Steffi's+Spontaneity

 This is the chess game. media type="youtube" key="yoAGoS24_N8" height="405" width="500"

As humans, mistakes are made. It's the innate flaw. Everyone needs saving at some point. But when does the victim become the savior? When do you suddenly strive to save someone else because you've been saved? When do you conquer your inner demons to help someone fight their own? In life, the Savior is the once-Victim, riddled by their own flaws, seeking vindication through others.

--

Didn’t you want to hear?  The conviction  that //envy // is ignorance  That everything I said and did, wasn’t just deceiving , When your <span style="color: #d99594; font-family: 'Informal Roman'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">mind <span style="color: #d99594; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">is open to my <span style="color: #d99594; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">influence <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> And we <span style="color: #e5b8b7; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 102;">live <span style="color: #e5b8b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 102;">in one another still. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Hope <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> dangles on a <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">string <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> I have said that <span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Forte; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">soul <span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> is not more than the <span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">body <span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">, <span style="color: #17365d; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Shelter <span style="color: #17365d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> me oh genius words <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> I could <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">never <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> feel this way <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The last <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Eras Bold ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 102;">bitter <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 102;"> hour come like a blight <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Over my <span style="color: #c6d9f1; font-family: Magneto; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 51;">spirit <span style="color: #c6d9f1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 51;">and <span style="color: #c6d9f1; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 51;">sad <span style="color: #c6d9f1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 51;"> images… <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> I shattered my life in <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Bauhaus 93'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 102;">seven <span style="color: #8db3e2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 102;"> seconds <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> past <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">… wilt have fill’d them, <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">emptied <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> them. <span style="color: #bd00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> To be great is to be <span style="color: #17365d; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">misunderstood <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> And I <span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">am <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">

<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Love <span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> and <span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">live <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> It’s a <span style="color: #403152; font-family: Magneto; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;">cold <span style="color: #403152; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 128;"> hard road when I wake up <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Give me the <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Light','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">strength <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> To get back to my <span style="color: #b2a1c7; font-family: 'Freestyle Script'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">disaster

media type="youtube" key="ZZm3d4J-7PI" height="405" width="500" align="center" <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;">The <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: Forte; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;">currents <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;"> will pull me away from my <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;">love <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Maybe it’s just me, couldn’t you <span style="color: #e5dfec; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51;">believe <span style="color: #e5dfec; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 51;">? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Like slow spinning <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: 'Impact','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;">redemption <span style="color: #ccc0d9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 102;">, <span style="color: #bd00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> I’ll be there for <span style="color: #b2a1c7; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">you <span style="color: #b2a1c7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"> through it all.

<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And I’ll hold on to this <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Script MT Bold'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">dream <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">.

I haven’t come this far to fall off the earth, <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">But I wish I was <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">never <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"> brought into this place <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">So here I <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">am <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">

<span style="color: #92cddc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153;">Holding on just to feel the <span style="color: #92cddc; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153;">same <span style="color: #92cddc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 153;"> <span style="color: #b6dde8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102;">Give me <span style="color: #b6dde8; font-family: 'Wide Latin','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102;">strength <span style="color: #b6dde8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 102;">to pen these things, <span style="color: #daeef3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51;">And I know I’ll be <span style="color: #daeef3; font-family: 'Freestyle Script'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themetint: 51;">okay

Take yourself for better, for worse… <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">Act it as life, before you apprehend it as <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">truth <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;">In this <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Edwardian Script ITC'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;">divine <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;"> glass… we see face to face <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">Of <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: Forte; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">pains <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;"> beyond enduring that can’t be <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">staunched <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">, <span style="color: #eaf1dd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 51;">No muse befriends, no invention, no <span style="color: #eaf1dd; font-family: 'Script MT Bold'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 51;">hope <span style="color: #eaf1dd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 51;"> <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">Let’s compare <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">scars <span style="color: #d6e3bc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 102;">, I’ll tell you whose is worse <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;">I am <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Wide Latin','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;">vindiciated <span style="color: #c2d69b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themetint: 153;"> <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sing of the things that made you feel <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">alive <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">, <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">And the <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Century','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">difference <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;"> never know, Because… immortal.



Of this beggar’s plea and optimistic fantasy <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">I hear these <span style="color: #632423; font-family: Gigi; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">prayers <span style="color: #632423; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">and shudder. <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Though they may be said to <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Wide Latin','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">die, <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> That <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Brush Script MT'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">imitation is suicide, And the dead <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">reign there alone… <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And I don’t think I have the <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Pristina; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">strength <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> To let you go I promise you it’s not as far as you think, To wield unending woe, <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> media type="youtube" key="Xu9Du7IVUoE" height="405" width="500" align="center"

<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">The bitter hug of <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">mortality <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;"> is idle, Trust thyself <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">For all evil there’s a <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">remedy <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">And it’s me, who’s got the <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Magneto; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">demons <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> to wrestle now <span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Just find the //<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">horizon //

You’re facing <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">love Just keep your head <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">above.

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Stout','serif';">I’m not sure if I’m supposed to dedicate this thing or not, but I will. It’s dedicated to my friends, my foundation and my family, for helping me when I couldn’t fight my inner demons by myself. “All of me is all of you. When I look in the mirror, I can’t see my own reflection, only your faces mirrored in mine.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: left;"> Works Cited"Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers (e-text)." //Vancouver Island University (VIU): British Columbia, Canada.// Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/aeschylus/libationbearers.htm>. Beah, Ishmael. //A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier//. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Print. "CARTEL - THE MINSTREL'S PRAYER LYRICS." //Lyrics//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Minstrel's-Prayer-lyrics-Cartel/7265980044E419B04825707D0009D932>. "DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - VINDICATED LYRICS." //Lyrics//. Web. 03 Dec. 2009. <http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Vindicated-lyrics-Dashboard-Confessional/40853031FF53E36048256E8E000693EA>. "JACK'S MANNEQUIN - SWIM LYRICS." //Lyrics//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://www.metrolyrics.com/swim-lyrics-jacks-mannequin.html>. "Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson." //Home page for Oregon State University//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-contents.html>. "THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS LYRICS - Your Guardian Angel." //PLyrics.com - Punk Lyrics//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/redjumpsuitapparatus/yourguardianangel.html>." RISE AGAINST - SWING LIFE AWAY LYRICS." //Lyrics//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Swing-Life-Away-lyrics-Rise-Against/43F4AE5E6D809D1848256EF0000C1728>. "SECONDHAND SERENADE LYRICS - Maybe." //A-Z Lyrics Universe//. Web. 04 Dec. 2009. <http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/secondhandserenade/maybe.html>. "Self-Reliance." //Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm>. "Some Fruits Of Solitude by William Penn." //Nimble Books LLC//. Web. 03 Dec. 2009. <http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2007/07/some-fruits-of-solitude-by-william-penn/>. "Song of Myself." //Princeton University - Welcome//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/log_026.html>. "Stephanie's Incredible Wisdom." Personal interview. Nov. & dec. 2009. "Sugarcult - Memory Lyrics." //LYRICS//. Web. 03 Dec. 2009. <http://www.lyrics007.com/Sugarcult%20Lyrics/Memory%20Lyrics.html>. "Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant." //Poetry Archive | Poems//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/thanatopsis.html>. "Walden Table of Contents." //Concord.org - The Concord Consortium//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.concord.org/~kathy/Walden/WaldenTOC.html>. "YouTube - "Memory" Sugarcult." //YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.// Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZm3d4J-7PI>. "YouTube - Sherwood - "Song in My Head" MySpace Records." //YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.// Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu9Du7IVUoE>.