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Weave your web of destiny
Around my heart and pay no heed
To the thorns along the way
Tis my only way of staying safe
From one who speaks with lover's pride
And speaks me promises filled with lies
That dragon who sees me as his gold
Ever to hoard; never to hold


© 1991-2010 Samantha Greene

I started this one a long time ago, and now I have no idea where I was going with it...

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What fits we fought when we were young
With souls so pure and hearts so strong
We genuises in our naivete
We saw the world with such clarity
But chained within our selfish thoughts
We passed up wars we should have fought
And now become the mindless pawns
We were too righteous to look upon

© 1991-2009 Samantha Greene

Another Flashback

So, my dad was cleaning some stuff out of one of his buildings and found some of my old things. Some old books that I thought were long gone and such, but he also found a very old poem. Not the greatest thing I've ever written, but what makes me remember it is how it was written. You see, it was an English assignment (seventh or eighth grade I think). We spent an entire week in the library, and we were supposed to be doing research to write a poem on the Civil War. So all the kids spent hours looking up dates and trying to make them rhyme, while I wrote mine in ten minutes and goofed off the rest of the time. (No surprise, huh?) The funny thing is, I'm the only one that got an A....and then they published it in the school paper. LOL Hmm...wonder what would have happened if I'd actually put some effort into it? ;) Well, here it is:

Shades of Blue and Grey

The Blue and the Grey
Shall clash this day
In a bloody war
Over field and moor

And in the field
Blood freely flows
A last stand is made
As the sunset glows

The land bleeds blood
Of soldier's pride
Brothers fight boldly
Yet on different sides

To clash together
One grim day
Grey with Blue
Blue with Grey

At Gettysburg
The fought and fell
The battlefield became
A living hell

The Grey has lost
The Blue has won
And now the end
Has finally begun

No one really wins
Though you see
Not the Blue and Grant
Not the Grey and Lee

For both will fight
Again some day
In shades of Blue
And shades of Grey

Fall 1992

© 1991-2009 Samantha Greene