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Love is not polite
it does not need to be invited
over the threshold and into your heart.
Love comes like a thief in the night
claiming who it wants,
claiming what it wants.
Love is not docile and calm.
Love is a warrior,
breaking down the best armor
and crushing those in its wake.
Love does not spare the feeble of heart.
but finds them
and binds them
and makes them its slaves.
Love is not patient,
it does not wait until the time is right.
Love is violent,
it demands to be felt
deeply, and completely.
"What inspires you?"
He asks as her eyes begin to light up
She starts thinking about
all the worlds that her imagination
has led her to
and all the places
real, and fictional,
that she longs to see.
Her mind shoots across the galaxy
and she thinks about
Poetry and Space
High fantasy adventures with elves and magic
Her eyes sparkle with stars
that could be other worlds
Far Far away
Her passions bubble up
with volcanic heat
she pictures all her heros
from Athena, to Bilbo
and he says again
"What inspires you?"
she says gently
"Are you sure you want to know?"
All roads lead to Home
you may lose your way for a time
get swallowed in an ocean of doubt
but keep walking, or swimming
keep your head up.
Eventually you will find yourself
find your destination.
It may take a while,
but all roads lead to Home.

All roads lead back to you.
I may have gotten lost for a time
may have sunk deep into an ocean of doubt.
But I kept walking
kept swimming.
Eventually I turned up
at my destination,
on your doorstep.
It took a while,
but all roads lead me back to you.
 Jan 2015 Peter Tanner
Lydia
When we were kids, night was a magical time when tooth fairies came and dreams came true
Now, night is day without the light or the voices
Night  is the most lonely, biting, empty silence I can think of
Yet I walk home alone most days
I hear names of people I used to know echoing against the walls
If it's all in my head, then how can I catch the letters?
Every step is on broken glass
Every dream is a predictable nightmare
Day after day.
I'm not bold enough to say what I'm thinking
I'm not sure I'm bold enough to think it at all
My heart is beating so fast that it hurts, my lungs can't keep up
My head is taking the lead and making a few wrong turns
I swear I'm broken but it's just 2 AM
I'm trying not to think of the songs where people say goodbye
I swear I can hear them, all at once.
They're etched into my skin like tattoos, but they won't be there in the morning, when I wake up...
Well, I wouldn't call this asleep...
Please comment :)
If you think about it...
the "GRIM" Reaper is not such a bad guy.
He greets you in death,
holds your hand gently
and walks you
to your deserved afterlife,
the one you earned for yourself.

For if you have ever walked alone at night
even within the safety of your own home
you know the terror of darkness
and silence, crushing silence.

The Reaper leads your soul through a dark void
a million times as harsh as an abandoned stairwell
or any earthly darkness.
He does not choose which side you go to
Heaven or Hell.
He simply reads your chart
sees the location that you have earned
and escorts you safely there.
Heaven
Valhala
Paradise
Peace lies here in these words
like a stone falling slowly in water
drifting downwards into
it's final resting place
it has long since given up the fight
against the current
But we did not give up
cannot give up.
We fight valiantly for so long
until we are carried off into
a warriors heaven,
which can only be a place of peace,
the gods way of saying
"You have fought well
rest now, and forever,
rest your weary soul."
// I still care about your feelings more then mine
// Even though you left me. You will always be my inspiration
b.l
Atleast you're happy

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