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So now, without further ado, here it is. /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ This first block are are by Beaker... \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////// Emotional Terrorist ------------------- Beware of the demon inside me Hungry for feelings and emotions Wanting to hold To touch To caress Locked in a cage Waiting for more Lashing out Hurting others Tearing at their souls Ripping love apart Feasting on darkness Never quenched Never finished Always hungry. No More Pain ------------ I think I found my joy Happiness at last A glint of hope A feeling An emotion In one moment Seeming like eternity I feel content At last, satisfied But it's all wrong Never meant to be I let go of love Give up on it all And let it slip through my fingers As it always has. Blaze ----- As I lie still In the darkness that surrounds me I feel a chill It penetrates my soul But now I see a light A fire in one girl's eyes The flames consume me Burn into my heart And the blaze makes me warm once again. Pit Of Lonliness ---------------- I am alone I am scared I am lonely I fall into the pit A pit of isolation And fear Deeper and deeper I fall Until I land I climb out Feeling safe I fall again Faster and harder Until I land My face tears I stay silent Stay in the pit Knowing there is no escape. Blame The Winter ---------------- I blame the winter For all my problems For losing my friends For losing my sanity For losing my life Winter comes Slaps me in the face And I lose it all It slaps me yet again Warmth is gone Love is gone I turn around The light is gone And my mind breaks under the strain. Friendship ---------- I stand alone Inside my mind Lonely, without hope Away from a world of hurt I look at the emptiness My mind is being cracked Chipped away by them The people in my head Memories crumble Sanity fades The foundation falls But I am left Standing in the dark I open my eyes I see a light A beacon of hope A friend. Torn Apart ---------- Time passes by My life gets worse With each passing moment I lash out Desperate to stop the pain To be released from my prison To seek happiness again Everywhere I turn I find no joy Then I find hope I find my happiness I am saisfied I am quenched But another stands in my way Blocking my way So I just stop And leave it all alone. Welcome To Me ------------- You don't know me You don't know what I'm capable of I've never been so lonely I've never been so alone I'm never the same Never will be the same I have feelings I have emotions You can't see what I'm thinking What's in my mind now You'll never know You wouldn't want to know Nobody would want to You don't know me You don't know what I'm capable of. /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ The following poems are labled by author. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////// Journey ------- Take my hand and walk with me along the troubled road, for God never meant for us to follow it alone. But holding hands in pairs the two of us may go. Don't worry, we can share the lead, I can lean on you, and you may lean on me. If you need a hand to keep you steady while we climb, I shall reach behind me and give you both of mine. And when the road is dark, and not a light in sight, you may point out the stars to me to keep my spirits bright. When the sun is beating down, and you can not stand the heat, I shall keep you safe and shaded in the trees. Sometimes the rocks are slippery, especially after the rain, I promise friend I'll help you, and I know you'll do the same. Promise me you'll hold my hand along the way, and I'll promise you I'll never leave you, nary for a day. When you and I are old and the miles are behind us, when the road before us narrows and Death shall seek to find us, You and I shall not be frightened, neither parted nor left behind, but shall only walk then single file, with one hand reaching out in front of us, and the other grasped behind. - Mary J. Pierson December 7, 1992 Troubled Road ------------- Troubled road, I'll walk with you, and keep your spirits bright, Troubled road, me and you, straight on into the night. Troubled road, I'll hold your hand, only if you'll hold mine, Troubled road, through troubled land, our fingers intertwined. Troubled road, a sanctuary, within each other's arms, Troubled road, apart we shall nary fall victim to it's charms. Troubled road, for eternity, be there us we two, Troubled road, be you with me, And I shall be with you. - Eric J.P. Seeds December 28, 1992 - 1:14 p.m. May there be a Lord above, our meeting tis a sign, and perhaps forever our souls shall intertwine. And if perchance there is a heaven, then indeed there is a hell, I can see it, so can you, and perhaps it's just as well. But take that not away from us, that which we might gain, surely the impending treasure, dwarfs the chance of pain. Life's a dance, so they say, and you learn it as you go, take a chance, take a bow, and the Lord may watch our show. - Eric J.P. Seeds December 28, 1992 - 1:23 p.m. I know there is a Lord above, "our meeting tis a sign," my soul has found it's mate, my star has found it's sky. I do not care to see a Hell, but Heaven I may claim, I do not find it among the clouds, but nestled in your arms of clay. Fear not I can not take away, all that we "might gain", I have found my treasure now, I'm sorry for the pain. Life's a dance or oft' you said, but even music slows, I'll take a chance, take a bow, if together we end the show. - Mary J. Pierson January 2, 1993 So you say there's a Lord above, I can take this as it's true. You say this was our destiny, and I was meant for you. Well this I can take to heart, and find Heaven in your embrace, never swear away our love, for we've yet but had a taste. And I know nothing can take away that which me may gain, but the road ahead many be rough, and there may yet be some pain. But never be afraid, my love, for I will always be with you, and perhaps someday, I will simply say I do. - Eric J.P. Seeds January 7, 1993 - 3:23 p.m. I do not care for any Lord above us or below, I do not care what destiny make, for we shall make our own. You said that of our love "we've had yet but a taste," well a taste is all I need to swear all else, my Dear, away. I am not afraid of "all that we might gain" no man I know may take our love, though lovers have been known to have a parting of the ways, and many a promise I have known can turn to aches in the heat of a passionate frey. So do not swear you love me, do not say "I do", do not swear that to me you will always be true. For human hearts are made of clay, and though unmeaning, sometimes stray, so do not swear forever because we only have today. And the future, Love, is yet but an empty page, so let me kiss you, silence the words on your lips, and save the pain of heart break. - Mary J. Pierson January 23, 1993 You say you care not for destiny or of the Lord above, for what we want and what we need can be found within our love. You say a taste is all you need, and you'll swear all else away, and a taste I have given unto you, is there nothing else to say? Your heart's not afraid, my Love, of all that we might gain? I wish then I could see your heart, for your actions not the same. I can not swear I'll love you, but I can and have sayed I do, and never had I sworn to thee I would always be all true. Of human hearts, they may be clay, or wind or stone or steel, and "unmeaning, sometimes stray," but time does always heal. You ask me not swear forever, and your request I will obey, but what of the future love? For soon tomorrow is today. - Eric J.P. Seeds March 5, 1993 - 3:04 a.m. /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ And finally, a bit of drivel of mine own... :) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////// End is the Beginning -------------------- how it has come to be, let no man speak. i am alone yet not alone, time has replaced what was lost in another with me. though the season grows cold, a time of death; for me there may be new blossoms, in that i hope. fortune alternately smiles and sneers, doing not what pleases man, but that which itself derives pleasure from. long is my harmony and brief is my melody, if this be the price of being then let it be so. long have i lived alone, but it need not be so, all around me there are others if only i choose to see. once more my eyes are opened, if not to love then to hope. the mists surround me in a place of dreams, once more i am one with my past. all my life shall i search, until at last my ashes to the stars i commit, no mere grave dug of the earth for a dreamer such as i. and if my search bears no reward, then let my life stand as a beacon for others, that i did know i might fail and yet still tried; for in that too there is a greatness, a greatness of spirit the despondent know not. what is a man that he regards himself, and contemplates not only the living and the dead, but those who may someday live? what spark drives him ever forward, when backwards might better serve? in sleep there is solace for one who is forlorn, for in dreams all things are possible. the dead walk not like the living, but as those who have never died. confront the dead in dreams and ask them. one great mind once said, that the almighty does not roll dice with the fabric of reality. i know he does, just as surely that i know his dice are loaded. the morals of the gods have never semed fair to mortals, why change policy now? ú ùþ ú ÛÛÛÛÛÜÜÜÜþÜÜÜÜ ú ù ú ±±±±ÛÛÛßÛ²ÝÛÝÛÛÝþ Üú ±±±±²²²²²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜþúÝ ù ±±²²²²ÛÛßßÛßÝÛÛÛÛÛÝÜúþ ²²²²²Ûß þúßÞþßþþÜùþ ²²²²Ûß ú ù ²²²ÛÝ ²²²ÛÜ Phoenix Modernz Systems: 908/830-TANJ ±²²²ÛÝ The Syndicate: 908/506-6651 ±±²²²ÛÜÜÜ Another Bloody BBS: 61-3-754-3599 ±±±²²²²²²ÛÜ First United Church Kalisti: M.I.A. 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