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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:15 AM
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If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my love!

-By Rudyard Kipling

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She wrote this poem down and left it on my nightstand... I amazed how graceful, comforting, amazing she is. I love her..
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:23 AM
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1. If...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgBULcFaLw

If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:35 AM
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3. Damn
I had a roommate who would play that side of the Bread album over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Thanks for the effing memory. ;-)
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:36 AM
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5. Hehehe... glad to be of service!
:P
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:25 AM
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2. If
it weren't for now I'd have given up.

*sloppy redneck kisses*
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:36 AM
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4. If bullfrogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their bottoms.
My dad used to say that all the time.
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