What Is Pain?

Pain
An everlasting blood stain.

Hope
What you loose as you begin to mope.

Love
What betrays you as you bein to assend to above.

Death
What you gain as you in in depth.

Sorrow
An endless feeling as you pass from today to tomorrow.

Joy
What you leave behind as you become times toy.

Eternity
What everything leads to.

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Thieves

Thieves lurk in shadows,
Waiting for my eye to turn,
My awareness to slip into fault.
To come and sweep me off my feet.
Stretching shadows until they break,
And dreams come flowing through,
As my eyes become heavy,
With need for the shadows to fall upon me,
And take me into a land so perfect,
To come and steal my night away.

By: Bethany Maxwell

April 26,2010

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The Funeral

The feeling passes through the room
As a smell to the nose
You stand watching
As the family comes together tears in their eyes.
As she lays in her coffin at the front
You stand and watch
As your own tears fall
And then you see that no one has noticed you.
You look over the edge of the casket
And what you see is the face of the one you know so well
The one you always see in the mirror.

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The Scilence of Snow

Scilence fills the air as it falls
as you sit and watch

You watch them falling from the air out of nowhere
as you think about the skys oasis

You sit there watching with your sweater on
you sit an watch in silence

You watch the flakes fall
each one a different shape a different wonder

As they fall to the ground in white sheets you close your eyes
and fall asleep to the silence of the snow

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Listen

Listen to the vines with the thorns
For they are the tricksters
Listen to their wisdom

Listen to the trees
For they are the sages
Listen to them whisper their knowledge in your ear

Listen to the leaves
For they are the talkers
Listen to them talk

Listen to the stream
for it is the dreamer
Listen to its dreams

Listen to mother nature
For she is their mother
Listen with her for she is your mother too

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Dear Lord

Dear Lord,
Take me to your kingdom
Take me to were i can bath in your light
Show me your wisedom

Show me tour way
Be with me as i get through the hard times
Lead me through life's maze

Please lord listen to my plees of help
Please show me the purity of your heart
Show me the skys of felt

Dear Lord please take me to your kingdom
Take me to were i can bath in your light
Please show me the way show me your wisedom

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Bed Of Roses

On a bed of roses you lay
For here you shall stay
Your time has come it is the end
For now you can not mend
Goodbye to the world goodbye to you
It is time to say Adeu
For the time has come for you to leave
It is a blanket of life you weave
For now you say 'I must sleep,
Although I shall not wake please don't weep,
For I am happy and my heart is steady,
I am now ready'
On a bed of roses you lay
For here you shall stay

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Eyes Of Eternity

Through the eyes of the past,
You see wonder, you see pain
Stiched together to last,
Death always there, an endless stain.

In the eyes of tomorrow,
You see the joy, the love
Forgetting the hate, forgetting the sorrow
All you see is peace's dove.

As you watch from the eyes of the preasnt,
You remember life, remember the serenity
For in time you are only the preasnt
As you shall always see through the eyes of eternity

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Tomorrow

Tomorrow is what tomorrow is
Nothing shall change that

When tomorrow comes things will happen
Things both good and bad

Things may happen tomorrow because of today
But looking at today as judgment of tomorrow won't help

Tomorrow will never stop coming
No matter how slow the day seems to go

Tomorrow is what tomorrow is
You do not know what will happen

Tomorrow will always come after today
So why not give tomorrow a chance?

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There's A Light In The Dark

There's a light in the dark,
When everything else has gone out;
The burning embers of an unfinished thought,
Smoldering deep within a dream.

Images being scalded into memory,
As sparks of emotion break the silence of the night,
These fictional happenings engulfing the mind;
A smoke of questions unanswered.

A fire singeing the corners of consciousness,
Leaving coals for the morning light,
Fueling the flames for further thought;
There's a light in the dark.

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