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JP
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since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 1999-08-18 05:11 PM


The radio plays,
as I sit in my chair.
I'm in a daze,
and I don't really care.

I look around,
at the same four walls.
Losing my mind,
as the numbness falls.

Reality hesitates,
letting fantasy slip in.
A short little fight,
and reality rules again.

My tears fall,
as I watch fantasy go.
My heart sleeps,
letting the pain grow.

My mind wakes,
and gloats at its victory.
My mind promises,
it will never set me free.


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Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
JP


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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
1 posted 1999-08-18 11:14 PM


Very nice, JP, and rhyming none the less.
Reminded by something I read by Poe,

"An idle longing night and day
To dream my very life away."

Who needs reality anyway.

Michael

Majere
Junior Member
since 1999-08-18
Posts 32

2 posted 1999-08-20 01:45 PM


Very sad. Reminds me of the drive down the freeway - dreaming and loving it, just to be interrupted by a damn horn blaring or something.



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Such is the way to immortality ;)


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