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  <title>All anyone needs is love...</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:32:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>the next chapter</title>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;CHAPTER II&lt;br /&gt;But instead he sleeps…&lt;br /&gt;A sleep of at least 30 days.&lt;br /&gt;His dreams- erratic and hopeless.&lt;br /&gt;Waking up everyday to realize he still sleeps,&lt;br /&gt;And going to sleep every night to see he’s still awake.&lt;br /&gt;He dreams of waking up in the morning&lt;br /&gt;From a dream of his waking up.&lt;br /&gt;Each day doing as the previous-&lt;br /&gt;Never quite reaching happiness.&lt;br /&gt;While never experiencing enough pain&lt;br /&gt;To truly wake him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then he awakens,&lt;br /&gt;To a world of joy...&lt;br /&gt;Although nothing like he thought;&lt;br /&gt;It still tantalizes his senses,&lt;br /&gt;And invigorates his emotions...&lt;br /&gt;And this was all before she came.&lt;br /&gt;She who left him speechless,&lt;br /&gt;While he had so much to say.&lt;br /&gt;She who kept him up thinking,&lt;br /&gt;In bed where he lay.&lt;br /&gt;She, nothing like he was looking for.&lt;br /&gt;(Yet leaving him happy,&lt;br /&gt;That she he had found.)&lt;br /&gt;Even though at first passed over,&lt;br /&gt;She from there never left his mind.&lt;br /&gt;She was small and delicate...&lt;br /&gt;Held captive in the cage of her own mind.&lt;br /&gt;He gave her the key to the cage....&lt;br /&gt;As well as the key to his heart.&lt;br /&gt;But as it always had been,&lt;br /&gt;His joy was brief;&lt;br /&gt;and the pain it brought,&lt;br /&gt;Was long.&lt;br /&gt;Yet is was a bittersweet victory.&lt;br /&gt;For it was a joy to last a lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;One more intense than he had ever remembered, yet...&lt;br /&gt;So was the pain it brought.&lt;br /&gt;Many were the tears he shed over her,&lt;br /&gt;And bitter was their taste.&lt;br /&gt;Yet he cherished every tear,&lt;br /&gt;Because it was from her.&lt;br /&gt;She lingered long on his mind...&lt;br /&gt;And yet longer in his heart.&lt;br /&gt;She belonging to a chapter in life...&lt;br /&gt;Already finished,&lt;br /&gt;Yet never truly over.&lt;br /&gt;The thought of her-&lt;br /&gt;Tormented him.... Haunted him...&lt;br /&gt;Like some specter not invited,&lt;br /&gt;Yet never asked to leave.&lt;br /&gt;For he enjoyed its company.&lt;br /&gt;He savored each moment,&lt;br /&gt;As he had each tear.&lt;br /&gt;He had yet to “fall in love”,&lt;br /&gt;For he yet knew her well enough...&lt;br /&gt;But he was teetering on the edge-&lt;br /&gt;Longing for a push.&lt;br /&gt;She complicated life,&lt;br /&gt;Her very existence brought problems ten fold-&lt;br /&gt;Which he suffered through;&lt;br /&gt;Happy that it had happened...&lt;br /&gt;And to ignorant,&lt;br /&gt;To care about the pain of now.&lt;br /&gt;He felt it;&lt;br /&gt;Yet it was drowned out by the euphoria of her.&lt;br /&gt;Which lasted, and sustained him.&lt;br /&gt;Nourishment to his soul.&lt;br /&gt;But still the pain tears him apart.&lt;br /&gt;...From the inside out.&lt;br /&gt;Feeling like one would feel,&lt;br /&gt;After ingesting acid.&lt;br /&gt;But he was happy to be able to have those feelings.&lt;br /&gt;For he knew extremes like that,&lt;br /&gt;Were indicative of love.&lt;br /&gt;Which he was happy to be near.&lt;br /&gt;He needed, and craved it;&lt;br /&gt;Like a baby, wanting of his mothers milk-&lt;br /&gt;He wanted her,&lt;br /&gt;And her nourishment.&lt;br /&gt;It pained him deeply to know that he couldn’t have her,&lt;br /&gt;And that if he somehow did achieve her;&lt;br /&gt;It would be only for a short time.&lt;br /&gt;Much like the life of a shooting star,&lt;br /&gt;Fast and Bright.&lt;br /&gt;Not even having time enough to realize,&lt;br /&gt;He enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;…Not until it was gone.&lt;br /&gt;But like the darkness left behind after the star had fallen;&lt;br /&gt;The pain lingered on heavy, still, and indefinitely.&lt;br /&gt;Which was the case now.&lt;br /&gt;Euphoria had worn off,&lt;br /&gt;Leaving him burned out.&lt;br /&gt;Tired of living, breathing, and thinking;&lt;br /&gt;But knowing their was no other way.&lt;br /&gt;He must continue to think,&lt;br /&gt;Even though every thought is of her.&lt;br /&gt;He must breath,&lt;br /&gt;Even though each breath brings him pain.&lt;br /&gt;He must live,&lt;br /&gt;In hopes of seeing her again.&lt;br /&gt;So...&lt;br /&gt;He trudges on, minute by minute,&lt;br /&gt;And day by day.&lt;br /&gt;Waiting for each to end,&lt;br /&gt;So that the next may begin.&lt;br /&gt;He tells his story to anyone who will listen,&lt;br /&gt;Hoping someone else will understand.&lt;br /&gt;But they don’t.&lt;br /&gt;Or they just don’t tell him.&lt;br /&gt;So he feels alone.&lt;br /&gt;Isolated, by himself,&lt;br /&gt;Even though in the middle of the crowd.&lt;br /&gt;Like as if he were trapped in some sort of bubble,&lt;br /&gt;Kept away from the world.&lt;br /&gt;The worst part of it was knowing...&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that the bubble was of his own doing,&lt;br /&gt;created and sustained by his own mind.&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;CHAPTER I&lt;br /&gt;He no longer knows what he wants&lt;br /&gt;And lays.&lt;br /&gt;Lost in thoughts, lost in memories and pain,&lt;br /&gt;Simply lost.&lt;br /&gt;Once he knew what he wanted,&lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time...&lt;br /&gt;But that was then... and this is now.&lt;br /&gt;So for know he lays contemplating:&lt;br /&gt;Life, love, his very existence.&lt;br /&gt;Not unearthing any answers,&lt;br /&gt;Regressing back into self pity and sulking.&lt;br /&gt;He sits in a car full of people&lt;br /&gt;Yet is completely alone;&lt;br /&gt;But that seems to be the same every where he goes.&lt;br /&gt;No one seems to truly understand him,&lt;br /&gt;Which adds to his despondent state.&lt;br /&gt;They travel through the desert&lt;br /&gt;(Which aside from other cars,&lt;br /&gt;Wherein others can be found running...&lt;br /&gt;Running from life and reality.)&lt;br /&gt;Is desolate.&lt;br /&gt;Almost as desolate as his heart,&lt;br /&gt;Which once was full of joy.&lt;br /&gt;...But that disappeared...&lt;br /&gt;About the same time as he lost what he wanted.&lt;br /&gt;As they speed along everything goes by them in a blur,&lt;br /&gt;As in life.&lt;br /&gt;Everything that is except the mountains.&lt;br /&gt;They loom off in the distance.&lt;br /&gt;He admires them-&lt;br /&gt;For they stand firm and solid.&lt;br /&gt;They only shake in tandem with earth,&lt;br /&gt;Though they lack direction,&lt;br /&gt;They are secure.&lt;br /&gt;Secure in the fact that they don&apos;t need security.&lt;br /&gt;They mock him;&lt;br /&gt;Mock him knowing that they were here before him...&lt;br /&gt;and will be here still once he&apos;s gone.&lt;br /&gt;So they need not worry... but he does.&lt;br /&gt;He knows any minute, and second he could die.&lt;br /&gt;So he frantically collects his thoughts... sorting through them,&lt;br /&gt;So that he may put them on paper.&lt;br /&gt;That others may one day know.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe someone will find comfort in his words someday.&lt;br /&gt;They do him no good so he releases them,&lt;br /&gt;Hoping that it will ease his soul.&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, it doesn&apos;t... yet he continues.&lt;br /&gt;He would like to be able to complete something;&lt;br /&gt;But still he is unsure...&lt;br /&gt;...About continuing...&lt;br /&gt;For it might cause him to remember.&lt;br /&gt;Remember what he&apos;s not sure.&lt;br /&gt;But he knows it should be left forgotten.&lt;br /&gt;He decides however to try,&lt;br /&gt;As they race the setting sun,&lt;br /&gt;For time is against him.&lt;br /&gt;Cars around them have turned on their lights,&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it is to see through the incessant fog and haze.&lt;br /&gt;Not in front of the cars but rather the drivers eyes,&lt;br /&gt;Hearts, and souls.&lt;br /&gt;But it is probably just in preparation for the dark.&lt;br /&gt;Be prepared, he remembers hearing that in scouts.&lt;br /&gt;He thinks it was their motto or something.&lt;br /&gt;But he doesn&apos;t care enough to concentrate on it.&lt;br /&gt;I... I mean He has more important things to worry about.&lt;br /&gt;He looks to pour out his soul, for his heart is empty,&lt;br /&gt;(Except for the pain which sits like lead at the bottom)&lt;br /&gt;But he can&apos;t figure out where to begin.&lt;br /&gt;So for now he chooses to think some more.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:19:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>...So It Starts</title>
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  <description>Unsure of where it leads, he starts his journey.  Wherever its going must be better then here, follow along he might learn something, hell u might too!  Like him the page is still under construction, may the end product be worth all our time</description>
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