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The Cold Within - Suhail - 10-19-2003
PLZZZ VOTE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
THE COLD WITHIN
Six humans trapped by circumstances,
in bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
or so the story told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
the first man held his back,
for,of the faces around the fire,
he noticed one man black.
The next man looking across the way,
saw one not of his church,
and couldn't bring himself
to give the fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes
he gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use,
to warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back
and thought of the wealth he had in store,
and how to keep what he had earned
from the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
as the fire passed from his sight,
for all he saw in his stick of wood,
was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
did naught except for gain,
giving only to those who gave,
was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death's still hand,
was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without,
they died from the cold within.
The Cold Within - Suhail - 10-19-2003
"IT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU . . .
IT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH IT."
A POEM
There once was an oyster
Whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand
Had got into his shell.
It was only a grain,
But it gave him great pain.
For oysters have feelings
Although they're so plain.
Now, did he berate
The harsh workings of fate
That had brought him
To such a deplorable state?
Did he curse at the government,
Cry for election,
And claim that the sea should
Have given him protection?
"No," he said to himself
As he lay on a shell,
Since I cannot remove it,
I shall try to improve it.
Now the years have rolled around,
As the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate
Destiny . . . stew.
And the small grain of sand
That had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl
All richly aglow.
Now the tale has a moral,
For isn't it grand
What an oyster can do
With a morsel of sand?
What couldn't we do
If we'd only begin
With some of the things
That get under our skin.
The Cold Within - Suhail - 10-20-2003
hmmmmmm i can see many people do not like me ..... i wonder why :confused:
The Cold Within - Suhail - 10-20-2003
AND THEY THINK IM BORING !!!!thats an insult .......
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The Cold Within - phatmonky - 10-20-2003
Quote:<i>Originally posted by suhail786 </i><b>AND THEY THINK IM BORING !!!!thats an insult .......ask a question, get an answer - you put the option
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The Cold Within - amma - 10-20-2003
Salam
so wot made u ask that question if u dnt mind me asking u thinking of leaving or sumthing?
The Cold Within - Suhail - 10-20-2003
yep im leaving ....