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#4491voted by our readers
By Lucy4himnotu ELITE
Richardson, Texas

The lightning strikes again, With a pain that will not end, When I wake up in the evening, And I cannot lift my head. The chains that bind my soul, leave my life as a b...
Lucy4himnotu ELITE, Richardson, Texas
148 articles 0 photos 54 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I am Happy to The Point of Fear" -Ralph Waldo Emmerson


#4492 Poetry
By custosimago DIAMOND
Kensington, Maryland
custosimago DIAMOND, Kensington, Maryland
72 articles 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
Hell is going through Life without knowing Love

#4493 Poetry
By HeartShapedBox SILVER
Jackson, Mississippi
HeartShapedBox SILVER, Jackson, Mississippi
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#4494 Poetry
By AddisoMLeo GOLD
Crest Hill, Illinois
AddisoMLeo GOLD, Crest Hill, Illinois
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Such a cruel boy. Telling me to dream one more time. I thought I was satisfied because my dream had come true... And I'd told myself it was enough... Yet here you are, watering this withered heart again."

#4495 Poetry
Wayward-Stranger BRONZE, Winnipeg, Other
3 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings." -Diogenes

#4496 Poetry
By TheAustinator SILVER
Bowers, Pennsylvania
TheAustinator SILVER, Bowers, Pennsylvania
6 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
Always remember skaters are nerds, we leave the cool guy stuff to the jocks-Ryan Smith/The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems-Bruce Lee/Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind-Bruce Lee

#4497 Poetry
xoxoeleanor SILVER, H, Maryland
7 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"Don't say you love me unless you really mean it, because then I might do something crazy like believe it."
-Unknown

#4498 Poetry
By Coltshooter BRONZE
Waverly, Nebraska
Coltshooter BRONZE, Waverly, Nebraska
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#4499 Poetry
By Maculate_Dream DIAMOND
Riverside, California
Maculate_Dream DIAMOND, Riverside, California
71 articles 0 photos 83 comments

Favorite Quote:
I have not failed, I just found 10,000 ways to not succeed.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

#4500 Poetry
By Anonymous