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			<title>Do I Come to Mind?</title>
			<description>You seemed to just disapear,So happy one day,It's over the next.Do I come to mind?When you hear that song on the radio orOut of the blue,&amp;nbsp;Does a memory,&amp;nbsp;Do I,Just crash into your conciousness?Do flashes of me,&amp;nbsp;Of us come to mind?That smile you once loved?Do you remember?Think of me?Or..</description>
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			<title>Heart Torn in Three</title>
			<description>My heart torn in three,The past, the present, &amp;amp; the future.They say 'dont live in the past'But once youve had perfectionNothing else compares.He knew me better than I knew myself.Every need,he gave without prompting,Every tender touch, perfection,Perfection only made in dreams,And like a dream h..</description>
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			<title>I Can Dream Of Love</title>
			<description>I can close my eyes,It hangs in the air,Thick and over powering,The strength,The comfort,Familiarity of it surround me.I can feel fingertips,Brush down my cheek,I can hear soft whispers in my ear,Warm breath floats,From my ear to my lips,I can taste it,So close.I can smell,I can feel,I can hear,I ca..</description>
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			<title>'Cause You're Not Mine</title>
			<description>I sit with my headphones on,With every song reminding me of you,Every day dream I have,In the end you fall for me,In the end this girl,who goes unnoticed ,Is seen by you.But it's all just in my head,'Cause you're not mineI sit with my phone,Fighting against my heart to call,Just to say hi,Erasing an..</description>
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			<title>The Breath Before Tears</title>
			<description>Ragged breaths I hold back,The splitting of my heart,Echoing in my ears,As my world comes crashingDown around my feet.That breath held tight in my cheston the verge of tears.</description>
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			<title>Notice</title>
			<description>Paitently I sit,I wait.I don't want him to come save me,No rescuing needed,I can take care of me just fine.I just waitWishing he'd notice me,Hoping I'm not blendingIn with every other girlThat passes his sight.Just catch the flicker of hazelIn my eyes,The playful smirk ..</description>
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			<title>One Last Time</title>
			<description>I break my heart over and over,Just to feel the dull ache of, The happiness that was once there.I re-live it all,Every touch,&amp;nbsp; every whisper, Every promise now broken.Over and over,Ripping and shredding my heart, With each memory,To feel for,Just one second,That flickerO..</description>
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			<title>Comming Home</title>
			<description>He crept up the stairs of the home they shared and went to the bedroom.He looked across the room to see her asleep on his side of the bed and in one of his shirts, as was always when he was gone. She had fallen asleep with the light on trying to stay awake until he got home.She lay on her stomac..</description>
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			<title>Wild at Heart</title>
			<description>He'd known her for a while now, and could no longer deny to himself that he'd fallen for her. She wasn't the kind of girl he normally went for, frankly she was the opposite. She was the good girl. There was something in her that had caught his attention and now held his heart. She was standing i..</description>
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			<title>The Love I've Never Seen</title>
			<description>There's a love I've heard of,The kind of love I've never seenThe kind I only dream of.Take me by the hand And hold it tight.Honestly, I'm scared.but show me.I'll worry later about the&amp;nbsp; 'if's'.I'll jump right in,My whole heart in hand,So I won't regret what coulld hav..</description>
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			<title>Mapping Me</title>
			<description>I'm young and inexperinced,It all makes me shy,The good girl in me Wants to hold back,I'm trusting you,Letting you in,Show me,Teach meThe sensations I've never felt.Trace your finger tips along my skin,The curves of my body,Every freckle,Every ticklish spotThat makes me s..</description>
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			<title>Writer's Block</title>
			<description>This came with no struggle when I was struggling to finish old projects.</description>
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			<title>Just a nap</title>
			<description>What lengths would you go for a great nap?</description>
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			<title>Fight to Heal</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;There are nightsI don&amp;rsquo;t need you.Nights I don&amp;rsquo;t want you.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Why did you do this to me?I&amp;rsquo;m stronger without you.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I&amp;rsquo;m the best you won&amp;rsquo;t have.&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<title>Pages Of My Heart</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I read the pages of my heart Over and overIn hopes that feeling will return.I read the words I wrote,From the feelings You created in my heart.But instead,Instead it slowly fades awayWith each readingThe feeling is harder to pull back,To re create,To feel all over again..</description>
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			<title>Her Sunrise</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;It was late, or rather early morning when he finally got home from work. The house was dark and quiet as he crept upstairs. He knew she was asleep, she had been for hours now, and in an hour's time she would need to be up to get ready for work. This was how it had been for a few weeks now, t..</description>
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			<title>Beach Walk</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;It was warm out, but not overly hot as they walked along the beach, their toes covered in the soft sand. His arm was wrapped around her middle, the soft warmth of her skin under his hand; he glanced over at her with a smile. Her curls floated on a cool breeze and he noticed she seemed lost i..</description>
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			<title>Hard Day's Work</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The gravel drive way crunched under the car's tires. It was late, almost midnight; her shift had ended around a half hour before, the closing shift. It had been a long day and as she pulled up she felt relief to be home. Turning the engine off she looked up to the house, all windows were dar..</description>
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			<title>The Dance</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I sit here at my table for one, glancing around the room full of couples before one in particular catches my eye, they remind me of us.&amp;nbsp; I watch as she brushes past him, his eyes follow her to the small dance floor as he watches her body move with her dress, the way the hem moves gently..</description>
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			<title>Morning Routine</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;As she stirred, she felt a sudden emptiness behind her and a cool draft on the back of her neck. Still mostly asleep, she could hear him behind her in his closet. Slowly opening her eyes she saw it was still dark out through a crack in the curtains. The floor creaked as he went into the bath..</description>
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			<title>When You're Not Here</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;She lay on her side in bed under the warmth of the comforter, her face tucked in the crook of her arm that was under her head as she listened to the rain fall.The lightning flashed once, twice, across her face as the tears rolled down her cheeks then again they were hidden in the darkness,..</description>
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			<title>Photographs</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;While looking through your old box of notesI found those pictures I tookThat you were looking for....I told myself I won't miss youBut I rememberWhat it feels like beside youI really miss your hair in my faceAnd the way your innocence tastes...&amp;quot; &amp;ndash;Hinder &amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<title>His Visit</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;It was Friday afternoon as she checked the last of her email, 2 hours till he arrived. She was sending out notices that she was taking the weekend off, so there would be no replies till late Monday, and then turned off her laptop putting it in her bag.&amp;nbsp; She also set her phone to go stra..</description>
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			<title>What You Give</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;You give me the strength,To stand when things get hard.&amp;nbsp;The courage to face it all.Knowing I haveThe warmth of your armsTo return to in the end.&amp;nbsp;You give me hope, in dreamsand in the thought of you.Hope when it seems the hardest to find.&amp;nbsp;You give a smil..</description>
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			<title>Plane Jane</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Would you love herIf you knew her?&amp;nbsp;You look right pass her,Onto the othersWithout notice.&amp;nbsp;Plain Jane,Is who she is.Simple and pureBut no notice is given to her.&amp;nbsp;Attention goesTo others,Hidden in makeup And expensive clothes,They look prettyThe..</description>
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			<title>Fire in Her Eyes</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The golds and greens,The fire of the hazelIn her eyes have died.&amp;nbsp;Her smile and laughAre hollow and emptyBecause the fireThat once warmed them is gone.&amp;nbsp;She stands in an invisible fog,The smoke in her eyes leave them a dullVersion of their former colors.&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<title>Simple Morning</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s early morning as the sun peeks through the curtains to gently wake them. He&amp;rsquo;s off today, she won&amp;rsquo;t work till later so they have all morning.She quietly stirs, breaking the warmth that had surrounded them through the night. His hand brushed over her forehead moving th..</description>
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			<title>My Therapy</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;With a broken heart,When life gets to hard to stand,I pop no pillsI lay on no couchesNo my therapyisn&amp;rsquo;t found with a credit card,Or in the bottom of a pint of Rocky road.&amp;nbsp;My therapy is in theFresh, blank sheet of paper,the stroke of my pen,forming each lett..</description>
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			<title>My Book</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You stand in front of my bookshelf when I&amp;rsquo;m not there. The spines of the books identifying themselves one at time to you, the classics, contemporaries, mysteries, they&amp;rsquo;re all there.It then catches your eye sticking out slightly from the rest you pull it off the shelf. A..</description>
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			<title>Fading</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;She stands in the middle of the street, the traffic around her perfectly still, frozen in time. There is silence all around her, the air cold, her warm breaths coming out it small puffs. She is standing alone in the world&amp;nbsp; frozen in time on the day she lost it all. The day her life chan..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Justie4288/216506/</link>
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			<title>I Break My Own Heart</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I break my own heartAlways wanting what I can never have.I can feel its weight as I breatheEach ache with each beatIf I&amp;rsquo;m fast, if I can push you awayOr just quietly fade to the backI might be able to save it.Might be able to save me.But I&amp;rsquo;ll loose you,I&amp;rsquo;l..</description>
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			<title>Can't Run From Regrets</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I could runGet out of hereBut I&amp;rsquo;d look backwith only regrets.Regret leaving you behindTo save myselfFrom a life I don&amp;rsquo;t want.&amp;nbsp;I could runGet out of here,Start freshEverything new.Nothing to hold me backI&amp;rsquo;d have a fighting chanceBut I&amp;rsquo;d..</description>
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			<title>Follow the Words</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I hear it softlyMy Voice is shakyMy heart scaredMy mind reeling.I can&amp;rsquo;t focus, can&amp;rsquo;t breatheMy hope is dying I need someoneTo catch me,Hold me.I look, And I&amp;rsquo;m alone.Standing completely alone.&amp;nbsp;I hear it softly,I follow the words to the song..</description>
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			<title>Rejection</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Every where we turn it&amp;rsquo;s no.Can&amp;rsquo;t help you,We don&amp;rsquo;t do that.We can&amp;rsquo;t catch a breakTo save our lives.They all say the same thingAll day.Everyday.I don&amp;rsquo;t know where to turn,What direction to go.I stand hereTheir words echoingOver and over i..</description>
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			<title>Pushing Away</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Say good-bye,Say good-bye to me,At least for now,Here it all comes againI&amp;rsquo;m pushing away,standing back herewatching you move on,live your life.&amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m the girl that always puts people back together To watch them walk off without me.I stand here hurt Caus..</description>
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			<title>Hidden Strength</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;She has an inner strengthNo one sees.You think you know her.Think you know her past.You haven&amp;rsquo;t a clue As to the hell she&amp;rsquo;s walked through,The worry and instability&amp;nbsp; She&amp;rsquo;s had with each step&amp;nbsp; taken.She&amp;rsquo;s strong on the inside,But her longing..</description>
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			<title>I Love You From a Distance</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I keep you at a distanceDon&amp;rsquo;t cross that line thereDon&amp;rsquo;t get so closeMy heart&amp;rsquo;s off limits.You can&amp;rsquo;t have it.You&amp;rsquo;ll drop it,They all do.&amp;nbsp;But inside my heart screamsCross that line, Just do it, don&amp;rsquo;t listen to herGet close,Pleas..</description>
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			<title>Rooted</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m stuckRooted to this one spotUnable to move.My life in scraps at my feet.&amp;ldquo;Stay positivethis isn&amp;rsquo;t as badas it looks, not as hard to fixas it seems&amp;rdquo;I tell myselfOver and over.&amp;nbsp;It&amp;rsquo;s all moving so fastI can&amp;rsquo;t keep up,What a..</description>
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			<title>Happiness Looks Good On You</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Just a simple conversationCan make a day.&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;i love u smiling&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo; me too... happy can look good on me&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;happy always looks good on u&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;sometimes im sure a lil sad does to&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp;Her eyes told all, sparkled when she was happy, a s..</description>
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			<title>My Sweetness Will Be The Death of Me</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I do for youI do for allI try so hard to pleasea weakness, a flaw?either wayI wonder,is it goodor bad?Do I forgive to easily?To quickly?&amp;nbsp;I give all of who I amto you, to themAnd in the end, when you mess upI pay the highest price.The loss of a piece of myse..</description>
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			<title>All They Do Is Lie</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;They all lie.And I belive them all.one naive fool that makes me.I trust I loveI hurt I cryBecause they all lie.&amp;nbsp;How could I let it happen again,and againand again?Well new life long policy:Don&amp;rsquo;t believe.Don&amp;rsquo;t believe,The best in them Till they..</description>
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			<title>Drama, Drama, Drama</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;You used meYou fooled meHow could I have not see it all.I&amp;rsquo;ve seen it beforeBut I just didn&amp;rsquo;t see it in you.You were one personI put my trust inHow wrong that was.How you lied about it.You fooled me,Played me like a winning hand.I wasn&amp;rsquo;t someone you car..</description>
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			<title>Awake Dreams</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;There are 1440 minutes in a day,And just a few of those are all mine.No one needs me,I have no where else to be.Uninterrupted and mine.They are the minutes just before sleep and just as I wake.Quiet moments when my mind is allowed to wander deep.Where I can think of you.If I ..</description>
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			<title>Train Whistle</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Its late as you finally get up to turn out our bedroom light. I curl into you as you cover us with a yawn, you slip your arm around my head so my head&amp;rsquo;s against your shoulder, my cheek against your chest. It&amp;rsquo;s quiet, I can hear the crickets outside our window behind us; so quiet ..</description>
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			<title>Scattered Little Pieces</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I lie in little pieces Scattered on the floor.Completely alone, A part here,a piece thereAs they walk by without notice.&amp;nbsp;Day after day,Unable to piece Myself back together alone.They all walk byOne after another.&amp;nbsp;None of the pieces Are of interest to anyon..</description>
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			<title>I Write</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I write &amp;ldquo;she&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;her&amp;rdquo;But I am who they are.I write about them, With no namesBecause I am them.&amp;nbsp;Not always able To come right outAnd say it, butThose tears they cry are mineTheir thoughts, Their feelings,Are mine.&amp;nbsp;You want to kno..</description>
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			<title>Drained</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I am drained to my last dropI don&amp;rsquo;t have any more emotion to give.No smiles, no tearsI&amp;rsquo;m just here,Floating in an in between,Wanting to be held.I Pull away to protect myself,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<title>The Bathroom</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;In the dark its any roomI want it to be.Its the comfort of privacy As I cry,No angry voice,No Judgement On the reason for my tears.Just the cold tiles on my cheek to sooth me,And the darkness to hold me as I cry.</description>
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			<title>My Day Without You</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I wake, slowly rolling over expecting to roll into warmth but there&amp;rsquo;s no one there. I open my eyes with a yawn and it all comes back. You&amp;rsquo;re gone for the next couple days.I let out a quiet sad moan, scooting over and curl up in your spot in the bed, holding onto your pillow as ..</description>
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			<title>No Big Deal</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Its only a big deal if I make it one,So I won&amp;rsquo;t.I won&amp;rsquo;t let you get to me.Won&amp;rsquo;t let you break me.I&amp;rsquo;m not mad.I&amp;rsquo;m not sad.I just want you happy,And if that choice is itThen Its no big deal.I won&amp;rsquo;t make it one.I won&amp;rsquo;t fight you on i..</description>
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