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Date Posted: 13:15:59 08/23/05 Tue
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: dsl-80-43-165-118.access.as9105.com / 80.43.165.118
Subject: Re: Wake Up, Little Boy, Come and Play
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "Wake Up, Little Boy, Come and Play" on 10:52:30 08/14/05 Sun

I particularly liked the last two stanzas, added depth to the poem. Not sure about the title though :)

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>Wake Up, Little Boy, Come and Play
>
>Men of dreams don't
>Take their life easy
>Though it may often
>Seem that they do.
>
>They may dance and sing
>Raucous in drunken crowds;
>Or stay in the corner
>Muttering loose chants of loss.
>
>They may always talk of cost,
>But never action,
>As the world falls around them,
>As they reach for the sky.
>
>They may die in the world,
>Still walking,
>With one step for love,
>With one step for waiting...
>
>But they may not
>Escape their thoughts,
>And the insulting noise
>Of nothing...
>
>Out there, growling...
>While they wish they were
>Sleeping.
>
>-Gray Squirrel

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