"Here I am"

Here I am
This is me.


But life has taken me where life will
I'm no longer the one you first met
Not any more



This is me
But not the me you know
This is me
But not the me you think I am



I have changed.


No longer the person you loved and cared for.
You wouldn't do that now.
If you found out my personality
You would run and hide and freak.


Human beings change
In many different ways
Though I look the same on the outside,
Nothing's the same on the inside.

Years have taken their toll
I've been taught some valuable lessons
I've learned a lot about you
The way you act and behave

And now I know for certain.
I don't want to be like that.
I'm not sure I ever was,
I might have been once
Never again.


You think you know me


But you don't.
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"Words can kill"
Sticks and stones can break your bones
But words will always hurt you,
Words can prick, can pierce, can sting,
Words can cut and scar, can cling,

With a pound of plaster, your bones get better.
But once it's been heard, who forgets the word?

Speak carefully, the words out of your mouth can be weapons,
Deadly to someone, could poison their heart,
And poison their life, till it's not worth living,
And so their sad life they do part.

Every time you speak you take a life into your hands.
Words Kill.


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"You killed me"

They say it was myself who killed me,
Well, I put the poison to my lips,
But it was you who drove me to it,
You made me take those sips.

Oh, you didn't force me to do it,
I did it of my own free will,
And you were nowhere near me,
When myself I did kill.

But you made my life so miserable,
It wasn't worth suffering longer,
Before you started tormenting me,
I was that much stronger.

Why did you do what you did to me?
You gave me so much pain.
You tortured my soul and my heart,
But what by it did you gain.

They say it was myself who killed me.
It was you.
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"Life falls apart"

First you lose the rhyming,
Then you lose the timing,
Then you lose the happiness,
Then you lose your friends,

You try for one more song:
The words don't come, the chords are wrong,
Peaceful living won't last long...

Before it ends.

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"Serenity"

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'll be free
You cannot take the sky from me

Take me out to the black,
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land
Boil the sea
You cannot take the sky from me.

Steal my strength,
Take my heart,
Tear my body all apart,
You can't win
Don't you see?
You cannot take the sky from me.
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[spiderweb]'s poem about Kissin' Kate Barlow from Holes. She wrote this in a matter of minutes...

She steps up to her victim
One bullet to his head
Then brushes aside her ginger hair
As the man she shot drops dead.
She puts her lipstick to her lips
Stares into the dead man's eyes
She places a kiss upon his head
And then she claims her prize.
We see her leave the body
A cruel grin on her face.
Now she'll kill another leaving just one trace -
A kiss
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A few more years shall roll
A few more seasons come
Then we shall be with those
Who sleep beyond the tomb.

A few more flowers grow
A few more paths we'll tread
Some more songs we'll sing
Before we, soon, are dead.

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"Why?"

She's lying there
Motionless
As if in a deep sleep
But she's not sleeping
Far from the land of dreams is she
She's dead
And I did it

Took the gun
Pressed it to her head
And shot
It was clean
But over so quickly
And I still don't know
Why I did it

Her eyes are closed
She looks so peaceful
So perfect
Even in death does her perfection remain
There is blood
But it looks so beautiful
Against her pale white face
And I am the cause

I don't know what to do
I don't know why I killed her
I just know
She is beautiful
She looks serene
But she was so intimidating.

Let me run now
Far away
And hope for a better future.







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