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By dawnof17 BRONZE
Hillsboro, Kansas

I saw my life as a cake. I saw myself as the frosting. I saw my love as the sprinkles. But someone ate the sprinkles. Someone licked the frosting. Someone devoured the cake....
dawnof17 BRONZE, Hillsboro, Kansas
2 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
You never have a second chance to make a first impression.


#286152 Poetry
By HaleyD15 SILVER
Simsbury, Connecticut
HaleyD15 SILVER, Simsbury, Connecticut
5 articles 7 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.<br /> -Harun Yahya<br /> <br /> All my life I&#039;ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.<br /> -Ernest Hemingway

#286153 Poetry
By Anonymous
#286154 Poetry
FearIsAChoice BRONZE, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre;<br /> The feast is over and the lamps expire. (Robert Ervin Howard, Suicide Note (I like it because of the poem, not because he killed himself.))

#286155 Poetry
By Nuesha_k SILVER
Oakton, Virginia
Nuesha_k SILVER, Oakton, Virginia
7 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There is no such thing as impossible, the word itself says I&#039;m possible.&quot;

#286156 Poetry
By Anonymous
#286157 Poetry
By NamezTJ PLATINUM
Scottsville, New York
NamezTJ PLATINUM, Scottsville, New York
29 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is like a box of chocolates....&quot; (haha got to love Forest Gump)

#286158 Poetry
By UnknownToTheWorld PLATINUM
Binghamton, New York
UnknownToTheWorld PLATINUM, Binghamton, New York
20 articles 0 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
Knowing nothing can be better than knowing to much.

#286159 Poetry
nicoledente PLATINUM, Galion, Ohio
21 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
If you aren&#039;t going to believe my answer, then you shouldn&#039;t have asked!

#286160 Poetry
By ObliviousWallpaper BRONZE
San Luis Obispo, California
ObliviousWallpaper BRONZE, San Luis Obispo, California
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.&quot; -Albert Einstein