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[aid] => mick
[title] => If i were a pencil
[time] => 2010-01-17 01:22:29
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[bodytext] => If I were a pencil I’d be easy to break A yellow Twinkie of wood and lead An eraser top that was pinkish red To use and abuse I am yours to take If I were a pencil I’d be jealous of a pen Who dips into an abundance of ink To be refilled like water from a sink For I’m like a bottle of wine easily gone when open If I were a pencil I’d be mightier than the sword Sharp with wisdom and wit And into your hand I would fit Creating words to destroy every army’s hoard If I were a pencil I’d write letters to you Soaked in love and ripe with sorrow Tenderly waiting for you in every tomorrow Describing you with words written in the truest true If I were a pencil I would learn to draw Fountains and feathers floating Beneath the trees of summer’s coating And full as the colors in season’s fall If I were a pencil I would erase All that was ugly and false And leave all the beauty like moss To canvas our landscape with flowers and taste If I were a pencil I’d be gone to soon Sharpened and whittled away to nothing but trash Writing to my death with every scribble and scratch Turned to ashes in the morning of a setting moon If I were a pencil I would not breathe I would be alive in words My only voice to be heard Long remembered after I take my leave [comments] => 0 [counter] => 4429 [topic] => 43 [informant] => zedwards [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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