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  I am just starting and can I say

  It's hard to keep up with all that I see

  The sights and sounds are quite a lot

  And those scents and sounds I'll keep for a while

  But your touch I'll never let go of if I can help it

  I grow and grow in my own way

  But some things I once had are gone

  Oh well

  No time to go back

  I must always keep track

  Of all the things that come to me

  It's not long before I have a sturdy catalogue

  I can look back now and recall what I need

  But it's not always perfect, this book of mine

  The pages warp and twist over time

  Not to mention it happened all so quick

  Perhaps I didn't interpret correct

  I hold firm for a while

  Running back and forth while writing new stuff

  I organize it well for it's not just me

  There is a whole team here dedicated to the task

  So together we work, to keep this vault safe

  Things get lost as we go, sure

  There is only so much space

  I ran out a while ago

  Well kinda

  It's back in storage somewhere deep

  Could you remind me again what I need to see?

  I've worked hard all the years long

  I've been going back through all we've been through

  I can't help but notice the wrinkles and stains

  But that's okay

  The information still somehow keeps

  We near the end and I can't help much any more

  I passed tired many years ago

  I take my time now, going here and there

  These things I've written I seem to leave about

  My storage is full, but that's not all

  I seem to have lost the key for much-- if not all

  I'll keep trying as hard as I can

  But I'm really tired now

  I'm ready for bed

  I lay my head down prepped for sleep

  All this work I did

  And I've left it incomplete

  That's okay

  I did my job

  A life time of senses

  Those sights and sounds

  I kept them all here for future sight

  Though now things are going dark

  I guess it's time to close up shop

  §

  Come Back all who Listen Hear

  Her song was the most beautiful I had heard

  My pretty mermaid

  So beautiful was her hair

  I walked to you and saw your form

  The outlines of your curves

  Oh did I yearn

  Give me just a little taste of your bodacious lust

  Be my first

  Oh please, oh please you must!

  I'd give you all I own

  If only in my ear you would moan.

  I can't help this strange and vibrant tickle

  Should I really be doing this?

  Normally I'm much too fickle

  That doesn't matter to me

  It's with her I need to be

  Come hell or high water I'll be there

  Falling even deeper while I get tangled in your hair

  Don't try to stop me now or I swear

  Upon you, my full wrath you will bear

  It won't be long now, my lovely mermaid

  Get away!

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  Weren't you listening to what I said?

  I am going over board to my wonderful lass

  If you insist on stopping me, I'll kick your ass

  So over the edge I dive right in

  Into this watery grave

  Deep in my loving sin

  I swim so fast into your grip

  So tight around me, you're breaking my hip

  Your kiss so warm and slimy

  Tastes like mud

  No, wait, that coppery flavor

  Must be blood

  My senses return to me in this deadly dance

  It appears I set off the trap

  Falling for this shallow romance

  Deeper we go in her clutching embrace

  I can't move or breath

  As I am falling into a haze

  So I was wrong and so I shall die

  Oh boy, what an epic fool am I?

  This tale a warning I learned personally

  You must hear and take this seriously

  If into the ocean you dare to sail

  Take note of my notable fail

  If into the waves you dare brave

  Remember my words

  And your life they will save

  If you desire to die in the worst way

  Then open your ears

  And listen to what the sirens say

  But if you want to live your years happy and long

  Then save yourself the tears

  And leave behind the Siren's song

  §

  Moonlit Midnight

  The Moon cut though the ocean of void,

  Leaving the stars in a rippling trail to follow

  The dark mountains and hills were tides

  Eternally washing away those old beaches of light

  Each pool, a small star twinkling

  As raindrops suspended in the sky

  The canopy which envelopes the inky night

  It rises now

  It's illuminating glow

  Dampening the sparkle of those angelic eyes

  Reflecting below the subtle shades of grays and blues

  That parted the heavens from the earth

  This ribbon strewn through the lake of dots

  Casts deep shadows about the rugged landscape

  The light did sail across that starry stream

  Over the horizon that light did run

  For right behind it the abyss did flow

  §

  An Autumn Breeze.

  Your voice is like an autumn breeze

  Cold and quite the relief

  From summer's oppressive heat

  You are the refreshing waterfall

  At the end of a long journey

  Cool and crisp

  Just what I need

  Like the falling dark

  That brings the brisk night

  You are a reprieve

  From the sun's bright light

  You shine like the harvest moon

  The beautiful light

  Unlike the blinding noon

  So easy to watch

  As you patrol that glimmering pool.

  Your presence I long for

  All the year round

  And I'm so sorry to see you go

  When winter comes around

  But as sure as the spring

  May bloom new

  And summer brings life too

  Your autumn vibe

  My soul does coo

  What I mean to say

  With all these flowery words

  Is that you are a breath of fresh air

  In not so many cords

  Any rhymes or rhythms may be clever

  And I could write them all day

  Maybe forever

  It is important to say however

  That nice as they may be

  They can't compare to your voice

  Like an autumn breeze

  §

  I Am Pride.

  I stand as a mountain, a great earthen wall

  I remain immovable, a great pillar of stone

  I am firm, a great bastion of power

  I keep strong, a great beast of burden

  The world moves around me as I travel through it

  I can do no wrong and no one can wrong me

  You can't touch me

  You can't even fathom the greatness I wield

  I look down on you and you dare to meet me?

  You should know your place

  And that it's beneath my feet

  Like the dirt I walk on you mean nothing to me

  No, a voice answered in return

  You stand as a mound, a poor pile of ruin

  You are tossed, like a skipping stone

  You are soft, like a castle of sand

  You are weak, simply a dead woman

  This world moves on

  Without you as you fade away

  All of your wrongs now catch up to you

  Your meager weakness is all we ever saw

  We look down on your soon rotting form

  Give back the lives you stole

  To the trees and world

  It's better that you are not here

  As we leave you alone

  We walk on

  You mean nothing to us