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There/'/s downloads we wish could be erased;
the trashcan doesn/'/t mean they/'/re gone-
some not wanted ever there,
this giga life life we wish redrawn.

The meta and the beta too,
forever stored with some to rue,
yet in those little bits and bytes-
the ones that keep us up at night,
they mix and mingle with treasured saves,
still there when we repose,
uncaring, in our grave.

Our soul (mine at least a Tera-byte),
over time corrupted, cleaned, re zipped re-swiped
eight layers down till what once was
is buried deep in droves and troves,
fished, thrown back, these loves these sorrows,
with key stroked care, discard or keep?
Mayhap to dump /'/ere I back to sleep.

This whirling drive of our life-
yes...hard indeed. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 192 [topic] => 64 [informant] => invierno [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ambiguous )

Life is a Hard Drive

Contributed by invierno on Saturday, 6th September 2014 @ 07:20:06 AM in AEST
Topic: ambiguous

Life is a hard drive.

There/'/s downloads we wish could be erased;
the trashcan doesn/'/t mean they/'/re gone-
some not wanted ever there,
this giga life life we wish redrawn.

The meta and the beta too,
forever stored with some to rue,
yet in those little bits and bytes-
the ones that keep us up at night,
they mix and mingle with treasured saves,
still there when we repose,
uncaring, in our grave.

Our soul (mine at least a Tera-byte),
over time corrupted, cleaned, re zipped re-swiped
eight layers down till what once was
is buried deep in droves and troves,
fished, thrown back, these loves these sorrows,
with key stroked care, discard or keep?
Mayhap to dump /'/ere I back to sleep.

This whirling drive of our life-
yes...hard indeed.

Copyright © invierno ... [ 2014-09-06 07:20:06]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Life is a Hard Drive (User Rating: 1 )
by RussellReinhardt on Saturday, 6th September 2014 @ 08:07:47 AM AEST
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Hello there my friend.

Yes life is a mess. Hard drive definitely I'm going through a process of evaluating and formatting my life I just posted One Is Only As Pure As Your Intentions.... Take a look at it you might relate. Great write my friend. Blessings

Greetings
Rus

Re: Life is a Hard Drive (User Rating: 1 )
by RICHARD_CAMPBELL on Saturday, 6th September 2014 @ 11:39:02 AM AEST
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Every single day we must make a decision,some good , some dad.but at the end of the day we have a chance to repent and start afresh again.i like this

Re: Life is a Hard Drive (User Rating: 1 )
by softerware on Sunday, 7th September 2014 @ 06:06:56 PM AEST
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Wonderful fun! Your analogies marry train-track parallels to life and machines. "this whirling drive of life-" Fourth line--did you mean to write "life life"?
Very cleverly thought out and executed. A poem in a tuxedo!
softerware

Re: Life is a Hard Drive (User Rating: 1 )
by unknown_utopia on Monday, 8th September 2014 @ 12:26:21 PM AEST
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Loving the topic,
the machine rolls on
long after we are gone.....

Re: Life is a Hard Drive (User Rating: 1 )
by ladyfawn on Monday, 22nd September 2014 @ 06:38:30 AM AEST
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cool write, hugs n' love nessa

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