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Nothing But Shadows

February 22, 2010
By alisaysroar GOLD, N. Kingstown, Rhode Island
alisaysroar GOLD, N. Kingstown, Rhode Island
13 articles 4 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Weighed down under the shallow sunrise, the radiance seeping through my aqua ceiling, and reminding me that I chased my own demise--we've all constructed our own ends with the illusions of beginnings."


I'm nothing but a shadow.


Lurking in your wake.


Stalking through the bleak corridors of your mind.


Twisted, trembling.


Lost in the maze of darkness.


The debris of the depressed.


Dreaming to live and living to dream.


I'm fighting the blurred, fading line between


My dreams and your reality.


Fighting the only thing that can make us human-- our love.


I'm the kind that'll jump off the edge to prove that I can fly-- then fall.


But when your fingers fill the spaces between mine,


I soar higher than if God had given me


Wings of my own.


I remember all the times when I closed my eyes,


The sunlight falling onto my delicate eyelids.


The light.


The sound.


The air.


... The air.


Sure, we are nothing but shadows.


But even shadows dance.



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on Apr. 2 2010 at 9:06 pm
alisaysroar GOLD, N. Kingstown, Rhode Island
13 articles 4 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Weighed down under the shallow sunrise, the radiance seeping through my aqua ceiling, and reminding me that I chased my own demise--we've all constructed our own ends with the illusions of beginnings."

Really? And that's okay, let your voice be heard! And thank youuu <3

on Mar. 2 2010 at 8:01 pm
Panicgirl18 BRONZE, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
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Favorite Quote:
Don't be afraid to laugh. Laugh like no one's watching, for laughter is God's best medicine. Plus, if you're laughing, you're having a better time than all the schlubs who currently AREN'T.

Hey, girly. Just thought I'd let you know I'm on this contraption now (I know, I know, stealing your thunder). I do very much like this poem, too. :]