Upon My Birthday
grooveamatic
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I've spoken at length with you about years rolling by unhinged
Like breathless wagons drawn by crazed stallions;
I've sat with you in the hushed cellars of our
Toilsome peers devising machines of immortality;
I have calmly stepped with you through the doors of hospitals and morgues,
Scoffing at the gall of centuries to lay claim to my soul;
I have laid upon you, dear, halfnaked in dawn's presence,
Sucking sweetly through my nose the air you just breathed out,
Heaving my breath in time to yours,
And even then, dear,
(even then!)
I did not feel as truly alive as I do now
Upon my birthday,
This day with the Earth in a precise arc in it's trembling orbit
Which somehow belongs to me,
This day swinging stubbornly around once a calendar year
So that I may live with true vigor and purpose for these scant hours,
And be reminded there was a time
I was not even alive!
Like breathless wagons drawn by crazed stallions;
I've sat with you in the hushed cellars of our
Toilsome peers devising machines of immortality;
I have calmly stepped with you through the doors of hospitals and morgues,
Scoffing at the gall of centuries to lay claim to my soul;
I have laid upon you, dear, halfnaked in dawn's presence,
Sucking sweetly through my nose the air you just breathed out,
Heaving my breath in time to yours,
And even then, dear,
(even then!)
I did not feel as truly alive as I do now
Upon my birthday,
This day with the Earth in a precise arc in it's trembling orbit
Which somehow belongs to me,
This day swinging stubbornly around once a calendar year
So that I may live with true vigor and purpose for these scant hours,
And be reminded there was a time
I was not even alive!
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but memories...they eat me
I've seen it all before,...
bring it on cause I'm no victim.
-Ghost
Hope u had a happy birthday!
I'm a lookin 4u!
Are you smitten by someone in your poem?
IT SOUNDS LIKE UUUUUUU RRRRRR!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):)
A whisper and a chill
adv2005
"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"
PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
yummy!!!!! hehehehehehe
Dr. Pepper babe....gave up the bottle a while ago...but Dr. Pepper is frickin' awesome!
A whisper and a chill
adv2005
"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"
PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
the chikee-do in the poem is more of an abstract non-specific female...an amalgam of all those I have ever loved, who have ever made me feel more alive than alive...if you know what I mean....
Same bat time same bat channel
A whisper and a chill
adv2005
"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"
PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
go out and have a good time...
so where is the party?
Happy Birthday Groove!!!
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
I'm having a Dr. Pepper party here at my apartment....hop a plane to PA!