tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12591609589655039552024-02-07T04:47:43.058-08:00The Soul SanctuaryI'm a poet at heart; Constantly thinking, feeling, pondering, I tend to sort out my overwhelming thoughts and emotions through poems. This is REAL therapy.Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-54169588211948398662013-03-03T20:16:00.000-08:002013-03-03T20:16:14.330-08:00Streets at Night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think of yourself as a figure on a street -</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The silence of night is deafening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there is a stretch </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An awkward distance between their circles of light</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where the darkness almost consumes you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's in the midst of that darkness</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That the heart decides to beat faster</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breath decides to come shorter</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And swear starts to ooze from the pores.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are shadows everywhere;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the light they seem to fade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every now and then, there's a shorted streetlight</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the darkness stretches to what seems like an infinite distance</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you walk because running would be admitting you are scared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what happens if you feel a hand on your shoulder?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or there isn't a streetlight for miles to guide your path?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or the shadows become unnatural and mobile?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or the the noises become deafening?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or you lose yourself to the racing heartbeat, short breath and bullets of sweat?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's something about those shadows and those hallucinations</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And those stretches where the light dims</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That evoke a feeling of doom so powerful and so potent</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what if you could</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just love the seasons for their scent</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dust out the nooks of your soul</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And make room for more connections?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if I set up a hotel</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the depths of my being</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And gave out rooms to everyone</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who looked into my eyes and saw beneath my skin?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if you didn't have to pay to stay</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I compelled you to be with me</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wherever I go - eternal, immortal?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if I could love the blades of grass</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the bedazzling smile of that person</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I look out for wherever I go?</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People wonder if it's like polygamy</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To love so many people</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To believe in so many things</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To want so much</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to desire even more--</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the limit blurs and the definition becomes hazy</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I ignore the uncertainty and love limitlessly.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-51157983717672278022012-06-10T01:02:00.001-07:002012-06-10T01:02:18.768-07:00No Point of Hoping.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where is faith and justice and God</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I search for the salvation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I’m crying to myself behind locked doors,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I’m running from an unjust consequence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That, like a rabid animal, pounces and roars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where is that guardian angel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When my blood pools from the knife wound in my chest,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the pain blinds me, maims me, tames me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before, half-mad, I lost consciousness and thump to rest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We preach of faith and hope eternal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of justice and righteousness infernal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it’s hopeless to smile and pretend we’re saved<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because someone out there just doesn’t care.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-3646948989303776322012-03-12T17:45:00.000-07:002012-03-12T17:47:45.076-07:00Incandescent Dichotomy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: cyan;">This one's a little long. We were on our way back from camps and at the train station, I looked up to the sky to the sight shown below. For a strange moment, it triggered a lot of suppressed emotions that I've explored in this poem.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It watched over us like a mother</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And year after year, we've watched</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dark of the night it tried to smother.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw the moon as an open book,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of billions of people filled with rage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It watched the wars, the world's plight,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And comforted dying soldiers at night;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It watched the theories of science evolve</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the face of our planet continued to revolve.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a time when it saw</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The face of Cleopatra smiling at its white body,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A time when it scanned the face of the dying children</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Holocaust, shielded from everybody;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An era when it saw Cro-Magnon man</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Transform to homo sapiens with time,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those millennia when the dinosaurs died</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It saw their plight with amusement sublime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A silent spectator, a selfish celestial entity,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It stood silent as the world changed for the worse</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It watched us rob Mother Nature of her wealth</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None of which can we ever reimburse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's hands are spattered with the screams of the dead,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The triumphant roars of the winners</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the indifferent sighs of the crowd</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most composed of ardent sinners.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Historians with humped backs and grey hair</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Devote lifetimes to analysis of text,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if only they looked at the moon</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They would see the history of our people there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Murderers, thieves, dictators beware--</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The moon's eyes have watched you all along.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And though, like a God, it might simply sit back and stare</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It saw you as you subjected your society to wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But beggars, well-wishers, do-gooders in all right</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The moon watched you suffer and cry</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But to save you from your undeserving plight</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was 4 o'clock in the evening and the sky was red</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when I looked back, a dense, dark blanket muffled all colour</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The night sky stank of the evil and the dead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clouds flew with the wind and white bathed the sky,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The light of the moon brought comfort to human life</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for an instant when I watched it intently</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could see the history of man - the triumphs and the strife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An open book, an incandescent dichotomy,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once a child's object of fascination</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw you as a treasured permanence of my life</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now you seem so dark, evoking an eerie sensation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch me as I make my history,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my progress as you marked our pathbreakers'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laugh at my degeneration,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And ignore my desperation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw the soaring eagles</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In her somber, subdued eyes</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because she spun clothes with strings of faith</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even when she was surrounded by lies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw the murky depths</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the darkness in her heart;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though her smile was bright,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their artificial nature pierced one like a dart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw the golden glow in her raven mane</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A halo visible to those who watched closely</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because she'd leave beauteous happiness</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On those who would tend to walk morosely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I heard the melody in her words,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A ballad of balmy characteristic,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has a habit of giving you security</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're tortured by worries mystic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your words to me preserved in a diary</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll keep forever locked in my mind</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when the need arises for me to my wipe pathetic tears,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comfort will I in your words find.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congrats on becoming official legal, Sue! I'll never forget how much you've helped me, and all of the crazy conversations we've ever had! </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Young to old,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cherished to sold,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Logs of wood to fire,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Satisfaction to desire,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lovers to friends,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New beginnings to new ends,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happiness to sorrow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today to tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This endless loop, this shattering blow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fluorescent desire that seems to glow;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This urge for happiness, crushed with passion</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brutally demolished in such a cruel fashion</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your eyes are open to this decrepit sight;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't win against it, not even can you fight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plagued by laughter, by the nuances of friendship</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the thought of those you were joint to by hip,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the grass green and the sun pale yellow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the cool mountain wind that carries your bellow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By cherished memories that fade to grey</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By opportunities that walk away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sitting duck --- in limbo, stuck,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Running out of veritable luck,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holding back tears that threaten to descend,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For all good things will come to an end.</span></div>
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-63322505769517212592012-02-18T17:48:00.000-08:002012-02-18T17:48:04.061-08:00Temptation's Hand.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through these windowpanes</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I never noticed were so caked in grime,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outlines of rough images become defined,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blurriness settling into an ethereal design.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curtains of shadows flit past</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And freeze fluidly in a shape, magnified, tall--</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That looks eerily like a beckoning finger.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I turn my eyes away and stare at the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But dust are these perilous pretensions,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That blind my sight when those beckoning shadows appear;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are moments of piercing clarity</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When illusions begin to disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A beckoning finger,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Siren's hypnotic voice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Urging me to leave behind responsibilities,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to turn a deaf ear to the presence of a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A beckoning finger,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evoking memories of a free world,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grass as green as emeralds, sky a cerulean blue,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A white flag of freedom, fluttering in the wind, unfurled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It whispers promises of quenched desires</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the murky depths of sleepless nights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Succumb to me," that voice murmurs,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Fall from your climb to un-scaled heights"</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when that voice disappears, and the shadows at night,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the mind submits to the grave concentration of life,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though your climb to commendable heights is almost complete,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But for the last step: a steep hike in the midst of wildlife;</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Determination divine, breath strong despite your struggle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The beckoning finger returns, cutting through it with a knife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please tell me if you get the connection between the picture and the poem :)</span></div>
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-7255380213311274912012-02-07T17:20:00.000-08:002012-02-07T17:20:33.212-08:00Masochistic Tendencies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">You can spitefully holler my name</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And expect me to kneel at your feet,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can thrust a silver dagger through my heart,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I wouldn't mind it, it's true.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could burn me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'd still smile lovingly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could hurt me,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'd still stare at you singly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wretched, cruel, twist in nature</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where there should be burning, red-hot rage</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is the soft, fairy quality</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of love, deep rooted in the book of my life, every page.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could use me like a miserly tissue</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crumple me and spit on me,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But these silly, stupid masochistic tendencies</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will never become a burgeoning issue.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The visions I see, the visions I feel,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why must they be tinged with fantasy,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And leave me reckless?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They leave me helpless,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A newborn calf standing on her toothpick legs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why must I have to taste the flavourless dregs?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those daydreams take away from me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All semblance of reality</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wake up to a utopia so doctored.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though behind my eyes, I see a perfect world</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In reality, it's laced with famine and disease,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More holes than Swiss cheese.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the mountains where the buttery sunlight reigns,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the sorrowful heart which happiness feigns,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amidst a field of tulips,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Red, yellow and blue;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the holy water that runs through rivers deep,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the fertile soil within which the aromatic rain seeps,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the eyes of a winner,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eyes hazel and true...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pleasure in such a fantasy;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when faced with such happiness in reality,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enriched with the belief</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have found utopia.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under our feet.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rotating the rusted knobs,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flicking the string,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Five more left to put in.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Five more left until she is human.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strings are gently knotted, and harshly pulled to the end,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where she lovingly secures them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lovingly, for they have never experienced such gentleness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One breaks. A flinch drowns her face,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tear breaks the guarded defense her eye. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ghost of the pain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is too much of a phantom to efface.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The strings,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were so abused in her body; Before,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they were in her heart,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were played, until she was aching and sore.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they were in her heart,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her soul suffered so deep an injury,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They snapped, healed, and became bruised.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she couldn't muster the energy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To tend to them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now they are stretched taut on her instrument,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She never had so much control of them as she does now---</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Testing, a gentle pulling of a string,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the air is filled with the sweet sound of shock---</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shrill pitch of euphoria,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the bass of sorrow and depression,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The melodious twang of freedom</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the underlying notes of indescribable happiness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The house was so quiet before,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Higgins from next door thinks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It used to be filled with screams of agony.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now, the windows are tickled pink with beautiful music.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is tugging at them. At her own heartstrings,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Giving them the love they were denied all along,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Expressing their identity,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because inside her heart, they were abused and oblong.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Such a fickle, fickle heart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">As easily swayed as a balloon in flight,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">As easily won as a cause protested right.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Though I'm suffocated by priorities,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">I sit at my window, watching the sun rise</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">The violent orange streaking the sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">And a heart willing to believe in lies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">A simple act of eye-contact</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Can send it racing like a race-horse in a sprint,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Thundering past, a precisely-shot bullet in motion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Overflowing the restricting boundaries of its precinct.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So easy to trust,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So easy to hurt,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So easy to fall in love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So difficult to calculate,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So difficult to heal,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So difficult to regain control of the mind and body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Such a fickle, fickle heart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So coquettish, so secretive, so easily won,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">I wish you were a person of your own</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">So that I wouldn't be tagging along to your acts of fun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Fickle, fickle, fickle heart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">I long for the day we depart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">And my mind can overcome</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">The games you play with me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">This coating of soot on the dusty floor?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are ashes, my daughter. Of hopes and dreams.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They gleefully burnt my fragile wings when I was young--</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plucked my feathers and viciously tore my voice-box.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the last song ever sung.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That song - the one of freedom.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look - here on my finger, this soot I will show you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you smell it? This is the smell of hopelessness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And emotional fragility, where they raped my passion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you see how opaque it is, how black?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is dark, much like their rotting hearts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much like the godly entity that let this calamity transcend on me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These soot lines on my cheeks are not a sign of surrender.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a battle mark, a medallion, a red flag--</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dignity is my queen. And I am its defender.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not this vicious fire that eats away hope,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not these flames that burn away dreams,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not this smoke that inhibits your vision</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They numbed my senses</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And suffocated me with sarin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I will never let you touch this soot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your dreams will never be devoured</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By cruelty and fire.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will never wither away</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wither away like I did.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a fire that destroys human progression,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there is a fire in you, your mechanical propeller.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These eyes are seeing white.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where once a smile would evoke</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The visions of red colours, dancing brilliantly,</span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They now appear flat. Dull.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dead.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world that was once artistically painted</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With an impressionist’s scattering of</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cerulean blues and blinding, buttery yellows</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and grassy greens and vivid, rose-like pinks</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their edges blurred and merging, a beautiful sight---</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is now grey.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if I am colour blind.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This beating entity inside my chest</span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feels detached and pointless---</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a composition of cells and vessels</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A rhythmic reminder.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone must have sneaked to my bed at night</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artfully slit my chest open,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Delicately extracted this heart</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And boiled it in scalding water.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nerves no more tingling with sensation,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skin no more sensing the feathery touch of friendship,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eyes no more seeing the colours of life.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel sterile,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So clean. An enchantment on my own.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is numb, it’s morphine, it’s white---</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are only greys. There is no emotion.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A zombie walks through these shadowed streets at night,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wearing my clothes,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hair upon its head,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My voice (lifeless) emanating from its larynx,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My shoes on its feet,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My possessions in its cupboard.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such pristine serenity</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a whirlpool of numb nothingness;</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am just a body;</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A withered corpse sucked dry of blood,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An earthen pot smashed on the floor,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A soulless creature,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sponge squeezed dry of water,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lifeless, limp flag of independence.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is where love is, where freedom is,</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where trust is.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where home is.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I have no home.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-36290775360846567592011-11-06T12:10:00.000-08:002011-11-06T12:10:46.429-08:00Insurmountable Hate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part I</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here it stands - a pristine, blank mirror</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reflecting back tortured eyes and a blackened soul,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if you with your deranged hair and sadistic tendencies</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sacrificed a night of sleep</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To hold up a piece of paper with my name on it</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And watch it blacken with disintegration</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And curl with degeneration</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a fire with fierce flames that spit reverently </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Admiring the food you are dangling in its arms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part II</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could it be a knife your words brandish?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because the sharp nicks that painstakingly cut my willpower</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have left nothing but shredded ribbons of flesh behind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am bleeding – there is nothing in me but blood –</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don’t you see what you have done?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These shocking, piercing, excruciating needles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have dislodged in my resolve?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part III</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My blood has thickened into petrol</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bubbling gelatinously in its confined presence in my heart,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Giving way to fissures of gas that escape like refugees</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From a country tormented by dictatorial damnation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The heat with which it froths and churns;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if it is waiting to catch fire, biding it’s time</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until the day it explodes into a crazed entity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of fire, anger, hatred, torment and abhorrence</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That consumes me till the point my skin rips at the seams.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then you would be happy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then you would be satisfied.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then you would die a pleased woman.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part IV</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was like sobbing relentlessly on the shoulder of the
two-faced devil,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Telling him the deepest, most precious sentiments of your
heart</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finding comfort in his counterfeit promises.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you, with your blood red horns and your fiery trident,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A grin dripping brutally with contentment and amusement</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gripped my trust by the hair, tugging at its sensitive
roots,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Threw it at hungry cannibals, to watch them satiate their
appetite.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, you laughed as they sank their jagged teeth into it,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You laughed as they ripped the skin off its poor flesh.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part V</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poor, pristine mirror. Pity that your innocent face</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should have been the victim of my insurmountable anger,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because in you I have seen my face,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In you I have seen the depths of that black soul,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the depths of that black soul, a woman burning paper,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the depths of those flames, the consuming hatred,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the depths of the hatred, a breach of trust.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in the depths of all that,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shocking pinks and blues of pain so irreparable</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing can heal it ever again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her head is seconds away from exploding.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a perilous pressure pushing persuasively</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On her fragile cranium, eating up all the space inside</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flooding every unoccupied air bubble</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With it's distastefully pressurizing presence;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a throbbing again her eye,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pulsating, persistent push</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's threatened to prick her tear ducts</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until she cries.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there's the truth, looming like a ghost</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over her shoulder, intimidating and irritable;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her tears could draw away the pain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like an ice pack relieves a fervent fever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if she cries, she knows</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her heart will collapse upon itself </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like a house with foundations that were never stable.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so the eternal dilemma -</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pain for pain,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is never relief.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a drought somewhere, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And frail bodies are walking helplessly under the sun,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Willpower and survival skills being their unfortunate saviour.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a girl who's trust in safety</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Has been violated due to crimes inflicted upon her.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is an innocent, wide eyed child</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Struggling for breath under the rubble and heavy burden of an earthquake.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when your own mind becomes a pressure cooker</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fed with the distasteful pressures of society,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it is as if only a drill through the brain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or a violent display of instability</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could relieve the throbbing ache.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a pain more potent.</span></div>
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-56899803408973104912011-10-16T05:42:00.000-07:002011-10-16T05:42:35.715-07:00Double Standards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is to all the glassy eyes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That shone like glass under ultraviolet light;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reflecting back shocking blues of hope</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And misguided lasers of ruby red romance</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because your face radiated moonlit paleness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That grasped at their innocence and naivete.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Excited breaths like fine tendrils singing of fragility;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You stared.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stared.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like they all had stared.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their hearts must have been racehorses</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fuelled by the same concentration of adrenaline</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I remember coursing through my own veins.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their smiles must have been just as lost</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As mine were when our lips met.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They must have been just as easily fooled</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I was.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's to all the glassy eyes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That were dazzled by the mask of wood</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bearing handsome likeness;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behind which lies an ugly, festering heart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Burnt raw.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grotesquely malformed.</span></div>
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-1720298948668893562011-10-11T07:09:00.000-07:002011-10-11T07:09:29.457-07:00Used<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like a tissue,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lying used</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lost on your messy table,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Out of its dainty box</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now hidden under in the wastepaper bin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I was</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thinking</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That for the first time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miracles were blossoming.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here you were</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revelling in the illusion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That hung like curtains from my eyes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watch you from the corners of tables,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the tops of fans,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From behind the pillars like a lost soul-</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watch you use others</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like the poor tissue that resembles me.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-39351559858062869082011-09-26T08:12:00.000-07:002011-09-26T08:12:44.730-07:00Animal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The metal tinge of blood is in the air,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's smell so strong, I can smell it in my hair.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blood forms a crusty layer</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where those gashes run deep and permanent.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bruises and bloody cuts surround my eyes</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see red. I see red. I see nothing but red,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The red shards of pain that cling to my mane,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the brilliant red of <i>those eyes</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those eyes</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That like a crayon-like dark night</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evoke a heart-hammering fear---</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maniacal eyes, pulled so wide</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To imitate the width of that teeth-baring smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Menacing. Just like the sound of the whip</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This crazed monster brandishes in its human hands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With every act of butchering</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It inflicts on my poor, innocent body</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recoil---</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With every recoil, I recede---</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back into that cage.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And soon enough I am right where I started.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never used to notice these entrapping steel bars</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While my skin was unmarked with the signs of abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now, the blood leaves my coffin of a body at an alarming rate,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am an artwork of gashes running with blood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am the Mecca of pain at this moment in time</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have to bleed in this cage, unable to cry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those humans, </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whose voices aren't sliced by metal jars,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If only I were you.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-23975553128878189512011-09-18T09:21:00.000-07:002011-09-19T09:05:20.765-07:00Bittersweet Treat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pretend it's you--</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This slowly sinking sugar cube</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drowning in the endless depth of steaming coffee,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crying frantically for my help,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disintegrating as it drowsily melts,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overcome by the stormy heat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be neglecting you. Like you neglected me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How unfair that I should be so cruel--</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To something so inanimate</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the real culprit is you!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The grains of sugar have arranged themselves</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To resemble your face; the signature smile</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is now a frown, because I have stabbed you with a spoon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And put a veil of foam where your eyes should be.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stir; you're disappearing into a whirlpool of heat and bitterness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never to emerge again. And I won't bid adieu.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You've sweetened my chasm of bitter despair,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're the taste it needs to be deemed complete.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Pits of Tartarus now seal themselves,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having claimed their last bastard. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The collection is done.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadistic pleasure (or is it relief?)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pulls back my lips in a teeth-baring grin,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I need is laughter, as the remainder of you melts</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And disappears. Never to be seen again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I drink heartily my bittersweet treat,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Swallowing down sweet memories</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That have morphed into a noxious mass of gelatinous nothingness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time changes everything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A friend of mine (SB) took the liberty to write a reply to this poem, by continuing the analogy, not exactly from the point of view of the persona this poem was addressing, but as an active bystander who empathized.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>REPLY</u></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today. Just today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like that sinking sugar cube.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That slowly dissolves into the bitter coffee.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not call for help .just for acknowledgement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The heavy liquid slowly pulls me down. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never neglected you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just tried to add to the flavour and make,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I call a perfect blend.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot promise a rainbow,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But try to be the ray of hope.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To a monochromatic life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to let you know that I am brown sugar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Different from the rest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My eyes do turn dark.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My smile slowly turns into a frown, not because of the pain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But because the stab is coming from you </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your oh so saturated brew was somehow incomplete.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was just trying to fill in the gap. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I drown.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Voluntarily.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not wanting to fight the whirlpool.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I might never emerge again,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But my essence will always flavour the pleasantries.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that the deed is complete,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I succumb to the bitterness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let go into the Pits of Tartarus.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being the last of the lot. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I needed the feeling of being felt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your grin. It’s devilish.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It tears through what’s left of me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your living is craziness personified.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you sip down the coffee looking through the remnants of me,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon to be nothing: I somehow feel I am still there.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The memories being the last of me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was no one.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all I wasn’t the coffee bean.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time changes everything. I wish it changes us.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-53125032337788074802011-09-16T10:10:00.000-07:002011-09-16T10:10:20.121-07:00To My Mind:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To my mind,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel as if lately,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We haven't been in touch.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My heart whispers enticing words to me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words that I secretly want to hear,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But of course, you would know that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seductive whispers. You would oppose.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You would warn me against the temptation of succumbing to it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I have fallen into its alluring chasm,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And am unwilling to climb out. You must save me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am overcome with emotions</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That, like rivers nourished by the recent monsoons</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gush through my blood, saturated with love,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with hate and with fear and with presumptuous pomposity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each emotion is the string of a marionette;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pulls me in one direction, and then tugs me to the next.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crooning with love. Simmering with anger. Drowning in hate.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You, who like a referee</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was supposed to monitor this change in entropy,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have suddenly fled. The maps are blank and my GPS fails.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I searched in the bushes, under the bed, behind the curtains for you</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before these emotions could win their tug of war</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And drag me to a corner to harass me senselessly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you don't return,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will surely run mad. Maddened by the love I feel</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I imagine those wholesome faces,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maddened by the stabbing needles of sorrow</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I wish could be a Chinese masseur skilled with acupuncture.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And crazed by the anger</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That calls upon my blood to boil as if my organs were cooking.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need you to return.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need you to scold my senseless heart with your logic,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to preserve my identity before I lose it</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the separate entity that is attempting to beat itself out of my chest.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-63786905043518607462011-09-07T10:14:00.000-07:002011-09-07T10:15:22.771-07:00Irony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the curtain of the smiles</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the veil of unperturbed joy,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bruises blossom. Blood leaks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like the look on the the face</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of a soldier who has fought valiantly,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Falling to the ground</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As bullets make fissures in his skin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A battle has been fought across our hearts</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Across this place in time;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And only I can see the stains of it</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Darkening the grass and the wild mushrooms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through it grow the crops of strength;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kind that comes with loss.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A gauze reclines, relaxed, over the truth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of wounds too deep to clot and scab.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No amount of alcohol will lure out the germs,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No amount of therapy will heal them anymore.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They fester. Reminders of an internal pain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And at the irony prevails;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The door of a house may be innocent</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where a war is waged in its four walls.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you. My eyes are calm.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The irises are a gauze.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the soul is a wound.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it is festering.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's reason is you.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-43932010942595125432011-09-05T06:23:00.000-07:002011-09-05T06:24:09.768-07:00Over Again.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's autumn all over again,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as the orange leaves fall</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the wind tousles my hair</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it whips the buildings tall----</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find the change in who we are</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dying friendships I tried so hard</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To keep alive with this</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Constant burning of lard</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To keep this fire burning,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To dissipate the air of mourning;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it shrivels before my eyes,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The love that kept us both alive</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as it fades</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Into a dark distance, into a hive;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These mistakes we made keep repeating again,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The times we changed keep playing over again</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the heartbreak hits the same way every time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though you tell yourself you'll be strong,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's painfully loud that something is wrong,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess people never change. Not even with time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mistakes,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They repeat over again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never cease until the end.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the end's just so far away.</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-88616315705955015742011-08-23T17:10:00.000-07:002011-08-23T17:10:22.294-07:00Happy House, in the Rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through the falling leaves</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A history comes alive at the sight of these tall walls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with the gravel under my feet</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember this is where my identity began to form;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chivalry's endangered</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But here is its sanctuary;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love is mutilated,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But here is its tributary.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now that I'm home </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't chase this darkness out of my heart,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like death on a winter rose</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't go back to the start.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With every pang of heartache</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember you</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember the place</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember the love;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flower in the hair,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The insoles and the heels,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Wingwoman's work,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The singular hoot I made,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh the silent dinners</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We just looked at each other</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jumping on the bed</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In happiness; I said</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things in so many secret chits</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I probably shouldn't have said</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ran through gravel in my heels</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now these feet won't give me rest,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got to know a friend</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got make so many new friends,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got to feel my heart beat like the drums at Lupercal</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the drumsticks controlled by other personnel;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm glad you all came</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Into my life; and in my heart you'll stay,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These memories won't die</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As long as you'll always be there.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dedicated to all the Doscos, and my PWSians <3</span></div>
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Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-28770373849029033052011-07-05T08:40:00.000-07:002011-07-05T08:40:09.077-07:00If This Summer Was All I Had<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It doesn't bother me that I am </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confined to these four walls;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's just a window, tall and bleak,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I watch as raindrops fall.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This may be the last summer that I have</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I can't muster the strength</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make it worth the time and the fun</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It deserves at such length.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I see you all having the time of your life,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you all touring the world every week,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I ask myself "Why have they left me behind?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why is my own summer so bleak?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But a prisoner can't beg for good food,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A caged bird can't demand to see the Alps,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A trapped miner can't ask for fresh air,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cornered mouse can't plead with a please.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'll sit here and love my four walls,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll sit here and enjoy the view of the window</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I'll conjure the strength to pretend</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That this solitary confinement isn't at all dull and low.</span></div>
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</div>Aishwarya Nagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381735395134470211noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259160958965503955.post-54378546535441623502011-06-26T00:06:00.000-07:002011-06-26T00:08:26.013-07:00Advice to Myself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She may tell you that she hates you</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it may lance the fullness of your heart</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But she doesn't know what hate really is,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or what is life is like when love does depart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She may rant incessantly, for hours, for days,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But don't listen to it, don't try to understand it-</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If her mind is riddled with unsolvable problems</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay quiet until she finds the inner peace to quit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her eyes are clouded with rage, but she only sees red</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beyond the colour, there is no reason she can derive,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if she finds the occasional reason in her head,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's lack of practicality, for her, is hard to view live.</span></div>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So tell yourself, as young as you are,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That she's a fragile ball of emotion</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And let silence be her comfort,</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let your empathy set her smile in motion.</span></div>
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