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September 15, 2011
By flipcards10 BRONZE, Owensboro, Kentucky
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From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!<br /> Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you<br /> The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss<br /> A dateless bargain to engrossing death!<br /> Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!<br /> Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on<br /> The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!<br /> Here&#039;s to my love!<br /> O true apothecary!<br /> Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss, I die.<br /> <br /> <br /> - Romeo

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the voices grow in

volume,intensity,speed,length

belonging to eyes which

glare,watch,gawk,spy

at the different one

alone,stranded,silent,scared

she knows they stare

listening,glancing,always somewhere

she is different now

taller,stronger,stranger,smarter

but still she is lost

stranded,stuck,forever wandering

she lives among strangers

when she is still one herself

© Caroline C., Coronado, CA

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i wrote this randomly in biology class about how i was sitting alone at a table for four.
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kierdawn21 SILVER said...
on Oct. 13 2011 at 11:29 am
kierdawn21 SILVER, Fortworth, Texas
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&quot;you never know how strong you are, untill being strong is the only choice you have&quot;

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that is DEEP.