tag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-3402012012-06-30T04:02:09-07:00The Devil's WorkshopA fubar user blog.Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comfubartag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11786102012-06-30T04:02:09-07:002012-06-30T04:02:09-07:00Ragdoll<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">The things she says and gives to you;</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">she said and gave them to me, too.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">Yet since I ripped her hooks from me </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">I bleed from wounds I cannot see.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">I do what's right but I do it all wrong. </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">I'll hurt all my life, try to go on.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large; font-family: courier new,courier;">I am one of her tattered dolls behind her many secret walls.</span></strong></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comtag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11786072012-06-30T02:25:35-07:002012-06-30T02:25:35-07:00Collector<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">She's a collector</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">An emotional specter</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">She keeps you plugged in even when you disconnect her.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">She gives you a name</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Says she feels the same</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">She breaks your defenses as part of the game.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">How long has she played?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">For years I'm afraid.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Her toys piled in closets, neglected and frayed.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">She acts a good care</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">But she's only there</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Long enough to make sure her toys land in her lair.<br /></span></span></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comtag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11780712012-06-21T11:10:59-07:002012-06-21T11:10:59-07:00Blind<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Couldn't watch her be a hypocrite</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">or see her go numb as she lay in her pit.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">My heart is still split and I chomp at the bit</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">but at least I don't suffer as a voyeur to it.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Constantly led from behind,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">she set all the rules that were often unkind.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">My soul in a bind and my teeth often grind</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">My door is still open but I lowered the blind.<br /></span></strong></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comtag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11743432012-04-16T00:35:09-07:002012-04-16T00:35:09-07:00Kinetic<p><span style="font-size: large;">Paper thin, I dragged my feet </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and dried my glistening eye.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">I hanged my head, cold and dead,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">at the place where I would die.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">With none who would see me </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">get covered with earth</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">I took one more step </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">with all I was worth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The weight on my back </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">made one step become two.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">I ran with the strain </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">as was all I could do.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't turn back</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">to return to my death</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and the chains flew as ribbons</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">in the wake of my breath.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Life filled my lungs</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and blood filled my brain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The burden I bore </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">is a runaway train. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">My hands were like lead </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">now they raise to the sky</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and with hope they dry love</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">from my glistening eye.<br /></span></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comtag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11472362011-03-25T00:44:18-07:002011-03-25T00:44:18-07:00Glimpse<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>Glimpse</em></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>Emotions new</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>are memories old</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>and moments that we cannot hold.</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>We feel for only</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>seconds brief</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>then feelings turn to faint belief.</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>We are not what </em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>we used to be</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>for what we are is presently.</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>Your sight will slowly</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>change with you</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>and what you held, you now just view.</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>Take every detail</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>you can now</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>before it's all different somehow.</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>The fleeting seconds</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>of today</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em>are barely here then gone away.<br /></em></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.comtag:fubar.com,2010:BlogAtom-340201.11468472011-03-19T00:47:31-07:002011-03-19T00:47:31-07:00The Empty Pocket<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">My fantasies, though soundly sleep</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">stir quite awake in me.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">My fingers linger twixt letters yet,</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">they never hit a key.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">Guitar, the love my hands address<br /> </span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">the body my arms hold,</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">sang warmly at her neck's caress.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">Tonight her voice is cold.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">This chair is jail. This house a tomb.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">That bed is the abyss.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">Could suffering cease if just my cheek</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">suffered but a kiss?</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></em></strong></span></p>Pillowpantshttps://fubar.com/hotpocketsnoreply@fubar.com