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#49011voted by our readers
By Anonymous

Bound to a bed by a cold shadow Afraid to move Crying out for help Screaming "please don't" My childhood left behind in a bed Crying out for help but nobody listens Sc...

TheMaisinator BRONZE, Leeds, Maine
4 articles 0 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn&#039;t go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.&quot;<br /> ~Robert Fulghum

#49013 Poetry
By Lucy4himnotu ELITE
Richardson, Texas
Lucy4himnotu ELITE, Richardson, Texas
148 articles 0 photos 54 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I am Happy to The Point of Fear&quot; -Ralph Waldo Emmerson

#49014 Poetry
By BrokenSpectacles SILVER
Shiloh, Illinois
BrokenSpectacles SILVER, Shiloh, Illinois
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#49015 Poetry
By Marlea_1997 GOLD
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Marlea_1997 GOLD, Nebraska City, Nebraska
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
words have no meaning if not for the horror of their reality- Edgar Allan Poe

#49016 Poetry
By incognito411 BRONZE
Kirkwood, Missouri
incognito411 BRONZE, Kirkwood, Missouri
4 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn&#039;t stop for anybody.&rdquo; <br /> ― Stephen Chbosky

#49017 Poetry
By wilds PLATINUM
Newfane, New York
wilds PLATINUM, Newfane, New York
22 articles 0 photos 92 comments

Favorite Quote:
Brave is not being fearless but being able to overcome those fears you have

#49018 Poetry
By Anonymous
#49019 Poetry
By VidaG SILVER
Morgantown, West Virginia
VidaG SILVER, Morgantown, West Virginia
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#49020 Poetry
CaDeisha SILVER, Norfolk, Virginia
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;You can let it make you or break you&quot;