urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:naked_as_day what I want is not to want what isn't mine ~:~Malissa~:~ 2004-03-16T20:14:33Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:naked_as_day:2957 2004-03-16T20:14:33Z 2004-03-16T20:14:33Z The Air Near My Fingers- The White Stripes See me as you see me<br />Know me as you know me<br />But I am always more than this<br />I am always above the tide<br />I am never raising the white flag<br />Call me as you call me<br />Believe me as you believe me<br />But I am always crouching low<br />I am always pulling<br />The knives from my back<br />I am never raising the white flag.<br />Destroy me as you would try to<br />Disect me as you would try to<br />But I am always singing<br />I'm always rewriting my tune<br />Growing and changing into something more<br />I am never raising my white flag. <br /><br />~:~Malissa~:~<br /><br /><br />For but not to Sue. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:naked_as_day:1453 2004-01-27T22:04:40Z 2004-01-27T22:05:21Z Chip away at the stone ~aerosmith A little pointless Poem I wrote. <br /><br /><u>If not me</u><br /><br /><br /><br />You tell me I repeat myself too much. <br />And I tell you it's because you aren't listening.<br />That cigarette dangling from your lips will only last you so long. <br />And then what will satiate your need?<br />It's not always what it's cracked up to be. <br />This thing we call living. <br />These things we call dreams. <br />Lines get too faded.<br />Borders blend with borders. <br />And I still stare at you, wondering what you were meant to be. <br />Do you regret it all now? <br />Would you take it back if you could? <br />Did you realize your time was passing by you so quickly?<br />How many times did you chastise me for being who I wanted to be?<br />For doing what I wanted to do? <br />And now you envy me. <br />And now you wish you could be. <br />That you could have been. <br />I will never pretend to know anything about the things I reap. <br />The things I sow. <br />There are a million worlds between what I want and what I have. <br />But I am not unhappy. <br />I am not regret. <br />I learn from you, like I learn from so many others. <br />From the things they have been through. <br />From the things they didn't get to. <br />And I don't understand how you can just be your love for him. <br />I don't understand how you can just be a relationship. <br />A part of something knowing you are nothing on your own. <br />I know you want me to be this thing. <br />This definition you see fit. <br />But that isn't how I work. <br />That isn't how I breath. <br />I am no one if not me. <br /><br />~:~Malissa~:~ urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:naked_as_day:312 2004-01-24T21:10:54Z 2004-01-24T21:10:54Z "Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."<br /><br />- Ludwig van Beethoven