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love is not made of giving and taking in equal parts it is not a favor for a favor i owe you nothing love is not a compromise reached after long deliberation it is not hurting on Monday and healing on Tuesday love is not touching because you will leave if i do not it is not feigning naivety when you see me cry love is not the untimely squandering of innocence it is not the suffocating grip of guilt it is not your unwelcome touch love is not love is not love is not
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:15 PM UTC
love is not
"i'm watching you, stupid ***** Madison pointed at pyper as the girls made there way out of the dining room. "thats enough madison." Cordelia scolded. Nan followed pyper up the stairs into her bedroom. "why are you following me?" pyper asked, looking at nan in disgust. rolling her eyes and shaking her head. "you have madisons money." nan crossed her arms and smiled. "excuse me??" pyper replied as if she were offended by Nans accusation. "mhm, and you have zoeys sunglasses.., cassies ipod, and 25 dollars you stole from emilys purse. along with her art pencils." nan replied. "wow, you're A cleptomaniac." Nan laughed. "okay, how do you know all of this???" Pyper asked, her cheeks red from embarissment, and her head lowered in shame. "i'm psychic. i can read minds." nan explained. suddenly cassie walked past pypers room in search of her stolen ipod. "has anyone seen my pink ipod???" Cassie questioned, it was sitting on my bed, and now i can't find it anywhere. " she looked around hopelessly. "well then look in your room cassie. give me 5 minutes and i'll help you look." pyper shouted. "wow, you're a real piece of work arent you?" nan rolled her eyes and chuckled. "what is your angle, nan?" Pyper questioned, rolling her eyes aswell. saying names name as if she were mocking the whole idea of her. "my angle, PYPER. is this, you give everyone there **** back or i'm telling cordelia and you're out of here." Nan smerked. "you're not going to tell on me anyway?" pyper asked sadly. "no, not onless you do it again." nan sighed, "we stick together here, we're a family, we don't steele eachother down thats not what we're about." nan explained sympatheticly. "wow, thats funny because that's all my real family ever did." pyper replied with big sad puppy dog eyes. nan nodded, "i'm not here to listen to your ******** excuses or your sob stories. if saying that you've had a hard life, and never had anything given to you. and the world owes you. helps you get to sleep at night then fine, cool beans. but i'm not buying that shit. and these girls don't owe you anything. now, i expect everyone to have there **** back by the morning, or i will tell cordelia." nan sighed and rolled her eyes. "okay." pyper nodded with a wounded look upon her face. Cassie stood outside of the door, still listening. her eyebrows raised in anger. and then made her way up the stairs and into madisons room. "what are you doing here pipsquick. im NOT in the mood." Madison sobbed. "oh i think you're in the mood for this, i know who took your money." Cassie smiled.
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 3:40 PM UTC
america horror story:coven fan fic part 5
"i'm watching you, stupid ***** Madison pointed at pyper as the girls made there way out of the dining room. "thats enough madison." Cordelia scolded. Nan followed pyper up the stairs into her bedroom. "why are you following me?" pyper asked, looking at nan in disgust. rolling her eyes and shaking her head. "you have madisons money." nan crossed her arms and smiled. "excuse me??" pyper replied as if she were offended by Nans accusation. "mhm, and you have zoeys sunglasses.., cassies ipod, and 25 dollars you stole from emilys purse. along with her art pencils." nan replied. "wow, you're A cleptomaniac." Nan laughed. "okay, how do you know all of this???" Pyper asked, her cheeks red from embarissment, and her head lowered in shame. "i'm psychic. i can read minds." nan explained. suddenly cassie walked past pypers room in search of her stolen ipod. "has anyone seen my pink ipod???" Cassie questioned, it was sitting on my bed, and now i can't find it anywhere. " she looked around hopelessly. "well then look in your room cassie. give me 5 minutes and i'll help you look." pyper shouted. "wow, you're a real piece of work arent you?" nan rolled her eyes and chuckled. "what is your angle, nan?" Pyper questioned, rolling her eyes aswell. saying names name as if she were mocking the whole idea of her. "my angle, PYPER. is this, you give everyone there **** back or i'm telling cordelia and you're out of here." Nan smerked. "you're not going to tell on me anyway?" pyper asked sadly. "no, not onless you do it again." nan sighed, "we stick together here, we're a family, we don't steele eachother down thats not what we're about." nan explained sympatheticly. "wow, thats funny because that's all my real family ever did." pyper replied with big sad puppy dog eyes. nan nodded, "i'm not here to listen to your ******** excuses or your sob stories. if saying that you've had a hard life, and never had anything given to you. and the world owes you. helps you get to sleep at night then fine, cool beans. but i'm not buying that shit. and these girls don't owe you anything. now, i expect everyone to have there **** back by the morning, or i will tell cordelia." nan sighed and rolled her eyes. "okay." pyper nodded with a wounded look upon her face. Cassie stood outside of the door, still listening. her eyebrows raised in anger. and then made her way up the stairs and into madisons room. "what are you doing here pipsquick. im NOT in the mood." Madison sobbed. "oh i think you're in the mood for this, i know who took your money." Cassie smiled.
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We can have fun if you lettuce. Just tossing salad puns. I'll try not to wilt. For I'll try dressing these Puns to your appetite. If I promise to pepper my puns, Maybe you won't throw salt. I should leaf this alone Because I'm no chef. I am Caesar of salad puns! You'd toss tomatoes at me if you could. Are salad poems rotten yet? I should compost these puns. Is this like watching grass grow? Salad puns can be cheesy. How much green would you Pay me to stop regurgitating Food puns? If you read this, I owe you the rest of the meal, Now that I wet your appetite.
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Mar 2, 2013
Mar 2, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
Salad Pun Poem
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 7:01 AM UTC
Caprice
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Mark A. Williams                             SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 – JULY 23, 2018 ___________________________________________________________ Wow Mark, Was so, so saddened to hear this news. I haven't seen you in over ten years, but as kids, we had some amazing adventures, didn't we? Partying, camping and swimming at the Hudson lime pits. Mowing down on Pizza and pitchers of Pepsi (and as we grew up, BEER!) at Pizza Hut. (We knew the numbers to ALL the songs on that jukebox by heart!) Hanging out and looking at the stars through Budvido's telescope, listening to Doctor Demento. Laughing hysterically as we ran through Monty Python skits as everyone looked on in total puzzlement because THEY wouldn't discover them until YEARS later! Building underground forts in the North Woods. You, Budvido, Zeke and I playing pinball at 7-11 for hours and hours. Watching Bands, chasing girls and playing Foosball or Pool at the Touch of Class Teen Club. You gave me my first Imported beer . . . a Lowenbrau. I will always owe my passion for those German beers to you and it was fitting that Budvido bestowed you with that moniker. All through Jr. High, sharing a seat on the school bus. You, Matt, Tom, Buddy and I cruising around late night on our bikes for hours. Hanging around in the Jasmine Lakes sign with hijacked beer or getting free bags of Burgers from Burger Queen when they closed at night! Jousting with shopping carts on our bikes in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. Sitting up all night in Jimi's room after climbing in through the window or going on endless space cruises with him and Raymond in the Toyota. (RIP Jimi Carlsen) Sneaking into the nudest Colony and skinny dipping! Always cracking up at the school lunch table. Swimming in my pool and terrorizing my sister and her friends. (Allegedly) Trashing that crook Fast Eddie's produce stand after he refused to pay us for a full day of picking watermelons! Good times, indeed . . . Some of my most precious memories. I can only pray that you know that I wouldn't trade my youth or you in it for anything in the world and you will be sadly missed, Lowenbrau, my old friend. I hope that where you are, your beers are ice cold and that you and Jimi aren't having to glue the Hookah back together. Jeff Gaines July 28, 2018
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 7:00 AM UTC
Message to a Friend
Mark A. Williams                             SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 – JULY 23, 2018 ___________________________________________________________ Wow Mark, Was so, so saddened to hear this news. I haven't seen you in over ten years, but as kids, we had some amazing adventures, didn't we? Partying, camping and swimming at the Hudson lime pits. Mowing down on Pizza and pitchers of Pepsi (and as we grew up, BEER!) at Pizza Hut. (We knew the numbers to ALL the songs on that jukebox by heart!) Hanging out and looking at the stars through Budvido's telescope, listening to Doctor Demento. Laughing hysterically as we ran through Monty Python skits as everyone looked on in total puzzlement because THEY wouldn't discover them until YEARS later! Building underground forts in the North Woods. You, Budvido, Zeke and I playing pinball at 7-11 for hours and hours. Watching Bands, chasing girls and playing Foosball or Pool at the Touch of Class Teen Club. You gave me my first Imported beer . . . a Lowenbrau. I will always owe my passion for those German beers to you and it was fitting that Budvido bestowed you with that moniker. All through Jr. High, sharing a seat on the school bus. You, Matt, Tom, Buddy and I cruising around late night on our bikes for hours. Hanging around in the Jasmine Lakes sign with hijacked beer or getting free bags of Burgers from Burger Queen when they closed at night! Jousting with shopping carts on our bikes in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. Sitting up all night in Jimi's room after climbing in through the window or going on endless space cruises with him and Raymond in the Toyota. (RIP Jimi Carlsen) Sneaking into the nudest Colony and skinny dipping! Always cracking up at the school lunch table. Swimming in my pool and terrorizing my sister and her friends. (Allegedly) Trashing that crook Fast Eddie's produce stand after he refused to pay us for a full day of picking watermelons! Good times, indeed . . . Some of my most precious memories. I can only pray that you know that I wouldn't trade my youth or you in it for anything in the world and you will be sadly missed, Lowenbrau, my old friend. I hope that where you are, your beers are ice cold and that you and Jimi aren't having to glue the Hookah back together. Jeff Gaines July 28, 2018
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Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck!                                 Big, Biggest Love,                                                Jeff Gaines
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 8:38 AM UTC
On The Renouncement of a Sunflower
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck!                                 Big, Biggest Love,                                                Jeff Gaines
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In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be. High above the gutter A silver knife sinks into golden butter, A glass of milk stands in a meadow, and Well-balanced families, in fine Midsummer weather, owe their smiles, their cars, Even their youth, to that small cube each hand Stretches towards. These, and the deep armchairs Aligned to cups at bedtime, radiant bars (Gas or electric), quarter-profile cats By slippers on warm mats, Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam, Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs, And the boy puking his heart out in the Gents Just missed them, as the pensioner paid A halfpenny more for Granny Graveclothes' Tea To taste old age, and dying smokers sense Walking towards them through some dappled park As if on water that unfocused she No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near, Who now stands newly clear, Smiling, and recognising, and going dark.
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Essential Beauty
I think as artists we owe a lot to pain. Put on a robe of thorns and write about the nice weather outside and that delicious burger you had today. Write about happiness when you're in pain- beauty.
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 6:59 AM UTC
Beautifully painful
When gentle breezes turn into gale,      remember that you will prevail.        You may tear at these pages daily, in search of peace and tranquillity.    Planting hope and scattering wishes,     Spilling blood in smears and blemishes...        Flying out of the dark on      wings of birds.        Bridging the rippling void through            severed words.                 ***Seeking...              Reaching...                Imploring...             Writing...***      Be not wary of eyes that speak.   Be not afraid of mouths that leak. Know that our scribbles are only    sacred to us.        Emotions and thoughts we            bind and truss.   What we put forth, we owe it to ourselves...      Bits of us we've kept hidden in the darkest rooms; atop the highest shelves. You...       are wielder of your mighty pen. You...       determine how far or long your          words would span.    Your words... They're precious gold. Many or little; be them new or old. So let drip your ink with little reservation...   Let us grow from strength to strength      as life teaches its lessons.    Rise up and live on in these here pages,      For here exist only          freedom;                not cages.
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 6:53 AM UTC
Freedom Pages
The one who PRAYS only for PRAISE will never RAISE to see the RAYS just a ROLE to help you ROLL falling in the WHOLE ****** HOLE you will WAIT to feel the WEIGHT a slow GAIT toward the GATE you say No to what you say you KNOW then it's "OH no you still OWE"
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 1:56 AM UTC
Waiting to Feel the Weight - Homophone Poem
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 7:02 AM UTC
May 20th, 1999 (The Poem)
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Elated to see you aloft in the night sky To what do I owe this enchanted boon. In the merry company of winking stars, Enthralled by this sight as I admire my moon. Bathe me in your streaks of translucent silver. Accompany me through my sleepless nights. Watching over me with unwavering vigil. Swathe me in whispers of peaceful respite. Oh how you govern the raging tides of my soul. Rest your gaze as the waters break upon my shore... Erode and weaken the load strewn over my burning shoals, Sands drowned breathless but craving for more. Few nights now... Smitten as you coyly turn away. Thick strands of shadow clad hair in gentle cascades, Alluringly obscuring a slight fraction of your face. A tiny crescent blanketed away; into the blackness it fades. More nights pass... Now I see only a lesser moon Leaving me with only half; darkness so had claimed. Please make yourself last; you mustn't leave too soon, I'm not ready to be left crippled and maimed. I silently look up as more nights go by. I watched my lunar love dissolving into space. My heart too, torn away a morsel at a time... Finally she had gone; without a sliver or a trace. Every nightfall since is rife with emptiness and despair. I asked the stars if they could soothe my gaping void... But they'd only twinkle in indifference... Regardless of the pleas I've employed. Unsure of how many rises it has thus been. Nights only brought the onslaught of mocking stars above. Still I toy with the promises made overhead, For the awaited return of my crazed elusive love. I know it's frivolous to think I'm the only one... There are others who pine just as I do. But I yearn the most for your sought after attention, For our hearts have sung in every colour and every hue. Anxiety at peak, dismayed almost broken, Then I hear a sweet song sung; distant and far. A song that shared the words we once had spoken, Again enveloped in translucent silver, with relief I sighed...,                           "There you are..." .
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 9:03 AM UTC
Moongazer
Elated to see you aloft in the night sky To what do I owe this enchanted boon. In the merry company of winking stars, Enthralled by this sight as I admire my moon. Bathe me in your streaks of translucent silver. Accompany me through my sleepless nights. Watching over me with unwavering vigil. Swathe me in whispers of peaceful respite. Oh how you govern the raging tides of my soul. Rest your gaze as the waters break upon my shore... Erode and weaken the load strewn over my burning shoals, Sands drowned breathless but craving for more. Few nights now... Smitten as you coyly turn away. Thick strands of shadow clad hair in gentle cascades, Alluringly obscuring a slight fraction of your face. A tiny crescent blanketed away; into the blackness it fades. More nights pass... Now I see only a lesser moon Leaving me with only half; darkness so had claimed. Please make yourself last; you mustn't leave too soon, I'm not ready to be left crippled and maimed. I silently look up as more nights go by. I watched my lunar love dissolving into space. My heart too, torn away a morsel at a time... Finally she had gone; without a sliver or a trace. Every nightfall since is rife with emptiness and despair. I asked the stars if they could soothe my gaping void... But they'd only twinkle in indifference... Regardless of the pleas I've employed. Unsure of how many rises it has thus been. Nights only brought the onslaught of mocking stars above. Still I toy with the promises made overhead, For the awaited return of my crazed elusive love. I know it's frivolous to think I'm the only one... There are others who pine just as I do. But I yearn the most for your sought after attention, For our hearts have sung in every colour and every hue. Anxiety at peak, dismayed almost broken, Then I hear a sweet song sung; distant and far. A song that shared the words we once had spoken, Again enveloped in translucent silver, with relief I sighed...,                           "There you are..." .
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Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Mar 4, 2018
Mar 4, 2018 at 5:53 PM UTC
Face Up
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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No one cared until I started holding a pencil until I started writing let's call them poems Did writing make people actually care about me? Or did it just make them curious enough to ask about me? Do they like my writing? Or do they like how I can describe things in ways they can't? Has this pencil brought me closer to people? Has it made them finally see me? Questions start to occur every time I hold this pencil of mine questions question question so many questions and not enough answers If you ask me to speak my feelings I will not be able to utter a word I will not be able to form a comprehensive sentence However Give me a pencil and I will express... gladly Whether through writing or drawing I suppose I owe a lot to my pencil You might see it as a wood that leaves mark on papers but to me It's a whole world, a world that I'm eager to explore Thank you pencil Thank you for being there for me when my tongue isn't Thank you for speaking up for me Thank you for being my voice
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
Pencil
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Mar 28, 2018
Mar 28, 2018 at 7:23 AM UTC
My Cup Runneth Over
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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The stewardship of talent calls attention for everyone to discover their purpose on earth, knowing we are created with potentials waiting to be maximized. The stewardship of time calls attention for everyone to maximize their time on earth, knowing we are mandated to dominate and subdue the earth. Nothing is found except it is hidden, every one has a talent. Nothing is hidden except it is a secret, every person has a gift. Nothing is a secret except it is a treasure, every individual has a potential. Every one has a secret hidden treasure to be found, ln them lives unique talents waiting to be discovered; lf only they can discover their purpose on earth. Every person has a destined mission to accomplish, ln them lives voices waiting to be heard; lf only they can activate their gifts. Every individual has a solution to provide on earth, ln them lives great potentials waiting to be maximized; lf only they can exploit their potentials. How then can talents be discovered knowing that any talent wasted will be accounted for. How then can gifts be activated knowing that we are mandated by God to accomplish a purpose on earth. How then can potentials be maximized knowing that we are created to impact our generation. Let him that seek to discover and utilize his talents on earth consult God through prayers. Let him that seek to activate his gifts exploit God's given innate ability to man. Let him that seek to maximize his potentials on earth search the mind of God through the scriptures. Is there any reward for discovering and exploiting your talents? Is there any reward for activating your innate gifts? Is there any reward for maximizing your God given potentials? He that discovers and exploits his talents for God will receive the Masters reward. He that activates his innate gifts will be remembered forever. He that maximizes his potentials will leave an indelible footstep on earth. Hope you strive to be persistent and consistent in the stewardship of talent, knowing that much is required of you. Endeavour to be faithful and obedient in your stewardship of talent, knowing we all owe God the accountability of our talents. Ensure you exploit the discovery of your talents, activate your innate gifts and maximize your potentials effectively. Strive to discover your purpose on earth, Seek to activate your talents and gifts; and Strive to maximize your potentials. He that discovers and exploits his talents on earth, will leave an indelible footprint on the sands of time that will be remembered forever. He that activates his gifts on earth will impact the world and his generation. He that maximizes his potentials effectively, will engrave his names in the sands of time and seasons of the sky. Talent is a Mandate not a Delegate.
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 6:49 PM UTC
Stewardship Of Talent
The stewardship of talent calls attention for everyone to discover their purpose on earth, knowing we are created with potentials waiting to be maximized. The stewardship of time calls attention for everyone to maximize their time on earth, knowing we are mandated to dominate and subdue the earth. Nothing is found except it is hidden, every one has a talent. Nothing is hidden except it is a secret, every person has a gift. Nothing is a secret except it is a treasure, every individual has a potential. Every one has a secret hidden treasure to be found, ln them lives unique talents waiting to be discovered; lf only they can discover their purpose on earth. Every person has a destined mission to accomplish, ln them lives voices waiting to be heard; lf only they can activate their gifts. Every individual has a solution to provide on earth, ln them lives great potentials waiting to be maximized; lf only they can exploit their potentials. How then can talents be discovered knowing that any talent wasted will be accounted for. How then can gifts be activated knowing that we are mandated by God to accomplish a purpose on earth. How then can potentials be maximized knowing that we are created to impact our generation. Let him that seek to discover and utilize his talents on earth consult God through prayers. Let him that seek to activate his gifts exploit God's given innate ability to man. Let him that seek to maximize his potentials on earth search the mind of God through the scriptures. Is there any reward for discovering and exploiting your talents? Is there any reward for activating your innate gifts? Is there any reward for maximizing your God given potentials? He that discovers and exploits his talents for God will receive the Masters reward. He that activates his innate gifts will be remembered forever. He that maximizes his potentials will leave an indelible footstep on earth. Hope you strive to be persistent and consistent in the stewardship of talent, knowing that much is required of you. Endeavour to be faithful and obedient in your stewardship of talent, knowing we all owe God the accountability of our talents. Ensure you exploit the discovery of your talents, activate your innate gifts and maximize your potentials effectively. Strive to discover your purpose on earth, Seek to activate your talents and gifts; and Strive to maximize your potentials. He that discovers and exploits his talents on earth, will leave an indelible footprint on the sands of time that will be remembered forever. He that activates his gifts on earth will impact the world and his generation. He that maximizes his potentials effectively, will engrave his names in the sands of time and seasons of the sky. Talent is a Mandate not a Delegate.
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Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 7:00 AM UTC
The Dead of Winter
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck! Big, Biggest Love,         Jeff Gaines
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Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck!                                 Big, Biggest Love,                                                Jeff Gaines
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Apr 1, 2018
Apr 1, 2018 at 6:03 AM UTC
“Wow”
Hello everyone,   I'm so very sorry … I feel horrible doing this, but I have no choice. You see, I have published my first book on Amazon/Kindle! This piece (and many others) had to be taken down because they do not allow published material to be available online for free. (Go figure) I wanted to leave the shell of the posts because I felt compelled to leave all your helpful and loving comments. (Silly sentimental, I know), but I also didn't want to just have the pieces disappear without an explanation. I feel bad enough as it is!   I owe ALL of you so, SO much for all of your reads, love, and support. It was YOU that gave me the gumption to FINALLY get off my **** and publish! Thank you all for the warm comments, camaraderie, and encouragement! I will still be here, reading, uploading and just being the Rascal that I am. How could I EVER leave you guys?   The book is called “The Way I See It – FictionPhilosophySoul Food” and it will be FREE for the first few days on Kindle Select, so watch for it, if you are interested. I hope that you go and grab it. If you do, I would also hope that you find it worthy, you would leave me a good review. That will help me get in the public eye! Soon afterward (2-3 days or so), it will be available in paperback. Find the book(s) here: www.amazon.com/author/jeff.gaines Or find the book(s), and all about me, here: www.JeffGaines.world   Soon after, I also hope to have my first novel (a supernatural thriller), called “Wanderer” available as well!   Wish me luck!                                 Big, Biggest Love,                                                Jeff Gaines
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Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 3:54 AM UTC
Mom
Trying to find solace in the suburbs when everything seemed superb like that cookie-cutter, picket fence, faux fur mentality they instill at the start Just an infant with scars He reached for her baby bump, Then slammed it hard onto the stairwell She fell, wept, and held That lil princess and prayed she'd never have the same hell All grown up. Alive and well shes got different demons different intricate cells It's been said she is special      she is awake But, in many ways She is the same As that ANGEL who carried her 23 years ago That's debt I'll always owe A gift I'll never own Carefully Constructed and Creatively Sewn shoved a soul into that shell That'll one day guide her back home Shes got her mamas tough, yet gentle heart her smile, brevity and love for art.. she can write her *** off like her the wrote and the writ Yet she's plagued by guilt every ******* minute GUILT for the life that she'd been given GUILT  for each exhale emitted She prays that God will have the sense to go back in time and hit OMIT (on all chapters even close to the word 'human' there's GUILT for feeling guilty even more for despising your own ) "I must've slipped through the gate, admit it! Or recruit another for your mission regretfully, I must solicit that I'm not fit for this position I'm no hero I'm the villain If ya look close you'll see I spit venom" Mama walks in smiles and says "WE. ARE. WOMEN!" "Betta recognize and quit your bitchin' as of today, you are living.. You are loved You are safe You are ************* winning WARRIOR, CREATOR, QUEEN, GODDESS, INCARNATE.. We are strength & We are the faith never to be broken but we still stay brave The Legend wont start or end with you Its a fight stretched out through  time You will understand soon No matter how much you ask "WHY" It wont stop circumstance wont stop lies wont stop suffering and will NEVER compromise Your in the way of the wave, child This.....  the secret to life When in the way of the wave... its only a matter of time S0 if youre searching for solace Will you promise To memorize this line
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Trapped in this madness, This thing called love. Addicted 2 the sadness now my brains on drugs. In the eyez of a savage, tear stains turned blood Now torn is my status, **** the pain with the blunts &..... Hennessy Is the proper remedy For dealing with misery Killin it with the trees Blowing it in the air Wishin she still here But life is not fair She’s acting like she don’t care I’m a man baby girl, we make mistakes Sexing with other women but they can’t take ur place Something brown between my fingers and a bottle in my other palm Now she gone, and me I’m tryna move on Wishing.... that she was still seeing me Wondering..... what did she ever see in me? Tell me love, please you owe me that Now I’m sitting her with the **** and the cognac So I got a blunt in my right hand And I got this drink in my left hand And I’m just Drinking Smoking Drinking Smoking Tryna get you out my head And it hurts me more when I see That you’re happier without me So I’m Drinking Smoking Drinking Smoking Tryna get you out my head
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Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 6:26 PM UTC
Drinking and smoking
Let those who will of friendship sing, And to its guerdon grateful be, But I a lyric garland bring To crown thee, O, mine enemy! Thanks, endless thanks, to thee I owe For that my lifelong journey through Thine honest hate has done for me What love perchance had failed to do. I had not scaled such weary heights But that I held thy scorn in fear, And never keenest lure might match The subtle goading of thy sneer. Thine anger struck from me a fire That purged all dull content away, Our mortal strife to me has been Unflagging spur from day to day. And thus, while all the world may laud The gifts of love and loyalty, I lay my meed of gratitude Before thy feet, mine enemy!
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To My Enemy
On failures I rejoice pockmarks on the skin that is my being Beautiful reminders of my own mortality A slave to the Romans spoke: "You are not a god" Failures to me speak the same I am not a god I am above no one To failures I owe humility To failures I owe will To failures I owe life Because without them I might be everlasting
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 1:12 AM UTC
To Failures
so many good people greater together that's a hell of a resume… thanks, we owe you… p.s. please don't let us wither away… [email protected]
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Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM UTC
note to Eliot:
the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not "fight my disability" we were never at war with one another like me, it just wants to exist and so i let it to some extent i’ll never “become my disability” yet i don’t believe it’s a bad thing either i’ve come to realise that he’s become a part of me as he’s helped shape my thinking and maybe even my personality a little bit i owe all my stubbornness to him nah i don’t fight my disability we’re bffs the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not "get up every day" though for a while, i thought it was getting up is easy facing the world? getting easier i used to blush at the thought of getting a wheelchair i’d bury my face in my knees and cover my ears with my hands, thinking that if i couldn’t see it or hear it, i wouldn’t need it i cared too much of what society would see me as not “normal teenage girl” "sad confined possibly a teenage girl?" normal is overrated and to be honest? so is society the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not pretending i’m okay with mainstreaming dear teachers, “mainstreaming” was never in my vocabulary pretending? pfft dear teachers, this is 100% real contentment IEPs got some getting used to but after 16 years of endless doctors appointments, people in white sterile coats, plastic latex gloves poking, prodding demanding things of me "mainstreaming" won’t ever exist in my vocabulary i know i’m smart and i know i can do it so don’t you DARE cry at my graduation it’d be pretty pathetic if i believed in myself more than you do the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is accepting the realities i don’t know when i’ll take my last step i don’t know when my muscles will give out for good i know that every day i won’t know what’s right in front of me i know that i’ll never be able to run another mile in my life and i know that i won’t ever stop dreaming about the things i wish i could do would love to do won’t ever do might do one day
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Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
not disabled
the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not "fight my disability" we were never at war with one another like me, it just wants to exist and so i let it to some extent i’ll never “become my disability” yet i don’t believe it’s a bad thing either i’ve come to realise that he’s become a part of me as he’s helped shape my thinking and maybe even my personality a little bit i owe all my stubbornness to him nah i don’t fight my disability we’re bffs the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not "get up every day" though for a while, i thought it was getting up is easy facing the world? getting easier i used to blush at the thought of getting a wheelchair i’d bury my face in my knees and cover my ears with my hands, thinking that if i couldn’t see it or hear it, i wouldn’t need it i cared too much of what society would see me as not “normal teenage girl” "sad confined possibly a teenage girl?" normal is overrated and to be honest? so is society the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is not pretending i’m okay with mainstreaming dear teachers, “mainstreaming” was never in my vocabulary pretending? pfft dear teachers, this is 100% real contentment IEPs got some getting used to but after 16 years of endless doctors appointments, people in white sterile coats, plastic latex gloves poking, prodding demanding things of me "mainstreaming" won’t ever exist in my vocabulary i know i’m smart and i know i can do it so don’t you DARE cry at my graduation it’d be pretty pathetic if i believed in myself more than you do the hardest thing i do as a disabled person is accepting the realities i don’t know when i’ll take my last step i don’t know when my muscles will give out for good i know that every day i won’t know what’s right in front of me i know that i’ll never be able to run another mile in my life and i know that i won’t ever stop dreaming about the things i wish i could do would love to do won’t ever do might do one day
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