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playing.with.crayons
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0 posted 2006-04-22 05:17 AM



There are
no ticking clocks
where I am.

No hours, no seconds
nothing is counted.

I finger
a withering rose
delicately dying
in the palm of my hand

And the world freezes.

No spirits choked down
in effort
to quiet the screams in my head.

Nor spinning reality
to reverse what I see in my mind.

And someone laughs.

Too many tears and
too many lies
Nowhere to run back to now.

crumpled papers on the floor
with scrawled words
spelling out nothing but
how stupid I have been.

My hand drops
and the rose
petal
by
petal
falls apart.

I can be happy,
I assure myself.
Only problem is

Nothing lasts forever

And it's there,
in that moment
When I walk in the rain with a
smile painted on my throat

So high
my head brushes the moon

It's there

That I know
how far
there is to fall.


farewell the ash-tray girl

[This message has been edited by playing.with.crayons (04-22-2006 07:53 AM).]

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playing.with.crayons
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1 posted 2006-04-22 12:07 PM


Argh gosh I've been having a serious block lately. hard enough to get this out. hopefully it is only temporary!

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