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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flower Buds-Skylar's Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I live sometimes on the Bitter Edge<br>and peer out, <br>stretching my arms; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll never really jump <br>but<br>the abyss below<br>excites me.<br>Then<br>I withdraw<br>retreating from the Leap<br>to be<br>that quiet me, <br>reserved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I live sometimes and sip<br>hatefulness<br>because I have become used to it; <br>It's my familiar brew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am sometimes all alone; <br>its part of my identify now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder tremblingly<br>how I can re-trace<br>my steps<br>back to what<br>some have <br>called my Old Happy Self.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Edge is pain.<br>I understand it's so; <br>so pain now seems stronger<br>than that scant happiness in my past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This war rages; <br>Edgeness and Past Happiness<br>both ooze into my consciousness<br>at odd hours.<br>I feel them in the 3am Struggle Hour</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where Edge makes the surge<br>and Happiness cowers<br>where Happiness sometimes<br>dissolves<br>surging Edge demons<br>who sulk and retreat<br>making promises<br>next night to be<br>again in the Warring Mix.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I will sit here metaphorically <br>and see the blood<br>dripping free-<br>dripping into that crimson abyss<br>that so attracts me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it fear that grips you; <br>that prevents you from<br>backing away from the Edge<br>that harms you.? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are you in the War For Your Soul? <br>You are the third factor<br>which could prove decisive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are not the Edge or the Happiness; <br>you are the human who can direct<br>the ebb and flow.<br>You are the Captain of your own Soul<br>not the cork floating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>suppress the urge to cowardice<br>and say: <br>I really prefer to stand on <br>a Happy Path; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">because you know<br>you will not <br>find Light in Darkness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said: <br>Dark is a branch-less tree<br>solo standing<br>in a waterless sea; <br>it has no roots; <br>its a single barren pole<br>silhouetted against gray sky; <br>but add just a little light beam<br>and flower buds peek out <br>their little heads<br>and ask which direction to high sky; <br>don't tell them to go back down<br>to Dark Ground<br>they are buds<br>and they need light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So do you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do this over and over again<br>til one day<br>you'll be Dark only sometimes; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but most times<br>you'll learn to walk in the Light, <br>little flower buds<br>at your feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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'I live sometimes on the Bitter Edge
and peer out, 
stretching my arms; 

I'll never really jump 
but
the abyss below
excites me.
Then
I withdraw
retreating from the Leap
to be
that quiet me, 
reserved.

I live sometimes and sip
hatefu..."></div>
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