April 30th, 2002 Encore

OPEN MIC ENCORE!
Up-dated April 30th, 2002

sometimes it gets to the point that i pray to the lord to forgive me and help me to not drown in a river of my own sorrows, but to build a bridge to get over them

nickamaro

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I love the way you caress my hair

Your sense of humor embraces my heart

With out your smile I go insane

Your gorgeous big blue eyes drive me mad

Your compassion captured my soul

You make my stomach do summersaults

You are the reason I believe in true love

How could I survive in this world,

If you weren’t standing by me

For once in my life,

It’s I who has what everyone else is searching for.

I have your love with me far and wide

And for all of this, I love you with all my heart and soul

Melissa Robertson

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Leaving

by Nichole Shaver

I’m leaving now,

The time slipped by so fast, somehow,

I’ll never forget you and your smile,

We probably won’t see each other for a while,

But I know this to be true,

No matter how far away I am,

I will always love you,

And if we are really meant to be,

Then I hope you’ll wait for me,

Wait through the darkest night,

Wait while I’m not anywhere in sight,

Promise me that you’ll never cry,

Even on this sad day that I am saying good bye,

We will see each other again, I swear,

Wherever I may be, my heart will always be there,

To get you through good times and bad,

Happy times and sad,

Tell me that I’m your one and only,

Tell me without me you won’t get lonely,

Because I will be with you night and day,

Kissing everyone of your tears away,

Telling you that in the end,

Everything will be okay.

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"I cried"
crystal unser

I cried because I love you I cried because I care I cried cause when I needed you the most you were not there.I cried because you're happy now and I am not that way I cried because there are a million things unsaid that I want to say I cried because you're over me and I'm not over you I cried because you're the only one I have when you've already found someone new I cried because I love you that's really it I swear I cried hecause I

love you and I cried cause I'll always care.

"It used To Be"

It seems as if the world moves on but you stop and look back to the way it used to be when I did not know you and you did not know me and you want me to look you in the eyes and tell you that you haven't caused me pain? Well I'm sorry but you have an I for one can not live like this knowing that the friendship we once had is lost somewhere deep in your heart so I will wait here forever and more untill you see that day by day hour by hour you are slowly but surely breaking my heart

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So what's left to say, is there anyone else to betray?

From trust, to truce to murder.

I didn't acknowledge the screams but i sure heard'em.

Life slips by slow and at times fast.

Regardless its too short, we need to make it last.

There comes a day for everyone when the wont see the rising sun.

They're gone in the blink of an eye to see thy kingdom come.

And no matter how hard you wish or how hard you may cry-

It doesn't bring them back, not even to say goodbye.

So Cherish every moment, especially those few and far between.

Because although today may last forever, tomorrow is never guaranteed.

brock

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SOMETIMES IT'S SOFT AS A MIST OF RAIN

THAT GENTLY EMBRACES MY SOUL

INTOXICATING ME IN EVERY WAY

I SIMPLY LOSE CONTROL

HIS TOUCH IS LIKE ROSE PETALS

SOOTHING TO MY SKIN

EYES ARE CELESTIAL, BAPTIZING WITHIN

HIS VOICE IS LIKE CARILLONS PLAYING FROM THE START

I'M DESTINED TO BE HIS, ONLY IN MY HEART

BIANCIA STEWART

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"Life"
Liz Koenig 4-18-02

I thought you'd always love me.

I thought you'd always care.

But since you don't know, you don't see the fear.

I feel no emotion left inside my life.

Because I have no one to be by my side.

Please don't say you left me.

Please don't make me cry.

Because I still love you and you didn't say goodbye.

I guess I won't say nothing, cause you've stolen my soul.

So please forgive me I fell as though to die.

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*~DRY YOUR EYES~*
Angela Burgardo

Dry your eyes little child

for it wasn’t meant to be

things are this way for a reason

oh child I wish you could see

no more worries my child

ill be there fare until the end

you have your whole life to live

each day of the setting of the sun

so when your eyes water my child

dry them really fast

for tomorrow will be here

for tomorrow’s here at last

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Your Hateful Blaze
Rachel Colleen Hart

I am sitting all alone feeling so numb

Knowing the pain you caused I will never overcome

All the harm you caused

I am sure you broke all the laws

But you standing there with a smile on your face

And me tearing away trying to erase

I prayed all night that I would die

I wish that you would say goodbye

And leave me here with the memories

Why its worse than any kind of disease

The feeling I have will never go away

Your treating me like I'm your prey

Why do you love to see me in pain?

Your doings are inhumane

Your horrible ways

Your hateful ways

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LOVE ALONE

CHARITY HOOVER

Two hearts beating in a distance, a mother bares her child.

Now alone in solemn silence scared without a doubt.

This poor child was abandoned, no family, no home .

When people see her on the streets the think they should help her but they refrain. This child grows up no life of her own .

No words to be spoken ,no way she could know ,how much her mother loved her ,how much her mother cared . Her mother didn't abandon her she died giving birth there.

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NOW

CAIT SCOTT

Girls today

Are unknown

They’ve changed

Not loyal

Not fair

No quality to share

Where’s the pigtails?

Where’s my doll,

Not a question no more,

But pure sarcastic speech

Which comes from those who teach

To destroy

In old eyes awful

Young to cool they are.

Leaders they say

Following

Step by step

It’s a path

Is it not?

Not a path of life

But a cliff

Old eyes know best.

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i feel her.

i feel her like i feel the sun on my face

just like cool water on my body

and my toes in the sand

i feel her.

everywhere and everything is her,

in the laughter of children,

in the music of nature,

and alone, she is here.

everywhere and everything is her.

i need her,

i need her laying next to me,

like a farmer needs a farm,

and a singer needs a song

i need her.

i love her.

loving her makes me love myself,

makes me love the world,

makes me love all that is,

i love her.

without her.

without her i am invisible

without her i fear,

without her i can't feel,

and without her, i am.

RANDY WILCOME

it's all her

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You can’t hide

If you’re dead inside.

You can only

Raise a stink!

htnrun

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Sleep deep and beautiful falling around me like a shroud covering my busy day

Stars flicker above like a candle feeling a gentle breeze

The moon pale in color holding centuries of mystery

My sheets silky to the touch

My pillow cradling my head

Dreams legato

flying through the air like a graceful bird looking down upon the earth

Wild imagination beckoning me

Dreams making me laugh and sometimes cry

Dreams adrift with sweet abandon

Dreams calling my name

Dreams that dissipate with the rising of the sun

tamela ireland

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MY HEART BEATS WILDLY

Jay W Rittenour

My heart beats wildly when you are close

so painful is my heart's desire.

Sweet ecstasy is your voice

that each word is my completion.

You art the flame that blazes

hotly in my souls furnace.

All competition shines dimly

when compared to your beauty.

I am tortured for my desire for you is secret.

Maybe this day I shall shout your name.

Ah but what is there to gain

for you already know your name.

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I Woke Up This Morning
Brandy Cantrell

I woke up this morning

Not to see you cry

But to look at the sun

Through your eyes.

I woke up this morning

To hold you in my arms

So you would feel safe

Nothing meant to harm.

I woke up this morning

To touch your skin

Feel your heart

So you would let me in.

I woke up this morning

For one sweet kiss

Not to realize

All of what I had already missed.

I woke up this morning

For your satisfaction

But for me to make you happy

Is my only fascination.

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Love your self

"I'm reaching out to no one"

To The girl with sad green eyes

"I'm a listening ear to no one"

Her voice so softly cries

"I matter only to no one"

She tried to hide her tears

'Only no one cares for me"

loss is in her fears

"I live for no one"

There's fire in her soul

"I have no one to protect"

The girl has lost control

"No one knows me"

She kneels and prays

" I can save no one"

Her body wastes away

Jo. O'Neil

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Sealed Fate

No No No

Yes yes yes

I don't know

Maybe ill guess

I want to scream

just because

I'm sick of the system

And what it does

And how it changes

A persons mind

From sensitive and caring

To cold and unkind

I'm sick of the crazy thoughts

Like hate and suicide

And i remember the nights

I laid there and cried

Now i've learned not to cry

Or respond to a caring touch

And the things that used to matter

Now don't seem to very much

I'm afraid of who ill be

When my warmth turns cold

And i no longer trust anyone

With my feelings to hold

I'm really trying to make it

But the disappointment is trying my strength

And I've fought for so long in this unfathomable length

Its like a bottomless pit

Only I'm not falling

I'm on my knees

Forced to keep crawling

trinajean

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tina tinat

His arms were the passage to her paradise.

His chest was the simple answer to her perplexing questions.

His hands held and guarded her heart from the impurities of the darkness.

His eyes were a mirror, reflecting her love right back into her eyes.

His lips, saturated with passion, were an euphoric adventure where she knew she could safely get lost amidst a galaxy of rapture

--For she knew he would meet her there

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The Horizon of Forecasted Possibility

To: HUMAN AMBITION
Brendon Ward

IN the horizons sky

There's a hole up there

And it never gona rain again

I see those stairs

My destiny is calling

Angels are falling

How do we reach that seventh Heaven?

Or that third Hell?

Mystery of chance

Infinite options

When the Gods choose the down pour

No shelter

From what is season

Through Rain and Wind and Sun and Hail

It all falls down

Not catchment space

All are dying

None are dry

I and I and I and I and I

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You Never Asked
Jacqui Evans-McLeod

You gaze at me in wonder

Of what on earth went wrong

Trying to see beyond

What my eyes hold

Into a soul

So hurt

To reveal it

Would be a burden you could not bear

You turn away

And shake your head

Confusion in your mind

You look back

In anger

For words that remain unsaid

I stare

As I watch you walk away

Tears streaming down your cheeks

Motionless, I remain

In state, awaiting

My final journey

You turn back

And approach me yet again

Lean over

And whisper in my ear

“Why didn’t you tell me?

Why didn’t you let me know?”

As you walk away

I whisper silently

“You never asked”

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I Can Only Imagine
Jennifer

I can only imagine

What it would be like

to lay beside you

in the middle of the night

I can only imagine

you kissing my sweet lips

to feel the soft touch

of your finger tips

I will always love you

any time and any place

I will always love you

and your angelic face

I will always love you

every smell and every taste

When your with me

my heart starts to race

I can only imagine

taking long walks in the park

you take my gentle hand

we talk long in the dark

I can only imagine

you fishing for my heart

but you don't have to

you had it from the start

I will love you forever

forever and ever always

I will love you forever

'Till the end of our days

I will love you forever

every hug and every smile

in all of my dreams

your holding me a while

I can only imagine

your blue sweater on my floor

the lock is locked

the lock on my bedroom door

I can only imagine

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Rat Race
by R. Sauer

I grow weary of this rat's race

living life at a frantic pace.

Forever falling one step behind

never to catch-up in my mind

To labor a lifetime as short as this

earning no more than a moments bliss

Eager for the scythe to fall

to end this race and leave it all

To leave this life so far behind

and finally have a silent mind.

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Midnight Music
Melissa Sparling Zini

Doesn't the moon look lonesome

Shining through the trees

And blowing on the meadow

Is a soft summer breeze.

This is my favorite time

The time that I like the best

When the leaves are rustling slightly

And the breeze plays a song at my request.

Doesn't the moon look lonesome

Shining through through the trees

And in the wind is a melody

Playing softly just for me.

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THERE SHE LAY

Luke St. Clair

There she lay day after day

Curled up in that darkly striped ball of fur,

Those yellow eyes opening halfway

As a sudden noise makes her stir,

Those ears twisting and twitching and straining for a sound;

That creature that sleeps yet is always awake.

In the distance, a twig falls to the ground.

Her ears spin about sensing none of her nine lives at stake.

Again she is at rest yet those ears are at work,

Her belly gently rolling in and out;

It is all just another pleasurable perk

Of being her servant there is no doubt.

I give her food and shelter for all her days

And she pays me back in these subtle ways.

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YOUR WORDS

By: Ivonne M

Writing words, he wont believe, broke words he wont receive.

Words that try to cure me of his pain, words that hold me in the dark,

Words I try to make sound nice.

Nicer than my world that's empty now, nicer than the way he made me feel, Nicer then the beauty of his skin.

Words to understand my self, words to empty out the darkness i still feel.

Words to take this ugly line seam not so bad,

Words to make my sadness drown.

Now when words are all I have, its not enough.

This empty words escape my lips, and try to make him hear.

Now, written words don’t solve a thing since he won't read.

Now words don't mean a thing, and all this emptiness you read, all this broke words you see,maan nothing to the ear that cannot hear, and the blind who cannot read.

Now living out in empty space, my words float in the air.

And deep inside my empty lie, I sit here still.

Almost hoping, wishing, he will come across mistakenly,

To words i still can't say to him...

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Time Lost
Courtney Susoeff

Sometimes as I lie alone,

I watch the time fly by,

Thinking of all I have lost,

Wondering why I try.

Sometimes It seems I've nothing left,

Save the sorrow trapped inside,

From time to time I try to break free,

But from myself, I cannot hide.

I long to cease these memories, From bringing out my tears,

The tears that I have kept inside,

For many of a year.

Things, for me, were just so hard,

I think of times from my past,

I used to wonder every night,

Just how long this nightmare would last.

Those times are gone forever,

And never will they return,

For that, part of me is happy,

But a part of me still yearns.

For time that was so wasted,

With abuse, nightmares and lies,

It's hard to let go of such trauma,

Especially viewed through my own eyes.

I am but fourteen years old,

And I'm lucky to be here today,

Because often I was saddened,

And my frail life was slipping away.

I have seen so much more,

Than any child should have to see,

And I have lost so much more than I admit,

For my childhood was stolen away from me.

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Red Antorium
Darius Gabriel Bugarin

memories of you keeps me awake at night

looking at our old photographs together

keep on glancing into the garden

where the red antoriums are--

can't imagine why you are gone?

you fade away like a wind blow

i never know what i've done

you never told me even once--

but i am glad you are happy

hope you find your real one

someday, somehow, i'll find mine too

and we will both be blessed with love--

...as time goes by

all the flowers in the garden

will soon be dry as my tears

and its' memory will be my impulse

to remember the love that we've shared--

you have loved me once

and that once is forever

like the memories of the red antorium

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Faithful Friend, Heavenly Father

By Keisha Laverack

My faithful friend

you've never left my side,

Even when I hurt you

even when i lied.

You love unconditionally

you shelter me from pain,

In your arms I am safe

from the storm...from the rain.

My faith in you is unbreakable

my hope to please you is stong,

I only pray my reasons

aren't wrong.

With you is where I want to be

blinded by your light,

basking in your love

safe in your sight.

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Hero

by David Bielicka

Red and swollen your eyes filled with pain

Echoes of those hurtful words they say

Under wind swept rain, you fall down and look for me

Ill wipe those tears away

A hero, i'm not going to fail you today

Take the world off your shoulder

Grab you close and hold ya

Not gonna lose, no way

Your hero, forever ill stay

Fly in on the wings of the angel

Go through hell to heaven

Sit on the cloud God made us

Be far from shame, look how far we came

A hero, i love you standing here i above you

If you hear this song

Heaven is where you belong

Far from the ones that hurt you

Not gonna desert you

A hero, i stand your strong loving man

If you need me call my name

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EVERYDAY

By Michael

Maybe if I told her,

Maybe I should show her,

It would be so much better,

But I doubt it would bring any change,

Maybe if I showed her all that I am,

Maybe if I got on the phone and let her know,

No, No, No,

I just got to let go

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Last November
T.K. Valmont

Last December I tried to think of the last time

I told you I loved you, and I didn’t know

I know now that I was wrong

I only wish that you knew that

I miss you… more than the liquor, or the nicotine

You had become my addiction

Last November you left me

I didn’t know that you would leave my life

You once said that I was your world

Didn’t you ever realize that you were my universe?

Last January I sat in the tub with a razorblade

I wanted to see the blood, just to know if I was alive

As the water turned pink

I knew that my heart was still beating, even without you here

Last February I realized that we can’t go back

I really hope that this new guy does right by you

I only wanted…

I only want what is best for you

Never has anything brought me as much pain, as you did

Yes, I have my regrets, but loving you is not one of them

Last May the snow melted, washing away into the river

I only wished that I could do the same

The flowers began to take a new life

And then I knew it was time for me to do the same

Today I wrote you this letter to let you know

Even though we both love another now

I still love you…

Always & Forever

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'What are you, Rose?'

Mike

The rose answers with aromatic molecules,

Each molecule full of atoms, each atom humming.

Each particle has a name and a story to tell.

In the waterdrop on the tip of the leaf

A proton named Gloria Dali

Smiles at Salvadore, her electron,

Who is a swan flying far overhead.

Her heart is his center of gravity

As he flies in perpetual orbit.

She hears his call and looks for him

As he proudly and swiftly moves on.

OPEN MIC ENCORE! Up-dated April 30th, 2002

OPEN MIC ENCORE!
Up-dated April 30th, 2002