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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Fall
[time] => 2005-05-08 22:26:42
[hometext] => Some recent reflections in different form
[bodytext] => "It is like the blinded eye of an artist opened for the first time" Sudden Violent Painful Where once compassion and peace held sway I no longer enjoy these lies Illusions no longer protect Inject reality Once enjoyed- now denied And finally I see it was me I am the master of my own lies Time stops for no man Save he who is suffering, he who holds the razor Chasams deep and wide The gashes on my mind Oh, if pain were blind as these eyes were cleared Running away from myself even as my steps fall side by side I am fallen I am lost but not yet broken Excuse these flaws merciful "I" Nature is hard to escape As we understand it is human to fall, but it is divine to fall and deny the fact To have gone so far down that dead end road never seeing it's end I cannot pretend ignorance for I have no right, no place I am nowhere, I am nothing, I am gone But still I see if only in shades of the past Blinded by an uncertain future It is odd to me how one standing so low can fall so far [comments] => 1 [counter] => 173 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Maxximus [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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