I have always resigned to disbelieving goodbyes for nothing you know can be certain. This is at the center, of the steps we cantered, words roped around our hearts. Fear provoked passion, for passion's sake lest our hearts become empty without it. And how could there be another like me with a fury that sparked me to love. But whether this love is the end of lovers' quarrel or the means to quarry another, there's a reverence that is the theme to this masquerade. For we are beautiful behind these masks and more beautiful still, but our skin is too soft beneath them. I'll send flowers and fair words but their destination is not destined to for you. I listened closely, yet somehow with abandon, when the curses were placed on our names. But it was never our names, but how our bodies fell in line with selfish desires, and the simple fears that made complex evils of our darker dreams, and how could I call myself a man. I lie to my lips and let them lie alone, in forgetting your rarely gentle favor, this fairy tale filled to brim, with everything but happily ever after. What a melodrama played out, as though it ends and begins instead of just changing and renewing. But, I for one, was built to dance, all the way to dreams and back and it seems I will lay at rest only when it is no longer my choice.
A contest entry
- Love Me Tender In Memories Best Forgotten by jcat.
1100 points, ended September 15, 2008, 12 entries
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Comments
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Nothing you know can be certain!! How very true...My mother is fond of saying "enjoy life for the now, cause you never know what tomorrow shall bring, but whatever that may be....you shall embrace with enthusiasum as well" I love your last line as well....everytime I get upset or depressed I turn up the music and dance until I can no longer move and my soul alwasy feels lighter for it! Thank you for a wonderful entry
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la musique celeste et les yeux seduisant
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Good stuff.
This flows like cream, smooth, no lumps or bubbles.
I lie to my lips and let them lie alone
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