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[aid] => mick
[title] => Far From Perfection
[time] => 2010-05-09 10:12:17
[hometext] => Remember the magic of being a child? This is what happens with age...
[bodytext] => Welcome child, the world is waiting. Breathless now anticipating Our first words, the implications, complicated expectations Confiscated blissful youth, as age alone reveals the truth Fact and fiction once entwined a time for lies, to keep us blind To shield us from what we’ll become as youth will creep away No longer will such childish games, the mildest aims to wildest dames Even keep our brains so entertained, this blissful state of mind I’ll miss the times the sun would shine with friends of mine on railway lines The only pester on my mind, the quest ahead, what could I find? Each day new bricks are torn away, our disposition disarray Disgusted by veracity, the human incapacity To live and breathe so consciously and see the world so clear Society’s deception is the only contraception with such intimate depression Is the lesson we must learn in time sweet child… in time This fairytale existence is short lived though not without resistance As our inner immaturity has stolen center stage Now let us be, so we can see the fact of our mortality And how the world will treat us when perception’s not so kind [comments] => 2 [counter] => 214 [topic] => 48 [informant] => robcraige [notes] => Corrected a minor typo ~ Moderator_18 May 9, 2010 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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