You

A poem by Dorothy Parker (the great cynic)

Razors pain you, rivers are damp
acids stain you and drugs cause cramp
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give
Gas smells awful; you might as well live.

You
 

dreams

Dreams are true while they last ,
& do we not live in dreams?
Lord Alfred Tennyson

dreams

Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping...

~ Suzanne Vega

Sleeping

I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant ,
& his reaction will be terrible .

Isoroku Yamamoto

I (sorry, best I could do :p )

I think my mask of sanity
is about to slip.

~Patrick Bateman~

American Psycho

Sanity

Sanity is very rare : every man almost ,
& every woman , has a dash of madness .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

man

It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help
It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you...child


A man will beg
A man will crawl
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
It's no secret at all

The Fly.........U2

love


"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so
vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens your heart and it means
someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these
defenses. you build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt
you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person,
wanders in to your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They
don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile
at you, and them your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages.
It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness,
so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very
perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul
hurt, a body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate
love" -Neil Gaiman

your

Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beasts under your bed,
In your closet, in your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

~ Metallica

night

Soul love...this love won't let me go
So long...Angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem

Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
An angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah...Angel of Harlem


Angel of Harlem.........U2

Lost

Moonbeams are no longer silver
Selena has lost her magic.
My dreams of youth no longer solid,
My mood is morbid, tragic.

What happened to my illusions?
To fight the Earth and rise the skies
was my life. Can it be that dreams of youth
are lies?

Selena, help me.


A very young Oldfart.

Illusion

Religion is an illusion & it derives its strength from the fact
that it falls in with our instinctual desires .

Sigmund Freud

desires

To the soul's desires
The body listens
What the flesh requires
Keeps the heart imprisoned

What the spirit seeks
The mind will follow
When the body speaks
All else is hollow

~ Depeche Mode

Heart

"the Coin"

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin
That time cannot take nor a thief purloin, --
Oh better than the minting of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory of a lovely thing.

by Sara Teasdale (one of my favorite poets)