be. You radiated every fear imaginable. Every second my eyes were open, I knew you were watching. I could almost ( Read more... )

Smallville Season 3 DVD

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort ( Read more... )

But most will remember this sad day as the day the proudest, most noble man they ever knew finally fell. For those who loved him -- one who would call him husband, one who would be his pal, or those who would call him son -- this is the darkest day they could ever imagine. They raised him to be a hero: to know the value of sacrifice, to know the ( Read more... )

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

J.A.C.

Firm stance belies inner nature,
Hard exterior camouflages,
Himself
Friend to the end,
Above all else,
Loyal.
Nine years going on forever,
Always there,
Always quiet,
Always watching,
Hand extending down to calm,
To discipline,
But always with the one thing he hides,
Love.

Andrew Caleb Stephens

Copyright ©2004 Andrew Caleb Stephens