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 Aug 2013 River Raras
Ann Beaver
Your memory
Nails on a chalkboard
The color of an orange lamp
Or the heavy paper stamp
On an envelope of illusion
Cliche delusion
I toss around these terms
Insides turned to worms
Squirming not like butterflies
Tell me what your money buys
Because it never bought me
I can't pick: hide, see, or flee
I long to be deaf
To a memory of the bereft
I long to be at home
And for my heart to be sewn
 Aug 2013 River Raras
Mike Hauser
This is God and...

            
I see you straddling the fence
            
I see you with one foot in the stream
            
I see you calling me your Master
            
With the attitude of what's in it for me

I see you praise only when there's blessing
I see you with no mark upon your knees
I see you turning from your brother
When your brother is desperately in need

            
I see the dust that's on your Bible
            
I see you yawning in the pew
             
I see you passing judgment on my people
             
When your attitude is what is judging you

This is how the world views you as Christians
This is how you represent my name
How can you expect a dying world to listen
When they look at you and then themselves
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And you appear to be one and the same
She was a beautiful dreamer
She had so much hope in her
Someone who was loved by everyone,
even me.

Beautiful soul, well now it's been broken.

No one saw her drown.
6 years ago that is.

It was quiet but fatal and so sly and slow that not even she knew it was coming for her
Sadness slowly soaked into her, it became permanent in her fragile bones.
It wasn't something she couldn't handle at first, but with time it possessed the good that was left of her.
How beautiful her smile was and her eyes so angelic, something tells me it's the tears she cries at bedtime that anglicised them so.

I never told you that after a while the pain, the sadness it got the best of her except that didn't stop her from making sure other people were happy.
But, slowly they diluted her hope.
Her own moster is what she has, what she had become.
An angel is how they somehow still saw, even what they still see her as.
That's the thing about her she managed to stay such a dear.
Quite sad rather, how no one really saw the pain in disguise but she was such a great pretender you can't exactly call them ignorant.

Well this was her, Sweet Tragic.
Oh Sweet Tragic.
To be continued maybe?
 Aug 2013 River Raras
AJ
I think my favorite person was me two or three years ago.
This is not a good thing,
I have been told.
I was really ill back then.
I ate very strangely.
I ate cheerios,
But everything else had to be thrown up.
I would only eat at 2 am when everyone was asleep,
And then I'd throw up and cry for ten minutes,
Only ten minutes,
And then I'd go back to sleep
I lost some weight back then,
About forty pounds in a year.
The doctors asked a lot of questions.
So did my therapist.
But looking back now,
I like how I looked back then.
My stomach was practically flat,
And I ran every day.
I did a lot of self harming,
I still do now,
But back then it was intense.
It took a lot of self control to do it,
And I would like to start all these habits again.
I tried to **** myself so many times back then,
But at least I was putting all my energy into something.
I broke hearts back then,
And I turned girls,
Which I liked to do.
It was a horrible, nasty habit.
I had some friends back then,
And I don't miss them,
But I miss going out and doing things,
And breaking laws,
And having fun.
I was a horrible, emotional wreck,
And no one gave a ****,
And neither did I,
And to be honest neither did you.
But I was smaller,
And I didn't eat,
And I hurt myself every day,
And I was a heart breaker,
And I was a law breaker,
And I was a lone wolf,
And I was the biggest mess in the whole wide world that revolves around me.
But hey,
I was smaller.
And I think that's worth all the other things.
 Aug 2013 River Raras
Nick Lovato
You know who I am
You know how I do
Won't you
Come and say hello,
Cuz all I need is for you
To be that light
And stay by my side,
And change my life
Tonight.

I am never
Giving up on us
Do whatever it takes,
I'll just sit here and wait for you
I know what's worth fighting for
And just to be honest
I swear that I promise
That I will never leave

But I,
Just can't tell you what's on my mind
When I just want to say

Here I am,
Can you see me
I'm just asking for a light
To lead you to my arms
All our lives
We've spent waiting
And I've never missed you more
You are the answer
But never heard the question
From me

I've tried so hard
To get where we are.
I'm not gonna throw that away
I think of you everyday.
I don't know what to do
'Cause you're haunting me
And I just want to see
You here next to me

And I
Just can't tell you what's on my mind
When I just want to say

Here I am,
Can you hear me
I'm just asking for a light
To lead you to my arms
All our lives
We've spent waiting
And I've never missed you more
You are the answer
But never heard the question
From me

You know who I am
You know how I do
Won't you
Come and say hello,
Cuz all I need is for you
To be that light
And stay by my side,
And change my life
Tonight.
 Aug 2013 River Raras
Nick Lovato
I just want to move on
'*** I'm tired of living my life like this
In my past
Please help me out?

I've dug myself so deep
I can't even begin to see
Who I am
Anymore

But you've been there for me
When I just fail to see
The love that's all around me in my life

You're the perfect friend
And I'll love you till the very end
Yea until I die
And even past that

You mean so much to me
More than anything
In the world
And I'm not just saying that

'*** you've been there for me
When I just fail to see
The love that's all around me

And I hope
That you know
That I'm trying
The best I can
But it's so hard
Just to do
Without you
Without you

I am moving on
I'm done with living my life like this
In my past
Will you help me out?

And I can finally see
The man who I'm supposed to be
With your help
I have overcome

You know what I should do?
Is say that I love you
And that you'll forever
Be my best friend
 Aug 2013 River Raras
StarDust
He looks at me
in that way that men are supposed to look at women
my eyes sparkle for him
they are stage lights, they dazzle him
blinding him
to the fact that he is not the one
I wish he was
I wish he wouldn't fall in love with me
my heart can't be healed by him
because it's no longer in my chest
it's been taken away
I hear him whisper the words
I pretend to fall asleep in his arms
no reply
then one day my pulse quickens just a little
my eyes sparkle without me telling them too
my laugh is real
he has not healed my heart
but I feel the emptiness less
maybe if I let him
he can make me real again
 Aug 2013 River Raras
Robyn
God, what a gift
That you have given me
From my legs
To my tent
To the honey golden sea
It's badly written
Yet beautifully said
And I'd like to be remembered
Even if its when I'm dead
Oh God, what a gift
That you have given me
A boy to love with all my heart
The one who's known me from the start
Who watched me move from far apart
The boy I love with all my heart
Dear God, such a gift
That you have given me
Something I'm afraid to keep
Because it keeps me from my sleep
And it will not stay this way forever
Under your guidance
It will be only better
My God, what a gift
That I am scared to take
He makes my fingers shake
And I know I'll grow to hate it
But as long as he's there for me
My love can't be debated
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