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[aid] => mick
[title] => Remnants of a Forgotten Man
[time] => 2004-09-15 18:03:33
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[bodytext] => The small, very small fragments That make a man, a man Are all but chipped away I only wish there was someway to delay The day I am no longer myself The day I put myself on the proverbial shelf Is a day I guess I can no longer escape It’s almost like you committed rape Only you were the perpetrator and the victim An act of self mutilation you can’t get out your system I only wish I had the wisdom To see things as they were Like when I should have did it for myself Instead of doing it for her Like when I should have seen things clearly Instead of looking at a blur I sold my soul for a glimmer of the bling-bling lifestyle The jury found me guilty, and there won’t be a mistrial Guilty of being someone I was not No probation here They want me to rot Rot in a shell I once knew My insides are broken I couldn’t but them together with crazy glue There’s only one hope for me now And that’s to return from whence I came And maybe Someone will remember my true name [comments] => 2 [counter] => 166 [topic] => 43 [informant] => thewordzwithin [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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