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[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Writings of a Fool
[time] => 2004-08-16 02:00:24
[hometext] => Just a few lines i put together one night when I couldnt sleep.........
[bodytext] => Cast away, far from her face I grasped for the last saving grace But still the light i could not take Because my heart had yet to break To love and to lose is always the same One simply matures and there is no shame But my pondering ceased and i simply wept And deep into my inner darkness i crept My inner being began growing cold My outer being began growing old The childlike bliss of days long past Had no place left for it to last Grasping for a dream that could never be I wandered around the world aimlessly Yet for all my travels, i had no inspiration For that world was of my own creation Cast away, where faeries play Where all thoughts roam free, sweet serenity Imagination runs wild in the mind of a child Which brought both heaven and hell to me But no longer was i so young Yet onto my hopes and dreams i clung The inner child had yet to stay For i could not take that heaven away Caressing my rot, my festering glee The pain would not leave from inside of me My selfish heart wanted only to take For it was all for the child's sake I regrouped my thoughts, only to find That time had passed, but not just in my mind The world had gone, with me left behind Crying and regretting my horrible bind And at long last, i had to agree That the child had become a part of me My conciousness had split in two And in that abyss, my hatred grew My regret, my sorrow, my anger and spite I would never have felt if i grasped that light Apart from her, i might have lived peacefully Instead, i have my insanity [comments] => 3 [counter] => 167 [topic] => 61 [informant] => ReapersAdvocate [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => selfstruggles )
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