<?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-9277330</id><updated>2012-01-05T23:36:28.080+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pretend Poet</title><subtitle type='html'>It is time, to pretend.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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>84</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-6101891128422282824</id><published>2012-01-05T23:30:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T23:30:46.835+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a note.</title><content type='html'>Eyebrows can crease&lt;br /&gt;How painful it must be to see a frown;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or how lifting it must feel for the cellist&lt;br /&gt;His high notes meet the frown to ecstasy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How liberating it must feel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-6101891128422282824?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/6101891128422282824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=6101891128422282824&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6101891128422282824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6101891128422282824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-note.html' title='Just a note.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-2799356649464551316</id><published>2012-01-05T23:24:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T23:25:33.625+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ten-fold.</title><content type='html'>The artist is reveled, his suffering poured into this art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What of the common Man, his suffering now ten-fold, forever confined to his head?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-2799356649464551316?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/2799356649464551316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=2799356649464551316&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2799356649464551316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2799356649464551316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-will-you-do.html' title='Ten-fold.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-9207902416527024727</id><published>2012-01-05T23:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T23:19:55.983+08:00</updated><title type='text'>We forget; do remember.</title><content type='html'>We weep and weep&lt;br /&gt;reprieve is not quite near&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet we remember majesty&lt;br /&gt;for the stars though there before&lt;br /&gt;were never seen until man&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-9207902416527024727?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/9207902416527024727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=9207902416527024727&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/9207902416527024727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/9207902416527024727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-forget-do-remember.html' title='We forget; do remember.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-2502311077152238017</id><published>2010-10-29T12:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T12:22:26.981+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wither.</title><content type='html'>"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to  replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It  dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of  tarnishing." - &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Anaïs Nin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-2502311077152238017?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/2502311077152238017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=2502311077152238017&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2502311077152238017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2502311077152238017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2010/10/wither.html' title='Wither.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-7757694508804352604</id><published>2009-10-16T13:23:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T13:25:26.621+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Listless</title><content type='html'>How fallible, the human will is&lt;br /&gt;How malleable, the human ego is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even in my dreams, it rains.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-7757694508804352604?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/7757694508804352604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=7757694508804352604&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7757694508804352604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7757694508804352604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2009/10/listless.html' title='Listless'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-8962248611050029717</id><published>2009-02-03T19:24:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T19:30:39.197+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Detachment.</title><content type='html'>Singing my power, my pleasure, my pain,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to tune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raising an eyebrow in its inherent mistake,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now immune.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-8962248611050029717?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/8962248611050029717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=8962248611050029717&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8962248611050029717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8962248611050029717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2009/02/detachment.html' title='Detachment.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-8073449258345827518</id><published>2009-01-28T00:58:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T19:31:31.908+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A plea!</title><content type='html'>I am mortified by the merest of thoughts, of losing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a moment of jest, parts played perfectly by the muscle in my chest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The court jesters jingles a tune,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I sing in glee, and now you will see!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Haha! hehee! You shall never be free!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For you NEVER had her, you see!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Like a fool he makes a plea!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A plea a plea! Is there nothing more pathetic than thee!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;"You fool! You fool! You insignificant fool!"&lt;br /&gt;"you fool! You fool! You insignificant fool!"&lt;br /&gt;"You fool you fool you fool you fool..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-8073449258345827518?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/8073449258345827518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=8073449258345827518&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8073449258345827518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8073449258345827518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2009/01/plea.html' title='A plea!'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-7915402816949662335</id><published>2008-06-17T22:04:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-17T22:11:32.466+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Indelible.</title><content type='html'>Angular lines cut my vision&lt;br /&gt;white walls aplenty&lt;br /&gt;treading on wet gravel&lt;br /&gt;upper lip stung by the icy air&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is a reason for me&lt;br /&gt;scarf fluttering in the breeze&lt;br /&gt;the unforgiving night blinding&lt;br /&gt;a little tenderness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;therefore and yet i have&lt;br /&gt;solemn and solo and sobriquet&lt;br /&gt;echoing footsteps lead the dream&lt;br /&gt;its taken its time to pierce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its been too long now&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-7915402816949662335?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/7915402816949662335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=7915402816949662335&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7915402816949662335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7915402816949662335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2008/06/indelible.html' title='Indelible.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-3257351012407188091</id><published>2008-06-07T15:08:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T15:10:46.595+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Break the water; Mould the sky.</title><content type='html'>The harbour becomes the sea,&lt;br /&gt;will the water leave me be;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i wonder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only now, and awhile,&lt;br /&gt;i will see reflection in ripples;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and ponder.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-3257351012407188091?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/3257351012407188091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=3257351012407188091&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/3257351012407188091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/3257351012407188091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2008/06/break-water-mould-sky.html' title='Break the water; Mould the sky.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-3601969886656362675</id><published>2008-05-27T22:48:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T00:00:03.423+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Assure.</title><content type='html'>You cannot tell the wind's calm,&lt;br /&gt;till the leaves dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For thy breath is ease,&lt;br /&gt;and my lust is appeased&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swirls of sand tease,&lt;br /&gt;and slip through your hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For thou art mine temptress;&lt;br /&gt;they welcome my pleasures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sit beside and let the flame flicker,&lt;br /&gt;touch my eyes and say beguiler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;twirl my curls and speak in soft manner,&lt;br /&gt;i see brown eyes and have no answer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i wish she wished,&lt;br /&gt;i wished she wished&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i gaze incessantly so would i be out of line,&lt;br /&gt;close your eyes and i'll close mine&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-3601969886656362675?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/3601969886656362675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=3601969886656362675&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/3601969886656362675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/3601969886656362675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2008/05/azure-assure.html' title='Assure.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-7649063754404885670</id><published>2008-03-11T21:29:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T21:42:00.514+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A sight to see.</title><content type='html'>I say her and she says we.&lt;br /&gt;If only you, if only she.&lt;br /&gt;Monotone miasma, chaos theory.&lt;br /&gt;Tied in a knot, and now i am free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that gaze and i know that posture. I know why the finger on your temple and i know why the slight smile. Taut thighs ease, as you uncross your legs, dainty steps lead your hands to my chest. Your chin stabs at the back of my neck at your first hug, and those curls in your hair tickle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do i smile through my eyes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sight is hardly on your being, yet i tell your every move. In your world, only i have sight. In my world, you have learnt to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do i smile through my eyes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only she can tell, because only you can see my effortless mystery. Unveiled by you, whom i so easily see. Who better to be beaten by, then you, who is me. In essence. You are where i've been, where i am and where i have yet to go. You willingly touch these hands, knowingly touching sin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What more can i want, my love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Only more of you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-7649063754404885670?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/7649063754404885670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=7649063754404885670&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7649063754404885670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/7649063754404885670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2008/03/sight-to-see.html' title='A sight to see.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-5820724617542053958</id><published>2007-12-10T22:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T22:32:09.778+08:00</updated><title type='text'>How can it feel this wrong?</title><content type='html'>no one loves me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no need for winding walkways&lt;br /&gt;the plea is full of hollow meaning&lt;br /&gt;walk the frozen identities&lt;br /&gt;and pretend in its sparkling beauty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;follow me. and you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;warmth is a state of mind&lt;br /&gt;frivolous for a lifestyle&lt;br /&gt;break away the longing&lt;br /&gt;and bury the chasing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;enough. really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feeling and not feeling and feeling and no-&lt;br /&gt;stop. knife me in please.&lt;br /&gt;can something feel this wrong&lt;br /&gt;and of course i see it. we all know&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes we do. we do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sensuality in eloquence in sanguine sex&lt;br /&gt;this moment, is not for me and you&lt;br /&gt;in coitus i care and caress for a cure&lt;br /&gt;straining for another way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no one loves me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not like you do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-5820724617542053958?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/5820724617542053958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=5820724617542053958&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/5820724617542053958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/5820724617542053958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-can-it-feel-this-wrong.html' title='How can it feel this wrong?'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-9160859346657913990</id><published>2007-10-07T01:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-07T02:06:23.202+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Walkways and trees.</title><content type='html'>Red leaves and dandelion seeds&lt;br /&gt;walkways of gravel and rust&lt;br /&gt;swaying water and floating boats&lt;br /&gt;the tree bark rough but serene&lt;br /&gt;in essence of,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moments are undeniable&lt;br /&gt;facing forward friendly flowers&lt;br /&gt;touch them. petals are plush.&lt;br /&gt;more i say. more. much more.&lt;br /&gt;mother,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you wait for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melancholic milieu&lt;br /&gt;monotone miasma&lt;br /&gt;multitude of mirage's&lt;br /&gt;made in malevolence&lt;br /&gt;makeshift form,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sometimes, dreams take.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supine&lt;br /&gt;the sky in cyan&lt;br /&gt;this disposition is permanent&lt;br /&gt;as whispers in silence&lt;br /&gt;however,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you think it to be. In several.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bloody wind, she thinks.&lt;br /&gt;O princess, thy will is thy wish&lt;br /&gt;grass is soft again&lt;br /&gt;daydream falters yet again&lt;br /&gt;peace,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a state of mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it is nullified.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-9160859346657913990?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/9160859346657913990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=9160859346657913990&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/9160859346657913990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/9160859346657913990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/10/walkways-and-trees.html' title='Walkways and trees.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-6209302465357227277</id><published>2007-10-07T01:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-07T01:33:16.473+08:00</updated><title type='text'>You, then i.</title><content type='html'>There she is&lt;br /&gt;i saw you in reflections of a confession&lt;br /&gt;There she is again&lt;br /&gt;i saw you in retractions of a revelation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Endorphin's are magic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dream in escapsims&lt;br /&gt;wrought with peril and assumptions&lt;br /&gt;aged she is in her time&lt;br /&gt;cry over ripples will you&lt;br /&gt;so then,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so i.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inanimate and bursts with epiphany&lt;br /&gt;strings vibrate and calm&lt;br /&gt;silence is met with red eyes&lt;br /&gt;i am he, and you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peel away the veil&lt;br /&gt;caress with conviction and callousness&lt;br /&gt;you then cease to exist&lt;br /&gt;make it simple, easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vermillion sufferings, i suffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With and without thought&lt;br /&gt;i wish and you wish&lt;br /&gt;misty fields of trees and wind&lt;br /&gt;this frost is not enough,&lt;br /&gt;in solace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You then i, in place of we.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-6209302465357227277?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/6209302465357227277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=6209302465357227277&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6209302465357227277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6209302465357227277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/10/you-then-i.html' title='You, then i.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-5644333862360497328</id><published>2007-08-28T22:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-28T22:40:41.235+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>You have reached, a broken yet whole person.&lt;br /&gt;Leave your inhibitions and typecasting behind.&lt;br /&gt;I will get back to your judgments another day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If i am not asleep for now&lt;br /&gt;If i am not thinking aloud&lt;br /&gt;If i am not taking a bow&lt;br /&gt;Or you incessantly asking me how&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you even realise the connotations in my words? Or the lies you want me to speak so lightly of?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not know love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realise these moments in time are incoherent. Well, i am afraid i cannot help you there love, since the thoughts in my head has lost the cohesion and i can only remember less and less and thats one of the drawbacks of deteriorating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or dying, if you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;fuck this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-5644333862360497328?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/5644333862360497328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=5644333862360497328&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/5644333862360497328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/5644333862360497328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/08/you-have-reached-broken-yet-whole.html' title=''/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-8115181506207483611</id><published>2007-06-28T23:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T23:33:20.348+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thief of days.</title><content type='html'>So i see now i have lost you in the bleak wilderness. Will you not stop your egoistical ascension to the almighty ruler and just remain in my grasp?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that i have your attention, i can see to it that my words of enamour will reach your ears unhindered by outside influences. I only crave an audience to thy blindness, your highness. Refrain from slouching on your throne too long my love, for the aching in your neck is not from the prolonged dis-position, but the absence of my caress to divert your chaotic war in your chest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has it been so long? So long that you fail to question my ineptitude?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when i forcefully wrote a script to feign this state of mind. I know. I am supposed to shower you with words that bring meaning to the words ardent passion. I know. I will admit, my love, i am crumbling away and you still fail to see. I cannot willfully fool myself to accept shackles that gives birth to nothing. I have forgotten already, how i am passionate over your smell, and at peace with your caress. My memory falters now that i have lost you in this blizzard you have called forth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All i know is at an end. All you know, is to depend.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-8115181506207483611?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/8115181506207483611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=8115181506207483611&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8115181506207483611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/8115181506207483611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/06/thief-of-days.html' title='Thief of days.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-2171756484217369132</id><published>2007-04-30T01:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:14:10.339+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Though you think.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RjTnwagBs_I/AAAAAAAAABA/SQ2vI1Va1Jk/s1600-h/The_Black_Dahlia_by_suspiria81.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058923100377297906" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RjTnwagBs_I/AAAAAAAAABA/SQ2vI1Va1Jk/s320/The_Black_Dahlia_by_suspiria81.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pump lithium into my collapsed veins to clog the valleys of creative curses i induce with my gritted teeth, unable to prevent the deluge of blood flowing through to my heart. So i lose control and i have lost control and i do not linger with purpose and i swear i am not the devil because my deafened prayers do not fall upon the distance to my morning star and this creates, or has created a void in a void, licking my wrists to taste the withered life that sinuates in my rigid spine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;fuck what i have said. i need and i need and i need and i have not gotten anything in which i need because i have not only concentrated so much on what i luxuriously want, but also on the things which i could have avoided by choosing to peek around the invisible wall entwining me to the scene that validates my presence in the ethereal miasma that vomits broken nails caused by endless writing and scratching and tearing and breaking and fucking and stabbing at my eyelids to show me a different view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;from yesterday till yesterday was endless and limitless and voracious and painless, now that i have figured out what which was missing from my palms in my time of endeavour as i sought to reap the seeds of birth in my cranuim milking every last bit of sleep and energy and tears and saliva for sustenance that did not in any way affect anything that eventually happened, underlining the amount of control i have, or we have, in this stupid &lt;em&gt;stupid &lt;/em&gt;epiphany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it is over and so i think i can continue on my swirling paths of mellow day dreaming which proves and provides a much needed escape from the screens of touch and words of sensuality and frugality and ability and screaming velocity. and he said this and i told him that i know this and i know but no one ever understands that i know and what can i do to prove that i know when no one is willing to know, that i know which in turn brings us to the know that i know. a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;el oscuro me mantiene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-2171756484217369132?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/2171756484217369132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=2171756484217369132&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2171756484217369132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2171756484217369132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/04/though-you-think.html' title='Though you think.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RjTnwagBs_I/AAAAAAAAABA/SQ2vI1Va1Jk/s72-c/The_Black_Dahlia_by_suspiria81.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-1758964050051595581</id><published>2007-02-04T02:28:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T13:20:07.096+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirst.</title><content type='html'>Why this war in your chest?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cannot tell you why. for she passed my lips with a glance and then teased me to follow with her trailing scent lingering in the air that seemed to freeze in time. the mysterious me, where still water that ran so deep i drowned myself into oblivion and hid my being completely from detection and yet, with a wisp of grace she has churned waves in undisturbed peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why the rain in your head?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cannot tell you why. for how best can i describe, even with my sleepless mind, the demure beauty she effortlessly overflowed with. these eyes have seen her and the temptation in her aura, refusing to accept the deception present in this persona. and now, only dreaming of wallowing amidst her hair, the lake of salvation i have created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why this weakness for her?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cannot tell you why. because this is not weakness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just a thirst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an indefatigable thirst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;though it can be quenched yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how, you might ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i will drink from her lips.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-1758964050051595581?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-6893515320615279548</id><published>2007-01-24T03:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T02:28:24.086+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just play.</title><content type='html'>twitch in subtle agony, your cheeks a shade of mahogany;&lt;br /&gt;you are really meant to keep, just you and i, duality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if there is no cause for me, no cause for senseless brutality;&lt;br /&gt;pray tell this fading memory, to stay a while, eternity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave this wretched melancholy, blind eyes you cured, you made them see;&lt;br /&gt;a better person i could be, if i let you in more deep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;through my tears my artistry, you i have met and plan to keep.&lt;br /&gt;tear me down, please gaze at me, now, will you take my challenge to thee?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-6893515320615279548?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/6893515320615279548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=6893515320615279548&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6893515320615279548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6893515320615279548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2007/01/da-dada-dada-dada.html' title='Just play.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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times i wished i might, i wished i may, and for the times in my bed staring into the words of tears as i lay. dissipating.  now you think you're putting up with me and you think i can tolerate thee? yes it is true. i am your ornament, the venom in your addiction. it is true. now you have grown confident no? you write to me and i read out aloud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i reap when you are bold.&lt;br /&gt;i weep when you fold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;take me away my love. this humiliation i can no longer endure. take me away and dispose of your mask that hides the ugliness that i have evolved into. your condemned concoction. a memory alike, i will fade into the hole you have exquisitely measured for me. i will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;i promise only flowers will grow in your backyard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a morning, as you adorned raiment,&lt;br /&gt;my hollows filled you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a morning, one moment,&lt;br /&gt;the breeze discomforted you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a morning, in atonement,&lt;br /&gt;you pleased the inner fool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a morning, in contentment,&lt;br /&gt;you accepted your choice without further ado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and i accept you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-2623276423455245062?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/2623276423455245062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-681050523579251193</id><published>2007-01-02T03:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:14:10.752+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wisp away.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RZlyUbPjgEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/w42TVqhhmUQ/s1600-h/wind.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RZlyUbPjgEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/w42TVqhhmUQ/s320/wind.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015165355289706562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;such a sad tune it plays in my head. swimming amongst countless thoughts of nothingness, lighting up the way when it enters my mind simulating a mist that washes over my eyes as i stare holes into the wispy air that  floats by. mocking my heightened state of mind that counts as a war just north of the eyebrows. the cold grill of this window to oblivion provides rest for my tired neck while i watch the time and rain drip away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;waste away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so much rain. and yet i feel nothing. no wash over. no comfort by the melancholy. beyond my reach it continues to fall again and again. yet i stare more, in wonder. am i like the wind? everywhere yet nowhere? does the wind, so majestically braving the rain, get drenched in its moisture? is the wind as privileged as i think it is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;does it feel?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cold breezes grazes my eyelashes and then i feel its mockery and venom fills my veins while the guitar strums melodiously, yet monotonously, in my ears. so lonely it is to be me. and the wind. you tried to grasp me, but i escaped through the holes present in your heart. there was never any tolerance to fit me, and yet you still tried to calm my nerves in a dead of night one momentous day. but really, did you really try hard enough?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am the wind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you need not tread carefully. you need not fear me. but you forgot. you let slip from your mind that you should never try to enclose the wind in your palms. you let slip from your mind that you should not lead with your eyes open on a windy day for tears may be. you let slip from your mind that you should not constrict your hair and miss the serenity the wind will caress into your senses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;open your palms and feel me.&lt;br /&gt;close your eyes and think of me.&lt;br /&gt;let your hair loose and love me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"yo no me quedo"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you let me die.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-681050523579251193?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' 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/&gt;watch me watch those lips open and close and open and close, and i hear naught. yet they glisten a dark amaranth in the dimmed lights from the candles as they dance to the song that can be overheard entwined with the air that lingers into the midnight. watch me watch those lips as i lick them with my traveling eyes where imagination is almost redundant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watch me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watch me watch the pools of ebony that make up your eyes, illuminated in a glow every time your curvy eyelashes reveal them to me. their vision set on me urging me, leading me, enticing me, promising me more than the light in them that teases me. i have only seen red roses my love, but tease me not with two black and white ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tease me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watch me watch the luscious hair that seem to caress you, teaching me the right way as you tilt your head slightly to sip golden champagne. flowing down one side of your face hiding cheeks that turn rosy red when they catch my eyes. silken hair just touching your shoulders fall back and reveal to me where my hands should be, stroking your chocolate skin to the back of your neck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;move me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then she steps out of her table.&lt;br /&gt;graceful steps one and two.&lt;br /&gt;she's been asked to dance.&lt;br /&gt;she's been asked to move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she would rather be in my hands. overlooking her shoulder at each opportunity, to see if my eyes have not betrayed her. the red dress flicking at her beautiful shoes. beautiful red prada shoes. i know. i chose them so carefully, to fit this persona. this entity of grace and elegance. this woman. her. she. mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;won't you come to me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i stand and move. one steps two. i stop at a pillar and lean against, to watch. watch me watch you, woman. watch me watch you, envying the sides of the silken thread that make up your dress, privileged to dance along with those hips. she looks at me and is careful to hide her eyes from pleading. watch me watch you get frustrated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gently now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;frustrated by more patience, she loosens her grip on the shoulder and one step two. grabs my black vest by its side and pulls me toward her chest. she glares at me, and rips off her long red gloves and flicks her wrists for me to see it float down to my feet. to feel. to feel my neck. to feel my heat for her. she smells my neck and sighs as fingers entwine and one step two, she leads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kiss me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;breathless. ever so lightly she licks my neck and nibbles it. look at me. look at my eyes. look at my pulsating chest. kiss me. kiss me you fool, she glimpses. i smile. i know what you want. you know what you want. i want you. and i want you. you fool she says. you don't need me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-6991936518187919285?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/6991936518187919285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=6991936518187919285&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6991936518187919285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/6991936518187919285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/12/kiss-and-tell.html' title='Kiss and tell.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RYKvFjnZfeI/AAAAAAAAAAY/q6zl3AEi_zk/s72-c/untitled2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-2269036934977642509</id><published>2006-12-14T22:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:14:10.967+08:00</updated><title type='text'>step. step step. step.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RYFwZTnZfdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CLKqhO-QkLo/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RYFwZTnZfdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CLKqhO-QkLo/s320/untitled.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008407840677264850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this you i always think of, can be distracting sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;most times.&lt;br /&gt;all times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;step. step step. step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes my love, in the red chiffon dress.&lt;br /&gt;my hands sway with the movement of your hips.&lt;br /&gt;nibble my cheek, and squeeze your grip on my vest.&lt;br /&gt;the lure emanating from your luscious lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;perfore el corazón.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;caressing the tip of your nose on mine&lt;br /&gt;lick my neck with your prurient eyes&lt;br /&gt;your fingers arousing the shivers in my spine&lt;br /&gt;your heartbeat tells no lies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;béseme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;turn  and turn and make me yearn&lt;br /&gt;fall and fall and make me call&lt;br /&gt;smile and smile and make me sigh&lt;br /&gt;kiss and kiss and make me miss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you, when you leave me, hand trailing behind into mine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-2269036934977642509?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/2269036934977642509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=2269036934977642509&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2269036934977642509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/2269036934977642509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/12/step-step-step-step.html' title='step. step step. step.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E3zRMuq3eGQ/RYFwZTnZfdI/AAAAAAAAAAM/CLKqhO-QkLo/s72-c/untitled.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-116226307969202987</id><published>2006-10-31T10:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T10:51:19.733+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hate is hate. Don't hate it.</title><content type='html'>i want to quit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but sooner or later, i will fall into my own abyss. the one i created. and yet i will return to it for its comforts are far beyond material desires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am different now. i don't like me now. i like me before. the one who stayed motionless in the realms of my mind and surveyed people with no real intention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i can hate. i can be evil. i can be more.&lt;br /&gt;why do i need conscience and kindness. why do i so deliberately want to think about you, when in the end, no matter what the situation, i am the one at fault.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet at the brink of change i falter. i shiver to take the next step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;should i just trample on emotions as and when i feel so, because they are in my way? should i look out for myself first, then others?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this hesitance, has now given birth to a mirrored version of myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a being who hates everyone, and whose arrogance is starting to overflow limits to which control is no more a question. whose proposed intelligence is the catalyst for such behaviour. whose strength is utilised for forcing supression to the heart's messages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then, there are leftovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tattered remains of myself before the reasons for my diseased ridden pride and soul to split itself in annoyance and reflex to save my mind from turning onto itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you would have me now, or before, you can never have me whole anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cannot be only yours. because now i am mine too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and i am liking it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-116226307969202987?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/116226307969202987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=116226307969202987&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/116226307969202987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/116226307969202987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/10/hate-is-hate-dont-hate-it.html' title='Hate is hate. Don&apos;t hate it.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-115883818712558015</id><published>2006-09-21T19:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-25T23:58:41.880+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Glass walls.</title><content type='html'>The mind. The birth of understanding and the dread that follows after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everyday i step into this room broken down. yet faking worldy pleasures in my head to everyone else, letting my sheer arrogance rule me. and in my own eyes i greet you from the other side of the shadows. with strangers meddling with my mind, don't get too close. my material skin, disintegrates like the surface of the still river when a leaf floats onto it. don't hurt me please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for i only exist because you say i do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes. yes yes yes. i am not dead and have yet to die, but i am living in my self as an entity within an entity hoping my outer side does not fall into thorned bushes that might poison the already decaying flesh that needs no more damage. my mind the candle within four glassed walls. and i, looking from the outside, wondering what miracle is sustaining the dancing flame for so long now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it was gradual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the way it slipped from my grasp and my conscience. they way it dissipated whenever i looked at my forlorn reflection in the broken shards. the way it mellowed to a whisper whenever i took calculated steps towards a realm in time and space to disappear. secretly i longed for the day which is unbecoming of my smile. constantly thinking of nothing. and how i wished i was nothing. the entity that is me, a waste of space existant in a place that will eventually crumble. so i finally know, and its at its end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have lost the desire, to desire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is when the city sleeps, that my peace is disturbed and my mind is at ease. viewing the world differently, but assuredly, everytime my pupils seem to lose their capabilities. at the cost of my ignorance, my mind struggles urging me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pleading to me to step out&lt;br /&gt;crawl out&lt;br /&gt;shivering at the implosion&lt;br /&gt;of the madness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;move up dear one.&lt;br /&gt;move my love.&lt;br /&gt;don't just leave yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have yet to seek or see me. you have yet to feel my presence and with that, you have yet to transcend this assumed impenetrable barrier you have created in place of, whicle searching for me. why do you force submission so easily. don't give up on me my love. i have not given up on you. why do you choose to exist seperately from me when the answers you seek so vehemently, i have only for you. accept me like i will you, and see with your eyes my experience. i guarantee you answers, and more chaos. since by yourself you have long left the state of ignorance the moment you were affected by the true nature of being enlightenend, you have already chosen this path. i only promise you a deeper understanding, not seclusion or serenity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for that, you have you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-115883818712558015?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/115883818712558015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=115883818712558015&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115883818712558015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115883818712558015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/09/glass-walls.html' title='Glass walls.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-115325388225020210</id><published>2006-07-19T02:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-19T04:27:21.746+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ad infinitum.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/dried%20petals.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/dried%20petals.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;why does the street lamp glow a dimmer shade, each time i stroll past an old memory lurking in the depths of the abyss that commands my every move. the swirling mystery that inhabits my innermost desires that punctuate endless speeches and infinitely vacates space for ubiquitous pictures that mockingly flash before my glistening eyes. the nonchalant gazing through the cold steel grills of the window seem to numb me more than it did, now that i am far more lost in my precociousness; far too blinded by sweet smelling roses every thursday night. the dried petals a reminder of what used to be; luscious silken skin underneath my sense of touch forcing smile after smile; simultaneously, taking my thoughts far from beguile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why do dry rose petals retain their &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;colour&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it does not really matter. for i am happy they have &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;colour&lt;/span&gt; at all, clinging onto dried hopes and decaying memoirs of magnanimity and mellow moaning while my fingers do more than just feed my incessant needs for attention. intent on following subtle shivers to the point of sentient feelings that set of seemingly limitless amounts of sensual salaciousness and amorous aphrodisia, willingly partaken in of course. giving basic thought very little room to administer rational behaviour while i indulge in fondling with concupiscence knowingly as it brings about your hunger for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes i am self-indulgent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but what does that say about you my lustful lover? vision less only when your needs are being stroked to ecstasy, ruing the sight of me once your voracious libido is satisfied and sleeping. pretentiously holding my hand throughout my ordeal as though purposefully feeding my desire to feed you. the lifelessness of me is only my reflection in your eyes when the look of disgust spreads from your lips to the back of your head as i watch you caress the wind as you walk away from my line of sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but those petals do not lose their colour still.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-115325388225020210?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/115325388225020210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=115325388225020210&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115325388225020210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115325388225020210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/07/ad-infinitum.html' title='Ad infinitum.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-115263056079770072</id><published>2006-07-11T22:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T01:52:00.488+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Melancholic mornings, and mournings.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;primrose dawns and unwelcome visitors.&lt;br /&gt;window sills and floating silences.&lt;br /&gt;music filled ears and teary eyed images.&lt;br /&gt;distant lights and amaranth skies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;melancholic mornings, and mournings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so tell me you. you who is mocking me by hiding behind stacks of papers. why do you test me as you walk away from me, leaving questions and more questions while i sit here and shiver in the backseat of a car that has a driver who takes my money. but you keep walking to where the white flowers bloom and stand there awhile, as if to force me to contemplate what i would do if you were sitting right beside me with that flower in your hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i should not get personal. unfortunately there is you, whose insecurity &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;moulds&lt;/span&gt; you into me as you look past my dark brown eyes and see something when there is really nothing. "misfit!" i cry. "maverick," you swoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i squint and look around your room filled with images on the wall, worked into an elaborate collage towards an impression of expressions. but hides cigarettes from me in the cupboard beside the bed because those dreadful things i cannot endure. who keeps red &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;coloured&lt;/span&gt; dildos because i wear a lot of reds just because the &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;colour&lt;/span&gt; accentuates how i must feel inside. bollocks woman. but writes voraciously and vivaciously, and eats words ferociously and fervently. but timidly lets her eyes run about my being and pretentiously &lt;span lang="en-GB"&gt;fantasises&lt;/span&gt; about my skin. "rebel?" i say sarcastically. "revolutionary," she says smoothly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cannot stand alone. i lie back and think abou... "don't think about the things you fear. just be glad to be here," she says thoughtfully, studying me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do not do that you. why read my thoughts. why spoil my mystery. have you not taken enough away from me. why do you like me. why do you know me. do not read me, and then say that i am silent all the time. i found you did i not? why am in your room? because i am silent and you know me just perfectly. it is enough. the enemy of my enemy, is still my enemy. but you, i do not know who you are. do not talk you. but please, look at me more. those eyes, and legs, are my temptations you.. you.. woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;clenched teeth, and sitting upright on the bed away from you... how dare you reduce me to something whice envies you and crawls after you? how dare you? how dare you... put your hand on my thighs and rest your head upon my skin and kiss the side of my thigh and..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;primrose dawns and unwelcome visitors..&lt;br /&gt;window sills and floating silences..&lt;br /&gt;music filled ears and teary eyed images..&lt;br /&gt;distant lights and amaranth skies..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;melancholic mornings, and mournings...  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-115263056079770072?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/115263056079770072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=115263056079770072&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115263056079770072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/115263056079770072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/07/melancholic-mornings-and-mournings.html' title='Melancholic mornings, and mournings.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-114854344454044165</id><published>2006-05-25T14:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-05-25T15:50:44.676+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Only i know.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/That_Look.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/That_Look.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;i remain stoic through the atmosphere you emit, when only i know the seemingly infinite thoughts that revolve and evolve in my head are triggered by that sultry pose you give unknowingly as i can only watch you this way, almost voyeuristic in its manner, because one person cannot hold the amount of pent up emotions i conjure when i am with you, so i start pretending to be calm when only i know that the war i am waging within knows no bounds when i continually try to fight a frown, so i turn away to look at the precious lava lamp that you bought for me to distract my attention and although i thought i was looking at it nonchalantly, i realise i am concentrating quite hard on this inanimate object watching as the the lava that floats ever so smoothly caressing one another as they pass, only reminds me of the times when only i know the smell of your nail polish when you touch my lips to feel me exhale my desperation to confess, but i feel this lamp has been put there only to frustrate me more as even an object, forces my thoughts on you and your sly and sultry ways because even deep breaths cannot undo the knot in my chest and i turn away into the opposite direction of where you are, hoping you will not see this moment when it is increasingly becoming more obvious that i am disturbed by you even when you hardly have said a word to me but i do no want to admit defeat so i open a book and see the words do not make sense to me, i turn it right side up and had a second attempt; and even i do not realise i am staring into the blank space ahead of me which make up the wall of cool blue colour but i know very well that i wanted red but the wall became blue and then i remember the time when we went to get paint to change the outlook of this sanctuary and my mind was already made up; but i bought this cool blue because she looked at this colour smiling at it with her eyes, while gazing upon it faking nonchalance and i know it is fake but you stood there a moment too long and you never fail to amaze me because i am always watching you and the salesperson was tapping my shoulder incessantly and i do not know what he is saying because i think the language is a barrier because he keeps saying that red is an excellent choice and i am carrying the red and she turns to me and she gives me a slight smile from the right corner of her mouth and i want to go outside and scream at the next guy i see that he has it difficult and he thinks that i am crazy but only i know why i want to scream so i close my eyes and i open them to see the cool blue remain and then i lift my left eyebrow to prevent myself from revealing anything else that resides in my mind so i get up and go sit on the lounge chair and i am in her vision but i cannot see her i think and i loll my head and look at the space where a television set should have been and i purse my lips and think about why the space is empty and all i see are many colours coalesced together looking like they had been limited by four black rims at the ends where the clours are abruptly halted but a painting in the middle of the room? i do not understand why it is so colourful and why it is so big and why it is right in front of me and then i see the colour purple and then i realise we were walking down the pavement of a place and i see the words gallery and i am being enclosed by so many paintings and i am standing in the middle of this seemingly infinite space and i only see her standing parallel to a wall and her hair is flowing down the back of her shoulders all wavy and sexy and she tilts her head a little to the right and runs a finger around the upper curve of her right ear and bites her lower lip and i feel like hours have passed and i start trembling in the finger tips and i feel tears down my cheeks and i bury my face into her hair and back and then i am still standing there and she walks over and slides her fingers in between mine and i realise i am trembling and only i know that i wished that moment when she stood there lasted a very long time and i am drilling a screw into the wall and i hang the painting up on the wall but my vision shakes and i am sitting in the lounge chair looking at light refractions and i notice my eyes are wet and i am overwhelmed by many things and i feel so hard at my chest and i want to feel nothing but then i realise that hiding myself from her is useless as i chose to be surrounded by her and i walk over to her and i sit with her and i bury my face into her neck and i hold her hand and i just lay there like that and i always want to lay here like this and i know she smiles because she wipes a tear from my eye with her finger and i don't feel embarrassed at all that i am crying because i would have cried anyway to have her caress my eyelids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;only i know. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-114854344454044165?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/114854344454044165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=114854344454044165&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114854344454044165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114854344454044165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/05/only-i-know.html' title='Only i know.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-114222997337013839</id><published>2006-03-13T12:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T01:21:57.903+08:00</updated><title type='text'>L'Enfant Terrible.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Bite_by_funkyfroggie22_by_carnival_macabre.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/Bite_by_funkyfroggie22_by_carnival_macabre.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;visualizing the incarceration of thyself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so i have become one of the above. materialising like the other rats that creep under the light that sneaked in through the crevice. treading upon murky water and revelling in the beauty that lies without. the beauty which remains far fetched and unreachabale. watching feet shuffling and like rain they beat down on the asphalt with intent and with no end in sight. whispers of voices in the echos that bounce of the walls of the sewer that i was flsuhed down in the inkling of a thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and now i sit here carving inscripstion into my own arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is it a fault of mine that to this life i was born? is it a fault of mine that i was not equipped for this mindless violence that was inflicted upon me? i have become. and i have not. as nature dies i die too. as nature replenishes itself, i remain dead. so then, i sit here still, hoping for someone to flush down their excretions so i can prolong for another week, feeding of the contempt off the lives of many.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the yellow eyes glow in he dark. and he is looking at me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from being an infant, i have become the enfant terrible. biting into the flesh of the rest who were unfortunate like me. but unlike me, they have not evolved. these horns i have grown give me strength in abundance when against the walking dead. you will see and i will no more bleed. and i will work my way to you and then you will be like the reward i endured the vermillion sufferings for. and they will watch me crush you between my shiv like teeth and then i will be rejuvenated; for the life you led me to, i will introduce you to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don't be afraid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have built a very special sarcophagus for you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-114222997337013839?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/114222997337013839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=114222997337013839&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114222997337013839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114222997337013839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/03/lenfant-terrible.html' title='L&apos;Enfant Terrible.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-114206435149326567</id><published>2006-03-11T15:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-11T16:05:51.526+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pages are dry, for now.</title><content type='html'>you treat me with such hate that now i cannot see beyond my blodshot eyes. so now i realise that flirting with disease was not a mistake; but a means of escape from you as you always take everything from my inside and spend it thoughtlessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now i am empty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and you dare speak of loyalty and love and everything that is imminent with such speak? leave me to myself for the death of you is what i seek because of the vile and tainted being that you are has become inevitable and crystal and it makes my reflection look better than it was before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;die a lonely death, you that is vile, vicious and villainous.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-114206435149326567?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/114206435149326567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=114206435149326567&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114206435149326567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114206435149326567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/03/pages-are-dry-for-now.html' title='Pages are dry, for now.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-114044870962829972</id><published>2006-02-20T23:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-11T16:13:58.696+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Have we lost to our memories?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/ballet_by_jamietron.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/ballet_by_jamietron.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;each days passes with more fervor than the last. each night lingers with more intent than the last. in pursuit of vagaries we reach out to in vain, letting ourselves drown in the depths that have cast in stone our doubts for tomorrow. is it really pointless to persist on analyzing that which is gone? the incessant drones of voices in ear drums as they persevere to let it be known that being lost is never by mistake, but by complacency. yet they have always been met by nonchalance, when faking confidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;have we lost to our memories?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;each calculated step performed to the joy of a perfectionist. each step she dances, delicate and full of grace. yet her face is sullen and her eyes are closed. but she does not falter. this routine she has taken again and again when laden with the misery she inflicts upon herself. she remembers perfectly, what comes after the other, almost with swagger. she knows i sit and stare in awe as her pink pointe puts to shame a midsummers night's dream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;flooding lights, blind my sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;she stands in the middle of the stage motionless letting the light cast shadows under her eyes to hide her shame from me. she stretches her hand out and whispers my name, begging for my awakening. pleading for my influence as she feeds off it to stay sane. she touches my fingers and drags me in between everywhere and good bye, knowing i need an end to my heading nowhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;but she is deceitful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;like a drop that had sent ripples through still water, i blink. causing a tremor in my state of vision shaking my sense of self awake; finding myself sitting amongst silence and the vibrations of strings attached to piano keys. only to see the stage empty, proving my bliss montage fake. the pink pointe in my hand, tattered and aged depicting my state of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;i have lost, to perdurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-114044870962829972?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/114044870962829972/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=114044870962829972&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114044870962829972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/114044870962829972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/02/have-we-lost-to-our-memories.html' title='Have we lost to our memories?'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113916774349827048</id><published>2006-02-06T02:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T03:31:15.536+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pass me by. Leave me to die.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Sleeping_Gun2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/Sleeping_Gun2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do not spend some time to analyse the disparate layers of meaning embedded in me. do not take the time to lavish upon the complexity that is me, your shallow emotions conditioned by society. do not pay attention to all the minute details that fill the shell that has become of me. do not touch the tears that are off a different colour, that roll down my colourless cheeks. do not attempt to sew the wounds that have riddled my neck.  do not pick me up off of the icy floor that welcomes me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you. do not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you sit in the corner and pretend that you are overwhelmed in hurt. you bury your face in your quivering hands and deceive me with your tears after you push me down the steps that lead to the gutter. you sob softly and flinch when you gaze upon the deep gash in my chest and fake that you are to blame. you slump against the wall dazed and weak and convince yourself that this is worse than death, after i am dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stop pretending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i know you have eaten your fill and leave me to the vultures. i know you are relieved because the moment i decided i had enough, i forced submission. i know your elation now that my decision to leave has left you with no choice to make. i know you feel freedom the moment i had turned my back and you impaled me with a sly smile that took form of a shiv that tore through my flesh and left a spine that splintered. i know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the perfect world, i would not have known you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and that would be perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;put the gun to my head and squeeze as much as you desire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am already numb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do you see epiphany?&lt;br /&gt;you have cut me down to size.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113916774349827048?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113916774349827048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113916774349827048&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113916774349827048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113916774349827048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/02/pass-me-by-leave-me-to-die.html' title='Pass me by. Leave me to die.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113896053366915992</id><published>2006-02-03T17:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T16:24:08.576+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Caress.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/caress.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/caress.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;I dreamt you in last night, sleeping outside my door. I could smell your scent, hear your accent, feel your eyes, kiss your breath. I saw the light caress your body as you strolled by so casually, so comfortable among your things. I pushed through and was steadily riding through your imagination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you pierce my reality and you drag me down and out holding my hand and make me lie beside you. i hold you tight but you don't. i lay a kiss near your lower lip but you don't turn away. i want to look at you but you shut your eyes. i want to whisper into your ear but you cover your ears. i close my eyes now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is the sweet smell that you emit from your exterior. the smell of your exasperation when you strain under pressure from your predominant desires. it the smell of the pain you feel when engulfed in self question of your perceived morals that seem to blur during our deluge of thoughts. only i can see it for you are saturating my mind with every subtle movement of the pools of midnight that are your eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is the touch of your flowing hair when it grazes my eyes and forces them to close in preparation for your hands that caress me. dainty fingers that follow the bruises down to my chest that my heart speeds up its rhythm and you listen to it, intently. the touch of the tip of your nose at my neck and the soft caressing of your eyelashes when you gaze upon my slight smile that i smile when i know you are looking at me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now that you are soothed and reassured, you sing for me. the gentle and soft voice of tiny moments when fingers entwine. the song we have the last waltz as two lonely people together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i submit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do as you wish with me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113896053366915992?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113896053366915992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113896053366915992&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113896053366915992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113896053366915992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/02/caress.html' title='Caress.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113881727610714768</id><published>2006-02-02T00:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T02:10:41.063+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ominous.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/ominous.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/ominous.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i stand alone engulfed in phyrric victories, and drowned in hearsay. while she relentlessly reminds me that i rest on her bosom,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while no one plans to sleep out in the gutter, sometimes it just is the most comfortable place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is true, when you find you open your eyes to the ominous milieu, you taste the asphalt that had been forced upon your face. the impression the gravel left on your skin no touch of tolerance. inhaling the fumes left by the hatred and death dealings of many a cadaver. the rotting of the clear air and no rays of sunlight to replenish the flora that had already withered reflecting the feelings that have stung my insides for decades. and decades to come. but all of this found only inside the skull of a troubled mind and the gutter is laid out as planned to become home. as sanctuary for the nights that a blanket might protect from the icy wind, but would prove ineffectual; as the bones were sore and the material flesh numb from the pain. screaming inside my mind for an escape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're an echo vibrating off the tiled walls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and like it i am empty and hollow. but the echoes have been quick in return as the walls have been boxing me in. closing in on my lifeless carapace when i slumber lost in whirlwinds of thought that derail me from my sanity. do you really wish to sit there so calmly and watch me twitch in my sleep? do you really wish to see me shiver and drench myself in cold sweat? do you really wish to hold my hand through this ordeal i have willed myself into surviving? and then she whispers into my ear,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know the stillness of your emotions will shine through and the faithlessness in your eyes will glow under the stage lights and you do not belong in the spew of predetermined lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes she pierces my unconsciousness and i hear her ever so clearly. her confidence in my non-existent courage has seen me overcome countless hurdles. yet i am confused as to the reason why. why do you bruise yourself and forcefully blind your sight when you feel the roughness of my palms and you know of my past misconceptions? and you adamantly pardon my naiveté? why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything you do is a self-portrait. There are times it might look like St. George and the Dragon or The Rape of the Sabine Women but the words you use, they are all you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i do not doubt thee, but your judgment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet i only seek the exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113881727610714768?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113881727610714768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113881727610714768&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113881727610714768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113881727610714768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/02/ominous.html' title='Ominous.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113869286017308010</id><published>2006-01-31T15:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-01-31T15:34:20.206+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Watch me fade away.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/fade.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/fade.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are your eyes in your reflection?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from everything you have done for yourself; now you neglect the self, doing everything for you. or her. stains of metaphors form rivers of nakedness. cold and awful it must seem to the sender. but the receiver cowers behind walls of hurt that form new barriers that supposedly prevent more decadence and damage. recall those who shower merciless rage upon you and it will be easy. pick yourself up and dust off the webs of confusion. clarity is not a myth, but it remains a place of half-truths. hurt yourself and even friends with wings will not grace your presence. concrete in your veins did not form for no reason, you bastard. it is time death seeks you for the whore that you have become. do not speak of fairness and penance. you deserve none and you have paid enough. just leave,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your absence is needed. or is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you explicitly express lies that i submit to. when every letter and word replicate hailstones upon glass windows of my weakly built domain. this stoic persona will always remain, but the interior walls have been cracked and the repairs that have been painted over are decaying with every straying thought. pressure is what it is. the underlying meaning of every time you hurled verbal abuse at the mirror trying to force an answer out of the reflection. the depression was minimal, now form a crater of a magnitude to house the built up tension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am always alone in this misery you shower upon me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watch me fade away. every moment away from you i had spent sitting in that corner toying with the sickness that surrounds me. i insist on wallowing in the vagaries that i have purposefully chosen. naively obfuscating afraid to reach the expiration that has become of your carapace. so long i have depended on your affluence that now i waste away, ungracefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes, i am guilty of dalliance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fucking kill me. please.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113869286017308010?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113869286017308010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113869286017308010&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113869286017308010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113869286017308010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2006/01/watch-me-fade-away.html' title='Watch me fade away.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113594854198399675</id><published>2005-12-30T20:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-01-31T15:01:24.460+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Superfluous.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/untitled.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/untitled.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/untitled.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/untitled.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;it is the rain that pours down to the sound of melancholic misery. the droplets riddled with blank expressions from the despair that emanates from the ground. each calculated fall hits the dreams of many a disturbed cadaver. and yet i seek refuge here away from the incessant mornings and nights. deluge of galleries are built to house the pointless words that litter the wispy clouds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is to make believe we are perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;spinning around the same speeches of apparent intellects that do not matter and do no good. and when you find the pinnacle of such behaviour, there is no surprise when people pander. to demise. to exploitation. knife me in and watch the writhing with intent as the blades of grass die from the spill of pandemonic perception. while faceless laughter echo into the depressions of whom it may concern, clinging onto the crutches hoping to live longer and bigger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sick and deprived of my fear, sleep again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and again i have fallen upon asphyxiation when questioned over and over again, why. Open wrists bleed profusely for malpractice of thought. Junctions crossed have become dim and the lunatic shivers a whole new meaning. attempting desperately to smother the learning of revolution. the multiplicit nature of tears cause them to be deemed expendable. nobody hears you moan like a whore and your supposed wounds no result of hate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do you recall the veins that were severed in silence and the cries of wanting to be heard?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is no apparent end to this madness and the cultural conditioning is wasted as the signs are not read anyway. you must have been tearing the clones down as you stand next to all the other rats. masses of late replies weigh down the hands. everywhere a wheezing cough completes the birth cycle as it revolves with much less. the alleged evolution of humility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have yet to see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just as we hoped for more of less, we are trapped stalking the ground forever fragmenting whatever life left in the core. the crescent shaped dams block the real flow of the elements that mirror bursts of epiphany. sway now towards the salvation that is escape. pull the pin and bite down hard to cleanse the sin. i remain, after all this, the anomie in this anomaly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113594854198399675?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113594854198399675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113594854198399675&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113594854198399675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113594854198399675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/12/superfluous.html' title='Superfluous.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113335674573879029</id><published>2005-11-30T21:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-12-30T21:17:00.260+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lies. Time is up.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/timely%20eyes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/timely%20eyes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the leaves of my plants look like claws in the shadows&lt;br /&gt;i lie on the bed waiting for them to tear my flesh&lt;br /&gt;wanting to bleed my way through to epiphany&lt;br /&gt;yet the waiting, is much more of hell than i have experienced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the darkness of the eyes is one of few&lt;br /&gt;yet my creativity has conjured up more than i can suffer&lt;br /&gt;the societal markers chisel me into one of lacking&lt;br /&gt;one who doubts himself over the tiniest of details&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i look into the reflection of my own eyes and see despair&lt;br /&gt;a falling person whom i am unable to reach&lt;br /&gt;a person drowning in the black waters of my hatred&lt;br /&gt;trying to save what is left of my accepted intelligence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes. accepted. not by me. by my inability to everyone else&lt;br /&gt;i cannot bring myself to endure such low levels of capacity&lt;br /&gt;i possess none that is desired and desire what no one can offer&lt;br /&gt;i am not ahead in my own time and severely lagging behind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am sick and tired of the various masks i feel i need to wear&lt;br /&gt;the endless beautifying of myself to lie to everyone else&lt;br /&gt;the rapid changes in my literal abilities to suit needs&lt;br /&gt;to hold myself responsible for deeds i need not fulfill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i do not love myself enough to accept my fucking flaws&lt;br /&gt;i do not hate myself enough to slit my wrists to taste my blood&lt;br /&gt;i do not love myself enough to access the inner god i know i posses&lt;br /&gt;i do not hate myself enough to have the courage to love myself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;caught in between this nothingness is worse than being me&lt;br /&gt;worse than this desolation i visit every night with open eyes&lt;br /&gt;decaying, not physically, but everything else is&lt;br /&gt;turning a blind eye to the fact that this is happening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;forcefully lying to myself. to lie even more about myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;clock chimes can be heard.&lt;br /&gt;time for redemption is over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;time to let the steel taste my flesh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113335674573879029?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113335674573879029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113335674573879029&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113335674573879029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113335674573879029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/11/lies-time-is-up.html' title='Lies. Time is up.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113289415294806589</id><published>2005-11-25T12:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-12-30T21:17:17.993+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Failure.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Failure.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/Failure.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your obsession with tears will be the death of me my love. for i am comfort as best as i could be. come sleep in my arms and let your tears tell the stories that you have mashed up in your saturated mind. i am there my love, watch the candles flicker as i walk past your aura to settle in a corner, studying your omnipresent emotions. be my comfort as you hum a familiar tune that will prove serenity true to me. why do you deny me the walk down the road you so often visit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why do you so selfishly suffer alone? let me slit my wrists for my blood to be the stream that you will float upon to liberate you of your worst nightmares. drift through the black night that will drown you fears and let it be known that i mean for only you to live through this life i have created. all i ask for is those hands that caressed me to the deep slumber i awoke from. those hands that touched my skin in my times of needs and acceptance. those hands that were damp from my tears that dropped from my deepest depths of misery. but you have hurt those hands and the blisters are from the vengeance of many. No my love. leave thy hands to heal. for thou shall not damage that which is my only hope of transcending this societal hell that is post modernity. No my love. Not now. Not ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why would you bring this confused state upon me? the little pleasures that prolonged the timeline in which we endured less and less of them as we progressed towards the future that was always bleak. sharing similarities with our thoughts and thoughts about similarities between the parallel lines that resembled us. why now my love? do you leave to relieve me of my pain, or yours? do you leave to make certain the views of the faceless that we would not be? do you leave to make certain the lies and deceit i feared when you were material? no i cannot forgive you. the roses that i planted so meticulously to grow to the contours of your countenance now wither away without your sustenance. you have killed my roses that bloomed only on my command to your walking past my area of rest. now they rest forever, not able to give off the velvet scent that filled my sanctuary. the luscious petals have fallen to the ground lifeless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have failed me. so miserably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the void i turn to when i am alone, told me the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have failed me, because i have failed you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113289415294806589?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113289415294806589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113289415294806589&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113289415294806589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113289415294806589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/11/failure.html' title='Failure.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-113048131961944375</id><published>2005-10-28T14:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T14:36:47.233+08:00</updated><title type='text'>For this moment.</title><content type='html'>and i work relentlessly over the roads of her material skin. for i have been lost for quite sometime, searching through the darkness being blind for most of my past. i try to contemplate a future without most of her, forcing my myself through the colourless nightmares to be rid of this burden. it has become a feat of enormous proportions each time i attempt to mock my own facts of truth present in my brain. my tears, while already dried up, has formed puddles of black leaving a lasting impression of dread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why the constant torture lonesome leader? do you enjoy these moments of nothingness? do you find meaning in the wallowing in your own self pity? do you crave this vile display of being? why attempt to fucking fathom such extremes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i will never understand you, and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for which both, at the very core, are the same.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-113048131961944375?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/113048131961944375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=113048131961944375&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113048131961944375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/113048131961944375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/10/for-this-moment.html' title='For this moment.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112974725465749257</id><published>2005-10-20T01:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T15:10:40.730+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Angels and Demons.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Demons_are_there_for_you____by_xYuri_Chanx.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/Demons_are_there_for_you____by_xYuri_Chanx.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Angels_and_Demons_by_S_Babe2003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;angels and demons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me and her, the core binary that baffles the conscious mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she and i, cease to exist among this overrated society. i have stood shoulder to shoulder with this woman i deem to be whole in my heart. she knows my exterior shields her from most intruders, but my internal structure is falling apart. the bruises sustained from the years of absorbing the hate and dishing it out on the walls that surround it. inevitably it has taken its toll on the mere flesh and blood. the scars visible can be used as a map to find the portion of my heart that has been breached and bleeding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but i will never falter or come of as weak in front of her. as i am that pillar of strength she relies on to have strength. i am the poetry she fails to see in the sky. i am the literature she cannot find on any book or paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;angels and demons all come to see me. what i deserve, has come to choose me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what of her?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;relentlessly gazing into the mirror that reflects the truth, is a lie. she would have done the right thing, if she did not know that it was to feel this way. she hopelessly pores over the pages of my journal and continues brushing the droplets away in case it damages the already fragile manifestation of me. she knows that the closest thing to feeling me again, were those words that had been penned down during frustrations of an unforgiving mind. plagued by the mysteries of the parallel relationship of the distance between her and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;evil and good.&lt;br /&gt;hate and love.&lt;br /&gt;anger and serenity.&lt;br /&gt;demons and angels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she looks up from the defining memoirs and gazes upon the fake reflection. vitreous is her countenance, when she longs for my touch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i could not dominate my demons, and she did not embrace the angels.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112974725465749257?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://twww.dynu.net/trailers1/index.html' title='Angels and 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112880873058299503</id><published>2005-10-09T05:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T23:45:18.586+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Efflorescence.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/Red%20riot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/Red%20riot.jpg" width="236" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when a flower blooms,&lt;br /&gt;i will find her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and if overwhelming aura can be felt,&lt;br /&gt;i will see her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and if unmistakable passion is absolute,&lt;br /&gt;i will hear her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and if intense sensuality is sensed,&lt;br /&gt;i will smell her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and if sanguine pleasures are imminent,&lt;br /&gt;i will taste her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so i have spent eternity in an hour. gazing upon star after star. smiling after every numbing episode of happiness brought upon me by you. and yet you mock my emotional conviction, eluding my grasp like the mist that the morning exhales. the countdown clock in my chest runs down with every breath drawn from the innocent air. i awake cautiously just to see if i can steal a glance of the efflorescence of your blood red escada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;alas, that moment passes on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and so have you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112880873058299503?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://nbcomp.biz/toyota10/' title='Efflorescence.'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112880873058299503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112880873058299503&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112880873058299503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112880873058299503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/10/efflorescence.html' title='Efflorescence.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112783106429122276</id><published>2005-09-27T21:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-17T01:52:26.540+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Presence. (part two.)</title><content type='html'>in time the leaves wither away, leaving the bleak looking horizon. walking amidst the misty night leaving footsteps and trails of thoughts behind. the lazy wind caressing her long tresses revealing her pale countenance. why would she walk alone? why would she smile in this solitude created by me? why would she be walking towards me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i watch intently my chest gradually swelling with confusion. i am driven to madness in her simplicity of the world. i am deeply affected by her careless insight to the chaos that revolves in these times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she plucks the only velvet rose in her garden. the rose turns a darker red as she brings it to her lips and kisses it. the satisfaction spreads from her eyes to the chilly air. still she continues as though burdened by a mission to complete a journey. when the walls of my abode barricade her every thought and her every whisper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am watchful of her fond behaviour to nature. i do not house so much of nature for the mere purpose of nature itself. i have countless dreams of her every emotion. how do i hold on to such beauty without giving in return? how do i answer her every tear drop when it starts to rain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she looks into the sky and blinks thoughtfully. and then, it hits her, the first few drops of clarity. she spreads her arms in attempt to catch every possible drop. she stands in the rain almost motionless closing her eyes to hear the pitter patter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I study this calm expression with awe. standing still, i embrace all of her like i would a child. i bring my lips to her ears, and i call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i do call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her ears bleed, but the wounds are not present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the realisation occurs. the wound was never in her, it is embedded within me as i open my soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have bled myself dry and i have not a word left to speak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she cannot hear me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112783106429122276?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112783106429122276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112783106429122276&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112783106429122276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112783106429122276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/09/presence-part-two.html' title='Presence. (part two.)'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112671109595181186</id><published>2005-09-14T23:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-27T22:27:02.543+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Presence. (part one.)</title><content type='html'>so she must walk. and so she walks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so she must cry. and so she cries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so she must leave. and so she leaves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but where does she go?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is perhaps best that i do not know. for in pursuit i will go. anywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the illusion of the one that should be, is dominant. therefore i am nowhere, but near her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She will answer me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if i call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;would i?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112671109595181186?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112671109595181186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112671109595181186&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112671109595181186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112671109595181186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/09/presence-part-one.html' title='Presence. (part one.)'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112547906811289965</id><published>2005-08-31T15:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-31T17:11:40.946+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fragmented desideratum.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/_______2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/320/_______2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3432/669/1600/_______1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she looks at me with weary eyes. though her age is stereotyped with exuberance and the luxury of time, her eyes prove other wise, worn down with heavy shoulders and brittle hair. the years of envy and curses that fly by her head have taken its toll on her craved upon vibrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she screams in massive thoughts. yet she smiles and overflows with magnanimity. she provides sanctuary to the vile form, that is me. they see the dirt that encompasses my essence. yet she repeatedly tells me through fragrant flowers that i am the diamond that need not be polished. what would i have given for the flowers not to wilt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everything. everything but her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the stale smell of the dead and dried petals linger on into my many nights of insomniac memories. reminding me of the well and loved, but now dead and wilted passion that once filled my carapace. the gutter beckons my material body as the chains of post-modernism tear through my skull. knowledge of the revolving world crams my already saturated brain. do i even try and sort my thoughts to clear my mind? never. afraid to lose the few moments i have spent with you. with her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she. her. you. you fucking obsessive loner. do you not know she does not know you? stop this fucking whining and move on down the path you have dug. clear the way and look up for a change. just look. do you not know she does not bat an eyelid to your tiny existence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ahh but i do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but the longing i have for her, is sustenance itself. she sits elbows on knees, and cries the tears which i have shed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you do not know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but i do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112547906811289965?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112547906811289965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112547906811289965&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112547906811289965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112547906811289965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/08/fragmented-desideratum.html' title='Fragmented desideratum.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112532225148695181</id><published>2005-08-29T21:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-29T21:30:51.520+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Desideratum.</title><content type='html'>i am lost in the sea that is my words. i cannot seem to recollect where the end begins and where the beginning ends. where, is the needs that i want. the wants the elude my grasp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;complete me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they do not touch the surface that is me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you do. complete me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112532225148695181?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112532225148695181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112532225148695181&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112532225148695181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112532225148695181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/08/desideratum.html' title='Desideratum.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112382481329152909</id><published>2005-08-12T13:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-15T16:55:39.970+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forgiveness/Freedom</title><content type='html'>so she trembles at the candle light, hoping for relief at the sight of the bright beauty it emanates. feeling relentlessly cold at the surface skin shivering at the sight of thoughts, which permeate the soul saturating the aura with holes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the icy wind howls at the window sill, as if to plead for acceptance and embrace while the rain knocks on the frosted glass. pupils dilated with the darkness encompassing the proximity of the room she built with her heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the melancholic sounds waves being spread into the air by the gramophone completes the scene in which she depicts from the depths of her imaginations. colouring the empty spaces with what little dreams she conjures through the chaos of nightmares that has been imposed on her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she picks up the pencil that has been ridden with bite marks and slowly draws lines. lines which gradually appear to be words. and words slowly put together to form the sentence which bores her skull with passion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;forgiveness, is right where you faltered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she tears the piece of paper and blows it from her palms to watch them gracefully float onto the wooden floor. in this, she sees the enlightenment of herself, and with this she feels the freedom within the solitude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;overwhelming love is only a mark of being humane; and with this, she exhales the hurt and begins to tear. tears filled with loss and hate and frustration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as dawn in the distance breaks, her face denied of perfection before, is now with seen with closed eyes, and the hint of a smile at her luscious lips. the ice melting on the windows lets in a streak of sunlight. the torn pieces of paper, now together again, read,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are free.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112382481329152909?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112382481329152909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112382481329152909&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112382481329152909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112382481329152909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/08/forgivenessfreedom.html' title='Forgiveness/Freedom'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112261730144861944</id><published>2005-07-29T13:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T14:10:58.453+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloodlines/Saviour.</title><content type='html'>so the sketching is incomplete by the artist. she dawdles purposefully, aiding her hope for procrastination, leaving responsibility to linger on into the echo. Gazing upon damaged recollections with slight affection, to console the guilt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;maimed and cursed at for the inadequacy. yet playfully, she toys with their minds fully aware of the power and influence the unfinished product possesses. gracefully, she carves over the previously healed wounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blood trickles down her freshly cut wound on her bottom lip. she kisses the blade and slashes the canvas, leaving trails of blood. to no ones' astonishment, it spells out her desire. she lies there like a crumpled heap wearily, the warm taste lingering in her mouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;despite the overwhelming feeling of loneliness and fear, the self confidence never leaves the realm, where her limitless potential is conjured. as she stands up gaining composure, she grabs the merciless blade; blood visibly dried upon its surface, and plunges it through her palm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;shrills of her voice is heard throughout the spatial volume that surrounds her. and yet she screams not in pain, but to realise that the time for her penance is at an end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she draws the blade from its flesh encompassed home, and throws it towards the wall where it fastens itself. the blood trails paints the concrete wall leaving lines that represent the now severed veins that gush life. with this, she takes her brush, touching it on the trails, attempts to finish the portrait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;plagued by disturbed dreams, she arose as my saviour. while i remain the prince of desolute decadence and decay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet she is left in peace not, for she is chained down to prevent my release from my pandemonium of pain. she looks upon me for hope, yet i cannot provide so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for i have the barriers of many. i tear at my own flesh to seek what i believe i am to possess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she reaches out to me with ease, yet my hands are weighed down by the weight of millions, of thoughts and desires. i look to redeem myself in her presence, but am prevented by the devil, within me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;release me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;make me re live those moments. await my arrival. i will not leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the rattles of the endless darkness, there is not life, but her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112261730144861944?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112261730144861944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112261730144861944&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112261730144861944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112261730144861944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/07/bloodlinessaviour.html' title='Bloodlines/Saviour.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-112016880995644799</id><published>2005-07-01T06:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-01T06:01:54.526+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Take my hand.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/268_crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ffffff 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #ffffff 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #ffffff 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ffffff 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/268_crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;who held hands and loved touch&lt;br /&gt;stroked ear lobes to calm&lt;br /&gt;stood shoulder to shoulder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;who kissed with pleasure&lt;br /&gt;who touched lips just to feel home&lt;br /&gt;palms on shoulder blades to eliminate proximity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;who sat from afar intent on watching&lt;br /&gt;intimidated by the meeting of eyes&lt;br /&gt;sketching a beautiful picture in time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;who spoke outwardly, inwardly&lt;br /&gt;studying her feet for an escape&lt;br /&gt;while a musical played in her mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;who moulded into art itself&lt;br /&gt;abstract of a perfectionist in action&lt;br /&gt;yet remained oblivious to the other&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was one&lt;br /&gt;whose mirror was imminent and essential&lt;br /&gt;playing to even the little details of self indulgence&lt;br /&gt;and claimed we, and meant i&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then there was her&lt;br /&gt;who killed me with passion&lt;br /&gt;who brought colour and beauty in speech&lt;br /&gt;who loved with no limits&lt;br /&gt;who kissed with love and touched with love&lt;br /&gt;who lay beside me with no qualms&lt;br /&gt;who perfected the art of talking, without words&lt;br /&gt;who bit by bit tore away at my mind&lt;br /&gt;who invaded personal space relentlessly&lt;br /&gt;who guided the light towards me&lt;br /&gt;who perturbs me infinitely&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who aided me to transcend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who willingly danced me to euphoria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;take my hand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-112016880995644799?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/112016880995644799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=112016880995644799&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112016880995644799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/112016880995644799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/07/take-my-hand.html' title='Take my hand.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111994112380516094</id><published>2005-06-28T14:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T14:46:07.896+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lost.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/eyes-bg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/eyes-bg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vile is her exterior&lt;br /&gt;she shows to all&lt;br /&gt;creeping to frighten&lt;br /&gt;yet ever so demure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;festing black debris surround her&lt;br /&gt;pale white skin plays down her pretty&lt;br /&gt;countenance of peace she emits&lt;br /&gt;life of disarray and cold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;deserted life and alleyway&lt;br /&gt;her sanctuary of absent friends and family&lt;br /&gt;oblivious, but purposefully, she is to the defect&lt;br /&gt;it's obvious nothing is left&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cul de sac are her eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lost in the serenity of her touch&lt;br /&gt;lost in the song of her lullaby&lt;br /&gt;lost in the calming of her lips&lt;br /&gt;lost in the eternal peace of her desirable mind&lt;br /&gt;lost in the alley, shes created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the alley, that created her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111994112380516094?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111994112380516094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111994112380516094&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111994112380516094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111994112380516094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/06/lost_28.html' title='Lost.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111895523837523977</id><published>2005-06-17T04:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-17T05:02:12.580+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Absolution.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/blood_rose1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 3px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 3px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 3px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 3px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/blood_rose1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her hands firmly clasped against it&lt;br /&gt;green stalk signifying the age&lt;br /&gt;the inevitable moment arrives&lt;br /&gt;as her blood trickles down her knuckles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;painting the petals with her own&lt;br /&gt;words going astray in time&lt;br /&gt;amused she is with it&lt;br /&gt;as the drops of dew dilute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i cup my hands in exasperation&lt;br /&gt;saving every drop from contamination&lt;br /&gt;they hit my palm a lighter shade&lt;br /&gt;my tears reaching them as they do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is as if she willfully paints my tears&lt;br /&gt;smiling at my thoughtful frown&lt;br /&gt;offering me existence unto her&lt;br /&gt;inviting my mortal sin, of being&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she eases the grasp on the stalk&lt;br /&gt;as she eases her grasp on the sinner&lt;br /&gt;she takes a step backwards as she smiles&lt;br /&gt;and leaves me haunted by her&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you stay kneeling on the dry ground&lt;br /&gt;puddle of life in palms of thy hands&lt;br /&gt;lost in the rippling of the moment&lt;br /&gt;painting, once again, the path for another&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she will remain timeless&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the penance will be brought upon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beg the ground she treads upon,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for absolution.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111895523837523977?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111692346658975063</id><published>2005-05-24T16:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-24T16:32:38.506+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Her eyes, her life, her plight, my wife.</title><content type='html'>She is crumbling in my arms&lt;br /&gt;the smeared mascara that runs in my veins&lt;br /&gt;once vibrant, her hair is brittle&lt;br /&gt;as she falls into me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is an infinite place in her head&lt;br /&gt;a place where she cowers in shame&lt;br /&gt;where she is free of all blame&lt;br /&gt;where it's perfect for death to play&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her eyes have lost its faith&lt;br /&gt;the truth her eyes have betrayed&lt;br /&gt;the life of the living damned&lt;br /&gt;she is forced to portray&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as young as she has been&lt;br /&gt;she has always been old&lt;br /&gt;all the beauty in the world&lt;br /&gt;she had tried to mould&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gone are the ways she can be forgiven&lt;br /&gt;gone are the days in which death is forgotten&lt;br /&gt;gone are all the Mays' in which we anticipate June&lt;br /&gt;gone, says He, the one with providence&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111692346658975063?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111692346658975063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111692346658975063&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111692346658975063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111692346658975063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/05/her-eyes-her-life-her-plight-my-wife.html' title='Her eyes, her life, her plight, my wife.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111685387805530474</id><published>2005-05-23T20:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-24T16:08:40.460+08:00</updated><title type='text'>She defies me, for i am daring.</title><content type='html'>as far as i've gone&lt;br /&gt;i haven't gone far&lt;br /&gt;as near as you are&lt;br /&gt;you always remain far&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;unfurling the crumpled paper to read the inevitable&lt;br /&gt;yet she still looks at me softly&lt;br /&gt;regret is fundamental to change&lt;br /&gt;never for healing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gazing into the white screen of my movie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what is need? do i need you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i've always returned to you&lt;br /&gt;you've always waited for me&lt;br /&gt;but, that was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she wills me a look of defiance&lt;br /&gt;i perceive what she conjures in restless dreams&lt;br /&gt;she burns the code in me&lt;br /&gt;she screams erratically&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i dare you to&lt;br /&gt;look at me&lt;br /&gt;i dare you to&lt;br /&gt;fall for me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i dare you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all i have now,&lt;br /&gt;is my will to be willed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111685387805530474?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111579877502745013</id><published>2005-05-11T16:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-11T16:56:20.696+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Memoir ice.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Memories start to flow. Overflow. Aching is too much to endure. Pain is on the inside. Pain inflicted on the outside is just exterior, but on the inside, excruciatingly starts at the centre and it escalates to the outer side making you feel it inside your bones. Makes you want to break down so hard you couldn’t stand up anymore. Inhuman magnitude of strength needed to subdue oneself from losing control, from losing their mind improbable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can’t forget. I don’t want to, for you are tattooed to my soul. I beg the divine powers that hold me down, to loosen the barb wire tied around my chest, piercing my skin, to help ease the pain on my wings. Bleeding is draining away my life source. Pandemonic dreams made out of you is erratic and violent. Deluge of explicit moments in time in which I have supposedly spent with you is the omni-present movie etched into my brain. So much fear is imminent the moment it gets dark because I am afraid to close my eyes. I am afraid to shut the light because I am afraid to fall into that disturbing and deep slumber. I am afraid to sleep because I am afraid to delve into the familiar places in my mind. Only reason being the montage of torture has been set to replay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only want to hold you in my arms, see you smile, to run my hand through you're hair, to smell you, to caress your smooth skin, to run my fingers down your neck and gradually to your luscious bosoms. To make you feel that you're wanted. I desire your acquiescence for my ardent behaviour to even the slightest bit of you. I hope to tell you that you are loved so hard that if I loved you any more, my heart would stop from the strain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything in this world needs a source of life. A source, for never ending energy. Yet everything in this world has a limited source of power that only lasts for a moment in the chronological order. Everything human made that is. For God, has made the human life source never ending. He has made a life source to keep one moving for the entirety of his life till expiration. However, he has set limitations knowing humans are not humble creatures. The only possible way to survive in bliss is to find The one. The only life source known to man for healing hurt, sharing joy, living life, sharing death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had found that source of energy in you. Don’t tell me you can’t because you already have. My body had easily accustomed to the new energy surging through my veins. It depended on that very life source, which is now absent. The sudden absence of a lifesource kills anything that requires one. Now deprived of your aura, I am wasting away gracefully. Ten days, ten months, ten years. What is time when you wish it not? Do not mock my existence with your disappearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While you’re away, pray for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For my departure, from the human limitations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111579877502745013?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111579877502745013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111579877502745013&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111579877502745013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111579877502745013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/05/memoir-ice.html' title='Memoir ice.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111535820429340841</id><published>2005-05-06T13:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-07T02:38:26.720+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Treason of tears.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;it has been some time a while ago&lt;br /&gt;watching feet shuffle past&lt;br /&gt;the rays of the sun shy away&lt;br /&gt;cold wind is embraced in solitude&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am lost in my head&lt;br /&gt;bleeding for a bosom bed&lt;br /&gt;intent on suffering instead&lt;br /&gt;gradually gaining on the dead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have risen one too many times&lt;br /&gt;they hurt me deeply, they wake me in my sleep&lt;br /&gt;they rise above the flames while i am engulfed&lt;br /&gt;left to burn in the overwhelming contempt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;erratic nightmares pose as salvation&lt;br /&gt;chaotic maze of dreamless dreams&lt;br /&gt;the eyes are guilty of treason, with tears&lt;br /&gt;left to accumulate excessively forming blood puddles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you'll be the first and last to know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;like a birth defect, twitching at the neck&lt;br /&gt;rocking backward and forward on the cold floor&lt;br /&gt;the fallacy of the fantasy is momentary epiphany&lt;br /&gt;mumbling the last verse, "She'll never know."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;are you mocking me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i will be ignorant to the blind&lt;br /&gt;i will smile at the stupidity of the intelligent&lt;br /&gt;i will laugh at threats at my life&lt;br /&gt;i will cry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111535820429340841?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111535820429340841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111535820429340841&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111535820429340841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111535820429340841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/05/treason-of-tears.html' title='Treason of tears.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111497435966794461</id><published>2005-05-02T03:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-02T03:06:49.093+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet beginnings.</title><content type='html'>my soul still drifts&lt;br /&gt;but now deprived of salvation&lt;br /&gt;with no depth or dreams&lt;br /&gt;giving it starvation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the endless journey&lt;br /&gt;begins once more&lt;br /&gt;as the days i try to forget&lt;br /&gt;hit me harder than before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when will i ever&lt;br /&gt;begin to fathom or learn&lt;br /&gt;for the days i would spend with you&lt;br /&gt;i longingly yearn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the days&lt;br /&gt;have grown longer&lt;br /&gt;the nights&lt;br /&gt;have become darker&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the tears&lt;br /&gt;ease the pain&lt;br /&gt;the dreams&lt;br /&gt;were in vain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i've kept you so safely&lt;br /&gt;in my fragile heart&lt;br /&gt;so long it has been&lt;br /&gt;we've been apart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i can't bear the strain&lt;br /&gt;the pain&lt;br /&gt;i stare blankly each day&lt;br /&gt;my sanity wanes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you've left me like a cherry blossom&lt;br /&gt;when the wind blows&lt;br /&gt;why have you forsaken me&lt;br /&gt;what have you chose?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111497435966794461?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111497435966794461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111497435966794461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111497435966794461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111497435966794461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/05/sweet-beginnings.html' title='Sweet beginnings.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111471923804771300</id><published>2005-04-29T04:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T00:50:20.516+08:00</updated><title type='text'>She pleads.</title><content type='html'>running my hand down her face&lt;br /&gt;i attempt to peel away the desolation&lt;br /&gt;i attempt to free the acrimonium&lt;br /&gt;i attempt to solve the pandemonium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She pleads. you only attempt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i watch her waste away&lt;br /&gt;her lashes fall into the ashes&lt;br /&gt;the devil is offered carte blanche&lt;br /&gt;sifting through the evanescence of time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;death. death. death.&lt;br /&gt;like a prayer she utters under her breath&lt;br /&gt;the angel covenant cries heresy&lt;br /&gt;god denies her acquiescence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the caustic metal corrodes her skin&lt;br /&gt;it cuts her veins mercilessly&lt;br /&gt;severing the message intended&lt;br /&gt;the slits gushing life continously&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her tryst with the prayer is over&lt;br /&gt;her beloved desire has been ensconced&lt;br /&gt;lucifier attains the damaged soul&lt;br /&gt;He watches on, unable to reply to the prayer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am pleading while she is bleeding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is still unable, while she, i still cradle.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111471923804771300?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111471923804771300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111471923804771300&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111471923804771300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111471923804771300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/04/she-pleads.html' title='She pleads.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111382900115108902</id><published>2005-04-18T19:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-04-18T20:56:41.153+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Touch.</title><content type='html'>she lays there not flinching&lt;br /&gt;gazing into the white above&lt;br /&gt;seeing through the boundaries&lt;br /&gt;blue eyes brightening with every star shine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i look upon thy subtle movements&lt;br /&gt;every inch to a whole&lt;br /&gt;in every inch some space to mould&lt;br /&gt;your fingers beckoning my sense of touch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;slow breaths to taste my smell&lt;br /&gt;her hair flowing down amidst crystal water&lt;br /&gt;invoking envy, sides of the luscious silk&lt;br /&gt;privileged to savour her material skin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i frown at your simple innocence&lt;br /&gt;is the world only found within this?&lt;br /&gt;does the world only revolve in this?&lt;br /&gt;does eternity call for me so quickly?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she looks up and rests her eyes upon me&lt;br /&gt;she studies me intently, and exhales her apprehension&lt;br /&gt;from her embracing realm she brings to light&lt;br /&gt;petals of white and petals of colour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i admit to its glowing resonance&lt;br /&gt;i submit to her graceful acceptance of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the piano plays a beautiful sound&lt;br /&gt;but be deceived not,&lt;br /&gt;beautiful, is she, whose touch is gentle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111168574356290759</id><published>2005-03-25T01:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-30T02:00:32.110+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rays.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/rays.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/rays.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the heavens opening with benevolence is seen with much epiphany after the wintry interlude. fear is set ablaze by the seemingly endless amount of energy in the rays. the clouds part leisurely as if to minutely depict the calm you would gladly accept with open arms. revolving is the earth but blessed by the rays of birth it is bathed in. shining on us it will remain our only hope of repent. atone for your sins exile. thy imprudence would prove to be your downfall. gain knowledge of the proper meaning and then step forward. gaze up into the portal to your new realm. it wouldn't matter if you went blind for a split second. hold you hands towards it and welcome the aura replenishing moment with grace. for that momentary pause in the time line, everything is blurred out of vision and the reflex is to focus. then you will see what you've needed to see. the entirety of your life has been summarized for you in a spot. it becomes clear now the presence of whom in your lives is worthy of your energy. the pertinence of life itself is still unclear. worry not, if He had intended us to know this, we would know this by now. wishing for golden streets and praying for the blind man to see is never worthwhile. if the streets were gold, where would the colour be? if being blind was really an obstacle for the blind man, then how come he can see better than you? he doesn't see what he doesn't. he sees what he has to. if only all of us have the ability to harness and take charge of the limitless untapped power and dynamism we have in our inner sanctum. forget what and when of life but how. souls were always lost when they forayed into the realms. they couldn't find the answer. the answer lies in you. as for the people that were lost in battle, they aren't here anymore. they have been summoned for to a better place to serve the rest of their purpose. concentrate on your purpose because they have forgotten you. they have. the reign of the king is never ending. His power lies in your power. His authority is your authority. He commands you accordingly. the only King whose command to you is your freedom. He is like the rays of the sun. everywhere.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111168574356290759?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111168574356290759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111168574356290759&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111168574356290759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111168574356290759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/03/rays_25.html' title='Rays.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111109012276240662</id><published>2005-03-18T04:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-18T11:51:02.436+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Choice of path.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/raymond-path.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/raymond-path.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stroll along the gravel&lt;br /&gt;gusts of wind remind you&lt;br /&gt;epiphany is your feeling of love&lt;br /&gt;smiling and blushing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;look out the window&lt;br /&gt;useful only for what it can do&lt;br /&gt;a medium for the experiences&lt;br /&gt;for its the only way to see the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gaze at the length of the line&lt;br /&gt;ponder a moment for it leads you&lt;br /&gt;for you it has always been an unknown&lt;br /&gt;risk it, abandon the apprehension&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not blindly, not foolishly&lt;br /&gt;seek the light and the truth&lt;br /&gt;foresee craters in the road&lt;br /&gt;forsake the hearsay of the faceless&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for you see, i am at the end&lt;br /&gt;waiting at the extremity of the distance&lt;br /&gt;still watching the amaranth rose&lt;br /&gt;its petals ravaged by the raindrops and the cold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it rests upon icy fingers&lt;br /&gt;held out in reach of you. only.&lt;br /&gt;place your hand gently, on its stalk&lt;br /&gt;encompassed in icy shards of time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;still.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is still warmth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;solely within the rose.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111109012276240662?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111109012276240662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111109012276240662&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111109012276240662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111109012276240662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/03/choice-of-path.html' title='Choice of path.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-111072294105351274</id><published>2005-03-13T22:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-13T22:10:20.666+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alone.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/71.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/71.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;personal&lt;br /&gt;daily life plagued by them&lt;br /&gt;makeshift love and hate to play&lt;br /&gt;struggles are worth the struggle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if time permits,we shall talk again&lt;br /&gt;as the times when i'm alive&lt;br /&gt;grow nearer to the day in which death is imminent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;always alone in thy world&lt;br /&gt;solitude is the creators wish&lt;br /&gt;it is my gift of second nature&lt;br /&gt;envy me, i am blessed with bliss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;why should you be afraid?&lt;br /&gt;for all of you is not alone&lt;br /&gt;why should you think of yourself?&lt;br /&gt;for all of me is alone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bask in thy austerity&lt;br /&gt;conjure your own aegis&lt;br /&gt;may i be your avatar&lt;br /&gt;my desire is to be the one,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to perish, before you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fear not dear maiden&lt;br /&gt;lay all the world on my shoulders&lt;br /&gt;worry not if you hear my bones crack&lt;br /&gt;i will not fold just yet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have much to tell you&lt;br /&gt;alas the language i possess&lt;br /&gt;as much as you can fathom&lt;br /&gt;i remain bounded by my knowledge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hide yourself away&lt;br /&gt;curl up into my chest&lt;br /&gt;feel the sensations forming&lt;br /&gt;tell me that i won't feel anything&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to you, i have been waiting&lt;br /&gt;to the mirror, who are you?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111072294105351274?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111072294105351274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111072294105351274&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/raindrops.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it falls from the sky so gently&lt;br /&gt;tiny diamonds of pure truth&lt;br /&gt;each one with a story of its own&lt;br /&gt;each one with a journey to fulfill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;empowerment from our infinite resource&lt;br /&gt;its is a pity that not many know&lt;br /&gt;for it is natures way for rebirth&lt;br /&gt;replenshing each organism aiding it in its cycle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;halt your routine order&lt;br /&gt;a moment held in an eternity&lt;br /&gt;giving birth to an eternity&lt;br /&gt;filled with limitless moments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;listen to the silent notes&lt;br /&gt;its sound so melancholic&lt;br /&gt;in every drop a poetic piece&lt;br /&gt;in every piece a piano solo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sadness in happiness&lt;br /&gt;happiness through sadness&lt;br /&gt;tear with it if you wish&lt;br /&gt;there is never an emotion complete without it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;such is its versatility&lt;br /&gt;it ushers in tears of joy and pain&lt;br /&gt;some may seek to avoid such pain&lt;br /&gt;some may seek to be reminiscent through it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;forget the realm in which emotions manifest&lt;br /&gt;let it pull a veil over reality&lt;br /&gt;let it cleanse the impurities&lt;br /&gt;for it will, with no obligation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seek it and it shall seek you&lt;br /&gt;dance to its music and it will dance with you&lt;br /&gt;emotionless, it will never shun you&lt;br /&gt;fearless, it will never judge you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feel your wings emerge from within you&lt;br /&gt;feel them get drenched in heavens blessings&lt;br /&gt;feel time slow to a stop&lt;br /&gt;feel shivers down your spine from the cold&lt;br /&gt;feel the wind freeze the moment&lt;br /&gt;feel your thoughts go swirling&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;salvation is attained&lt;br /&gt;all is not lost, but forgotten&lt;br /&gt;it is as it should be&lt;br /&gt;if not, it will be&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-111072283563986128?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/111072283563986128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=111072283563986128&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111072283563986128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/111072283563986128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/03/feel-it-rain-on-me_13.html' title='Feel it, rain on me.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110960943747629697</id><published>2005-03-01T00:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-01T00:58:32.776+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Secret garden.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/40_md.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/40_md.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;creeping into the vision&lt;br /&gt;its smell repugnant and vile&lt;br /&gt;scanning the palace for its source&lt;br /&gt;draining the energy and electricity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's no surprise though&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yet people are oblivious to the obvious&lt;br /&gt;it's feeding on your contempt and your ignorance&lt;br /&gt;enlarge your eyelids and look, for a change&lt;br /&gt;release your hate and embrace reality&lt;br /&gt;play no more on your naivety&lt;br /&gt;don't expect&lt;br /&gt;it doesn't happen anymore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your body is a secret garden&lt;br /&gt;and there is only one rose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its stalk encompassed in thorns&lt;br /&gt;remember why the thorns are present&lt;br /&gt;it will only prick a passer bys hand only if you protect it&lt;br /&gt;its picking beckoned only, by the one&lt;br /&gt;it's enticing to let the fragrance influence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;take note&lt;br /&gt;fragrance doesn't last forever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let it wither and pass on naturally&lt;br /&gt;cast it in stone do not&lt;br /&gt;for it will destroy the remaining humanity within you&lt;br /&gt;let the innocence of a newborn renew you&lt;br /&gt;let it remind you of the inner sanctum that resides in you&lt;br /&gt;the chapel of infinite beauty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the only place with limitless space but confined by emotions&lt;br /&gt;control them, and you would have taken the first step into the establishment&lt;br /&gt;the only place where you, and only you, are allowed to enter&lt;br /&gt;the only place where you, is imminent and inevitable&lt;br /&gt;the only place where you, are both god and belzebub&lt;br /&gt;the only place where you, can be you, and that will always be perfect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you, are the heart and soul&lt;br /&gt;the garden is guided by your good deeds and your sins&lt;br /&gt;nurture it, and it will prove to be your sustenance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;love. you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110960943747629697?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110960943747629697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110960943747629697&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110960943747629697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110960943747629697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/03/secret-garden.html' title='Secret garden.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110922605034719989</id><published>2005-02-24T14:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-01T01:03:45.890+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Choice.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/snake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/snake.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave and thy leaves fall&lt;br /&gt;hit the ground they will&lt;br /&gt;only to be returned to thyself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we are but two rain drops on stained glass&lt;br /&gt;rolling down, leaving two seperate trails&lt;br /&gt;only to move closer to each other&lt;br /&gt;uniting at one precise moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everyone has precise moments&lt;br /&gt;blatant and obvious to the naked eye&lt;br /&gt;choice enlivens the moment&lt;br /&gt;only to be let down by fear&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hear the echoes of the sages&lt;br /&gt;the luminous presence encompassing the immaterial&lt;br /&gt;hear them say, "choice, child. choice."&lt;br /&gt;choice. all of it. burdened by choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you named them freedom&lt;br /&gt;you caught them blowing into wind chimes&lt;br /&gt;you are rendered choiceless by them&lt;br /&gt;now,&lt;br /&gt;you are enslaved by freedom&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110922605034719989?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110922605034719989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110922605034719989&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110922605034719989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110922605034719989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/02/choice.html' title='Choice.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110910077327478600</id><published>2005-02-23T03:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-02-23T13:23:54.803+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Worth a while but worth your while?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/black%20rose.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/black%2520rose.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i can only offer&lt;br /&gt;the walk in the country side where the leaves fall&lt;br /&gt;the walk by the lake with ducks&lt;br /&gt;the moonlit strolls along the path that was forgotten&lt;br /&gt;to lie down on a tattered mat and gaze at midnight diamonds&lt;br /&gt;the hills saturated with wind that they make the long grass sway&lt;br /&gt;the song that i sing which does'nt hit the notes&lt;br /&gt;my words i use to serenade the pages of my book of you&lt;br /&gt;the years left for my heart to beat&lt;br /&gt;my listening to hear your every minute of your wretched life&lt;br /&gt;my eyes to undress you at the very thought of, you&lt;br /&gt;my lips for you to suck my breath away and leave me in peace&lt;br /&gt;my touch as i caress to the threshold of my sanguine pleasures&lt;br /&gt;the blood red roses that bloom at that very moment they see you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a strand of your fringe to imagine it dance in the wind&lt;br /&gt;your raiment to keep your smell fresh in my veins&lt;br /&gt;the promise of fidelity in your adoration&lt;br /&gt;to stay careless but stop being callous&lt;br /&gt;to be not alarmed towards my ardency&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;look at the shards of ice that surround me&lt;br /&gt;my heart takes the shape of a rose&lt;br /&gt;drops of dew complete its state&lt;br /&gt;its glamour slowly fading&lt;br /&gt;once amaranth, its been long since&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i've fought many wars&lt;br /&gt;and won all of them&lt;br /&gt;but they remain, pyrrhic&lt;br /&gt;tell me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;was it worth your while?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110910077327478600?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110910077327478600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110910077327478600&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110910077327478600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110910077327478600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/02/worth-while-but-worth-your-while.html' title='Worth a while but worth your while?'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110840171801034799</id><published>2005-02-15T01:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-01T01:03:55.996+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waltz.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/untitled.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #660000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #660000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #660000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/untitled.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her fingernails are purposefully painted black&lt;br /&gt;her sensuous lips are of the same shade&lt;br /&gt;she draws dark circles around her eyes to drown them in it&lt;br /&gt;the eyebrow piercing to further take away your attention from them&lt;br /&gt;the pale white emanating from her face to force disgust&lt;br /&gt;she adorns a flowing dress that reminds you of a shadow&lt;br /&gt;the sleeves long it covers all of her&lt;br /&gt;she hides her soul in fear it may be noticed&lt;br /&gt;shes knows beauty&lt;br /&gt;shes knows she is beautiful&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her quick steps hide her sway of her curves&lt;br /&gt;but she doesn't&lt;br /&gt;shes talks with much wit&lt;br /&gt;but she doesn't&lt;br /&gt;a smile that would put pearls to shame&lt;br /&gt;but she doesn't&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she's afraid to shine&lt;br /&gt;but she's afraid not to&lt;br /&gt;but i see, so clearly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the elegance oozes from her&lt;br /&gt;shes sits there sipping on arbot mist&lt;br /&gt;diagonally across is where i am&lt;br /&gt;watching her every notion in its intensity&lt;br /&gt;she caresses the mouth of the glass and silently listens to it hum&lt;br /&gt;with this she draws a slow breath&lt;br /&gt;as if to taste the essence of the earth&lt;br /&gt;she closes her eyes and begins humming a tune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a tune so calming&lt;br /&gt;a lullaby to ones spirit&lt;br /&gt;visualize the heaven in its serenity&lt;br /&gt;the music resonating from the plucking of strings from an angels harp&lt;br /&gt;or however you see gods place to be&lt;br /&gt;i follow as the music takes the lead&lt;br /&gt;i can't help myself but close my eyes and envision the waltz&lt;br /&gt;where shes takes my hand and leads me into the age old form of expression&lt;br /&gt;we are one, almost literally&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sensuality. sexuality. morality. duality. equality.&lt;br /&gt;she has spoken to me, without words&lt;br /&gt;without expression&lt;br /&gt;without thought&lt;br /&gt;with music&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but there is sadness&lt;br /&gt;there is no harmony&lt;br /&gt;the love in the sound is disturbed&lt;br /&gt;i open my eyes to see nothing but tears&lt;br /&gt;mascara smeared down her cheek&lt;br /&gt;she catches my eye but she doesn't move&lt;br /&gt;she doesn't mind my presence&lt;br /&gt;she gazes at me with longing for closeness&lt;br /&gt;i walk over and we embrace like we've known&lt;br /&gt;like we've seen&lt;br /&gt;and then i hear the cries&lt;br /&gt;of sorrow and of hurt&lt;br /&gt;of pain and of love&lt;br /&gt;and i stand there and it was forever and one&lt;br /&gt;forever and none&lt;br /&gt;but still i stand&lt;br /&gt;still we stand&lt;br /&gt;and it has met its end&lt;br /&gt;for her. and for my wife.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110840171801034799?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110840171801034799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110840171801034799&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110840171801034799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110840171801034799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/02/waltz.html' title='Waltz.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110770125179270111</id><published>2005-02-06T22:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-03-01T01:04:06.720+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloodshed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/640/meditate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #666666 3px solid; BORDER-TOP: #666666 3px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #666666 3px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #666666 3px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/232/3445/320/meditate.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;close thee eyes and picture that thought&lt;br /&gt;transcend the physical limits and float&lt;br /&gt;forget material boasts and forget time&lt;br /&gt;remember the moments that somehow bring bliss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;remove the limiter that prevents the higher level&lt;br /&gt;call out to the angel to untie it for you&lt;br /&gt;the velvet ribbons securely holding you&lt;br /&gt;only time will heal the limbs for you to leave&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its sadistic ways are coming to an end&lt;br /&gt;novocaine isn't required to keep it at bay&lt;br /&gt;soon the barriers will be broken&lt;br /&gt;the shadow no more a potrait of hurt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her bosoms are the giver of life&lt;br /&gt;but the giving is by her&lt;br /&gt;her wings are still contained&lt;br /&gt;bleeding from the excruciating pain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she meditates to relieve the piercing love&lt;br /&gt;she can hear the sadistic laughter from him&lt;br /&gt;his eyes transfixed in her pained countenance&lt;br /&gt;this is his sanguine pleasure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fingers caressing her neck slowly&lt;br /&gt;with a devilish grin he touches the place&lt;br /&gt;her sentient nipple to see her wince&lt;br /&gt;his hands now progresing to her inner thighs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the heat, her heat, is resonating&lt;br /&gt;shes is in pain, secretly it is what she wants&lt;br /&gt;he plays with her emotions for a slight&lt;br /&gt;he rubs against her slit just to tease&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he puts more pressure and his finger starts disappearing&lt;br /&gt;its wet and he smiles at the back of her neck&lt;br /&gt;he pushes harder to feel her insides&lt;br /&gt;he leans her on his chest and violates her fully&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;she screams and he perversely makes her suffer&lt;br /&gt;purposefully testing her limits&lt;br /&gt;he forces the womanhood from her as she wets herself&lt;br /&gt;he slows to a stop. now breathing hard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;rolling down her cheeks are the god given silent emotions&lt;br /&gt;he sees it and the devilish grin returns&lt;br /&gt;he licks the tears and smiles&lt;br /&gt;and whispers in her ear the contempt he has for her&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he pushes her away from him and leaves her lying on the ground&lt;br /&gt;he walks away into the shadows, disappearing&lt;br /&gt;shes lays there in pain, bleeding from her insides&lt;br /&gt;the roses now stained. bloodshed. hurt. pain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110770125179270111?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110770125179270111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110770125179270111&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110770125179270111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110770125179270111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/02/bloodshed.html' title='Bloodshed.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110754066432804680</id><published>2005-02-05T02:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-02-05T02:14:55.230+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Piano.</title><content type='html'>closed eyes and heightened hearing&lt;br /&gt;the harmonious essence of the chords vibrate in the air&lt;br /&gt;every note hitting an amount of remembrance&lt;br /&gt;resonating in the ears as music&lt;br /&gt;sitting by the fireplace and that warmth&lt;br /&gt;the touch of velvet at the feet&lt;br /&gt;the comfortable armchair as your only confidant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the smell of vanilla in the air&lt;br /&gt;burning candles flicker with every breath&lt;br /&gt;the feel of velvet in your palms conjure peace&lt;br /&gt;weight forgotten, your only adornment, a silk robe&lt;br /&gt;dimly lit hall with not so much as a whisper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;english tea on a silver tray&lt;br /&gt;chocolate muffins to savour the day&lt;br /&gt;tinkling of cutlery as the muffins are slit&lt;br /&gt;almost sculpting a whole new view&lt;br /&gt;the elizabethan ceiling decor is complete in itself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the vase has luscious red roses&lt;br /&gt;they have been waiting for you&lt;br /&gt;its been ages and still they await you&lt;br /&gt;ever so patiently&lt;br /&gt;gorgeous to admire&lt;br /&gt;mimicking your countenance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes i see the cobwebs&lt;br /&gt;but i choose to&lt;br /&gt;i choose la vie en rose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110753857977276348</id><published>2005-02-05T01:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-02-05T02:16:26.886+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Moment of fun.</title><content type='html'>immersed in this private personal solitude,&lt;br /&gt;i am overwhelmed by your presence&lt;br /&gt;i am overcome by the sight of your silhouette&lt;br /&gt;your aura forces my heart into trauma&lt;br /&gt;go on, speak. speak.&lt;br /&gt;speak now or forever hold your tongue.&lt;br /&gt;glancing eyes meet, heart abalze&lt;br /&gt;don't shy away. don't sh.. too late&lt;br /&gt;like a gust of wind on a hot summer's day&lt;br /&gt;she came like a flash. libertaing.&lt;br /&gt;and left me feeling overheated&lt;br /&gt;she was gone.&lt;br /&gt;hmm.&lt;br /&gt;dream on casanova..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div 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fun.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110753815625181254</id><published>2005-02-05T01:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-02-05T01:29:16.253+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Words of god.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;no matter how modest you are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;no matter how inculpable you are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;untarnished and good. pure and warm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;definite and distinct. chiselled and straight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the list can increase in its continuity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;yet you will never suceed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you will never acquire her because she will never want you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;she does not desire you. so far you've come and yet you fail again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the confusion does not lie in her wants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;it lies in you. you are unsure of what you desire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you don't know the way and no one is showing it to you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;how long can you look into the mirror just to make yourself look&lt;br /&gt;nice?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;now, define nice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you are stained and ugly and no one wants you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the mirror lies to you. it tells you what you dont want to see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;forget the hurt and the mending.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;damage done is there and will not heal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;it is in the pain that you grit your teeth and lunge forward&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;void the abyss and look closer to where you leap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;only then would you have learnt, honesty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;be honest. people believe the words of god are found in pages of white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;if so, then those words are honest. it helps you believe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;now, imagine honesty in yourself. be honest to yourself, about yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;be honest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;its not about you. its not always about you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;open your eyes and look. listen carefully.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the world revolves. everyday. not around you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you are not special to them. but you can be, for yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you do not exude beauty to them. but the mirror sees it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the show of passion is not visible to them. but you can be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you can lie to them. but not to the reflection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;study it. pass the test. and then you will see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the true brilliance of the beautiful colours. only then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110753815625181254?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110753815625181254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110753815625181254&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110753815625181254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110753815625181254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/02/words-of-god.html' title='Words of god.'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110667866963344490</id><published>2005-01-26T02:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-02-25T02:29:14.586+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Envelope my being.</title><content type='html'>among the heavenly white clouds&lt;br /&gt;the place where dreams are made&lt;br /&gt;manufactured for each living soul&lt;br /&gt;to make sleep less of a burden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in this private solitude you are made for me&lt;br /&gt;you have been sent to me, for me&lt;br /&gt;you call everyday and i await your call&lt;br /&gt;you tell me you love me everyday and i await your faults&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these imperfections are what i need&lt;br /&gt;the spontaneity is what i seek&lt;br /&gt;the endless pondering on how we would be&lt;br /&gt;as i keep reminding you how i feel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have told me we are worlds apart&lt;br /&gt;and you don't believe that wretched heart&lt;br /&gt;but you forget there is only one world&lt;br /&gt;and you and i are only one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so let the music keep playing&lt;br /&gt;let the passion keep burning&lt;br /&gt;let the poetry keep flowing&lt;br /&gt;let the beauty keep showing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and while the record keeps spinning&lt;br /&gt;we shall float in air as light as feathers&lt;br /&gt;floating in pairs as we waltz together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i anticipate sleep just to think of you&lt;br /&gt;i anticipate thoughts of you just to dream of you&lt;br /&gt;i anticipate dreams of you just to sit with you&lt;br /&gt;i anticipate sitting with you just to be with you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you could tell me you hate me but au contraire mademoiselle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now. now matters. only now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i will climb the peak of those 2 flights of stairs&lt;br /&gt;i will sit and enjoy arbot mist, if it is in selection&lt;br /&gt;if you aren't there, you will be and there are two glasses&lt;br /&gt;overtaken by emotion you will sit on my lap&lt;br /&gt;and i will hum a silent tune when the tears tell they're own&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now, it is now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110667866963344490?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110667866963344490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>Duality.. The Other Half Has Spoken..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;tell it not in Gath. make me all yours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ending the day with my calves folded neatly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;on your thighs i rest my burden. don't move now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i'm dozing off. your pen shall be your voice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;make no noise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;every weekend, my room will be lighted with frivolous candles.&lt;br /&gt;in grandeur it'll be complemented with jazz and choir. wine.&lt;br /&gt;every thursday i buy fresh roses to suck the smell out on such days.&lt;br /&gt;i wish you are sitting in the corner of the room now.&lt;br /&gt;take your pen and notepad. study me. watch me cry and understand my misery.&lt;br /&gt;know my issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am. there. look closely. the sudden flickers of the lights.&lt;br /&gt;the sudden gusts of breeze. i am taking notes.&lt;br /&gt;but i don't want to. i want you to sit on my lap and tear.&lt;br /&gt;each drop will tell its own. i am. there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;maybe. perhaps i'm blinded. chalked by my tears.&lt;br /&gt;my baby plush ducks are wet. roses losing its scent.&lt;br /&gt;i still can't see you. wait a minute. the flames are dancing.&lt;br /&gt;are you waltzing around me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i await your clarity. i await you to find me in the mist.&lt;br /&gt;i move with emotion and whisper with devotion. when you have found me, hold hands and slow dance.&lt;br /&gt;i want to speak. say i am in love, deeply. you affect me and, the roses.&lt;br /&gt;look at me. this damaged unknown. this vile, creature. this empty shell. look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;i kick the carapace in the gutter. your home is not that cursed shell but my bosom.&lt;br /&gt;beneath the brassiere you belong. you are my moat monster.&lt;br /&gt;the towers are tall. play a game. find me. my soul separates from my body.&lt;br /&gt;you i'm longing for. my scissors leg are ripped open by chains of modernism.&lt;br /&gt;don't be them. don't go there. don't hold your breath. i want to smell your exasperation.&lt;br /&gt;candour and candid. the satan picks up a rosary. HE has spoken.&lt;br /&gt;he said, "Belzebub, sell her your soul." i look inside the mirror and curse.&lt;br /&gt;i want to be beautiful. like you. i want to be beautiful like you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;far away. long ago. i met a blind soul. i followed the trail but got lost.&lt;br /&gt;i am still lost. but the place is paradise. i am introduced to art and unorthodox passion.&lt;br /&gt;it blinds me. i met a blind soul which blinded me. with love, beauty, music, poetry.&lt;br /&gt;i can't see the soul. but SHE is beautiful. i want to be beautiful. like her. i want to be beautiful. like you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;the other half has spoken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what was said?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;inaudible words. illegible actions. undying passion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bianca Zen &amp;amp; R.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110642068985474892?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110642068985474892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110642068985474892&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110642068985474892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110642068985474892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/duality-other-half-has-spoken.html' title='Duality.. The Other Half Has Spoken..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110602035058980307</id><published>2005-01-18T11:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-18T11:56:33.086+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Common..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i read a piece. I felt and saw words of virginity and thoughts of intimate longings.&lt;br /&gt;After every ellipsis was another to lengthen the train of&lt;br /&gt;thought. i am narrow minded, it was suggested. i said&lt;br /&gt;what i saw with honesty and i took it painfully. am i really? am i not&lt;br /&gt;that intellectual who i deem myself to be? am i really&lt;br /&gt;that simple and transparent? am i not special and do i&lt;br /&gt;not possess talent? countless trains passed by and the&lt;br /&gt;knot in my chest was not merciful. to comprehend that i&lt;br /&gt;am just normal is hurtful. recognizing now that i know&lt;br /&gt;not myself. i am lacking. i am not purposeful in this world. i have no self identity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"know thy strengths and be wary of your weaknesses" this self pity is tiresome.&lt;br /&gt;perhaps i am just mere common debris. deceived myself&lt;br /&gt;enough. irony. because who have i deceived? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;deceive thyself no more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110602035058980307?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110602035058980307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110602035058980307&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110602035058980307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110602035058980307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/common.html' title='Common..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110581539904859956</id><published>2005-01-16T02:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-18T12:33:11.010+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Silence..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;why? she kept asking me why?no reason. nothing. silence.it is not meant to deafen you.it was never meant to close you down.listening. i want to listen to you.i don't want to hear myself anymore. i don't want to talk&lt;br /&gt;to my shadow anymore. i have heard you. i want to hear&lt;br /&gt;you. sing for me. serenade my being. silence. don't say&lt;br /&gt;no. don't fear me. don't run away from me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are ugly. you are hideous. you kill yourself&lt;br /&gt;everyday. you are imprudent. you are daft. you are silly.&lt;br /&gt;you are uninteresting. you are obnoxious. you are vain. you&lt;br /&gt;are hateful. i hate you. you are not perfect. you never&lt;br /&gt;will be. you are not perfect. please don't be perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;god don't make her perfect for me. not her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you will take her away from me.&lt;br /&gt;you always have. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110581539904859956?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110581539904859956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110581539904859956&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110581539904859956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110581539904859956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/silence.html' title='Silence..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110520793153774838</id><published>2005-01-09T02:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-09T02:12:11.536+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rant..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;trigger the angel in me you do&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;kiss away my demons and purify me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;hold me and heal my exterior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;hum a song and caress me to sleep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;awake me and stare me to the bone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;brush my hair and clear my mind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;abolish uncertainty with a finger to the lips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;chase away nightmares with whispers in my ear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;clothe me and make me seem perfect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;tilt my chin and overlook my flaws&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;lie on my chest and remind me i'm human&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;cry on my shoulder and let your tears be holy water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;run your fingers down my spine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;make me feel the epiphany of pleasure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;bite my neck and mark your territory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;sigh at my imperfections and laugh at my insecurity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;talk to me even when im not listening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;listen to me even when im not talking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;embrace me into your ideal world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;get lost in my tramp of compound&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;give birth a bliss montage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;will you do this for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;because i have,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i know you lie, but say you love me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110520793153774838?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110520793153774838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110520793153774838&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110520793153774838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110520793153774838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/rant.html' title='Rant..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110483955102634531</id><published>2005-01-04T19:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-04T19:52:31.026+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Silent night..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Silent Night&lt;br /&gt;the silence fades away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the darkness loses the fight over dominance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;midnight diamonds lose the light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;as the day wins over the night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;satan's children find solace in dark and lucid places&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;places filled with dark thoughts and desolation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;my existence is filled with these&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;prolonged days of pain in bliss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;reaching for soothing thoughts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;that might console the living soul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;alas light doesn't tolerate the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the battle is lost even before it embarks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the ultimate being creeps over the horizon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;illuminating the earth below it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;lighting each crevice of darkness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;putting an end to soulless dreams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the time of heaven's re-birth beckons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;and all that is dark is almost forgotten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;as fast as the light consumed the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;oblivion begin as my life ends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110483955102634531?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110483955102634531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110483955102634531&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110483955102634531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110483955102634531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/silent-night.html' title='Silent night..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110452915820317753</id><published>2005-01-01T05:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-01T05:41:04.073+08:00</updated><title type='text'>End of the world...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;dwelling in my sickness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;repeats of words that conjure suffering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;realm of closeness surrounding depths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;psalm of darkness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;angelic beauty is withheld&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;faceless faith or open the bag of tricks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;tamed myself of my wild side&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;by devouring my own wings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;seeking solace in pits of nothingness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;its flown away, my heart holds no life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;no longer dreaming of dreams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;lowly emerging, my wings of life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;but bearing down on me, is my own scythe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;its the end of the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110452915820317753?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110452915820317753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110452915820317753&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452915820317753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452915820317753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2005/01/end-of-world.html' title='End of the world...'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110452904717483194</id><published>2004-12-29T03:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-01T05:42:24.330+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obsession..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;celestial and complete with surrealism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;yet incomplete and rough at the edges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;perfect perfectionist at the loves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;yet blind to the obvious&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lady Bliss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;known for not long yet she does not know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i will always be him but you will always be you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you are she and you are her but i will always be that guy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;countless speeches later i am still him&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;your aura wears thin and so does your patience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i try not to touch but my hands burn, if not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i try not to see but my eyes hurt, if not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i try not to speak but my soul talks, if not&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;in a room filled with smoke and the smell of solely, vanilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hazy mist swirling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;candle burning relentlessly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;pieces of paper everywhere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ink spilled and furious writing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;she performs at her least but i try my best&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;thoughts of her but no thoughts of her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;entertaining my mind is like bending over backwards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i shut my mouth and write to shut my soul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you talk too much. she talks too much. i hate you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i hate you and i hate her but she hates me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i love you and i love her but you hate me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i obssess over bliss and possess nothing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i possess the words but she obssesses over another&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;possessed in obssession she is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;obssessed over possession i am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110452904717483194?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110452904717483194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110452904717483194&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452904717483194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452904717483194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/obsession.html' title='Obsession..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110452858150903533</id><published>2004-12-27T04:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-01-01T05:41:51.506+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Duet..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;When words become superfluous, you will just stare into someone's eyes and hum a tune. A song you heard in the radio but lyrics of it becomes fragment. In the humming, your soul just flew by mine. And i am still,&lt;br /&gt;starin at you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In the fragments you search for meaning.With too much to show i have nothing to say. I am still sitting here looking back. I feel the surge of connection,&lt;br /&gt;as i stare back at you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My hands are cold. The breeze is too strong. I rub against them and put them on your neck. Your eyes never,&lt;br /&gt;never,&lt;br /&gt;left the gaze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I feel your warmth, a chill down my spine. I reach out to you, and hold your hand in mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ouch. Can u feel the electric down our hands? Ouch. Your eyes they sting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pain. Can you see the electric run through my veins? Pain. Your eyes they sing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I cant. The tears they fill my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Then don't see. Feel. Put your hands on my chest. Feel my heart beat. Feel my heart bleed. For every tear shed, pierces my heart, an icy shard..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110452858150903533?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110452858150903533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110452858150903533&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452858150903533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110452858150903533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/duet.html' title='Duet..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110406623192499010</id><published>2004-12-26T21:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2004-12-26T21:03:51.923+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Utter..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i envy you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;envy, for i want to be loved as i love you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i hate you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;hate, for i want to be hated as much i hate you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i love you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;love, for i want to love you as much as i can&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;love love love..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i don't even know the meaning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;someone tell me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;someone help me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;someone hold me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;someone sold me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110406623192499010?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110406623192499010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110406623192499010&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110406623192499010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110406623192499010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/utter.html' title='Utter..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110406614805962860</id><published>2004-12-26T20:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2004-12-26T21:05:25.593+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shower..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the smoke swirling as my presence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;acknowledging the fact that it was no dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;distant sounds of water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;pitter patter mimicking the beating of my heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the dim candles, my only source of light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i followed them in curiousity, excitement filling my every crevice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;seeing someone i slowed down sweet selling cinnamon and vanilla essence fills my nostrils&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;fills my lungs, fills my blood, fills my soul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;my gaze caught in a cocktail of beauty and innocence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;you had seen me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i advance feeling closeness and the need to be home&lt;br /&gt;hair wet and droplets of water rolling down you&lt;br /&gt;emotional and mental barriers forgotten as i see you naked&lt;br /&gt;feeling light, my clothes come off and i see you with arms wide open&lt;br /&gt;i stand, naked and barrierless in front of you&lt;br /&gt;i stand, emotionally filled with a need to bond&lt;br /&gt;i feel the warm water hitting my body and i feel tranquility, instantly&lt;br /&gt;the view of you naked in front of me makes me think of love but makes me feel coquettish&lt;br /&gt;you embrace me and we stand there under the flow of the therapeutic warm water&lt;br /&gt;intertwined bodies that are damaged but in the process of reconciliation i realise i love you so much that if i loved you anymore, my heart would stop from the strain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;smooth skin at my touch&lt;br /&gt;foreplay of lips on neck&lt;br /&gt;i put my face slightly afar from yours&lt;br /&gt;you can hardly look at me now&lt;br /&gt;shying away enhancing my playfulness&lt;br /&gt;i kiss you on your lips&lt;br /&gt;slowly, to prolong that feel of that shiver down your spine&lt;br /&gt;i hold you close, failing in my attempts to fight my hard on&lt;br /&gt;but cheekily blissful, as i know soon we would bond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110406614805962860?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110406614805962860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110406614805962860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110406614805962860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110406614805962860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/shower.html' title='Shower..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110231873395787843</id><published>2004-12-06T15:34:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2004-12-06T15:40:15.966+08:00</updated><title type='text'>When you were there..</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;with epiphany&lt;br /&gt;i welcome you to my graces.&lt;br /&gt;of english literature and poetry.&lt;br /&gt;serenade me, more.&lt;br /&gt;should you choose not to..&lt;br /&gt;knock down the pristine halls in my chapel i have built for you..&lt;br /&gt;are you real?&lt;br /&gt;were you real?&lt;br /&gt;blessed i am to be able to still call out to you spiritually.&lt;br /&gt;but am i really blessed?&lt;br /&gt;no. not now. not here. not anywhere.&lt;br /&gt;curse me. make me see clearly.&lt;br /&gt;should you choose not to..&lt;br /&gt;should you?&lt;br /&gt;i shall leave you with my hurt and the aftermath of my devotion..&lt;br /&gt;fall i have.&lt;br /&gt;but not predicting it would be a pit.&lt;br /&gt;that will prove my demise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;everyday is not a livin prose. your drama sketch proves me tire&lt;br /&gt;im tired&lt;br /&gt;hush now&lt;br /&gt;troubled are you?&lt;br /&gt;im spiritually there. may not be there when you need me but your storyline is in the pages of my notebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i am tired&lt;br /&gt;the curtains have fallen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;i have no expectations of you.&lt;br /&gt;do not mistake my words for my needs of you.&lt;br /&gt;i share my words with you because&lt;br /&gt;no one else would be worth them&lt;br /&gt;but you.&lt;br /&gt;i had no intention to impose them on you&lt;br /&gt;just mere connection.&lt;br /&gt;tired are you..&lt;br /&gt;then rest you shall&lt;br /&gt;for i shall have nothing more to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110231873395787843?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110231873395787843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110231873395787843&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110231873395787843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110231873395787843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/when-you-were-there.html' title='When you were there..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110229980950783621</id><published>2004-12-06T10:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2004-12-06T10:29:48.106+08:00</updated><title type='text'>When you didn't answer..</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This silence is the demolition ball brought upon the chapel in my heart that i have built around you.. The mockery of my devotion is blasphemous. yet evict you from my pristine hall will prove to be my undoing. why such an act i predict should come true. and yet the surging feeling of connection still lingers to thy ethereal aura and being. Still blessed i am to be able to call out to you spiritually. but is it really a blessing? were you really for real?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110229980950783621?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110229980950783621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110229980950783621&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110229980950783621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110229980950783621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/12/when-you-didnt-answer.html' title='When you didn&apos;t answer..'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9277330.post-110113805306843313</id><published>2004-11-23T15:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2004-11-22T23:40:53.066+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Beginnings...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First post. Exciting. Exhilarating. Not. Confused. Help. Gone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9277330-110113805306843313?l=letmepretend.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/feeds/110113805306843313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9277330&amp;postID=110113805306843313&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110113805306843313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9277330/posts/default/110113805306843313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmepretend.blogspot.com/2004/11/beginnings.html' title='Beginnings...'/><author><name>raj.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00443106065578304280</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><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
