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When we were children we where taught nursery rhymes,
And they use to make us happy. Rhymes like London Bridge
And Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosie - these all sound innocent to children.
These rhymes had a more sinister theme, for example, the
Rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down, was actually a fact back
In the 19th century in London, where the bridge on the river
Thames was slowly sinking at a rapid rate into the water, making
It unsafe to handle people and traffic. It was at the verge of
Collapse. Thus the rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down,
Meant that if it were to collapse, people would drown and die.
Another rhyme goes back to the plague of London, where people
Wore face masks to prevent catching the black plague that
Was brought about by the growth of the rat population. When
People caught this disease they would hang wreaths of posies
On the doors of the sick people, and that later produced the rhyme
Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosie, referring to the black plague of London.
'They all fall down', meant that they died from the disease as there
Was no known antidote at that time. In the end the fire in a
Bakery in Pudding Lane caused the destruction of the plague
And pestilence, and London and it's people were eventually
Saved. Yes, these events created nursery rhymes that children
Have heard through the ages and have loved to read for fun.
They will never know the sinister side of these nursery rhymes.

Do you want to push away? Does it feel safe?
Loneliness is a shield that keeps the hurt away,
But what is the price you will be required to pay?
Will your victory be truly sweet,
if you manage to keep the world away?
Or would it be the bitter chains that shackles your heart?
Can you open your heart, and let the world see inside?
What is it that you fear?,
rejection, disapproval, despise, and ridicule
are the ghosts that lurk in the darkness,
but as you close yourself out, you may not have been aware
that you lock them all inside of you.
The walls that you slowly have built
Are now the very walls that imprison you
There is no one that can help you open your cell,
You forgot to leave a window or a door.
You alone will have to dismantle it all,
But are you brave enough to leave yourself
naked and vulnerable for all to see?
Who will be your worst critic and judge?
Whose lashes will break you?
Who will laugh and point your flaws out?
Would it be the world you have for so long fear?
Or would it be you who cannot accept yourself?

Cold the darkness outside
Black the air ,frost biten jack frost is about
The dim lite street lamps barely lite
Offer just enougth light to see the way

The glowing beems dazzle are eyes as the
Speeding cars race bye to get home to the saftey of there homes
To hide from the darkness to be safe in are home
The chill of the nite air offers no cover only to gangs commiting crimes

This their playgroud they cause so much bother
To law abidding residents in their homes
They don't go out into the darkness no more
Trapped in their homes to frieghtened to go on are blighted streets

Harm waits on are streets to apprend the most vulnarable
Residents wait for light to come to bring saftey to are streets and for everyone.

The night sky turns black,

no light can break through

its knitted so tight

there’s a mist flouting on the wind

it’s surrounding, caging me in

it’s in my lungs, my body

I’m covered

Boxed in by thoughts that are my own,

Lost control or the illusion of it

No sleep will come,

Dead to the world my life is my own

Honesty keeps me free

And you keep my mind company

Madness comes in many forms

The blinding pharoah sings

A mask to hide the dour stare

That only sorrow brings

Take me to your dying queen

The one you left behind

To search for what you wish to seek

But never seem to find

A love so pure, so hard to find

You do so overlook

Oh so divine, lamenting for

What you never gave, just took

Woe unto your sleepless nights

Dusk flows throughout the air

Pacify your lust for life

Sink deeper to despair

Night falls soon, it calls to you

All colors turn to gray

And you have gone so far from home

You fear you've lost your way

Theres a boneyard to time

locked in the back of my mind

a place hopes and dreams

of youthful thoughts wonder so lost

a gloomy place that shades of black

are woven so tight no light will ever shine

i sit on my rock looking around

at bad memories reliving their lives

theres a bar filled with regrets and choices lost

a graveyard of broken hearts

fenced in with rotten wood

and a tree that stands in the middle of it all leafless and decaying to the core

the ravens sit perched, they call it home

A shop called Things that could of been

has it's lights on

standing next to a locked park

with the wish lake all dried up and swings over taken by rust

A library once filled with books

known as my intelligents has burnt to the ground

and i come here often to visit

on the whiskey boat

Tearing at the shroud, of an empty page
Staring at the lines that have faded with age

Reflecting on the dream, so real, so true
Could it be, somehow I've always known you

Thoughts breed silence to my waking mind
Open my eyes, yet still remain blind

A thousand times, I've tried to see
What once was lost, may be in front of me

Yet still I wander aimlessly
And wonder what's in store for me

Lost among my own desire
Afraid to feel the yearning fire

Smile at me in the dawns dim light
Take my hand, devour the fight

Breathe me into your weary soul
Warm my heart for it grows so cold

God forgive me

show me mercy

as it was you whom created me

sent me to the life i was to lead

Ark Angel tear my soul apart

cast me to hell with the rest of demons

i have become my life

a life not my own for they raised me

Hells flames burn bright

for this is my fate

for the faith i believe in

Devil consume me, torture me

for my tortured soul is all i'l be

in this i shall rest in peace

You don't love me any more I will find somebody new . Now my love turns to black and now it turns dust and the pain will fade away I tought I found the one I was looking for I was wrong . Now I lay in my dark room and I wish I would die cause you took my heart and made it so so cold ALL I WANTED IS TO BE LOVED.

I have no reason to think of you..
No reason to strugle with the pain you left me in my heart,,
I still walk on the same street in my mind and in my heart that we walked together
Even though we are miles away from each other right now

I still feel same sunshine on my skeen ,and still step into ocean sometimes
I still remember your odd jogs and laugh them ..
hey! I send you butterflys ..
If you see any around ,remember you are in my heart..