Tag: people
member name: Bethany C.
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January 14, 2008 03:37 PM EST --
The world is full
Of hurting people--
People who reach
For something more.
I cry to God,
"You know I want to be
More than I am.
To heal, to save
Everybody." . . .
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June 23, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
Imaginary people
are so much easier to deal
with than real ones.
When imaginary people
come to visit, they leave
at the appropriate time.
Their children don't call you
"Help, . . .
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July 26, 2008 11:59 PM EDT --
You are my people.
Perhaps there is no
Kinship of the flesh.
No common goals,
Ideals, or beliefs.
Perhaps you do not
Look like me or act
The way I feel is right.
Maybe you don't . . .
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February 10, 2008 05:03 PM EST --
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:24 AM EDT --
So much I want to share with you!
Things, sometimes sad, I hold inside.
Depths of hurts unexpressed, unallowed,
Threaten the dynamics of who we are
And what we mean to one another.
Some thoughts . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
I take heart when I see the love of God
Shining in the eyes of others.
I think to myself, Ah, yes, there is hope;
That hope I see in the eyes of a child.
I try hard to let the love shine from . . .
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June 25, 2008 11:40 PM EDT --
Believe it or not, I used to be a C-store manager. Not the perfect manager, but, I like to think, not the worst. At least, people kept paying me to do it.
As a manager, . . .
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June 07, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
I wish I would just stop sometimes!
This urge to always, always, always
Try to make people understand one another!
More often than not, I step into the breach
With the 'bestest' of . . .
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June 19, 2008 06:27 PM EDT --
I've had such a life!
It reads more like fiction
Than the truth.
Or it would, should I write
The whole of it, but I know better.
Already, people look at me in doubt.
Were I to tell . . .
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July 05, 2008 05:57 PM EDT --
I know that holding grudges
Is the behavior of immature and weak
People. I refuse to do it.
I am too mature, I tell myself.
I should act normal. Gracious. Sane.
. . .
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July 27, 2008 04:57 PM EDT --
Big words.
They sound so beautiful.
I love to use them
(After I've looked them up
To discover what they mean!)
Sometimes I mispronounce them
Sometimes my friends use them
And I don't . . .
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June 30, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
You know, I get to thinking sometimes
About how everywhere is a nice place to visit
But you wouldn't want to live there.
I've been many places in my life and
Each time I arrived, I was . . .
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July 06, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
We all want to look good to people.
To those who, we think, matter.
In public we try to act as if we've never
Done anything wrong in our lives.
A person . . .
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June 16, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
My daughter, Heather, was telling me her gas-station-frog experience one night when she stopped by on her way home from work. She said she put her hand down on top of one of those yellow-painted poles . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
We're not just your ordinary people.
We try to blend in. We try
To see the world the way you must,
But we are the Others.
We march to the tune of a different
Drummer. Our . . .
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August 03, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Carefully, I make my way across a great divide
It's difficult to span it, but I must.
I need to let you know how much I care,
Yet still cannot allow for you to think
That I condone the things . . .
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May 10, 2008 04:15 AM EDT --
Sometimes I just say words. Or write them. Whatever.
Sometimes it's like a baby talking. A whole lot of nonsense, but it makes people smile.
Sometimes it is very . . .
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December 15, 2007 04:35 AM EST --
Just a quick smile in passing,
Not much effort at all,
Maybe a half-second of your time
Little did you know...
I was at the end of my rope
And slipping fast
I . . .
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August 15, 2008 12:51 PM EDT --
Lord, why do I
Do so many of
The things I do?
I want to do
So much better
Not because I,
As I might, fear
Eternal damnation.
But just because
I love you so
And I love people. . . .
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December 01, 2008 07:25 PM EST --
"I love you!" I call out as he walks by.
Is this the crumb I throw him
To sop my conscience?
I do love him.
But I am busy.
Busy being so much
To so many people
That . . .
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