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Meggie1986
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since 2001-05-22
Posts 41
California

0 posted 2001-06-02 11:29 PM


She pastes the newspapers
To the walls
Perhaps, (She thinks)
I can surround myself
In the world,
And the world will finally mean
Something to me, and
Not be just a place
Father away than my backyard.

The walls of her room
Are black and white,
And tattered and torn
And peeling.
The walls of her room
Remind her that the world is bigger
Than just her backyard.

No, (She thinks)
Who ever it is must be wrong
And must have made up
The terrible stories,
And the leaders and stars and the
Normal people just like me,
Who all have their own world.
In their own backyard.

But her backyard is
As big as the universe,
And as long as the
Leaders and stars and the
Normal people just like her
All stay in their own,
She doesn’t need the world at all.

The walls are just a reminder.

*One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

© Copyright 2001 Meaghan - All Rights Reserved
fozzyozzy
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since 2001-03-15
Posts 336
Lessburg Virginia
1 posted 2001-06-02 11:37 PM


This piece really hit me like a ton and a half of bricks especially the last line. Another triumph for the Meggius Maximus


fozzyozzy

"The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to ocean
Holding the curve of one position
Counting an endless repetition"
Robert Fr

kaile
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2 posted 2001-06-02 11:40 PM


very interesting piece..i ended up having contradictory thoughts...i related strongly to her desire in wanting to know the world, which is incidentally also bigger than my backyard
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3 posted 2001-06-03 04:17 PM


Well done here. I liked this one a lot. Wonderful message!

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I'm in love with my shadow
I admire it daily

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