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#3481voted by our readers
By frostbite SILVER
Freehold, New Jersey

Clocks are strange at work for they move so slow Time crawls by like an ancient withered sloth The minutes pass as the sun goes down low My long-awaited breaks seem eons off It...
frostbite SILVER, Freehold, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde


#3482 Poetry
By charlie_e25 SILVER
Waukesha, Wisconsin
charlie_e25 SILVER, Waukesha, Wisconsin
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Act happy. Just pretend. This is our social contract with the world, kid: ACT HAPPY. Suffer silently like the rest of us, for the love of God”. - Glennon Doyle

#3483 Poetry
By Aly1996 BRONZE
Claremore, Oklahoma
Aly1996 BRONZE, Claremore, Oklahoma
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
I refuse to sink.

#3484 Poetry
freakycatlover DIAMOND, Antrim, New Hampshire
95 articles 0 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You know?"

#3485 Poetry
By -JustDance- PLATINUM
Medford, Oregon
-JustDance- PLATINUM, Medford, Oregon
23 articles 0 photos 28 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The manner in which we live and that in which we ought to live are things so wide asunder that he who quits the one to betake himself in the other is more likely to destroy than to save himself.&quot; ~Niccolo Machiavelli<br /> <br /> So let us find the balance.

#3486 Poetry
By Anonymous
#3487 Poetry
By DanceOfBlades PLATINUM
Springfield, Virginia
DanceOfBlades PLATINUM, Springfield, Virginia
28 articles 0 photos 31 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy&#039;s first Law of Equivalent Exchange.&quot;

#3488 Poetry
By anyabeatrice GOLD
Encino, California
anyabeatrice GOLD, Encino, California
14 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world." <br /> -Marilyn Monroe

#3489 Poetry
By Moonbeam BRONZE
Washington, District Of Columbia
Moonbeam BRONZE, Washington, District Of Columbia
4 articles 1 photo 0 comments
#3490 Poetry
By Bailey McKim BRONZE
Waverly, Nebraska
Bailey McKim BRONZE, Waverly, Nebraska
1 article 0 photos 0 comments