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Well, just started here. I'm thinking this will be a good thing. I can use this instead of IMing Lauren all the time (sorry 'bout that). But this will also give you guys a way to keep up with my poetry, and what's going through my head... hopefully. I've never kept a journal for more than like 3 days before though, so hopefully I don't get bored with this. I don't think I will. This will be something that I can get on and let you guys know what poems I've written and stuff. Maybe. I think. Hopefully. I'm confused, but anyway, I have to work early, so I'm just gonna get you guys some quick things that I can just copy and paste. Well first, the idea I had tonight while helping to remodel and clean the Lighthouse (my youth group building). I put a dustpan down on a pulpit and the thought hit me of learning a lesson from the dirty things we go through in life. So I jotted down the line Sermons from the dustpan. And that was tonight.
Now to copy and paste. I wrote this while I was still up from Monday night, but I was working on it from about 6 to 8 Tuesday morning. I didn't go to sleep until about 8:40 or so. But anyway, I found this poem, that I wrote just over a year ago. It was strongly based on ideas taken from the story of a video game called Kingdom Hearts. I had thought it was a pretty cool poem at the time, but seems I wanted to change some things when I found it just recently. This is the original from a year ago.
Kingdom Hearts
There's a body falling from the sky
As I begin to look closer I realize
I'm falling backward; the body's mine
I'm falling into a torrent that's
Tearing me away from my friends
As I begin to look closer I realize
I'm falling backward; the body's mine
I'm sucked into a world of Traverse games
But it's not just a game
I'm fighting to save my life, my home, and my friends
As one by one they are turning on me
Or so quickly they are disappearing
I'm the light in this black world and I am the key
And I've got Heartless chasing after me
So I've got to run run run to save my life
And meet new friends to save the old
In turn I'll help them to save their worlds
All the while we're all running
From shadows with heart-shaped cavities
In this game by Squaresoft and Walt Disney
4/17/04
When I found it Tuesday morning, I had some interesting ideas and decided to change it (a little *wink*), and this is the result... It's only about 3 times the size
Memories Beat Within The Heart
Kingdom Hearts (Revised)
There's a body falling from the sky
As I look close I realize
I'm falling backward; the body's mine
I'm falling into a torrent
That’s tearing me from all my friends
As I look close I realize
I'm falling backward; the body's mine
Sucked into a shattered world
Put in check, Traverse the game
Blood will spill, the ground will fade
I'm fighting to save my life, my home
My friends depend on me
As one by one they turn on me
Or so quickly they are disappearing
I'm the light in this black world
My blade is the key to everything
“It’s in the blade,” they say to me
“The key to fixing this tragedy”
But they don’t realize the pressure on me
Unlocking these locks
Locks away my Chain of Memories
Leaving me with scattered thoughts
Chasing shadows of past connected hearts
So I've got to run run run to save my life
And meet new friends to save the old
By fate I help them save their worlds
All the while running
Through mazes at breakneck speeds
From shadows with heart-shaped cavities
One wrong step and they’ll drain the life from me
I've got the key…
…With the Heartless coming after me
The key to fix this tragedy
Is sealing away my memories
The shadow of doubt falls on my heart
The Heartless are coming after me
Oh my mind, my mind, my memories!
I can’t put a line between what’s real
And everything that’s make-believe
The Queen has sent her guards
Because we can’t allow the King to fall
I can’t put a line between what’s real
And everything that’s make-believe
We will guard the King as would the pawns
Find a cause or we’ll be dead by dawn
How long now will it take you?
To understand no one’s coming back for you
Glance around for a hopeful smile
And seeing it through darkened glass
Shattered memories in the past
Challenged to the death by best of friends
I’ll never have the nerve to stand up to this
But inspired by those we’d never met
To write about that which they could never understand
Deep into the night we wrote
New words arose to early light
Combining pieces left of past and present
We had the childish vanity
To impudently call it poetry
So I've got to run run run to save my life
And meet new friends to save the old
By fate I help them save their worlds
All the while running
Through mazes at breakneck speeds
From shadows with heart-shaped cavities
One wrong step and they’ll drain the life from me
I've got the key…
…With the Heartless coming after me
The key to fix this tragedy
Is sealing away my memories
The shadow of doubt falls on my heart
The Heartless are coming after me
4/26/05
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