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By recurring_resilience SILVER
Ashburn, Virginia

Lightning Strikes Raindrops are piercing through my brain I loved this weather, when we were together But today it brings nothing but pain Her arms are around me Around my n...
recurring_resilience SILVER, Ashburn, Virginia
9 articles 0 photos 92 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;These are the times that try men&#039;s souls.&quot; - Thomas Paine.<br /> <br /> &quot;You don&#039;t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could&#039;ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.&quot; - On the Water Front<br /> <br /> &quot;This is my place of failure.&quot;


#30242 Poetry
By LizzyApplePie PLATINUM
Grand Island, New York
LizzyApplePie PLATINUM, Grand Island, New York
36 articles 3 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Eyes look your last, arms take your last embrace, and you o&#039;lips, doors of breath, place a righteous kiss.

#30243 Poetry
Metalhead08 GOLD, Port Republic, Maryland
15 articles 0 photos 78 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;d rather hate you for everything you are. Than ever love you for something you are not. &quot; FFDP &quot;You&#039;re born alone and you die alone&quot; FFDP &quot;I wonder out where you can&#039;t see, inside my shell I wait and bleed.&quot; Slipknot &quot; If youre 555 then I am 666&quot;

#30244 Poetry
By guitargrl BRONZE
Sharon, Massachusetts
guitargrl BRONZE, Sharon, Massachusetts
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.&quot;

#30245 Poetry
By aaron-nae denby BRONZE
Bridgeton, New Jersey
aaron-nae denby BRONZE, Bridgeton, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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By Belle412 BRONZE
Los Angeles, California
Belle412 BRONZE, Los Angeles, California
3 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.&rdquo;<br /> -Washington Irving

#30247 Poetry
By hobbes BRONZE
Warrington, Pennsylvania
hobbes BRONZE, Warrington, Pennsylvania
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#30248 Poetry
savetheplanet PLATINUM, Anaheim, California
45 articles 9 photos 564 comments

Favorite Quote:
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

#30249 Poetry
Julianamarie GOLD, New City, New York
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It was gone, leaving in its place an almost uncontrollable impulse to laugh, to scream, to hurl things about. She wanted, suddenly, to shock people, to hurt them, to make them notice her, to be aware of her suffering.&rdquo;<br /> &bull;Nella Larsen, Passing&bull;

#30250 Poetry
By MelissaG1998 BRONZE
Spokane, Washington
MelissaG1998 BRONZE, Spokane, Washington
1 article 0 photos 0 comments