Test of Character

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    Test of Character

    When what you believe becomes an array
    No longer black and white but many shades of gray
    Does the hunger inside you cease at defeat
    Or do you open up to reveal a world incomplete
    An expanse of discovery of all unknown
    Maybe a new beginning with new stepping stones
    Do you tremble with fright at the changes ahead
    Do you reject all the possibilities that dance in your head
    Does the blood that fills you pump harder now
    Does the earth between your toes disintegrate and scour
    When your palms touch together and your fingers intertwine
    And the magic all around you too real to deny
    Do your knees cave beneath you frigid and frail
    Does the skin that covers you look pasty and pale
    Is the abstract enough to keep you faithful
    To the ideals you once treasured that now seem fable

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    SAYANDSEE commented on Test of Character

    05-12-2009

    MY THIRST IS NEVER QUENCHED UNTIL I TASTE WHAT IT IS I HUNGER. AS FOR THE MAGIC I CAN'T DENY, IT IS WHAT I LIVE FOR. ENTRANCED AM I. I LIKE YOUR STYLE.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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