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exhale Senior Member
since 2003-06-13
Posts 646Alberta,Canada 
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you're sitting here 'keep your eyes on the gold' wondering if maybe you were too harsh in setting these standards 'don't lose your focus' for yourself knowing you won't reach them let's let potential speak for itself while you dig deep in your books 'don't let them down' and drown yourself in words you didn't write you'd rather let them think you could be great 'there's nothing for losers' you'll end up as a waitress a waitress with such potential while your 10 year.. 20 year.. 30 year reunion creeps up and sticks it's foot in your back 'only losers quit' and when you're lying in bed with the gin that knew your mother so well you'll know you had such potential |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Wake up, Day calls you Wake up, Day calls you to your life: your duty. And to live, nothing more. Root it out of the glum night and the darkness that covered your body for which light waited on tiptoe in the dawn. Stand up, affirm the straight simple will to be a pure slender virgin. Test your body’s metal. Cold, heat? Your blood will tell against the snow, or behind the window. The colour in your cheeks will tell. And look at people. Rest doing no more than adding your perfection to another day. Your task is to carry your life high, and play with it, hurl it like a voice to the clouds so it may retrieve the light already gone from us. That is your fate: to live. Do nothing. Your work is you, nothing more. Pedro Salinas |
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