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exhale
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since 2003-06-13
Posts 646
Alberta,Canada

0 posted 2006-03-20 07:38 PM


Has anyone wanted to see what it looks like when I actually exhale?
Here you go...
I think that should serve as an apology, and a warning.



__________________________________________

try not to pull your hair out
I can hear the ripping from a mile away
don't worry it'll pass
but
that doesn't make the words you want to say
any less meaningful

they're all laughing at me
I can hear it
in every song
in every word
in every breath
everything you could say
but never will
I should stop screaming at the mirror

I keep trying to kill time
but it just
won't
stay
dead

tell me
would you do it any different
I made my bed so I'll lay in it
I dug my grave
I'll die in it
I'll die in it

Do you ever wish the static
would turn into fog and float
by your ears
by your eyes
with it's comforting nothingness
telling you it's alright to be nothing
as long as you're nothing for a reason
it says
'listen, ok, just listen, it's alright, I don't exist either.'

if I could write what you write
if I could write
if I could write
I do write
don't I?
but who do I write for
I know exactly who I write for
but these words don't speak for themselves

it's all just
touch and go touch and go touch and go touch and go

you know they can't hear you when you cry
right?
so why do you do it?
you wish they could
you wish they could so bad
it makes the tears flow into a river
it makes you create similes...
deal with it
it seems like your reality check just bounced
and you're left with nothing but the curb
I'd lend you some ideals
but I don't have a thought in my head
that isn't copyrighted
you try and live on nothing
and see how far you get

so then
you start thinking you're made out of garbage
and you scream
and you yank
and you pull
and you tear at your soul,
'you're not giving me anything'
you're not anything
so where does that leave you
where the does that leave you?

if something can't come from nothing
then what the hell have I been doing for the past 5 years.

we're all one hit wonders
what happened to your great one liners?
what happened to going out with a bang?
I could give you some advice,
I could tell you to stop
pulling pulling pulling pulling
till theres nothing left
taffy for the mind
taffy for the soul
you're going crazy
one more night
where body doesn't meet covers
and mind doesn't meet body,
it's called free falling
and I'm one more sleepless night away from a lack of gravity

this is just a phase
it'll pass it'll pass it'll pass it'll pass
can you get carpel tunnel syndrome with words
because you've repeated yourself so many times
I think you've hit reverse
but it's ok because it's crafted
it's planned
eyes meet words
words meet mind
mind meet hand
hand meet pencil
pencil meet paper
paper meet garbage
garbage meet hand
hand meet fingers
fingers meet keyboard
keyboard meet internet
internet meet the destruction of life


[This message has been edited by exhale (03-21-2006 01:00 AM).]

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XOx Uriah xOX
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since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403
Virginia
1 posted 2006-03-20 08:10 PM


You exhaled...and took my breath away.   Amazing !  Spectacular!   I am awed!  
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