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lowbacca1977 (profile) wrote,
on 2-13-2004 at 7:15pm
Subject: the dead rise
from my laptop, which has been dead for months, comes one of my most involved works.....now, it goes on display here, for the three people that even know this is here.


I was once taught by a teacher of mine
that English is all one needs to know,
for the values trig gives for the cosine
of some unknown mathamatical figure,
and what chemistry teachers will define
as the path in which electrons flow,
can not be used in life as as sign
as to how to make one's life worth more.

i wonder now if he really knew
how right those words he gave to me were.
His adivice seems now to be so true
because we are in the vastest library.
Each life is a book within, and who
we are and what our lives have in store
form that tale; for fate alone its up to
decide how much the storys' legths vary.

My life, and yours, and all the rest
of us each live within a book upon the shelf.
Within our lives are recorded, lest
our influences, however minor, be forgotten.
Each book is different, no one book the best,
but i loathe the book that is myself.
I can't write its path with any zest;
what i've already written is rotten.

Beside my book lies another with covers red,
a finished book, but thin; its pages few.
This is not the story of a life unled
but of one that enjoyed this world.
It is the story of a friend now dead,
a story ended before it was through.
Off of the pages his spirit fled
from a close in which darkness swirled.

Let me now put away my own pen
that has written this tale of mine.
Let me at least bring to its quick end
the story that has told all of my life.
In its closure i may join my friend,
a silence come long after its true time.
To the rest my help i do now lend,
removing with me my failures and strife.
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hitokirivader

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!, 02-15-04 7:17am

hmm... two things. first off, you have a laptop? second, you spelled mathematical wrong. third, that's some kick-ass writing.

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