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Thought Before Prayer MAG

January 17, 2016
By theatregirl PLATINUM, Lathrup Village, Michigan
theatregirl PLATINUM, Lathrup Village, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
"To thine own self be true," -from Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare.
"I have sworn on the altar of god eternal hostility against all forms of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson


I feel as if
G-D is
as far away as a star
beautiful and twinkling
so close
yet impossibly far
a jewel untouchable
so hot it would burn me if I got close
so cold that its light travels years to reach me
so dark
I can’t see it
under the darting city lights



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on Apr. 28 2016 at 5:43 pm
ambivalent SILVER, West Bend, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. [sylvia plath]

This is amazing!!