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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-11-02 07:40 PM


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You’re simply
Not scary

Enough
Learn hard words

Put on
A dangerous visage
In your eyes

You
As you are
Will draw
Every tragedy
On campus as if
They were forest flies

You have a right
To happiness—
Regardless of
All their tears

Fight for what
Has been
Always yours

Even then
My friend

For all
Your decent
Distancing

You may not
Survive


.


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steavenr
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since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058

1 posted 2008-11-02 09:37 PM


"Fight for what
Has been
Always yours"

truly, a ponderable phrase

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
2 posted 2008-11-03 10:57 AM


this is very touching, I know some Daves around me...

thanks

yann

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural
3 posted 2008-11-03 04:56 PM


Good stuff, nice Write!


ARCTIC WIND

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2008-11-06 03:30 PM


Excellent advice to all the Daves in the world.  Your ending, though possibly somewhat cynical, is realistic and serves as a warning that could even be preventative.  

- Owl

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