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kevin-lawrence
American
Her head hangs like an anxious child Staring intently at the toy on the floor She wants something to play with She wants something to make hers She wants to own a part of the world But she can’t So it is the way of the unconscious Needlessly begging for something Anxiously hoping for something Aimlessly striving for a purpose She wants to own a part of the world But she can’t She can find her purpose She can get what she wants But for how long? Is that all there is? A time with which we wait and toil And debate and long for Time is nothing, Time is all Which one is it?
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Mar 5, 2012
Mar 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM UTC
Time
I do not live with a peaceful mind. Every night it shows itself. Like a selfish blind, I fear the light And beg for mercy and feed its might. I'm in a prison now counting the hours. One day soon I'll be flying back. Like meteor showers streaking the night, It fails to crash and escapes my sight. The mountain is steep and reaches the clouds. The voices are deep and they echo loud. Until the day my answers are found, I'll just try to sleep without another sound.
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Feb 15, 2012
Feb 15, 2012 at 12:28 AM UTC
It's Hard To Sleep Sometimes
love is a cause for desperation cancer of the heart fortunes found battles fought nothing won nothing gained souls lost life forgotten
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Oct 14, 2010
Oct 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM UTC
love
Misunderstood Making decisions that some may find hard to swallow. Ethically, my soul may seem hard to follow. Some clash with me and claim I'm just too hollow. But those who quit may find themselves suppressed by their wallet. I'm misunderstood because they misunderstand That I don't do what I should but I make my own plan. Because what I will do is not always what's good for me. I try to pursue the truth to make my own ends meet. Recycle, save the the trees, but don't ask me to concede. I believe it's the truth that will always set you free. Life is precious but only one life has no meaning, Populations come and go and eventually blend into the green. We are part of a whole that must carry ourselves on. We can't get caught in the moment and put perfunctory blinders on. We need to focus on greater good like we really should And prevent ourselves from becoming truly misunderstood. I can see all the sides to this perpetual story, man Like the reflections from the great scrub, John Dorian. Sap stories of pressure and plight make me sick. Just **** it up and try to live your life in the thick. You are always nothing unless you can make yourself. Struggle is completely natural and we must all try to fight for health. If you spend your life to only strive for material wealth, Then you will never truly come to ******* know yourself. Maybe one day when you finally come to your senses, You'll realize your whole life that you've been completely senseless. Your goals have only served to benefit you immediately. Now you can see that once again you have absolutely nothing. The rise and fall of this material life creates emotions Of unbearable strife ending in your utter destruction. And you'll realize that you've just been herded through the motions. And at once your life will end before the reconstruction. Like a flood that caused the soil to avulse, Society will shift at the last beat of your pathetic pulse. This won't matter to you but it will effect everyone else. You left this world misunderstanding yourself. The life we lead Will always be with us. The things we seek Are within us already. The price we pay To seek our necessity Will always be... (x2)
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Oct 2, 2010
Oct 2, 2010 at 5:55 AM UTC
Misunderstood
Misunderstood Making decisions that some may find hard to swallow. Ethically, my soul may seem hard to follow. Some clash with me and claim I'm just too hollow. But those who quit may find themselves suppressed by their wallet. I'm misunderstood because they misunderstand That I don't do what I should but I make my own plan. Because what I will do is not always what's good for me. I try to pursue the truth to make my own ends meet. Recycle, save the the trees, but don't ask me to concede. I believe it's the truth that will always set you free. Life is precious but only one life has no meaning, Populations come and go and eventually blend into the green. We are part of a whole that must carry ourselves on. We can't get caught in the moment and put perfunctory blinders on. We need to focus on greater good like we really should And prevent ourselves from becoming truly misunderstood. I can see all the sides to this perpetual story, man Like the reflections from the great scrub, John Dorian. Sap stories of pressure and plight make me sick. Just **** it up and try to live your life in the thick. You are always nothing unless you can make yourself. Struggle is completely natural and we must all try to fight for health. If you spend your life to only strive for material wealth, Then you will never truly come to ******* know yourself. Maybe one day when you finally come to your senses, You'll realize your whole life that you've been completely senseless. Your goals have only served to benefit you immediately. Now you can see that once again you have absolutely nothing. The rise and fall of this material life creates emotions Of unbearable strife ending in your utter destruction. And you'll realize that you've just been herded through the motions. And at once your life will end before the reconstruction. Like a flood that caused the soil to avulse, Society will shift at the last beat of your pathetic pulse. This won't matter to you but it will effect everyone else. You left this world misunderstanding yourself. The life we lead Will always be with us. The things we seek Are within us already. The price we pay To seek our necessity Will always be... (x2)
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I hang on to life dreaming, Waiting for it to let me free, Holding my breath in darkness. Lost in my unconsciousness, Impressions from the truth, I wallow at the invisible. Philosophies are dumbfounded. Ideals vanished with perverse storms Of spontaneity and malice. Emotions become exhilarating. Familiarities random, With eternities of parallel expectations. I still see you, Skewed by memories of love and passion, Standing there, looking back at me.
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Mar 18, 2010
Mar 18, 2010 at 5:13 PM UTC
Living Dreams
My heart aches, I can feel it. It hangs low in my chest beating. The pounding creates tsunamis that empty my mind only to come rushing back all the realities that preexisted. They preexisted in my mind like a psychic generically explaining my life only to be brutally right. I give life to my worst fears. I hide from the light. I ignore the truth. The best life has to offer comes directly to me and I deny it like a stubborn child denying his dinner. This problem persists. I think I know how to live. I think I know what I want. Unfortunately time exists and it has a direction that never goes back. There are a unique set of infinite possibilities where I will never exist again. This is the future. My existence is just one dimension to reality and it's short. However, my existence also holds a unique set of infinite possibilities. And I have the ultimate power. I can make decisions and act on them. This is how I make my reality. This is how to change my reality. I am so overwhelmed with negativity. I am so afraid of it, I breed negativity. I long to be held. But once I am embraced, I submit myself to mental torture. I lose focus. I forget what's important and I take whatever I can. I convince myself of future loss and failure and manifest it in my life. If only doing something was as easy as giving up hope when everything is in front of me. Yelling at me to wake up and look around. They want me to be aware of their existence. They shake me and hit me and most importantly they try. What they never get to learn is that I was awake. I saw myself and I was bad. I closed my eyes again and everything was suddenly gone. I now see nothing. Because nothing exists except the voice of my mind. You must embrace the nothingness because you already have everything. I realize now that I've had happiness. I'm so depressed because I know how happy I can be. I know how happy I can make others. I miss the days of superficial decisions in a structured world as a child. I'm in control of my life now and I've decided to make it miserable. I'm the rollercoaster. These are the loneliest times of my life yet I've never felt so alive. I've never felt so aware of myself and my surroundings. I saw things through a tainted heart and now that heart is empty and clear. This pain is real. The emptiness is real. My suffering is not. I am capable of love again. I am free. I feel like I can suddenly make all the right decisions. My past haunts me with ghostly shrieks but they are just sounds. Be quiet I say. I am in control. I'm getting off this rollercoaster.
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Mar 17, 2010
Mar 17, 2010 at 10:55 PM UTC
Destruction
My heart aches, I can feel it. It hangs low in my chest beating. The pounding creates tsunamis that empty my mind only to come rushing back all the realities that preexisted. They preexisted in my mind like a psychic generically explaining my life only to be brutally right. I give life to my worst fears. I hide from the light. I ignore the truth. The best life has to offer comes directly to me and I deny it like a stubborn child denying his dinner. This problem persists. I think I know how to live. I think I know what I want. Unfortunately time exists and it has a direction that never goes back. There are a unique set of infinite possibilities where I will never exist again. This is the future. My existence is just one dimension to reality and it's short. However, my existence also holds a unique set of infinite possibilities. And I have the ultimate power. I can make decisions and act on them. This is how I make my reality. This is how to change my reality. I am so overwhelmed with negativity. I am so afraid of it, I breed negativity. I long to be held. But once I am embraced, I submit myself to mental torture. I lose focus. I forget what's important and I take whatever I can. I convince myself of future loss and failure and manifest it in my life. If only doing something was as easy as giving up hope when everything is in front of me. Yelling at me to wake up and look around. They want me to be aware of their existence. They shake me and hit me and most importantly they try. What they never get to learn is that I was awake. I saw myself and I was bad. I closed my eyes again and everything was suddenly gone. I now see nothing. Because nothing exists except the voice of my mind. You must embrace the nothingness because you already have everything. I realize now that I've had happiness. I'm so depressed because I know how happy I can be. I know how happy I can make others. I miss the days of superficial decisions in a structured world as a child. I'm in control of my life now and I've decided to make it miserable. I'm the rollercoaster. These are the loneliest times of my life yet I've never felt so alive. I've never felt so aware of myself and my surroundings. I saw things through a tainted heart and now that heart is empty and clear. This pain is real. The emptiness is real. My suffering is not. I am capable of love again. I am free. I feel like I can suddenly make all the right decisions. My past haunts me with ghostly shrieks but they are just sounds. Be quiet I say. I am in control. I'm getting off this rollercoaster.
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