I know what your thinking, why would someone like this be interested in poetry? Well let me tell you. I find poetry is an expression of the heart and soul just like art is. In some cases songs are poetry set to music. I've come across several poems, quotes and what have ya, that have either struck home or inspired me. So without further stalling, here they are.

Quotes

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire

"I am whatever you say I am. If I wasnt, then why would I say I am?" - Eminem

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."

"Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us." - Alexander Graham

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham

"It is better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you're not"

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"Live life for today, for tomorrow you die"

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"The journey seems half as long when there is someone to walk it with you."

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Carl Zwanzig

Poetry

Forever - Adrian Haager

I have no poems,
So there are none to read.
I do not draw,
So there is none to show.

My life is an open book.
A book with marked pages,
A book with torn pages
And water damaged by tears.

I may not know much
And I may not do much,
But one thing is sure.
I am forever yours.

The distance between us
May separate us in life,
But my heart reaches out
And bridges the gap.

Forever is space.
Forever is time.
Forever is the feeling.
Forever is my love.

Sometimes when I stare at the wall
I imagine I'm watching a movie
I make up all the characters, script and plot
Then someone says something and I lose it all.

Sometimes when I stare at the TV
I imagine I'm somewhere else
Doing all the things I wish I could do
Then a commercial comes on and I forget what I wanted to do.

Sometimes when I stare out the window
I imagine I can fly away
Fly away from the world, my life and everything
Then a car drives by and reminds me that I can't fly.

Sometimes when I stare at you
I imagine we will be together forever
That we will never let each other go no matter what happens
Then you kiss me and tell me that you love me.

Sometimes when I stare at myself
I imagine what my future holds.
Will I be famous, rich, or powerful? Maybe all three?
Then I close my eyes and realize that all I need is you.

I lost the most important thing in the world to me today
I suppose I should have seen it coming
Considering I was the cause

I don't know what I'm going to do now
It's gotten too hard for me
Especially since I was the cause

What should I do now that everyone else hates me
What should I do now that I hate me
Since I was the cause.

I lost the most important thing in the world to me today
I think I could have done something to prevent it
Even though I was the cause.

I'm running out of things to do
I used to do everything, but now I cant
Because I was the cause.

I lost my best friend today
I didn't see the red light, so I just went through it
See? I was the cause.

The other car didn't expect me to be where I was
So it tried its best to miss me, but hit the passenger side
But I was the cause.

Life isn't fair sometimes
People make mistakes and the wrong people get hurt.
I was the cause,

She was the victim
I'm thinking of joining her tonight
Since I was the cause.

Follow me
Follow me into oblivion
Let the darkness surround you
I will hold your hand
I will smile when you open your eyes
Feel my heart beating
It beats in rhythm with yours
Let my love take you higher
I will let you go
Run wild and explore your world
I will rejoice when you spread your wings
Do not fear
For if you look behind you
I am there
I stand beside you always
If you do not see me
Close your eyes
Let my warmth engulf you and soar to new heights
When you feel doubt do not falter
Be assured that I will hold you dear forever

Oh, where or where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadnt driven very far
There in the road, straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sounds that night
The cryin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I heard last

Oh, where or where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

When I woke up the rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm running in my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head she looked at me and said
hold me darling for a little while
I held her close I kissed her out last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
Now she's gone, even through I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night

It's not enough to have a dream
unless i'm willing to pursue it-

It's not enough to know what's right
unless I'm strong enough to do it-

It's not enough to join the crowd,
to be acknowledged and accepted-

I must be true to my ideals,
even if i'm excluded and rejected-

It's not enough to learn the truth
unless I also learn to live it-

It's not enough to reach for love
unless I care enough to give it.

I keep my paint brush with me
Wherever I may go,
In case I need to cover up
So the real me doesn't show.
I'm so afraid to show you me,
Afraid of what you'll do--that
You might laugh or say mean things.
I'm afraid I might lose you.

I'd like to remove all my paint coats
To show you the real, true me,
But I want you to try and understand,
I need you to accept what you see.
So if you'll be patient and close your eyes,
I'll strip off all my coats real slow.
Please understand how much it hurts
To let the real me show.

Now my coats are all stripped off.
I feel naked, bare and cold,
And if you still love me with all that you see,
You are my friend, pure as gold.
I need to save my paintbrush, though,
And hold it in my hand,
I want to keep it handy
In case somebody doesn't understand.
So please protect me, my dear friend
And thanks for loving me true,
But please let me keep my paintbrush with me
Until I love me, too.

I had a friend who died one day
who left me alone and went away
never saying goodbye again
leaving my life and going away
now, time has passed and we've all grown up
I can't imagine you ever waking up
you shot yourself right in the head
maybe you were just better off dead
oh, how I've missed you so
it's too bad that you'll never know
why did you have to go?
Oh God, I'm sounding like Edgar Allan Poe
I wrote this poem for you my friend
But it's not even worth it because you're dead
so I'll wrap it up and put it away
hoping you'll still come back someday
I feel so dead inside my soul
my body feels like one big hole
I'll stop right now, and write more later
goodbye for now, I'll see ya alligator

I didn't think I would feel this way, again
  All I wanted was a kind word,
    a gentle touch,
      a friend
How did he get past my stone wall,
and straight to my heart
All I wanted was a friend,
right from the start
I must have let my guards down,
and he came right on in
Turned my frown to a smile
My bitterness to content
My emptiness was filled
My attitude toward men, different
And, all I wanted was a friend

I finally found someone,
to spend my whole life long.
I finally found someone,
but now my loved one's gone.
I finally found someone,
with a smile to melt my heart.
I finally found someone,
but now I find we're far apart.
I finally found someone,
to make a joke when I am sad.
I finally found someone,
but now that joke turned bad.
To finally find someone,
you know you want to stay.
To have him leave you suddenly,
Is unbearable in every way.
So when you finally find someone,
to keep you happy, all the day.
Say a little prayer for him,
And hope that he will stay.

You've stood by me when I needed a friend
You were always there for me day or night
You always knew just what to say or do
You always made things right.
You never asked questions
You never picked a fight
You were there to care for me
You never left my sight
You will always be special
You will always be my friend
You know I will love you to the end.

Even thought it's hard to explain the way I feel inside,
Remember I'll love you 'til the day I die.
We are going down a long rough road,
In the end my heart to you I've sold.
If I had only one wish,
It would be the touch of your tender lips.
There is a feeling running deep inside,
That can only stop when our hearts collide.
Even though it's hard to explain the way I feel inside,
Remember I'll love you til the day I die.

and Stuff

Masks

We all wear masks. Some have more than others and we may wear them at different times, but we all have them. People act different at work than they do at home, and they act different online than they do in life.

Living

Never let people tell you how to live your life. People like that are unhappy with their own and want to live yours for you. You are your own person, so go out and be who you want to be.

The Road of Life

One night I dreamt that I was walking alone down the road of life. The road ahead was rocky and very mountainous. The road behind me was flat with very few rocks. I stopped for a second on this road, looked around and realized the reason for the change. A sign next to the road read: Congratulations on Graduating. I looked to the other side of the road to see a sign that read: Welcome to the real world. Just before I starting walking again, someone stumbled up behind me. She tripped and almost fell, but I managed to catch her. I helped her back to her feet and we talked for a while. I paused for a second and realized that I was at a crossroads. The road she had taken was already bumpy and hilly with a few pot holes. I looked at where her path was going and noticed it was too dark for me to see anything. We both decided to take a short break on our roads of life and chatted with each other. We got to know each other pretty well and exchanged ideas, gifts, and other simple things. When we got back up to continue on our journeys we only saw one road. It was still rocky but the hills wernt so bad. Taking her by the hand, we started down the road together and into the hills and valleys of life. It was then that I realized life is much easier to live if there is someone there to live it with.

Love is...

I feel that if you really love someone that you should be able to step back and let them do what they need to do. whether it be find themself, have personal space or whatever. "true love waits" I feel it applies in many instances. If you truly love someone you will wait for them. You will be able to wait until the time is right before entering any kind of relationship other than friendship.....

also, because Love is such a complex emotion which sorta kinda involves other emotions, its important to know if you truly love someone. love is many many things. and many different things to different people. but I feel that you have to be able to talk to the person for hours if not days on end with out getting tired, you can sit with them and stare at absoulutly nothing, thinking of nothing but them.....

love is more than a soft touch, or a warm kiss, its being there when stuff happens, its holding them when they cry, its giving them the space to try new things for themselves when they ask, and then helping them succeed, its being there to catch them when they fall, helping them pick up the pieces from mistakes they've made

Soliloquy - from Evangelion-R

Know this, know that there is mortality in every moment. The living infinity of possibilities ceases and dies and stirs no more and we are left with what we have become. But despair of this knowledge can do us no good and there is yet cause to hope. There may still be time enough for dreams and love if the apparitions of the past can be dispelled. For there is no betrayal more cruel than that of one that enslaves himself to the morbid past and loses the best of what he might have gained to the savoring of sorrow. Be not afraid and with glad arms embrace life. Its myriad pleasures and discontents. For, there can be nothing of happiness but that we hazard despair.

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