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#9541voted by our readers
By Anonymous

To the lonely dreamer who writes to stay afloat, but who knows there’s holes in the boat, who smiles when the mirror cracks, who sticks fingertips with thumbtacks, the hopeles...

#9542 Poetry
By TheScatteredHeart BRONZE
Scottsdale, Arizona
TheScatteredHeart BRONZE, Scottsdale, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
And too much blood as flown from the wrists/of the children shamed/for those they chose to kiss<br /> <br /> Lyrics to Make it Stop, Rise Against

#9543 Poetry
By Birdsinger SILVER
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birdsinger SILVER, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
7 articles 1 photo 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;I cannot live without books.&rdquo; <br /> ~Thomas Jefferson

#9544 Poetry
Your_Apathetic_Basketcase ELITE, Orlando, Florida
137 articles 0 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Just remember, if the world didn&#039;t suck, we&#039;d all fall off.&quot;<br /> -Derrolyn Anderson<br /> <br /> &quot;Don&#039;t trust everything you see, even salt looks like sugar.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;The sea speaks more honestly... To those willing to drown.&quot; -J.D. Hard

#9545 Poetry
By Presto SILVER
Monticello, Illinois
Presto SILVER, Monticello, Illinois
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment
#9546 Poetry
By avandecaveye BRONZE
Temperance, Michigan
avandecaveye BRONZE, Temperance, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#9547 Poetry
By mgeast PLATINUM
Buies Creek, North Carolina
mgeast PLATINUM, Buies Creek, North Carolina
22 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#9548 Poetry
By Quinten GOLD
Lubbock, Texas
Quinten GOLD, Lubbock, Texas
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The mind was made to protect and guide, the heart was made to grant happiness.&quot;

#9549 Poetry
By Finding-me PLATINUM
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
Finding-me PLATINUM, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
45 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s kind of fun to do the impossible

#9550 Poetry
idc-wat-they-think SILVER, Augusta, Georgia
5 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
every sinner has a future every saint has a past