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To Be Like The Moon
Staring out at the moon reflected on the water,
It’s just resting there…
Like it couldn’t care about anything,
Like nothing could bother it…
I wonder what it would be like to become like the moon.
Not caring…
I look at the water at my feet,
How easy it would be just to let go,
To dive in,
To forget everything…
But then I think of all that I leave behind.
How they hurt…
I bend over,
Select a disk.
Then fling it into the abyss
I watch it fly over the rippling surface…
Defying the very law of nature,
But even the strongest must succumb to the pull
As it sinks below I again turn to the moon,
Oh to be like the moon…
To be free,
Away from all care, hurt, or regret.
A droplet falls, two, three.
I stand up as the heaven shed the tears that I cannot…
That I will not…
How hypocritical of me.
To refuse to shed a tear when I tell others how they can heal…
Oh to be like the moon…
I turn away as the reflection is drowned in all the tears…
Maybe I’ll fight a little longer.
I walk in the dark,
Toward what is called the light…
The morning clouds weep even harder,
Lamenting my loss…
Which was never my gain,
Oh to be like the moon…
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Hahaha, here's a few things [I'll use a list, just as you did]
1) I'm never on the computer, I check my e-mail once a day, and this is the first time that I have been on for more than five minutes in a LONG time, haha, lemme tell ya!
2) I can't drive! Does me no good to make plans if I can't go anywhere!!!!!!
3) I can't get a job as I am one of the younger kids in my grade [cutoff date is September, I was born in LATE August] therefore, my cousins has a job, but I know I would do ten times better than him, but I am unhireable [yes, it is now officially a word] because of age. AND
4) All of my friends are in foreign countries..hahaha, if it isn't Cambodia, or India, then it is Australia or something!
its really not that hard; first-get off the omputer, 2-call some one, 3- walk out of the house and dosomthing!
sounds easy to me lol
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