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aaron woodside
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since 2001-09-26
Posts 256


0 posted 2005-01-27 02:03 PM


It's been so long since I've written anything.  This is kind of uhhh tripe, but it's all I got.  Enjoy.


Only so far...

...and then you tell me
just what I want to hear
a sweet song, sung so sweetly
a game or a joke
your turn to control my fear
to keep me close, keep me pacified
keep me bored and lost;
blinded but seeing you
stay close, stay near, don't go far
your marionette strings go only so far...

...but I wandered and I strayed
opened my eyes and saw the truth in you
felt the chains of your song fade away
heard the lies and the jokes
cried and felt so low.
You tried so hard to comfort me
pull me back in, hold me close
"I need this so" you whisper in the dark
and maybe, just maybe, you do
but Fate will take us only so far...

...and now three months along the road
I can still hear your breath on my neck
and feel the sound of your song in my heart
I've walked so far, so far alone, I just want alone... I still want... I still miss...
I still need... everything that isn't you
I breathe in and taste you, memories
let me go; let me, let you go
you still want me, and need me, and own me
and the distance between us is only so far...


The end

Let me know huh?

(Leah if you read this, I'm not sure what I did with that "amazing" poem I promised.  Prolly tossed it but I can check my box of stuff later.)

aaron woodside

They say the sweet is never as sweet without the sour.  So where's my sweet?

[This message has been edited by aaron woodside (01-28-2005 12:15 AM).]

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OtherSideOfTheMirror
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since 2002-12-19
Posts 245

1 posted 2005-01-27 03:27 PM


Not bad ol' aaron woodside. not bad.

good seeing a familiar face in these parts.
haven't been here in a long...long time.

cassiopeia.

chasing rain
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since 2001-05-15
Posts 737
Canada
2 posted 2005-02-08 07:07 PM


aaron woodside...about time you showed your screenname around here. :P

AHHHHHHHHADLSJAKLDALKJFSL! That's what I have to say about this. It struck a chord, chimed a bell, lit a bulb, burned my bum...it hit home. Cripes. Although some parts could easily be "cliched", you did a good job of disguising it. I loved the end of each stanza...

Tripe...do you mean 2 stomachs, or rubbish? :P Funny how 2 stomachs make me emo...

So my english prof always tells us to dissociate the author from the speaker when it comes to poetry...are you one of them?

Post "Amazing". Please. Stay in touch.

--Leah

ps- added to library.

Savage Quiescence
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since 2002-07-29
Posts 326
Wandering
3 posted 2005-02-11 08:58 PM


Bravo

www.livejournal.com/users/alimakins

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