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[aid] => mick
[title] => Swallowed whole
[time] => 2005-06-22 18:22:11
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[bodytext] => Swallowed whole, I'm living in the most serene thunder cloud you've ever seen In the mind's eye, my heart's hole the worst place you've never been If silence speaks volumes it must travel at the speed of sound but my unspoken words haven't reached you Then again, I could cry an ocean and you'd drown in it, all the while pretending you never knew From my holding cell, the chains of my own making, my eyes drift from you to the sky And if I could make one wish upon the stars, it would be to teach you how to cry Because a life without feeling, never knowing love or loss is one that won't ever be whole A heart untouched by grief can only mean one thing --one more wasted soul So I'll tell you this, reminiscent of my past is the thunder cloud in which I live but I'd take that over your ignorance anyday, because I know what it is to lose, what it is to give And my serenity is acceptance of who I am -- was, and whatever may be I look to the stars and wish for the truth because only this can set me free [comments] => 1 [counter] => 157 [topic] => 21 [informant] => unbreakable [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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