<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:17:10.182-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poems</title><subtitle type='html'>Poems by me or others. All poems by me are Copyrighted &amp;copy;2003</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-107771822896907416</id><published>2004-02-25T06:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-05-17T19:43:19.883-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>   &lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Golden Lantern&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though enwrapped&lt;br /&gt;Within this darkness&lt;br /&gt;I see your light and weep&lt;br /&gt;As this pain melts away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cold ice returns when you leave my side.&lt;br /&gt;The burning Phoenix weeps as we are&lt;br /&gt;Pulled apart and torn away&lt;br /&gt;From our destiny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be without you is to be&lt;br /&gt;Lifeless. My only hope for&lt;br /&gt;Resurrection is the hope that&lt;br /&gt;We shall live to see each other in th&lt;br /&gt;Coming moments within this&lt;br /&gt;Burning cavern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you leave my side, all the&lt;br /&gt;Lights go out. My pain is only gouged&lt;br /&gt;By the lack of your embrace&lt;br /&gt;But I know the world also needs you,&lt;br /&gt;For you are the Eternal Angel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Always giving life to the lifeless.&lt;br /&gt;Always weeping for the world.&lt;br /&gt;Always showing mercy to those who have been&lt;br /&gt;Unworthy of your love.&lt;br /&gt;I am unworthy of such love and beauty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All I feel is a burning light within my black&lt;br /&gt;And broken soul.&lt;br /&gt;You are my dream full of sweet visions.&lt;br /&gt;You are everything to me and this cruel world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-107771822896907416?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/107771822896907416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/107771822896907416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107771822896907416' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105646904833262985</id><published>2003-06-24T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-06-24T08:37:28.260-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Black Roses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growing in a field of misery&lt;br /&gt;In a desolate world.&lt;br /&gt;I find an angel weeping for me&lt;br /&gt;As I stumble upon this field&lt;br /&gt;Of black roses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is there to lose?&lt;br /&gt;Now that my disintegrating soul&lt;br /&gt;Is no more. Picking these roses&lt;br /&gt;Fills my quota. My quota of newfound&lt;br /&gt;Pain that can never feel as horrible and torturous as life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 I have picked.&lt;br /&gt;One for each Deadly Sin.&lt;br /&gt;As I drift now further&lt;br /&gt;In this field of black roses&lt;br /&gt;My heart is joyus to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that forever more,&lt;br /&gt;To the Universe and beyond,&lt;br /&gt;I shall be known not as&lt;br /&gt;A lost soul who wept for humankind,&lt;br /&gt;But as the Soul of the Black Roses.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105646904833262985?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105646904833262985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105646904833262985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_archive.html#105646904833262985' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105382719796093536</id><published>2003-05-24T18:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-24T18:46:37.673-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Escape&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOES it matter?---living to see the next day?...&lt;br /&gt;For people are always mourning,&lt;br /&gt;The deaths of those who kept living&lt;br /&gt;As they stood by never seeing your pain&lt;br /&gt;Whilst they played their games all day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does it matter?---living to see the horror?...&lt;br /&gt;There’s so much that can make you cry;&lt;br /&gt;And people never see you die,&lt;br /&gt;When they come to you what you may gain&lt;br /&gt;As you leave them to their own terror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do they matter?---the very ones who laugh?...&lt;br /&gt;You can try and escape from their guises,&lt;br /&gt;But they will always succeed when left to their own devices;&lt;br /&gt;For they know they’ll never be sought&lt;br /&gt;And no one will see you in your blood bath.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105382719796093536?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105382719796093536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105382719796093536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105382719796093536' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105329389683009984</id><published>2003-05-18T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-18T14:38:16.873-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Your Memories Pain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standing within my void&lt;br /&gt;Full of despair, misery, and crazed&lt;br /&gt;Happiness never found. As I burn&lt;br /&gt;My candle, I float upon these&lt;br /&gt;Hollow waters. My Soul is now yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My tears fueling my despair and&lt;br /&gt;My flight within your world. The&lt;br /&gt;Absence of faith, the absence of love,&lt;br /&gt;The absence of my mourning soul.&lt;br /&gt;My heart is now yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't come near me, I cannot be&lt;br /&gt;Saved from your red tears that&lt;br /&gt;Has given me death. Do not weep,&lt;br /&gt;My wounds heal only with this black&lt;br /&gt;Sea's tortures. My Soul is now yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lay now far from your world&lt;br /&gt;In your heart my memory turns black&lt;br /&gt;And unforgotten. My heart is now yours.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105329389683009984?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105329389683009984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105329389683009984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105329389683009984' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105190813810652016</id><published>2003-05-02T13:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-02T13:42:18.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;My Sweet Angel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Death. What is Death?&lt;br /&gt;Death is a euphoric release of pain.&lt;br /&gt;The Sweet Angel with beautiful, black and red&lt;br /&gt;Velvet wings that comes bearing the Divine Gift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many do not see my pain.&lt;br /&gt;As I sit here looking stoic and calm,&lt;br /&gt;Inside I feel only pain and wish so mush&lt;br /&gt;To cry all my pain away, but the brutality is so endless&lt;br /&gt;That it would be impossible to ever release it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't see me, you don't even know I'm&lt;br /&gt;Here. For all this blood that runs in me&lt;br /&gt;Wants out, yet this beautiful vampire will not, ...&lt;br /&gt;Come to me my love, my life only holds&lt;br /&gt;Pain that could be so easily severed by your estatic bite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet you don't seem to want to relinquish to me that treasured&lt;br /&gt;And divine gift that you give out to so many&lt;br /&gt;Who don't even see your powers and effects as a gift,&lt;br /&gt;But as a curse which must, at all costs, be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;But I see your true magick and healing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I lay here with my back to the wind,&lt;br /&gt;I see the world of happiness that lay beyond.&lt;br /&gt;I drift into peaceful sleep and dream of you.&lt;br /&gt;I turn, falling deeper and deeper into the eternal sleep.&lt;br /&gt;I am finally free.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105190813810652016?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190813810652016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190813810652016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105190813810652016' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105190802493347173</id><published>2003-05-02T13:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-02T13:40:24.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Among the Darkness&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treasures among the darkness&lt;br /&gt;That guide me through this strange dream&lt;br /&gt;That has trapped me within the unknown&lt;br /&gt;And deliver me to your side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You smile and reach for my hand.&lt;br /&gt;Yet I am still lost all alone and as&lt;br /&gt;I search your face, I see only a&lt;br /&gt;Void. You love not me, I realize, but...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My cruel enemy has captured you in her trap.&lt;br /&gt;Why fall to her trickery when I am right here by your side?&lt;br /&gt;With your own soul, mine yearns to be, yet you push me away.&lt;br /&gt;And I fall further and further into this void full of fears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We slip away and as I try to&lt;br /&gt;Come back, you turn away and&lt;br /&gt;Go towards her, the one filled&lt;br /&gt;With poison so potent it could destroy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worlds apart and worlds together.&lt;br /&gt;As I awaken from this horrid nightmare,&lt;br /&gt;I see you by my side, I feel you,&lt;br /&gt;I hear you breathing, I continue loving you.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105190802493347173?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190802493347173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190802493347173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105190802493347173' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105190796794678375</id><published>2003-05-02T13:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-18T14:39:12.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Divine Forbidden Dream&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I lay here&lt;br /&gt;With my eyes locked away from the world&lt;br /&gt;Drifting slowly into that&lt;br /&gt;State of true meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder what may lie&lt;br /&gt;Within that divine realm of&lt;br /&gt;Knowledge untapped by so many&lt;br /&gt;Souls who thirst for its truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To my surprise I see only &lt;br /&gt;Your face and feel only your undying&lt;br /&gt;Love which is unbreakable by any span of&lt;br /&gt;Time that would otherwise demolish all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I dream of us being together,&lt;br /&gt;Within myself I know that it could&lt;br /&gt;Never be, for you love not me, as I love you,&lt;br /&gt;But some other spirit who does not appreciate your...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True divinity and priceless value that is&lt;br /&gt;Coveted by my aching heart which will&lt;br /&gt;Not obey my mind. It only yearns for your&lt;br /&gt;Soul that seems so far from my grasp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wake me please, from this forbidden heaven and hell.&lt;br /&gt;For I fear if I stay here, I may never return to your world.&lt;br /&gt;by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105190796794678375?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190796794678375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190796794678375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105190796794678375' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105190785852716311</id><published>2003-05-02T13:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-02T13:37:38.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Darkness&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I crawl in the darkness&lt;br /&gt;My heart and my soul guide me&lt;br /&gt;Through all the pain and undeserved&lt;br /&gt;Punishment that is given out so quickly by you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I struggle in this materialistic&lt;br /&gt;World that seems to care nothing&lt;br /&gt;About its future. This world which&lt;br /&gt;Brings those who have progressed so far, down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I lay here looking up at the sky,&lt;br /&gt;I wonder whether anyone else has&lt;br /&gt;Found my sanity, lost for so long.&lt;br /&gt;Now I must seek those who may understand...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have grown within this body&lt;br /&gt;That everything happening is not by chance,&lt;br /&gt;But that we must turn away from our busy&lt;br /&gt;Preoccupations that hold us back from our spiritual evolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not leave my side for&lt;br /&gt;You are my only hope left in this&lt;br /&gt;Universe, so vast and endless,&lt;br /&gt;That will not seem to answer.&lt;br /&gt;                   by me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105190785852716311?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190785852716311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190785852716311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105190785852716311' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349401.post-105190774894598687</id><published>2003-05-02T13:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-02T13:35:48.900-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;The Treasure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treasures are gifts.&lt;br /&gt;Treasures are valuable.&lt;br /&gt;Treasures are extraordinary.&lt;br /&gt;Treasures are rare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are a treasure of this world.&lt;br /&gt;A rare find with value beyond knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;Do not tarnish yourself,&lt;br /&gt;You will only turn to junk like so many others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over these years you will become even rarer.&lt;br /&gt;Though you may leave my grasp,&lt;br /&gt;I can see your beauty growing&lt;br /&gt;As an ancient, treasured wine grows in taste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not leave me without the knowledge that&lt;br /&gt;You are special, you are unique, you are a source of wealth&lt;br /&gt;Beyond the vastness of the Universe and its dimensions.&lt;br /&gt;You are my treasure.&lt;br /&gt;                     By me&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5349401-105190774894598687?l=merai.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190774894598687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5349401/posts/default/105190774894598687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merai.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html#105190774894598687' title=''/><author><name>Alyson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16408686492830051952</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
