(none)

The day her heart stopped was the day I became "broken."
Apparently.

Ive been broken for approximately 13 years, 5 months and 23 days.

No one really explained what it is to be
broken.

I didnt know what it meant.

When I asked they coddled me closer and said, oh. That is all part of it.
of being broken. They said.

I still dont really know what it means.

And maybe that, ladies and gentlemen, is why
I'm broken.

-Me. Riley Wilson.

Great short poem. (#10)

Friendship

I shed a tear today silently,

I felt it fall you caught it,
shared it,
held it
felt it,
then suddenly,
it wasn't that big after all.

By Shakirah Gulzar

Newspaper Black Out (#10)

Examination

notes that the findings should be

interpreted "with caution" because

this test

which looks at

a person's past

is still an open question of

the

heart.

Still, about one-third

increases their risk

and 

threaten to de-

stroy the system.

"hope of my heart"

The Hope Of My Heart "Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine."

 I left, to earth, a little maiden fair, 

With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light; 

I prayed that God might have her in His care 

And sight. 

Earth's love was false; her voice, a siren's song; 

(Sweet mother-earth was but a lying name) The path she showed was but the path of wrong

And shame. "Cast her not out!" I cry. 

God's kind words come -- "Her future is with 

Me, as was her past; It shall be 

My good will to bring her home 

At last." -John McCrae

Favorite Movie (#9)

  My favorite movie by far is Benny and Joon. This movie is about a woman (Joon) who lives with her older brother. She is mentally ill and her brother is the only one there to take care of her. The story starts and shows she has to have everything the same or she panicks because she is very easily overwhelmed. When playing a game of poker with his buddies, Joon's brother, Benny, loses and has to take care of his friend's "weird nephew," Benny feels bad for him and ends up taking him in. At first Joon is cautious of Sam (the nephew) but then they begin to fall in love. Benny really hates this at first and even though the movie doesn't say it you can tell that he is deeply hurt he couldn't help Joon with her problems as much as Sam could. 
  Like in every good movie there are trials- Sam wants to be with Joon so he convinces her to run away with him. Bad idea. She doesn't take her medicine and has a major meltdown and Sam has to call Benny for help. She moves herself into a mental hospital and refuses to see anyone. 
  Eventually love prevails and everything works out, Benny allows them to date, and they move in together and she continues to be healthier and happier. 
The end.

A good happy poem. (#8)

Happy The Man

Happy the man,

 and happy he alone, 

He who can call today his own: 

He who, secure within, can say, 

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. 

Be fair or foul or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, 

in spite of fate, are mine. 

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, 

But what has been, has been, 

and I have had my hour. 

 by John Dryden

Ordinary World

  Marnee Jacobs is a 29 year old dog groomer who lives in Boise Idaho. Her life is understandably lacking in the "exciting" department. Every morning is the same thing. Her alarm clock goes off at 7:01 on the dot, she then will sleep in for exactly 15 minutes. She showers then drags her feet as she walks down the stairs of her small house. Tripping on the last lose step. Life cereal for breakfast, then off to the car for a 20 minute drive to the doggy boutique her mom got her a job at. She does exactly as she had done the day before, month before, the year before. 
  Then one day it all changes. It was a rainy day and she Was driving the exact same route she had been driving for the past three years. She loses control of her car and crashes another car- then it all goes black. 
  Will she ever get her life back to normal? Would it be better for her if it didn't? 
  Will she realize that there is more to life than just living?