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Some of these are from very old poems, as well as some new releases in this collection. Enjoy these writings, over a large span of time.
the elements
first edition, private printing
Freedom & Strength Press
copyright © 2002, Scars Publications and Design
(a letter from the publisher)
In always deciding to test our limits, we searched for ways to change the convention of the “book”. I mean really, think about it, how many books that are 200 pages, with one poem after another, can a person really take? How many places have poetry and prose books out now? What can we do to make things different?
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death is a dogDeath is an untrained little bitchit pees on the carpet and barks through the night and it’s always begging for scraps at the table seeing what it can take from you when you’ve got your back turned when you’re not looking
when you want it to heal,
I know what it takes to die
Death is an untrained little bitch
I leave a bowl of water out and I still refill the bowl
and vacuum the dog hair
Death is an untrained little bitch, I tell you
she’ll claim her territory
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fantastic car crashand our life is one big road trip nowand we set the cruise control and make our way down the expressway.
and most of the time we’re just moving
but I know what’s inside you and I
you are a fantastic car crash. you stop
everything shatters with you, you know.
through the air. and every time you leave
from the windows. you know, the glass breaks
even though I’m careful
and the glass cuts into my hands
to this fantastic car crash
and I wave my hand to the line of traffic:
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You Know It(fish)
so there are these fish in my apartment
and for some people,
and when the night is over they’ll have to you know it
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Til the Fear In Me SubsidesI can’t say I know what you’ve gone throughThat would only trivalize it and I wouldn’t do that to us
But when a person goes through what you have
They called you Elvira Doe in the hospital
And your family wonders why when you were unconsciuos
Hell, I don’t know if they took it or if
They called you miracle girl in the hospital
Other doctors examined your records
And you like to brush off everything,
You just got contacts for your eyes
Three skull fractures is worse than
Medical staff watched when your skull reset itself
And you know, I never wanted to tell you this,
That the eye doctors now
I don’t want to scare you with these details
It still scares me to hear the details
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Touchthe lusther lips quiver anxiously she wants desperately the craving the longing the yearning is no longer contained His eyes fixed in a trance-like gaze the erotic fantasies the passion the obsession his burning torrid appetite is released Her heart quickens as her breath becomes a pant sensual sexual she is ravenous with need His hand moves his anticipation climaxes salacious lecherous his muscles tense with excitement the cyprian lurid desires the heat the fire they cannot hold back he touches her
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I See The SceneEvery once in a whileI see the same scene again: I lay in the bed the field of daffodils with you draped over me folding over me conforming to my body like a rustling curtain rippling in the breeze from an open window. I do not sleep. I couldn’t, I would never want to. Our contours interlock, our limbs intertwine. Your breath rolls down my stomach like the breeze that brought you to me. I take your hand, and although you sleep you seem to hold me with all the intensity you possess. And with each beat of your heart, with your heat, comes the cool night air in the wind caressing me until the light from the morning sun awakens our silhouette.
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Love PoemYou are the air I breathe.you enwrap me you consume me your words your eyes tear through me Life is not I, but we.
I want you here tonight.
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Make MeYou know,you actually do make me wanna shout. And if I didn’t know better, I’d say that I have the capacity to make you scream a little, too. You told me that you have good hands. I believed you, but I didn’t realize how good they were until you showed me. You know, I’m not so bad myself. Show me how good you are again.
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NightsIf I have to -I’ll put on the mask I’ll play the game the facade Oh, I’ll do it - I’ll go through the motions I’ll live with the lies the fantasy world. Just to spend my nights with you.
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Religion“We do expect you to marry someonewho shares in your beliefs,” the man groaned as he looked at you and said, “and that means you too, Joe.” But tell me this: when you look into my eyes, do you want to look away?
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This May SoundI don’t knowthis may sound silly but every night just before I’m about to sleep I think of you and when I turn out the light and crawl into my empty bed a piece of me feels missing I don’t know what it is but I feel a hole right about where my heart is when I have to lay there night after night all alone when I am with you I feel as if I am complete I feel as if nothing in the world matters when you’re holding my hand with your heart near me then I can sleep and then I fall into my empty bed and I feel the hole again burning through my heart and I wish I didn’t feel so alone and I wish the hole would just go away
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They Triedthey tried to hold me downthey tried to keep me in they didn’t understand “I was different” they said as day after day I led my life with the interrogation lamp shining in my face
they tried to change me
they tried to make me beg
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Sometimes the LightSometime the understandingTravels into the realms of the unknown All we can do is hope search dream Because we will never find. Sometimes the light is not enough.
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Seven MilesOkay, so you were going to be in Chicago for a few hours, and then you’d be driving out of town again, and I really wanted to see you, so I said I’d be more than happy to drive to the city to see you for an hour or two. Okay, let’s meet at the Planetarium, I said, because it would be the quickest place for me to get to from the interstate, besides, you were in the city anyway, you’d easily get to the Planetarium before I would. So okay, we’d meet at 3:15, you said, and I got off the phone and rushed out the door. And I got there, traffic was a bitch, but I got there, parked my car and then proceeded to walk back and forth looking for you. Where the hell was he, he didn’t have much time before he had to leave, where could he be, it’s been over twenty minutes, what trouble has he gotten himself into now? Knowing him, he probably thought I said the Aquarium and was waiting at the building a block away from me, the big jerk. And all these men were staring at me, like they’ve never seen a woman in a suede skirt before, one of them even said hello to me, and I had to sit there and try to ignore everyone and brood because you were late. You probably crashed the car and were bickering over insurance with someone while I sat there. Made me drive for a couple of hours for nothing. So then I finally see you sprinting up the block. Your oxford is unbuttoned, and the closer you get, the more red you look. Okay, now I’m intrigued. “Where have you been?” I asked, and as you’re panting in a vain attempt to catch your breath you explain that you couldn’t get the car out of the parking lot because the person who has the ticket stub for the car is in the doctor’s office, so you ran seven miles to get here so that I wouldn’t wait. Okay, I feel like a heel. And you never cease to amaze me. I know you said you’d go to the ends of the earth for me. Seven miles is more than enough.
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transcribing dreams 1I was at a beach, I don’t knowwhy the dream was there, but it was, the dream I mean. And you were there, and your family too, and at one point your little sister, the one that isn’t so little anymore, pulled me to the side and told me she was pregnant. She loved her boyfriend, she couldn’t have an abortion, she didn’t want to tell her parents. And she told me, and I didn’t know what to do. Later in the dream, still at the beach, she told you, and your parents, and you were screaming that you were going to kill her boyfriend, and your mother was babbling what would the neighbors think and your father was speechless. And I know that all of you were hurting her more, that what she needed most was supportive words, someone to hold her. Didn’t you think she was scared enough, I wanted to ask. But I didn’t, I watched all of you do this to her, the poor little girl. How scared she must have been
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transcribing dreams 2me any my sister and mymother were driving at night and we were approaching and s-curve in the street. We had to turn right, drive a half block, then turn left. When we took the corner there was a fire in the building right in front of us, and there were all these fire trucks and ladders and water spraying through the air. And we couldn’t turn around and go back, we had to drive past this, and the car got faster and faster, I felt like I was being thrown toward the inferno. And I saw firemen that were on ladders on the second and third floors being thrown away from the building by the flames, falling, screaming, falling to their deaths. And we sped around the corner, my sister was falling out of the car as we took the turn so fast. She was holding on to the frame of the car and we watched firemen fall from the sky, and I sat in the center of the backseat, not knowing what to think, watching it all
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SoybeansHave you ever jumped in a vat of soybeans before? It’s very strange, it feels like you’re a kid in one of those playground things where you jump in a pit of colored plastic balls. Except soybeans are a lot smaller than those balls in the playgrounds, and I guess they don’t have all those colors. Well anyway, I went over to his grandparent’s farm, and he decided to take me on a tour of the farmhouse. The cows were smelly, I made sure I kept my distance, and I just kept calling to them, saying, “hello, moo-cow.” And there were a bunch of cats running around the field, and we picked up a couple kittens and held them up high in the air. I kept asking the cats, “do you love me?” and he kept asking me why I was asking for approval from cats. Then we gave them some milk from his uncle’s farmhouse. And then he took me up a ladder to the top floor of the barn. That’s when he proceeded to take off his shoes and jump over into a ledge. He told me to join him. I couldn’t quite see what I was about to jump into, it was almost dusk, but I took off my shoes and socks and jumped in anyway. And my ankles sunk into the soybeans. And I started laughing. And I fell, and then I started to bury myself in soybeans. And then I jumped around a few more times, then I just started throwing soybeans at him. And then I just laid down in the pit of soybeans for awhile. They felt cool on my skin. I could feel the dust from them covering my legs, my calves. There are time like that, times when I just have to let go. |
A New Idea Pretty Quick
I don’t know what everyone
Take that scoop of |
for my car or my lifeI never once had the chance to graspthat anything ever happened to me
it wasn’t until after the hospital, face the facts, girl
put all of my belongings in storage, was I expected to go through this?
insurance companies wouldn’t fix the car No one has paid me back for all lost
I have no car
who is going to pay me
no one apologizes to me they couldn’t even give me that
when I was angry
I was invincible, you know
I could hope that time heals all wounds
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As I Recovered
I was supposed to be
In the hospital, after I |
Get It Over With
I wonder how much time would
Sometimes I think about the
I asked my mother today when
After I had that discussion with
I only have another 60 years of
I sometimes think about all
Today I thought of someone who
I think my problem is that I just
Well, to put it all that way I suppose
Sometimes I wonder about things
When I almost died, I didn’t think about
Death is a pretty scary subject. It
How do you prepare for something like |
On the Flip Side
I don’t know if there’s anymore
I’ve been missing love. That’s my
Sometimes it seems that some people
Sometimes it’s hard to go through the |
and flowers and funerals
my head didn’t hurt all the time that can’t be more than I’d forget.
My life used to make sense
I hope one day it all comes together.
Hope I’ll explain it all to him.
I wonder what details I lost in my life.
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Pool Together Our Money
spill the beans and get it over
if only we could have been
when i learned very little
well, what I think happened
and now, no one has the
so this is the way that people |
So To Speak
i just thought I’d let the
The average personal problems would that
The problem here is that there are
Well, the solving of this problem
Oh, forget it. Maybe there is no |
Stilts
I wish life just could get
There should be
Wouldn’t it just be easier if
If I knew how many classes I
Is this as good as it gets
I want to be
I don’t
They who
Everything is still the same
I’m getting tired of seeing people |
The bad stuff that could beSometimes it doesn’t matterwhen you learn something, when you learn how to do something, but the thing is, you have to learn it. And so many people can be taught the same things over and over again but if they are never taught how to learn or how to understand, then all the teaching in the world isn’t going to make an ounce of difference.
When I was in grade school
I know that was a silly story, I know that
I didn’t want to fail at things, what I knew how to do
I don’t know how all of that is supposed to be
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The Third or fourth |
Think of It
What if you are told
I mean, if you were
Think about it Think of it
What if you worked all
what if family and friends told you that
If you worked all your life and
If you created all this, and then a bunch
See what it would feel like
Think of what the world |
What Do You do
what do you do
do you wear your seat belt more someone can hit you there, you know
what do you do
do you tell people you love them what do you do
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What It All Means
I don’t know how many times
I still didn’t remember being there,
They had a witness there and they
There were a couple of guys that were dressed the
He must have been conscious when he fitst
Okay, so I wasn’t a hero in that scene. I |
So Many Lies
I wish that people wouldn’t feel the need
that they understand how they think and
because they have nothing to say to
people I once trusted told me
people I used to know, people
I wish that the understanding |
Princess Diana, 1 Year Later
I wonder what it’s like
What must it be like to have
I wonder if that’s |
Supposed To Make Us Laugh
The whole time when we went out tonight
and that was supposed to make us laugh |
Make Things Better
I don’t know where the answers are supposed to be
there it goes,
but I wanted to finish it
Okay, maybe I do have some ideas about this whole
No, I can say with some certainty that I don not know
You can be the one that is expected
Well, maybe there are a lot of things that we can’t know |
Men Are Dogs Is True
It was nice that you made the effort
I know people do not mean what they say I guess the theory that men are dogs is true |
Making Sense Out Of The Insane
There are many things that I have needed
I have had too many things happen to me
And sometimes I can’t see the silver lining And haven’t had a chance to heal
That’s one of the things about modern life
And sometimes making sense out of the insane is pointless
Maybe you can’t understand that because you haven’t done what I have
I don’t know where the silver lining is supposed to be and Because I’m getting pretty tired of looking
I’ve changed all my goals in life
After a while you start to feel like a prisoner who
While all the other guards are paid to look away Drug deals to pay all the good guys off
When you start to see that |
My Height Any Longer
That’s the thing
I mean, I won’t even
well, I’m smarter than you
but the one thing well yes, in some ways they are
what bothered me
that’s another problem altogether
but I usually say
well, that’s when I usually say
so either you slouch a lot
so it has to be one of the other they don’t like that answer either oh well
so I’m taller |
prepared for the worst
I was fully prepared for the worst when I thought
But I never thought about someone close to me
Well, I guess people worry about me and my heath
and even the cardiologists. I wonder if all of
I fully prepared myself for the bed news, I was
usually not at the hospital as it’s happening,
be prepared for, in case it happened.
women falling apart at the seams and I’m used to men
Anyway, I was busy preparing myself for the worst, so I
to just fall apart then, or am I supposed to be the strong
hospital with me and I was prepared to be strong
today, maybe later.
expect on normalcy in hospitals. I’m not an expert
to everyone they knew me, well, they wanted me to
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Not Getting Better
everyone is thinking
but no one knows what it’s like
yes, I’ve been fighting that anything is getting better
people can tell me that it is
I don’t wear my glasses
would make it easier to see
because I have to train myself
maybe that will make me better
I’ve wanted things to be better
I haven’t wanted to wait
and now I still have to wait
this getting better thing isn’t fair
people think my vision is better
that’s a good example,
I still can’t see, but I have
head to make it better. So
but i still feel it. I still feel the |
Pressure On Me Again
Man, you put a lot of pressure on me
I’m so sick of not being in control of everything
I have to define my own life
I have to define my own life
I need to make my own choices |
short-term advice
I wonder why people have sides
Well, besides that, I wonder
Why
The politicians are usually
The better political
Well, they have a bunch of paid
I need to learn how to save So... Why take sides
They’ll always use the same lines
How do you find someone honest
Well, don’t look in |
Seasons 1998
the entity of Earth lives
Winter fire burns bright.
Grandchildren bring joy,
Soft loose wrinkled skin,
Limbs etched against sky, |
Slow Painful Death
I have to try to remember the good things
It’s hard to remember the good things
Maybe it’s just that I wanted someone But that wasn’t a good enough reason Looking back, I know that
It’s funny how hindsight is twenty twenty
But you were are liar, and still are one
so I guess I can’t do it this time
but you probably know I think that |
Someone Give Me the Answers
I don’t think I can respect
Have I been taught to be so different
My dictionary is older than my schooling
I’ve been looking for answers to what
I’ve talked to a lot of people in my
This doesn’t seem like a fair thing for me
I mean, to hear a woman complain
Maybe I’ve just had some bad breaks Or should I say commit instead of engage in
I can’t even finish a sentence and I’m
But that’s enough about me
I was recently in the hospital for 6 weeks
This is not meant as my defense against anyone’s
This was not an Take from this what you will
Sometimes the answers don’t come easy
Not since most of my school days
Maybe the events in my life haven’t
I don’t know where the answers are |
Sometimes It’s Notthere are many things you learn in life
the key is:
there are some things that you can’t avoid
and sometimes that’s enough
sometimes I look for the answers
sometimes I wish I could
then again, I might still think
well, we all have our hope
but all those thoughts, well, |
Supposed To Be DoneI was ten when they buried youAt twenty-eight, I tried to die
At twenty-eight, I tried to die I thought even the bones would do
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take it all away
What is it like to be
I found out weeks after I
whether or not
they put a piece
I don’t know
there can be
X-rays were taken of me
I mean, what if one day something went
what would happen to you
Okay, don’t use that example, but maybe What if that happened to you
if something shocking just sort of
Would you clean up |
the effects of nine one one
It’s strange when you think about the September 11 crashes, has everyone even thought about the fact that the terrorists decided to destroy greatness on nine one one?
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new to chicago
I’m still new to this city
but when I walk by the First Chicago building
when I walk by the First Chicago building and look up along the curve, stretching up towards the sky
you know, these pillares look like race tracks
I see the seed, the power, and it
and every time I walk by the First Chicago building
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grab the other’s neckI don’t know where to startI don’t know where all these feelings come from I don’t know how to stop them
These feelings seem to come rushing up to me
And I hate myself for this
You know, I don’t know much of anything about you
And I still want to
And when I want this
I still don’t know who would make that move
Tell these stories to me And I know this too
But I’d like to hear you say it I’m a sucker for that, you know
But tell me I’m not alone in this
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after 7/11
on seven eleven, They even called me Elvira Doe in the hospital because they couldn’t find any identification, which was buried under the seat of my totaled car.
But while in the hospital I kept imagining Dave coming to visit me, he came in through another hospital entrance I felt so alone in the hospital all those weeks, maybe it was my brain’s way of trying to fill in all the unexplained gaps in my life.
While recovering I even imagined my friend Brian, who now lives in San Francisco,
And no, he was never in the hospital,
While recovering I even hallucinated that I was in my apartment and not in a hospital bed
I was in pain all the time, painkillers didn’t help, my back was sore, my head ALWAYS hurt, my sinuses were terrible. I wanted the Hell out of the hospital but I couldn’t take the first steps to do it. I could barely even stand. They strapped me in my bed at night,
I had to fight every step of the way in that hospital. Three different doctors viewing my records even knick named me “miracle girl”, but learning to walk was no miracle to me,
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Changing Garments
Agonies are
I do not ask the wounded person
I myself become the wounded person,
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learning to eat after 7/11
After walking, I had to learn how to eat
I don’t need to eat
So being a vegetarian I got an egg sandwich
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Each Morning
it is like a contest
I stare out
and comes to embrace
I make believe
This is known
I go through this |
driving car into ditch
sometimes it just makes
i mean
maybe I shouldn’t
maybe it could be a |
Good Things Have Happened to Me Too
I’ve wanted to baul my eyes out
My point is that the bad stuff is there,
I don’t know how you deal with that pain
No, the bad stuff doesn’t go away
Unless they kill themselves first, But
So I guess the burning question
Well, it seems that no one so far has If anyone has an idea, let me know. Thanks. |
Here’s your chance
Sometimes the most unconscious things
Or I guess,
but then I’d sound like I was
So I have to keep it all
or even act like
I kept my life
They’d rather bitch back instead of
I have been told all of my life by certain
Well, things aren’t better, things are just
Nobody knows how to live a life nowadays. |
how I imagine you
walking on the power line
I’ve seen you like that before
is that silly of me
do I imagine you is that how I imagine you |
How many times I’ve done it
I wonder how long I’ve been like this
I wonder how crazy I’d sound |
I Know It’s Not Going To HappenThere are so many things that I think about maybe that is one of my curses
but I think of these things every once in a while
and sometimes I like to think about the good things but I can think
and I know these things are not going to happen
and because I am here
that you would have put limits on me and maybe that would have been good for me
and I think about how mice it would be well, for that I am still paying
and I do not know if you are married now
I suppose you could be single including me |
I’d Laugh More
I’ve been looking for something
something that will just make me laugh well, and something that I won’t mind
I’ve been looking for a reason to laugh and maybe that’s my problem
maybe I should just let |
Is To Blame For It
When I think of all
and I try not to talk about the problems
it’s like a regular thing
but at least I know that the
the loud noise of my breathing
I’d rather breathe out of my mouth
and I keep getting reminded
I think I knew that.
the pain is still loud in my head.
but no one wants to hear about I hear that they don’t.
It’s not allergy season
the pollen count should be
maybe somebody’s just hit my head i’ve had this problem for months
but maybe someone else |
Late for a Class
When the answer seems
I don’t know if I have
I wonder if everyone’s
I’ll have 10 more minutes
This
When do people get |
Kill Yourselfwhat if you wanted to kill yourself
what if, after all the bad stuff that has happened to you,
where would you be to get to that point
even if the family has to prepare your belongings
how do you get to that point to try to seek out and end to your life how do you get to that point
how do you think of someone
will you ever be able to
would their death
how did they get how did they get to that point |
Needy Person
There are so many things
I’m too afraid
Then you would have
I’m not joking when
I wanted you to feel
I’ve wanted to be able I’ve wanted you to just know
What if something happened Maybe you’d have an idea
Maybe you’re just used But I do
Yes, this is what
I’m a needy person sometimes
you never think there’s anything
maybe I try
but maybe sometimes and that’s what I need you for |
Not For Me Yet
There are so many things
and so many things I’m sure it’s not like that
I’m sure I come into
and all the hopes and fears I’m used to that too, you know
You started to rub my back today
well, I knew it was because
I had no security yet from you and nothing was resolved not for me yet
And I always have hopes
but that doesn’t mean |
Suspend My Beliefs
and I don’t know what the answers
I’m tired of looking for the answers and that they’ll love me
and when i say love, I don’t mean
I’m talking real love, lifetime love
well, as I was saying, I want someone I’d be able to suspend my beliefs for a moment
so what should I make out of this world
I can hope, I suppose
this whole belief thing So what do I want
I want someone to come along
someone to come along I haven’t felt that in so long
I’ve wanted you to be a part of my life
well, maybe I should have told you so many years ago
and then maybe I wouldn’t feel so lonely for you and maybe then things would be different |
The Same For You
there are certain things I’ve learned in life
and I’ve gotten used to I’m used to that now
and yes you would have to ask the average guy that
and I am at the point where
I mean, at the rate I am going
and yes, I have been told
but you have not wanted
and you kissed me
maybe it is not the same for you
well, we made the comical references
and if that is the way it is ***
I have learned to deal
and maybe you do not have the answers ***
I told you that
well, either way, thank you for that
yes, we didn’t have the night of my dreams because I have to get used to that, you know |
Telling What you Want |
Want That Too You Know
I have heightened awareness
and I know, maybe I have this I don’t know what it is
but what I’ve noticed
I’ve noticed when you say something
well, I noticed the double meaning maybe I’m just being too aware
maybe I need attention from you
maybe I want something to we women want that too, you know |
well, someone is
where do you draw the time I’ve been thinking about that
really, I’ve been thinking about you
you never want to see me
maybe that’s what I should be thinking maybe you don’t know that I care well, I told you
you must have just changed your mind and I don’t like either option
we were supposed to have a happy life together
But now you don’t think of marriage
and yes, I’m beginning to understand
are you trying to make me well, someone is |
Well, What About Me
How can I say goodbye to you
have I been letting myself down
I’ve just wanted to be alive
people tell me they care
yes, I’ve thought of that
I know you want to make everything better for everyone but what about me?
I’ve wanted those things
I don’t know what to do anymore for your problems
I can’t be your beacon anymore
but I’m trying to learn
I know what you have to do to make your life better |
Which I Like
You know I know that you think about me and I think about these things
And you know you’re the only person
And you know, I know no one wants I know this.
Does it mean there’s a reason that |
Wrong AttentionI’m tired of being alone so muchand I’m tired of missing you and I’m tired of wanting a future with you and I’m tired of wanting you around me
sometimes I think when I’m about to sleep
as I said, maybe I’m just dying for attention
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you will
pieces of the puzzle:
i’ve had to do this i make you whole
i know it won’t take long
you’ll feel good
you don’t think |
Have To Ask
Elissa was surprised |
everyone else does it
it’s funny how you get an image
Well, would you get tired of
well, you probably would start |
Feel So Much
There are some points where
Well, maybe I care about too much stuff
Sometimes you just have to draw a line
It’s hard to draw that line, you know
Well, I’ve been doing that for years
Does it seem cruel to want to kill |
First
I walked to the tight rope
I could tight rope,
I would wonder if people like |
To Get To That Point
I haven’t figured out how to relax yet
it’s like, I wish there was just a switch
well anyway, I’ve just been thinking that
I even bought one of those
because I could buy all the traps in th world and I have to use them too, I guess
and that’s where my dilemma is |
Getting Used To Something New
It is like, they let me take the golf cart to It is just a theory
I guess it is just a matter of
It has been years
Maybe it is just a matter of getting used |
Given A Warning Early On
this is a warning:
what they’re trying to say
well, i can’t see any of my files
I wish instructions for life
the decisions you’d have to make |
A Smile On My FaceI don’t know what it is about youwhenever you enter me mind joyous thoughts are stirred and a smile emerges
That happy times we’ve had
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All My Problems DisappearI don’t understandI try to think yet whenver I look at you I can’t Your voice sends a shiver down my spine Each time I look into your deep brown eyes my world turns into fantasy and all my problems disappear Whenever you come into my mind everything else is forgotten A mere moment with you serves as an eternity You have so many good qualities that it wouldn’t justify to name only a few I couldn’t image a life led without you for it would be a life of dreary monotony The days would never end and life would serve no purpose I don’t understand why I feel the way I do maybe I love you
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An Innocent GlanceAn innocent glanceturned into a lengthy stare A simple hello turned into an intimate conversation A common aquaintance turned into a lover My heaven turned into my hell
for another woman
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Do You KnowDo you know that I love youProbably not for I do not have the courage or the power to tell you Yet each time you look into my eyes you give me the gift of your courage and power kindness sensitivity and caring Maybe the only way I can tell you is to write it down I love you
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Good ByeA tear rolls downmy cheek
I read the note “Good bye” I was in love
Why -
I need him now “Good bye”
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Have A Friend In MeI’ve seen you thoughthe good times and theb ad the happy and the sad and through every single high point and every single low point you’ve always been my friend
I can put my trust in you
I have told you my fears
And if you ever need
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I See MoreI look up at he skyIn the night And see what no one else sees I look, and I Don’t just see White dots twinkling in the night I see glitter Shining On an artist’s canvas Painted midnight blue And yet I see more
I see pictures And yet I see more
I see a whole universe
Yet I believe that
I look up at the sky
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Nothing Colorful In My SightI wake up to a dark roomI put on my brown sweater And eat my burnt toast I see the aged blackboard I walk on the dirt road I see the clouds up in the sky I don’t know where to go I go back to a pile of work To fill my darkened nights
There’s nothing interesting in my life
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The PlaceTreeReaching higher and higher It seems as thoguh the tree goes on forever Forever
River
People
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Weeping WillowI am the weeping willowThe branches hang downward never reaching upward outward< So do mine<
It stands alone in a forest So do I<
And like me
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When I Am WeakThere are many times when I an weakMy poor legs can no longer endure I start to fall I search for something to hold on to And I usually find something to Lean on until I am no longer weak But there are times when there is Nothing for me to grab on to I feel lost I continue to fall But then I see you You extend your arm and uncurl your fingers You reach out to me and Give me support You help me become strong again
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A New LifeA new lifeA bundle of joy Your flesh Your blood Your love Your life This little child an individual is yet an extansion of you
A new life
A new life
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After the Bombafter the bombthere’s no longer anything to see there’s nothing to see but ashes and the charred remains of what used to be planet earth there’s no talking for there is no one to hear you there’s no longer anything to hear no voices, no music, no laughter just the wind and there’s nothing more to smell no roses, no perfumes, no fresh baked bread just the fire for, you see after the bomb there’s no longer anything
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An ExtensionA new life, a bundle of joyyour flesh, your blood your love, your life this little child, an individual is yet an extension of you
A new life, a bundle of joy
A new life, a bundle of joy
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Simple ThingsA patch of daisieswaving in the wind on the side of an isolated road
A butterfly with
a kitten cleaning her paw
some of the most
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The Joshua TreeThe Joshua treeis a tree with long branches said to point toward the Promised land
You remind me of
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TrappedI feel like a prisonerlocked in a never-ending maze Trapped Confused Is there any way out? Twists and turns, and never a moment without the greatest feeling of severe frustration and absolute hopelessness Trapped Confused Is there any way out?
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UntitledA song has never made me cry so hardmy work has lost its meaning and life has gone too far
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