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21 May 2012, 19:54 (1 year ago)
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through a screen of smoke mesh casts a shadow over the reality of yours and mine is he a dream is she can they see me do they remember putrid leering breathe or a sugar-cane smile early in the day before the stench of nicotine and blood sends them screaming away my sober life barred to their knowledge yet young wisdom prevails against crocodiles and the soaking bitter tears My broken heart
Is chrushed till its dry Do you wanna make me cry How could you leave me you've been so long Your makin me feel like i dont belong Please dont say you love me so Just walk out the door there you go I trusted you thought you were true But all you do is make me feel blue Never again shall i open my heart I should not have done it from the start An as i watch you walk out the door My heart is chrused i fall to the floor I will get up cause i am strong And i now were i do belong I am a woman and a mother I now you will never find another Good luck in your life You put me through hell This is the story i can never tell Last edited by lisaleo14302, 8 months ago Here's something I wrote a while back. please, enjoy :)
There's also a song that followed it. If you'd like me to upload it just ask ;) I knew a man who once lived on a gravel road alone. You'd pass by from time to time and hear him humming. No tune it seemed like merely a moan. The day they heard of his reason for watching the time passing. They deemed him unfit to hum his tune. When the big city arrived at his doorway. He opened it up and said "good afternoon." "It's morning sir" is all the man in the suit had to say. Assessing the assets that he had left just an old guitar, And a tattered old book which he'd write his secrets in. They brought him out to the car. All the people around didn't notice, I guess they were to busy to listen. He said one thing as they drug him away from his little house, "Tell my wife I will be returning late tonight." He had no reply from the man in the suits mouth. All he did was smile back to try and seem to shed light. The car door shut and off they went. As they were passing the property in which his lonely days were spent, An old blues song came on the radio and the old man smiled. Then turned to the window and said "my bluebird I have found you again. I'm coming home." Nothing else was said. When they arrived at the ritzy retirement center. The old man was no longer alone. His days of humming his tune and being imprisoned by the world were over. As he was laid to rest.Upon his burial mound sat two bluebirds humming his tune. Seemed to sound like to lovers singing a duet. For the passing octave I leave this to you. In his tattered notebook lay a poem 70 pages as long as it went. To my bluebird, I have found comfort in your song. As a gardener of your heart I carry these flowers. My dear, we'll be together again it won't be long. This old dirt road reminds me of when we were so pure and young. A blissful hope as our lives begun. The shadows of these tattered fence lines roll through the meadow still. I had the time to watch the blues fly over and under the line. This is a song I wrote for you my love and it goes on unsung. You see I haven't tried to play this old guitar without your heart to fill. It's getting late and I really must not see the sunrise without my bluebird by my side. This rusty old car we bought with our last dollar. You and I felt so blessed the day we bought this old lemon. And that spring before I gave you a ring along with my heart. My love that really was meant to be something. I found this old letter you wrote to me back in high school. If only we were as innocent as we were back then. I would just give anything to hold your hand again. Its been thirteen years since you had past. Our only son hasn't spoken to me since that day. I apologized he still thinks it was my fault. The accident that took you away wish it wouldn't have. I tried everything I could to save, you. But my bluebird I just want to know that we'll be together after it all And that I will be back with you at home. This is a song I wrote for you my love and it goes on unsung. You see I haven't tried to play this old guitar without your heart to fill. It's getting late and I really must not see the sunrise without my bluebird by my side. The time has come for me to pass. This old man has given all he's had. Haven't seen a sunrise or set in twenty years. But by the morrow I'll see it with you my dear. These blues are just a passing bird. When I see you I willn't be able to say a word. Just watch the sunrise with you my love, my bluebird. Last edited by jazzandcoke44, 11 months ago For Everyone, Found in a monastery centuries ago Anonymous.
DESIDERATA. Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. * Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. * Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. * Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. * Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. * You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. * Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. * With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. Last edited by mickjapa1082630, 11 months ago ![]() A Cowboy's Prayer Written by Charles Badger Clark Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow. I love creation better as it stood That day You finished it so long ago And looked upon Your work and called it good. I know that others find You in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel You near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains. I thank You, Lord, that I am placed so well, That You have made my freedom so complete; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. Just let me live my life as I've begun And give me work that's open to the sky; Make me a pardner of the wind and sun, And I won't ask a life that's soft or high. Let me be easy on the man that's down; Let me be square and generous with all. I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town, But never let 'em say I'm mean or small! Make me as big and open as the plains, As honest as the hawse between my knees, Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains, Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze! Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget. You know about the reasons that are hid. You understand the things that gall and fret; You know me better than my mother did. Just keep an eye on all that's done and said And right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim, trail ahead That stretches upward toward the Great Divide. The perfect cold crystal He picked up his glasses that sliped thru the tip of the nose get them close to the eyes and looked at me something in that glaze told me it was time to go The cold of the winter outside reminded me that I never get enought cloths on the perfect crystal snow choose the freckles of my nose to die on distracted me from my meaningless thoughts my footsteps echoed as I went along sounded like heels in the muffled sond but could not be mine never use heels A hot cup of tea two minuts after took me back to reality that one that I keep forgeting to remember that one with smiles in the wrong places like a fire swallowing the green of a forest remember suddenly that I forgot my book at his place what the hell now he could keep it! I never lend books to anyone they are like family to me might as well lost this one I'll think of a proper obituary later like it was a lost distant cousin the bar was closing and I was back in the arms of the winter making love with the cold wind and the dying snow in my face The light of the lamps near the river acted like a magnet had to seat there for a while in the wet balcony take my gloves off to touch the small ponds of water that formed in the irregular surface couldn't stop the gesture of liking the gelid water from my finger that turned blue in the meantime I get up, it was to much cold even for me had to be somewhere can't remember where maybe present in my life, maybe that... but that could wait I had to get myself numb again and now I feel to much alive in that cold snowy winter blame the cold that keep freezing bodys alive. Last edited by magicpotions1211, 11 months ago The cold of the winter outside reminded me that I never get enought cloths on the perfect crystal snow choose the freckles of my nose to die on distracted me from my meaningless thoughts . . . . I never lend books to anyone they are like family to me . LOVE!!!! these lines |









