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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    I looked straight throught the creature
    Looking for it's secrets
    Forgetting all the beauty and awe
    I felt as a child
    Before I learned about the chains
    In a smaller time
    When I twisted and turned
    Called myself an elf
    Looked in the water
    And there saw myself
    There is no separation between
    The ocean and the forest
    I am a part of everthing around me
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    We built the answers
    To the problems
    That cause more problems
    We are created from matter
    So, when it no longer matters
    We are no longer creative
    We need to open our eyes wider
    We need to be kinder
    We need love
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    A thin sheen of sweat is all that clothes her skin
    Heat enveloping her
    Eminating from her
    She waits,
    She waits,
    She waits,
    Her thoughts the only things
    That keep her here
    Of him
    She whispers his name
    Closes her eyes
    Tracks on her cheeks
    Closes her right hand
    Over her left breast
    Feels her heart beating fast
    Faster,
    Ever faster,
    Like her breath
    Passing over her parched tongue
    And pushing past her dry, chapped lips
    Her stomach churning
    She hungers
    Thoughts of his healing hands,
    Gentle caresses,
    Passionate kisses,
    Promises of a brighter future,
    Words of wisdom,
    Make her feel so empty,
    So alone,
    Incomplete,
    Something other than herself
    Underneath her right hand
    She feels her heart slowing
    Twisting,
    Wrenching,
    Feels her breath escape her
    To find a more worthy host
    Oh that darkness feels hotter still
    It's slowly numbing her skin,
    Her entire being,
    It's overwhelming her,
    She sleeps,
    And still there is no peace
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    How people clamour for attention
    How they forget about what's real
    How they get wrapped up in themselves
    And forget that others feel
    They put on their smiles
    And they put you on trial
    And they draw and they quarter you
    But once they consume you
    They martyr you

    Funny how that works
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Wake up young man, it's time
    To wake up
    Your love affair has got to go
    For 10 long years the leaves
    To rake up
    Slow suicide's no way to go
    Blue, clouded grey
    You're not a crack up
    Dizzy and weakened by the haze
    Moving onward
    So an infection not a phase
    The cracks and lines from
    Where you gave up
    They make an easy man to read
    For all the times you let them
    Bleed you
    For little peace from God you plead
    And beg
    For a little peace from God you plead

    Words by Layne Staley

    I just love this song! So, I had to include it!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    I shut and locked the front door.
    No way in or out.
    I turned and walked the hallway, and pulled the curtains down.
    I knelt and emptied the mouth of every plug around.
    But nothing's sound. Nothing's sound.

    I stayed where my last step left me.
    Ignored all my rounds.
    Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls.
    They were upside down.
    I swallowed my words to keep from lying.
    I swallowed my face just to keep from biting.
    I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving.
    I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened.

    You're in hiding (today)

    It's been about three days now since I've hit the ground.
    No longer overwhelmed.
    And it seems so fucking simple now.
    It's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind.

    I swallowed my words to keep from lying.
    I swallowed my face just to keep from biting.
    I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving.
    I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened.

    You're in hiding (today)

    ps I got something you can swallow.

    pss Happy Birthday, you effervescent-peppermint-mentally-pliable-utterly-reliable-squirrel-of-a-pearl-jam-of-my-hand-i-better-stop-now.

    I had to add this song too as it is where I plucked my user name and it is just such a fucking great tune! And since Radar put such a nice little personal spin on it, I had to import it here! Sometimes I need to hide. And sometimes I need to swallow. And sometimes I need to swallow to hide! :D
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?

    No one will be watching us
    They'll all be inside 'cause it's too bloody cold! :D


    I've used this one before too but since it IS snowing here, it reminded me of this. I love to put my own little silly spins to song lyrics too! It's entertaining!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?
    Why don't we
    Do it in the snow?

    No one will be watching us
    They'll all be inside 'cause it's too bloody cold! :D


    I've used this one before too but since it IS snowing here, it reminded me of this. I love to put my own little silly spins to song lyrics too! It's entertaining!

    spank
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    spank

    Ooochey-cooochey-coo! I thought I felt something painfully pleasureable! :D;)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
    seriously the next girlfriend i have (if ever...whimper) is going to have to love getting spanked because of all this...
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
    seriously the next girlfriend i have (if ever...whimper) is going to have to love getting spanked because of all this...

    :) I hope she does too! A good spanking can certainly get yer motor running! :D And there's nothing wrong with that! ;)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Goulet
    Goulet Posts: 918
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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by Goulet
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    VVVVVRRRRRROOOOOOMMMMMM! :D

    Wiggle-squiggle-squeek-squirm-shriek-SQUEAL! ;)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • john girl
    john girl Posts: 308
    where it's at
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by john girl
    where it's at

    LOL! It's a happening tailpipe of a party! :D

    We cum, we go! ;)

    Feel free to join in at any time! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    ...listening to Van (the man) Morrison...
    "...can I just have one more moondance with you, my love..."


    You gently move my hair from my shoulder
    Your light hesitant breath on my neck
    I feel your tongue on my skin
    Sweet nibbles making me moan
    Sending shivers up my spine
    Light kisses whisper by my ear
    Make me catch my breath
    Your lips demanding mine
    Your tongue so hungry
    One hand caressing my heart
    The other's fingers entwined in my hair
    I writhe with ecstasy
    My loins tingling with desire
    Your kiss could set my world on fire
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Here's another song I really love by Robert Plant and Phil Johnstone.

    On waves of love my heart is breaking
    Stranger still my self-control, I can't rely on anymore
    New tides surprise, My world it's changing
    Within this frame, An ocean swells
    Behind this smile, I know it well

    Beneath a lovers moon - I'm waiting
    I am the pilot of the storm
    Adrift in pleasure - I may drown
    I built this ship it is my making
    And further more my self control
    I can't rely on anymore

    You claim that no man is an island
    While I land up in jeopardy
    More distant from you by degrees
    I walk this shore in isolation
    And at my feet eternity
    Lays ever sweeter plans for me
    I know why
    Helpless on a ship of fools
    Turn this boat around back to my loving ground
    Ship of fools




    Love those lyrics!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • spencead
    spencead Posts: 4
    Hello again,
    I say "poetry" b/c I'm not sure if that's what you
    want to call it. This sounds like something I wouldn't say,but you did put ti out there for everyone which takes balls.
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Originally posted by spencead
    Hello again,
    I say "poetry" b/c I'm not sure if that's what you
    want to call it. This sounds like something I wouldn't say,but you did put ti out there for everyone which takes balls.

    And hello to you spencead!

    I've either got balls or I'm just plain old foolish, I'm not sure which.
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Here's a poem and a quote and then some good lyrics. The quote ties two totally unrelated emotions together that, I suppose, maybe, are somehow related? Or just relative to me.


    My eyes water

    And my heart aches

    I poured it out to someone

    And they will never hear

    Couldn't hear even though I want them to

    I'll tell myself it's better this way

    I'll know I'm only lying to myself



    "What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it, well, he gets it! And I don't like it anymore than you men." - Strother Martin (from the film Cool Hand Luke)

    Civil War - (Slash/Duff McKagen/Axl Rose)

    Look at your young men fighting
    Look at your women crying
    Look at your young men dying
    The way they've always done before

    Look at the hate we're breeding
    Look at the fear we're feeding
    Look at the lives we're leading
    The way we've always done before

    My hands are tied
    The billions shift from side to side
    And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
    For the love of God and our human rights
    And all these things are swept aside
    By bloody hands time can't deny
    And are washed away by your genocide
    And history hides the lies of our civil wars

    D'You wear a black armband
    When they shot the man
    Who said "Peace could last forever"
    And in my first memories
    They shot Kennedy
    An I went numb when I learned to see
    So I never fell for Vietnam
    We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
    That you can't trust freedom
    When it's not in your hands
    When everybody's fightin'
    For their promised land

    And
    I don't need your civil war
    It feed the rich while it buries the poor
    Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
    In a human grocery store
    Ain't that fresh
    I don't need your civil war

    Look at the shoes you're filling
    Look at the blood we're spilling
    Look at the world we're killing
    The way we've always done before
    Look in the doubt we've wallowed
    Look at the leaders we've followed
    Look at the lies we've swallowed
    And I don't want to hear no more

    My hands are tied
    For all I've seen has changed my mind
    But still the wars go on as the years go by
    With no love of God or human rights
    'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
    By bloody hands of the hypnotized
    Who carry the cross of homocide
    And history bears the scars of our civil war

    "We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials. For example, to create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum. As popular war advances, peace is closer" *

    I don't need your civil war
    It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
    Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
    In a human grocery store
    Ain't that fresh
    And I don't need your civil war
    I don't need your civil war
    I don't need your civil war
    Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
    In a human grocery store
    Ain't that fresh
    I don't need your civil war
    I don't need one more war

    I don't need one more war
    Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

    * Peruvian Guerilla General
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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