until i've seen the northern lights i won't be satisfied living in my city until i've eaten fugu i won't be sated by sushi until the forests return i can't sunbathe on your deck without guilt when solar-powered cars are mass marketed i may, just may learn to drive when beggars say thank you instead of cursing food gifts ...
Going round in circles, Hitting head against the wall. Not much anything is doing And my dreams are all too tall. I would sit in my small corner Frown at the world go by But that’s all too much bother, When I can’t even be arsed to sigh. Drab melancholic boredom, Is when the colors all got lost. Id even contemplate suicide, If I thought it worth the cost. Oh the world is so boring ...
Updated 08-20-2008 at 05:47 PM by Nightshade
1/23/06. edit to topic: i kept her longer. couldn't let her go. don't know that i ever will...long enough to hear, not imagine, her heartbeats...what a miracle...and to find out that my dreams of a girl were correct. and to put my life on the line and (partly because of that) be less angry with him. i've also added a stanza and italicized one word that needed it. our months together/her tiny heartbeats fall from the scalpel as i ...
Send the Next Foe On I have walked that Razor’s Edge— Stared into the Face of Death— I have witnessed things best left unsaid— Stumbled to my feet again I have walked among Hell’s Flames— Heard the Nightmares shriek my name— I’ve ran out of people that I could blame— So I had to blame myself I have smelled the Smoke and felt the Dark— I’ve felt my Mind slowly begin to split apart— ...
The Raven: A Parody Once upon an afternoon so dreary, with my body weak and weary, The eyes all red and bleary with watching for the mail; Hoping that the post would bring me, something calculated to spring me From my doldrums and the things we endure from broken dreams— From the cold emptiness that echoes from the shades of broken dreams— All this I wished and more. I spoke aloud to the evening air each line I’d written with ...