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type_x
02-26-2003, 08:27 AM
All the illusions washed away
All the world I hoped to see one day
Childhood slips away so quickly and then you’re on your own
The battle wears you down just when you realize you’re alone
All we ever had consumed by the fire
My heart, black and burned, my body broken and tired
No place to rest just emptiness, the bottom lies above
I want so much to believe there is something left for me to love
A poisoned river of drugs flows through my veins
No tears left to cry, no pride left in my name
The pain is gone now I’ve severed these broken wings
It’s been a long time since I could feel anything…
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your face
All I wanted in the world was to understand you and keep a place
In your heart, to keep you safe in this world so cold and dark
I wish you could look in my eyes and understand
That I know you didn’t mean to hurt me
I wish you could have seen way down within
How your love saved my life, and how I held your hand until the very end
Our memories will last forever in my soul
If I could go back in time I’d hold those moments and never let them go
But I am left here with terminal addiction
Your book ended before my goodbye to you was written
I have lost my way and I’ve lost my home
And day after day
I wake up all alone



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icenine0
02-26-2003, 05:21 PM
Coolsville, daddy-o... I dig, I dig!

*cough* My turn. *sips from water glass*

I had a dream of starlight, a cosmic paradise
I'd glee for all eternity; be free from every vice
And in it every trouble, every thought, and every scheme
Would fade.

A fantasy.

Over time, I found other proof enough.

That life is unto cruelty, each will but to survive
Behind an act of kindness a truer motive lies.
And we're all ants (in infinite dance) until a fade to black
Wherein the curtain falls.
And we die.

But it's all beautiful in its own way.

I suppose.

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lord_steak
02-26-2003, 05:37 PM
I scooped ice cream last term at one of the dining halls, and became the patron's favourite. This poem's based very heavily off that experience (I tried to attach it, but, she's a Word doc, and thusly that's not allowed).

<u>The Ice Cream Man</u>
Â* So, what will it be?
Â* Mint chocolate chip, butter pecan,
Â* a personal favourite?
Â* Bowl, or cone?
Â* How many scoops?
Â* They recognize
Â* Â* me across campus,
Â* yelling “It’s the ice cream man!”
Â* All those attractive young ladies,
Â* every day, flirting.
Â* They give me flavour requests.
Â* They give me amusing chitchat.
Â* The one gent always asking for turtle tracks,
Â* the dude ordering whopping bowls of sherbet,
Â* and everyone else,
Â* I serve them,

Â* watching the women come and go
Â* commenting on the pistachio.

Â* …it’s not funny.
Â* Everyday, all these nameless
Â* faces, empty flirtings, and frequent
Â* patrons, I think they forget
Â* I’m a person too.
Â* I have a name.
Â* I’m not simply “The Ice Cream Man.”
Â* You’re more than just two-scoops-of-cookie-dough-on-a-cone.
Â* I have feelings.
Â* I have desires.
Â* I march the rocky road,
Â* Â* and would prefer death by chocolate
Â* Â* to death by loneliness,
Â* Â* out in the barn, with my father’s horses
Â* Â* under a dismal tin roof.
Â* Where is Superman
Â* Â* when I need his help?
Â* Off minding his own business,
Â* just like everyone else.
Â* I’m told I
Â* Â* scoop happiness
Â* Â* for people.
Â* No one scoops
Â* Â* happiness for me.

Â* So, what will it be?

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Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot....</P>

icenine0
02-26-2003, 05:57 PM
That was delicious. <img src=smilies/laff.gif> *BOO*
Seriously, though, I liked it quite a bit.

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lord_steak
02-26-2003, 06:08 PM
> That was delicious. *BOO*
> Seriously, though, I liked it quite a bit.
>

Thank you both very much.

Delicious, eh? Yeah, were 10 flavours of ice cream mentioned enough for ya'? <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot....</P>