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This is...me. My name is Erika, I'm 16 on Dec. 7th. I believe in love without gender and hate without fear. I don't expect you to trust me.

www.myspace.com/eternity8
yes, i gave in and got one.

Things I like:
Animals,
beauty, Beethoven, boots, Brendan,
caresses, chalices, chocolate, classical music, colors, condoms , cuddles,
darkness, dawn, Disney Movies,
Egypt, elements, Europe,
fire, FLAMES, French,
Gregorian chants,
hair dye, hiking, hippies,
jewelry,
kisses,
LIGHTERS, lightening, LOVE, lovers,
masochists, meditation, metals, mixes, moons, mp3s, MUSIC, myspace,
nail polish, nature, nature walks, necks, noise,
opera,
pain, Paganism, pentacles, playing piano, poetry, P.S.W.D., psychology,
.RAIN., ringsss, rocks,
S&M, sadists, safety, serpents, silence, silver, SINGING, soft skin, snakes, STARS, stuffed animals, suns, sunsets, swings,
the ocean, order//chaos,
talking for hours on the phone, thunder, trees, truth, twighlight,
writing,
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS.

THINGS I VERY VERY VERY MUCH DISLIKE:
ALCOHOL,
being out of control, bad friendships/relationships,
cheating, classism, CLOSE-MINDED PEOPLE,
destruction, discrimination, drinking, DRUGS,
falsity, feeling fake/stupid/insecure,
George W. Bush, guns,
haters, hatred, HOMOPHOBIA,
imprisonment of the mind or soul,
labels,
NEEDLES,
PILLS, pollution,
rap, racism, road rage,
sadness, school, sexism, sluts, smoking, stereotypes, stoners, stupidity,
taking things for granted, too much crying,
whores.

Music I like:
Evanescence, Disturbed, Godsmack, Static-X, Lamb of God, Rammstein, Slipknot, Tool, Trapt, Rob Zombie, Three Days Grace, Opeth; (Rock and Metal)
Garbage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Used, Sugarcult, Alien Ant Farm, The Distillers, Muse, Papa Roach, The Killers, Switchfoot, t.A.t.U.; (more mainstream and varied)
Blue Oyster Cult, Corrosion of Conformity, Evanescence again, Gary Jules, Iron and Wine, Nightwish, Voltaire, Within Temptation; (orchestrals and symphonic metal)
Hair, Rent, Wicked; (Soundtracks)
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chopin, Claude Debussy, Scott Joplin; (classic composers)
opera, native american spiritual music,
NATURE.



"He went out of the room in which he was praying. He spent there years and years.

He seemed as if he just came out of the depth of an ocean,
or out of the heart of a pearl
or out of the center of the sun
or out of a drop of dew
or out of the pulse of a heart
or out of the arms of a mother
or out of the perfection of beauty
or out of the core of obedience
or out of the fervor of passion
or out of the warmth of sincerity
or out of the beauty of sublimity
or out of the joy of thanks
or out of the spontaneity of purity,
or out of the heart of glory
or out of the river of purgatory
or out of the ancient beach

           He stood and looked around him, and what he saw made him return to his room and close the door behind him."
               -----Ali Darwish of Egypt (Translated by the poet)

((Watching her
Strolling in the night
So white
Wondering why
It's only
After Dark
In her eyes
A distant fire light burns bright
Wondering why
It's only After Dark))


Servatis a pereculum.
Servatis a maleficum.
--Save us from darkness.
Save us from evil.--



t r a p p e d
in my--
in your reluctance

just another trance,
          another hypnosis
away from being

                   -an e c h o-

goddess, grant me at least these
stolen lies;
these shambles of
what could have
been, if not what ...

if not what                       is.

.deathwish.