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[sid] => 142601
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Spinning Circles
[time] => 2008-05-23 12:01:09
[hometext] => No memories worth reliving but everything keeps coming back Nothing worth living for but nothing worth dying for
[bodytext] => --------___________------------ We can't stop the motion of time that nauseating spin we call life itself Much like a top we spin and move until we topple over and die we can't slow down the way the world somehow comes back to where it was before Friends and lovers return again and again like passing faces seen while riding a merry-go-around at the county fair We tumble like clothes heated in a dryer and race to the ground like a ball rolling and bouncing down a steep hill The dizzying array of images we see before our eyes come back to haunt us again and again then we return to feel the same weak emotions Just like the wheel of fortune the best prize passes by again and again and all we can do is sit riding the turntable that we call life No memories worth reliving but everything keeps coming back Nothing worth living for but nothing worth dying for So we spin and spin daring not to stop nor to slow down we breathe the repetition we inhale it's cold comfort But we're still too afraid to open our eyes and let the images pass us by again and again [comments] => 2 [counter] => 251 [topic] => 21 [informant] => MajesticPoet [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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