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Do not ever lose faith
Always be the one to believe
The journey is meant to be difficult
You can still achieve
Have a level head
Along with a positive attitude
Make spirits bright
And show lots of gratitude
Searching for monsters in my mind
I walk the path within myself time and again.
Alone
In silence
I find Fear
An ever present Fear.
Relentless Fear.
Fear to live?
To die?
Afraid to build a Paradise all of my own?

The past, a part of me, always will be.
The present and the future are one in my today.
I must get rid of Fear, the monster in my mind.

07/30/04(c)Vilma Vitanza
Palermo, Italy.
Hi, I had trouble understanding the technical writing about copyrights, etc.  #2 If I want Fear to be bold, what do I do?  I tried using double asterisk but did not succeed.  #3  I wanted the last two lines: date(c)Vilma Vitanza to be on the left side.   Unsuccessful as well. (?)
I wondered what I might give for something
someone else dreams of at night; I’d rather know
what makes them think that way and not read
about the dark forces they believed to be real

There is a calm about the flour that covered the
baker; he is a man who has a craft, and whatever
he believes is in his hands; no matter if the story
was written last night or five hundred years ago

He is a part of the walls we pass each day; we
summon a smile for the moments he provides,
but he is the life, the life I want to know because
he does not wear a cape or walk with head bowed

Whatever they summon is made of candles, delusion
and the heart of a mushroom; what we read
comes alive in our minds because  the book is faded;
yet another language can seem just as mysterious

I wonder if worry drove them to this madness; I feel
the power that uncertainty  has in my life; it controls
the grandeur of my dreams for they are attached to the
solutions conspired against by my own weaknesses

But who can reshape the future yet live in poverty and
anonymity; it is the patron who believes in an idea
that can change the world; or maybe they just steal
the idea and pay someone else to write the myth

Would it make a difference if I could called it quicksilver
or mercury; probably not if we were dancing or if you
were crying; none of it mattered to them because what
their graves reveal is that we still don’t know how the feel

Nobody expects anything more than their own gifts can
deliver; the only one that matters is that it matters that
much; everything else is for an observer of life who wonders
why he is so ordinary and sunlight beneath the sea is not
She
She kept to herself most of the time
But this time
This particular day
She let out a smile in his direction.

Suddenly her life turned upside down.
You live in a box
In a song in my dreams
In my memories in my heart
You my love live in my past
I dream about you
I think about what could be
You come into my life
And leave just as fast
This is not a jump in jump out
Kinda thing
My heart can't take it
 Apr 2016 Natasha Ivory
Tia White
Like ink set on paper
Your words have left a mark
A rapidly growing flame
Lit by a wayward spark

With my hands and my lips
I long to wander your skin
But I taste you with my eyes
And learn the flavor of your sin

With each turn of the page
Uncovering something new
I will take my time tonight
In discovering you
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