_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ A Little Magic June 18, 1998 there lies a place in my mind where thoughts of few will tread a land of peace, a heartless space where hurting cannot be here I cherish a person I will know for ever on found, that flower bloom, blossom in mind which I alone can see they will call it a children ��s fantasy, never to happen a story of people joined by love of life if they could even start to tell I have the words to do more than begin yet that shall be enough in the land of peace lie two tracks one with the other beyond all means of humanity �� beyond body, beyond physicality, impractical �� it is a story of peace so few will have I find myself one of these so few in fantasy lies mind to mind tales of those joined by more than life alone a place filled, never again empty warm to rising sun, warm to naked space the world ��s millions can cogitate yet we few will know there is a safety of sorts in numbers but those who cling to safety �� find nothing what of risk �� I would swear there will be no pain yet it is inadvisable to so swear such power is beyond us simple folk the joining stands I can tell of love yet to tell is useless always love is just another word like any other heard as wanted to be heard to you I can say �� only that we have found peace in a world of turmoil �� our beginning night a preparation for sun �� that beginnings need not always lead to endings �� only that we need never again be alone �� and of love anyone can mesh the word with what they will a word can change by interpretation one person to the next I will hold nothing to a single changing word I have found peace at last �� a peace that needs no words a place in the mind where two lone tracks cover each other ��s footsteps �� and in mind here it is that I see �� but one set of tracks twice deeper than before the alternatives were clear some paths joined only to laugh some split, others broken only the few becoming one, infinite walking in peace, ever on there lies a place in my mind where only a few will tread and there the tracks are clear, set forth indelible allow my mind opened to you never to close I fear to say love �� the word is too malleable these days I can only sit by our joined tracks and smile I cannot tell them apart any more for with you I become completed, we far more human than alone ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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