She walks now through the night lands,
Throught the glittering, resplendent twilight world
Of those who have been lost.
She hears a song, dark and melodic,
Playing from the distant shadows
While the cries of those left behind
Echo loudly in her mind.
Tall and slender, an ebon princess,
She was beautiful, cherished, loved.
Yesterday was sunlight, laughter, and dreams.
She walks now through the land of the dead.
Around her, she sees shadows,
Figures of souls adandoned by life.
They call to her, welcome her, embrace her.
Those she had lost in life, and those she had never known,
It makes no difference, they welcome her the same.
I held my heart in hands of stone,
A cold and iron grip.
Dark cold hands to hold it safe
And shield it from the world.
My heart was crystalline, you see,
Beautiful but frail.
With granite hands I kept it safe,
From the dangers of the world.
Another asked to hold my heart
With soft hands, made of straw.
Yellow straw to heal my heart
Of bruises made by stone.
I let him hold my fragile heart
And for a time we burned as fire.
Lit by fire, my crystal heart
Was brilliant to behold.
Stone, when burned, will still remain
To hold a fragile heart.
Straw, when burned, will waste away
And crystal hearts will shatter.
Away he burned, m
We are the unbroken.
We are those made of light.
The ones who wait, searching, hoping, dreaming;
Those whose souls have yet to wither and die.
The future is ours.
Ice and fire, love and death,
It's coming, sure and swift as the wind.
Greet it with open arms.
Let your soul be borne away,
Taken someplace new.
To live, one must change.
A life without change is no life at all.
To lie here, stagnant,
Hiding from the unknown,
That is death of a terrible kind.
It is a destruction of the soul.
Fear is natural, but we must accept it,
Turn it, make it ours.
If it is our weapon, it cannot hurt us.
With it, we have power.
We are th
Elizabeth closed her eyes, humming faintly to herself. She lay on her bed with two pillows pressed on either side of her head, but even that did nothing to stop the noise. She could still her it- the muted, angry sounds of her parents shouting, growing louder every minute, occasionally punctuated by a cry of pain from her mother. Whenever this happened, she hummed louder, pressed the pillows closer to her ears, but nothing could completely block out the sounds. Tears streamed down her face, but she kept humming. The music gave her something to hold on to when everything around her fell to pieces.
Below, she heard a loud crash, followe
I am the wind.
I can feel it inside of me,
Rushing, pulsing,
Bound inside the confines of my soul,
Desperate to break free and soar,
immortal, wild, and unhindered,
through the timeless and unbroken skies.
I can feel it whenever a storm draws near,
The unbridled power and freedom in the wind.
It knows no bounds, no master, no limitations.
With it, I am free.
A Plea to the Classics by shadowcat424, literature
Literature
A Plea to the Classics
I have failed you, Plato.
The orderly rows of numbers and figures
Hold no magic for me.
Above your door were engraved these words:
"Let no one enter
who does not know
geometry."
I have entered, but I have not known.
Would you frown on me, Plato,
if you could see the blank, empty stare,
the blind frustration
these numbers meet?
Would you curse me, condemn me,
Tell me, "You do not know numbers.
You are nothing."
Would you?
Or did you know, in your infinite wisdom,
that the soul is not merely numerical,
that life is more than logic?
How dull life would be
If, to you, infinity was just a number,
if space was only distance,
i
Jared and Saul were standing at a circular table covered with a giant map, discussing tactics for the next attack. The walls were also covered with maps, enlarged portions of the one on the table, which had been marked with red lines and x's. The room they were in was large with damp walls of stone, giving it the unmistakeable impression that it was underground. A large, glowing crystal hung from the ceiling, giving off heatless light.
"There are at least twenty families in this town, and two safehouses-" Saul was saying when they heard a knock on the door.
"Enter," called Jared irritably, his small head jerking to look at the door.
Three
She walks now through the night lands,
Throught the glittering, resplendent twilight world
Of those who have been lost.
She hears a song, dark and melodic,
Playing from the distant shadows
While the cries of those left behind
Echo loudly in her mind.
Tall and slender, an ebon princess,
She was beautiful, cherished, loved.
Yesterday was sunlight, laughter, and dreams.
She walks now through the land of the dead.
Around her, she sees shadows,
Figures of souls adandoned by life.
They call to her, welcome her, embrace her.
Those she had lost in life, and those she had never known,
It makes no difference, they welcome her the same.
I held my heart in hands of stone,
A cold and iron grip.
Dark cold hands to hold it safe
And shield it from the world.
My heart was crystalline, you see,
Beautiful but frail.
With granite hands I kept it safe,
From the dangers of the world.
Another asked to hold my heart
With soft hands, made of straw.
Yellow straw to heal my heart
Of bruises made by stone.
I let him hold my fragile heart
And for a time we burned as fire.
Lit by fire, my crystal heart
Was brilliant to behold.
Stone, when burned, will still remain
To hold a fragile heart.
Straw, when burned, will waste away
And crystal hearts will shatter.
Away he burned, m
We are the unbroken.
We are those made of light.
The ones who wait, searching, hoping, dreaming;
Those whose souls have yet to wither and die.
The future is ours.
Ice and fire, love and death,
It's coming, sure and swift as the wind.
Greet it with open arms.
Let your soul be borne away,
Taken someplace new.
To live, one must change.
A life without change is no life at all.
To lie here, stagnant,
Hiding from the unknown,
That is death of a terrible kind.
It is a destruction of the soul.
Fear is natural, but we must accept it,
Turn it, make it ours.
If it is our weapon, it cannot hurt us.
With it, we have power.
We are th
Elizabeth closed her eyes, humming faintly to herself. She lay on her bed with two pillows pressed on either side of her head, but even that did nothing to stop the noise. She could still her it- the muted, angry sounds of her parents shouting, growing louder every minute, occasionally punctuated by a cry of pain from her mother. Whenever this happened, she hummed louder, pressed the pillows closer to her ears, but nothing could completely block out the sounds. Tears streamed down her face, but she kept humming. The music gave her something to hold on to when everything around her fell to pieces.
Below, she heard a loud crash, followe
I am the wind.
I can feel it inside of me,
Rushing, pulsing,
Bound inside the confines of my soul,
Desperate to break free and soar,
immortal, wild, and unhindered,
through the timeless and unbroken skies.
I can feel it whenever a storm draws near,
The unbridled power and freedom in the wind.
It knows no bounds, no master, no limitations.
With it, I am free.
A Plea to the Classics by shadowcat424, literature
Literature
A Plea to the Classics
I have failed you, Plato.
The orderly rows of numbers and figures
Hold no magic for me.
Above your door were engraved these words:
"Let no one enter
who does not know
geometry."
I have entered, but I have not known.
Would you frown on me, Plato,
if you could see the blank, empty stare,
the blind frustration
these numbers meet?
Would you curse me, condemn me,
Tell me, "You do not know numbers.
You are nothing."
Would you?
Or did you know, in your infinite wisdom,
that the soul is not merely numerical,
that life is more than logic?
How dull life would be
If, to you, infinity was just a number,
if space was only distance,
i
Jared and Saul were standing at a circular table covered with a giant map, discussing tactics for the next attack. The walls were also covered with maps, enlarged portions of the one on the table, which had been marked with red lines and x's. The room they were in was large with damp walls of stone, giving it the unmistakeable impression that it was underground. A large, glowing crystal hung from the ceiling, giving off heatless light.
"There are at least twenty families in this town, and two safehouses-" Saul was saying when they heard a knock on the door.
"Enter," called Jared irritably, his small head jerking to look at the door.
Three
Her heart is made of diamond.
Glittering diamond.
A thousand new facets
For every dime of sun.
Her heart is made of diamond.
Everyone wants it, yet
None receive it.
It belongs to her alone.
Her heart is made of diamond.
A beautiful transparency,
Proud and bright and shining
Yet
Hard, like stone
and cold as ice.
Current Residence: My imagination MP3 player of choice: iPod Wallpaper of choice: Art Favourite cartoon character: Spongebob Personal Quote: Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Favourite Visual Artist
Van Gogh, Marta Dahlig
Favourite Movies
Pan's Labyrinth, LotR, Run Lola Run
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Death Cab for Cutie, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Coldplay, The Killers, The Beatles
Favourite Writers
JK Rowling
Favourite Games
Sims 2
Tools of the Trade
My brain, my computer, or the classic pen-and-paper style.
I feel like I'm forgetting who I am. I feel like I've finally entered the real world, the way everyone eventually does, and it's like I'm losing myself in the madness. I don't know who I am, or what I want out of life. I don't know what I want to do. I don't know who I want to be. In short, I don't know anything.
It's not so much an identity crisis, as...a crisis of being. I don't know what that word means anymore.
Music is an emotional catharsis of the purest kind.
January 2010 is almost halfway over, which I find odd. I spent my entire high school career waiting anxiously (and sometimes fearfully) for sping 2009...it's just strange to think that now, that time has past, and graduation is no longer looming in front of me like some great barrier for me to cross. When I was growing up, I always felt like graduating from high school was the bridge between safe, effortless childhood and real life. I guess I've crossed the bridge.
New Years Resolutions, eh? I suppose I should make a few life-changing goals for the year...cliche, I know, but at least I can say I'm working for a better me. Besides, what do I
Okay, so, I write a journal entry in the early hours of Thanksgiving, so why not write one in the early hours of Christmas as well?
Nothing overly interesting has happened to me in the last few weeks. I ended with a C+ in Spanish, my final exam having been the equivalent of an academic Hiroshima. At first I flipped out, thinking that the world as I knew it had ended. In IB, it was understandable; they asked the impossible of us there, and all but the most intelligent of the most intelligent succumbed to a lower GPA than they would have had at a "normal" high school. This was college, though. I'd always been told it would be easy for me, that
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