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How We Attack

April 1, 2010
By Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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Oh look of what has just become.
We fight as one and die as one.
On reason to bleed and many that bleed,
And none that look out when we can’t see.
There’s one that goes down for us all,
And one that takes it from us all.
It’s the inspiration that kills us,
And the perspiration that warns us all.
And when left out on our own-
Well, I guess we’ve been dying all along.
Now I’m dying all on my own,
But I’ve been dying all along.
And now shattered and distraught.
My tears never speak when it’s my fault.
Oh please let us not beg for mercy,
He’ll only come and kill us all.
He’ll leave us dying where we stand.
He’ll leave us waiting while we fall.
This is where the king once fell.
This is where the kingdom will fall.
We fight as one and die as one.
All for one and one for all.
That is how our lord once fell,
That is how our kingdom will fall.

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

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DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jul. 2 2010 at 9:50 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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learn from your past to live for the future.

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I love responses that are impossible to respond to....
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jul. 2 2010 at 6:34 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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exactly it thats captain.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jul. 1 2010 at 11:16 am
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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Yep, so true.  But sometimes it works out like you write something meaningful but slightly dramatic (only slightly) and you show it to someone else, and they turn it into the meanings of the universe, and the depth of the soul and life and death acusations and you're just like.......alrighty then, if that works for you.....
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jul. 1 2010 at 3:20 am
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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yeah, and like if they dont get out of it what we put in it then we can just blast them off the cliff side.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 30 2010 at 8:28 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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Exactly!  Sometimes I write it as meaningful to me, but so that they can apply it to themselves, as well!
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jun. 30 2010 at 12:21 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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I just look at it as their own personal deficits.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 29 2010 at 1:14 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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Haha, it makes me feel self-conscious, sometimes, like what could other people interpret from my writing?
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jun. 27 2010 at 12:20 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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welcome to my side of the plasma.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 25 2010 at 3:26 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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Haha, I've had that happen before, like when I write something that doesn't mean anything deep, it just sounds that way, and someone interprets this deep meaning for it and I'm like "alright, I guess that's what it's about!"
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jun. 21 2010 at 3:19 pm
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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i love it when you interpret something correctly and I, as the author come back and say, "oh, so that is what this is about." you help me understand my writing captain. i now reallize the message i was trying to across get.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 20 2010 at 12:14 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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I love it when people get it, because a lot of people don't, and it drives me nuts.  I also love it when I interpret something correctly, it makes me feel like a kindred spirit 
Boosflash DIAMOND said...
on Jun. 20 2010 at 3:03 am
Boosflash DIAMOND, Papillion, Nebraska
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thats exactly it captain. exactly it. maybe i should read it again. that was exactly it. HAHAHAHA!!!! somebody gets it.
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 11 2010 at 7:32 pm
DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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I love it, it reminds me, in a sense, of an army poised for battle when they know they will loose, but they're gonna go anyway, because it doesn't matter whether they fight or fall.