<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16314468</id><updated>2011-10-04T08:43:27.398-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE XANON CHRONICLES X</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uimidir1a.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16314468/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uimidir1a.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>A THEORETICALLY FICTIONAL 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CHARACTER</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14353704537891387929</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Cs9RXPiAZU/TVpKo0_xOkI/AAAAAAAAACo/u7Jg_nlAHG4/s220/Donn%252C%2BFor%2BThe%2BSake%2BOf%2BSeduction.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16314468.post-2004086799246452158</id><published>2010-10-08T16:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T09:50:26.330-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Lot of Love, A Little Hate, A Little Philosophy, And A Few Questions</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;A Lot of Love, A Little Hate, A Little Philosophy, And A Few Questions&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; by&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn Ui’Midir,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef Shannon&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; and&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Forward&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just more poetry we’ve written that we’ve decided might be worth sharing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'Dark One' Has Shown Me The Light&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I've loved you since I first knew of you,&lt;br /&gt; And my passions went out of control.&lt;br /&gt; I've always wanted to work with you&lt;br /&gt; In ways where ego would play no role!&lt;br /&gt; I couldn't ever compete with you,&lt;br /&gt; And I've offered myself, as a whole.&lt;br /&gt; You've taken me with no self-interest,&lt;br /&gt; As you have absorbed my very soul.&lt;br /&gt; You've made me see everything there is,&lt;br /&gt; Including myself, was black as coal.&lt;br /&gt; You've brought me into the light with you,&lt;br /&gt; And you've made me surpass ev'ry goal  (You're a damn slave driver, not that I mind.)&lt;br /&gt; I ever had.  You made me realise&lt;br /&gt; That ev'ry great price, and ev'ry toll&lt;br /&gt; I paid, was but a lesson to get&lt;br /&gt; Back to you, and beyond.  You consoled&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Me to no end, by having offered&lt;br /&gt; The meaning of everything,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But why couldn't I have learned it in life?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Asks the one who demands reality conform to 'it' as opposed to the other way around.   &lt;br /&gt; By the way, is this poem a test to see how many other ways there are to say the same &lt;br /&gt; thing?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey!  It's a whole nother book, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!  NO...MORE...BOOKS!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (As if it were possible for me to stop writing now.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gods, No One EVERRRRRRRRRR Told Me About This&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I've given my form and mind to you,&lt;br /&gt; In the way you always dreamed of.  (Since you first met me.)&lt;br /&gt; Seductive experience, so new&lt;br /&gt; To me!  A unique show of love.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I close my eyes, and take you with me&lt;br /&gt; As I collapse onto my side.&lt;br /&gt; To a Nirvana you've taken me,&lt;br /&gt; And I feel I myself have died.  (And gone to heaven.  Majorly, ya know?)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My mind free floating in ecstasy,&lt;br /&gt; As you hold me in such a way&lt;br /&gt; That demolishes my memory, (For the time being.)&lt;br /&gt; And 'wares of all, beyond the day.  (Don't ask me to make sense now.  I'm ZONED.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With a kiss or delicate stroke,&lt;br /&gt; Your enveloping warmth I feel.&lt;br /&gt; From your appreciation, I soak&lt;br /&gt; Up feelings I can't believe real.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With all of me under your control,&lt;br /&gt; I'm conscious, but I feel asleep.&lt;br /&gt; The peace you've given me is quite whole,&lt;br /&gt; And my wakened state I can't keep.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just be careful of my fangs.&lt;br /&gt; They're kind of on the sharp side.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, yeah!  Only the points!  Uh...Will you shut up?&lt;br /&gt; If anyone figures out what you're talking about, I'll never live it down.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; They won't.  Not from this poem, anyway.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (I will be writing a lot of stuff from past perspective.  After all, Stef is now with us.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A Piece of History&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Remember the future; forget the past!&lt;br /&gt; Yes, I must say good-bye to you for now,&lt;br /&gt; But try not to dwell on this time too much.&lt;br /&gt; Just resign yourself to your fate.  I vow&lt;br /&gt; I'll be there for you, when your time is up.&lt;br /&gt; You can hence feel my love, in my embrace.&lt;br /&gt; That love will never change, nor will it fade.&lt;br /&gt; I'll never let you go again to face&lt;br /&gt; The horrors of life, or those of yourself!&lt;br /&gt; Soon you won't see me, but I'll be there&lt;br /&gt; At any time that you want me!  Just heed&lt;br /&gt; Me, and remember that I'll always care&lt;br /&gt; For you!  The path to me's not suicide,&lt;br /&gt; But love and evolution!  Now stay true&lt;br /&gt; To the path of your initial intent, &lt;br /&gt; And finish the life you've chosen for you,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And eternity shall be ours.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Your Final Sunset&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 'Tis the time when the day meets the night!&lt;br /&gt; The time, you wish was eternal.&lt;br /&gt; When the light overhead starts to fade,&lt;br /&gt; And the peace and silence start to grade.&lt;br /&gt; Since time does not exist for us here,&lt;br /&gt; Eternity is reality.&lt;br /&gt; We could stay, and watch this forever,&lt;br /&gt; With perspectives akin to never!&lt;br /&gt; All my troubles are gone in your arms,&lt;br /&gt; And all of my memories, hist'ry!&lt;br /&gt; Ironic!  That's why you ran to me,&lt;br /&gt; My shared paramour, so dear to me!&lt;br /&gt; You once thought I'd be your sole anchor.&lt;br /&gt; You ne'er dreamed you'd be one for me, too.&lt;br /&gt; Isn't it a bit touching to be&lt;br /&gt; Sharing this vulnerability.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can you now offer me a kiss&lt;br /&gt; And an embrace, though for once,&lt;br /&gt; Not to say good-bye?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nice, But If You're Gonna Make Out...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The beauty of your mind and soul,&lt;br /&gt; Even leave your looks in the dust.  (Verrrrry hard to do.)&lt;br /&gt; There's no way to get close enough&lt;br /&gt; To you, to do my yearnings just'&lt;br /&gt; As we are in this soft embrace!&lt;br /&gt; I fade out from the physical,&lt;br /&gt; And I slowly fade into you.&lt;br /&gt; I choose this union mystical&lt;br /&gt; O'er all that came before, I think.&lt;br /&gt; Can love be shown to a degree&lt;br /&gt; Greater than in a complete loss&lt;br /&gt; Of individuality?!&lt;br /&gt; I am now you, and you are me!&lt;br /&gt; It's a thing beyond sensation&lt;br /&gt; Where intensity knows no bounds,&lt;br /&gt; And nor does imagination,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As we, as one,&lt;br /&gt; Collapse on the floor.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Beyond sensation?!  Dude!  I don't think so!  I'll even forgive you for recapping on one of &lt;br /&gt; my past pieces, for what you just did.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, can we find another way to relate, that I can write about?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, wanna do a poem on when you rake your nostrils down my bare arm, while forcefully&lt;br /&gt; exhaling?  That feels pretty good.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You're as crazy as I am, babe.  No! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Another Tech Duinn Dream&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I look to the rising sun.&lt;br /&gt; I see it freeze and sideways, turn.&lt;br /&gt; The ascension's frozen solid.&lt;br /&gt; Reality, I must relearn.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A blue sky, I won't see again,&lt;br /&gt; Just the scarlet and deep violet!&lt;br /&gt; By whose power on this great isle,&lt;br /&gt; Are my dreams molded to whet&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My desire for dim and dark?!&lt;br /&gt; This land I see for Death alone,&lt;br /&gt; And myself, as called, His consort!&lt;br /&gt; Mesmorised, I stand on my own&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For but a little while longer!&lt;br /&gt; I cannot feel the wind or cold,&lt;br /&gt; As You approach me, from behind.&lt;br /&gt; With Your usual tender touch,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You cover my back, with Your cloak.&lt;br /&gt; As I lean into You, I ask,&lt;br /&gt; "Is this real, or an illusion?&lt;br /&gt; In endless twilight, will we bask,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Or will I soon awaken?"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I can tak o'er your dreams, but I canna control the settin' sun.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Wauk up...I mean, wake up.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Too bad!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And now, for something completely different... &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dancing By The Acheron&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One step, two step, please play another reel.&lt;br /&gt; I'll take the fiddle from ya lad, quite soon.&lt;br /&gt; One more round I go, then our lass is yours&lt;br /&gt; To kick your heels up high, with!  I deplore&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That we didn't do this before!  What fun&lt;br /&gt; It has been, dancin' by the Acheron.&lt;br /&gt; Bonfires light the eternal darkness,&lt;br /&gt; The music eases this locale's starkness.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Even Charon's docked his boat to join us&lt;br /&gt; For this Greek-Tuatha bash on the dark side&lt;br /&gt; Of the Styx!  The rivers flow peacefully,&lt;br /&gt; As we do celebrate quite merrily,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To make up for times that we never had.&lt;br /&gt; One more song, and I'll play an Irish jig,&lt;br /&gt; Then perhaps, we can share a cup of mead,&lt;br /&gt; Though dare we, Hades' pomegranate seeds?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dude!  Persephone can never escape her fate here.  I wouldn't touch anything from this locale.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Steffy-poo.  If anyone tries to take our snoggin' buddy away from us, I will personally&lt;br /&gt; whup their butts.  Remember who trained me, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah!  Our snoggin' buddy's other consort!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Death At My Mercy (Could be for Donn, but I've got Thanatos, now.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How sweet to feel the peace of one,&lt;br /&gt; Who I owe my existence to!&lt;br /&gt; Your placid mood, and complete trust&lt;br /&gt; Of me is relished, and I must&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Say I'm glad I can pay you back&lt;br /&gt; For all you've ever done for me.&lt;br /&gt; Existence has had no meaning&lt;br /&gt; Or purpose, without you leading&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Me down the paths of Truth and Love.&lt;br /&gt; Ye gods, how I do feel for you,&lt;br /&gt; And your education of me&lt;br /&gt; Was ever so exemplary.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As you now rest your head on me&lt;br /&gt; In complete bliss, and altered states,&lt;br /&gt; I find that you're quite ravishing,&lt;br /&gt; And think it's time for your waking.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Maybe it wasn't too wise to put that much trust in me,&lt;br /&gt; Considering you look too good for your own good. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; STEPHANIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!  Ye gods, I swear!  Will I ever learn?????&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh Why Me, But You Can Do It Again?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You took me to the edge of awareness,&lt;br /&gt; To drag me back with tongs of fire!&lt;br /&gt; You regressed me back to before my birth,&lt;br /&gt; To rake me across an open pyre!&lt;br /&gt; I barely had the time to brace myself,&lt;br /&gt; To refrain from losing all dignity!&lt;br /&gt; Sometimes your appreciation of me&lt;br /&gt; Makes me fully question the sanity&lt;br /&gt; Of not meeting you, but in a burka!&lt;br /&gt; No one has ever torn me down like you,&lt;br /&gt; Or taken me 'tween the opposing gates&lt;br /&gt; Of amity, and desperation's due.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I thought I was immune to that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Guess not, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No.  Apparently I'm not.  When will you do it again?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Gotta catch you by surprise, dude! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Pardon Me For Interrupting&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I move forward in the darkened room,&lt;br /&gt; Guided by the light of your eyes.&lt;br /&gt; The stunning, daemonic, neon glare&lt;br /&gt; That clashes so with your gentle fare.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I approach you, as you're sitting there,&lt;br /&gt; In enigmatic meditations!&lt;br /&gt; Pardon me for interrupting you,&lt;br /&gt; For this else enchanted night, anew!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You object not as I brush your hair,&lt;br /&gt; And you invite me into your lap.&lt;br /&gt; You wrap your arms and thoughts around me,&lt;br /&gt; With the ultimate delicacy!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Cat-like, you rub your cheek against mine,&lt;br /&gt; As gently as a soft breeze might do!&lt;br /&gt; I feel I rest with a tiger, white&lt;br /&gt; Your beauty, your power; my delight!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can I feel anywhere more secure,&lt;br /&gt; Than in the arms of dear Thanatos?&lt;br /&gt; Can I feel more invulnerable?&lt;br /&gt; Is my rapture e'en measurable?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I trace my hand down your shoulder,&lt;br /&gt; And the flame in me 'comes ignited;&lt;br /&gt; I wonder if I can coerce you,&lt;br /&gt; Into wanting me, but for a few!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, considering I am a telepath-empath,&lt;br /&gt; Yes.  I'm already there, thank you.&lt;br /&gt; Glad you asked, though.&lt;br /&gt; There's a first time for everything, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Guess so.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Cross Culture Practises&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You intertwined Your fingers with mine,&lt;br /&gt; As I reached for You.  You guided me&lt;br /&gt; Beside You, and held me very close.&lt;br /&gt; I pressed my head 'gainst Your chest, as we&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Froze.  I couldn't see You, but I knew&lt;br /&gt; You smiled as You closed Your scarlet eyes.&lt;br /&gt; I felt Your thoughts caress my being,&lt;br /&gt; And I felt my own desires rise,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As Your Tantric concentration sent&lt;br /&gt; Me to a realm I could never know&lt;br /&gt; When I was alive on Hell-sent Earth.&lt;br /&gt; It seems reality can be so&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Subjective, for I could never dream&lt;br /&gt; In my wildest imagination,&lt;br /&gt; That it would be possible to feel&lt;br /&gt; Such an explosive culmination&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just by sitting next to Death.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; To The End Of Time, And Back&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Please, Donn and Stefan, take my hand.  (So!  What gender are you now, Stef?)&lt;br /&gt; I'll take you to the promised land&lt;br /&gt; Where one is all, and all is one!&lt;br /&gt; The end of time, when all is done!&lt;br /&gt; I'll take you there, and back again,&lt;br /&gt; Beyond all concepts of your ken!&lt;br /&gt; I'll show you ev'rything there is,&lt;br /&gt; The Chaos Realm, once sole’y His!&lt;br /&gt; My loves, you've brought me happiness,&lt;br /&gt; And true knowledge of completeness.&lt;br /&gt; Never have I been so content,&lt;br /&gt; Since my voids, you've completely spent.&lt;br /&gt; You'll always be a part of me,&lt;br /&gt; And after this, you will be free&lt;br /&gt; Of ev'ry chain you've ever forged&lt;br /&gt; For yourselves!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; God's!  I'll never measure up to that!  (Gender?  I don't neeeeed no steeenkeeeeng gender.&lt;br /&gt; Not for this, anyways.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I almost want to run like Hell when you mention anything about measuring up these days,&lt;br /&gt; but who's competing?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Good point.  Thanks.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Rapture&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A moment in eternity,&lt;br /&gt; A moment of omniscience,&lt;br /&gt; A moment of omnipotence,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A moment of absolute love,&lt;br /&gt; A moment of whole unity,&lt;br /&gt; A moment of total beauty,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Beyond hedonistic savour!&lt;br /&gt; The destiny of everything,&lt;br /&gt; Is what You now, to us did bring.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So wonderful's the death of Death.&lt;br /&gt; The end of everything, and life!&lt;br /&gt; The end of all questions, and strife!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Absolute peace.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'd hold You, if&lt;br /&gt; You weren't a part of me.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A Sample Of All There Is&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; From three, to All, to three again!  A taste&lt;br /&gt; Of the zenith of the absoluteness&lt;br /&gt; Of The Source of Creation, You gave us.&lt;br /&gt; I have now seen the ultimate vastness.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I understand the Order in Chaos,&lt;br /&gt; And I too now understand what You are.&lt;br /&gt; It makes me wonder why You Two waste time&lt;br /&gt; On a thing like me, who is so far&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Out of line, un-evolved, and so behind&lt;br /&gt; To The Ones who could have been Avatars!&lt;br /&gt; You say, I love You enough.  I think not.&lt;br /&gt; In fact, I think it is a bit bizarre&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You've succumbed to my infatuation,&lt;br /&gt; Which obviously had selfish motive.&lt;br /&gt; Aesthete, artist, but sensualistic&lt;br /&gt; As well, I was, yet You both do forgive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; My shortcomings.  Please never let me go.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ye gods, for the umpteenth time; how many times do we have to go through this?  On the&lt;br /&gt; other hand, if you're going to feel guilty, can I please have a sandalwood oil backrub?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Glad to. ;O) (Heh-heh-heh)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Next!!!!!!!!  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Ooooh, yeah!)  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Donn!  Stef!  You should know better...Anyways, the poem:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Quit Capitalising The Damn 'Y' In 'You', When Writing To Me&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Since we know ev'rything is equal,&lt;br /&gt; Why must I always be deified?&lt;br /&gt; I'm not my Grandparent, The Source.&lt;br /&gt; I'm just a psychopomp!  Spirit guide!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I rule no realm, nor would I care to,&lt;br /&gt; For I was made but for one reason,&lt;br /&gt; And my purpose suits me quite nicely.&lt;br /&gt; My deification is treason&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Against the Higher Law that exists&lt;br /&gt; To serve All That Is.  I want it not.&lt;br /&gt; The both of you have my knowledge, now.&lt;br /&gt; That's all that put us in diff'rent lots&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In the past!  That diff'rence is  gone, now.&lt;br /&gt; Please listen to me, and where I stand.&lt;br /&gt; You're just like me, now.  I'm no better.  (I never was.)&lt;br /&gt; Yet Stephanie, while you are at hand,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A little more pressure,&lt;br /&gt; And a little to the right, please.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can I persuade you to turn over?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah, right!  As if I had a...uh...blllllptht...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; ******  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Yeah, But...  (You too, Donn.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How can I not hold you in high esteem,&lt;br /&gt; And count myself blest that you love me so?&lt;br /&gt; You have rescued me from myself, and life,&lt;br /&gt; And raised me from the most decrepit low&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Before you took me to you forever!&lt;br /&gt; You seemed to me as unflawed as they come,&lt;br /&gt; So why not put you on a pedestal?&lt;br /&gt; You're not what I'm used to, and where I'm from,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; They consider much less than you, a god.&lt;br /&gt; How can I not be forever grateful&lt;br /&gt; That you took on an errant brat, like me?&lt;br /&gt; Of me, with your irresistible pull,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You will only have my undying devotion.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There is no 'much less than me', or us.  EVERYTHING IS THE SAME!!!!  And does a&lt;br /&gt; liver cell worship the one it occupies?  Come on, and KNOCK IT OFF!!!   Maybe we&lt;br /&gt; should also start writing about something besides our (theoretical) relationship?  This is&lt;br /&gt; getting old.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like I can change a view I had for most of my life, in a day?!  Oh, Hell!  Let's snog.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Concurrent, or consecutive?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Concurrent!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Cool!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Big Bang Was Just A Firecracker&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On the couch beside you I sit,&lt;br /&gt; Looking at your perfect profile.&lt;br /&gt; A twinge of lust, its head does raise.&lt;br /&gt; Ancient fires again to blaze&lt;br /&gt; Within me as they did before,&lt;br /&gt; With yearnings I cannot control,&lt;br /&gt; Though you no longer wish to play.&lt;br /&gt; I'd be wiser to see your way,&lt;br /&gt; But I am lacking willpower.&lt;br /&gt; You look at me with narrowed eyes,&lt;br /&gt; And a smile a bit devious,&lt;br /&gt; Or should I say, mischievous?&lt;br /&gt; A gentle kiss upon my cheek&lt;br /&gt; You place, as you know what I feel.&lt;br /&gt; From your Etheric self you fade,&lt;br /&gt; And Astrally you do invade&lt;br /&gt; My form, ever so lovingly!&lt;br /&gt; Vibrations raise, and feelings flow&lt;br /&gt; First like a gentle wind, and then&lt;br /&gt; To beyond a tornado's ken!&lt;br /&gt; I am forced to the Astral Plane,&lt;br /&gt; For I can't take the sensation&lt;br /&gt; On the Etheric, of your touch!&lt;br /&gt; Your full powers are too much&lt;br /&gt; For me, but you didn't stop there.&lt;br /&gt; You forced me Causal, and Higher.&lt;br /&gt; You pushed me into Nothingness,&lt;br /&gt; Where I could be not more or less,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And I exploded to the End of All,&lt;br /&gt; As I bore the unbearable!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Electric Light Show&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another night, another storm,&lt;br /&gt; And we watch it from the tower.&lt;br /&gt; We're quite wind whipped and getting wet,&lt;br /&gt; Observing nature's great power.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Beside me stands my red haired love,&lt;br /&gt; And behind us, stands The Great White,&lt;br /&gt; With his arms around both of us,&lt;br /&gt; On this so tempestuous night!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I am, I can't feel the cold,&lt;br /&gt; For my sensation's dead as I!&lt;br /&gt; I could feel it to feel the warmth&lt;br /&gt; Of my loves around me, but why&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Should I be so masochistic?&lt;br /&gt; Would the discomfort be worth it?&lt;br /&gt; Perhaps later, before we leave&lt;br /&gt; And snuggle under a blanket&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Before a fire, with some tea...again!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Vanilla nut with bee pollen, nutmeg, cinnamon stick, cloves, allspice, honey, vanilla&lt;br /&gt; extract, ghee, anise seeds, and cream, please.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Don't ask for much, do we?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, statistically?!  No!!!!!!!!!!!!  I mean, at least I don't ask anyone to do a double shift,&lt;br /&gt; unlike some ‘people’ I know.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; How long has it been since I asked you to do that?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In the realm without time???????????????!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Death Gets Slapped Upside By Love&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I sit 'fore the fire in silence,&lt;br /&gt; And note that I'm in need of nothing,&lt;br /&gt; For it's true that I had ev'rything&lt;br /&gt; That mattered.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I feel detached, yet so ecstatic.&lt;br /&gt; I feel all is as it should be.  Peace&lt;br /&gt; Is mine.  All my woes indeed did cease,&lt;br /&gt; Were tattered.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I have been shown what's true relevance&lt;br /&gt; In a most artistic, pleasant way!&lt;br /&gt; So delicately has come the day&lt;br /&gt; That battered&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All the values that I held before,&lt;br /&gt; Into the ground!  Never will sadness&lt;br /&gt; Ever haunt me again.  Not unless&lt;br /&gt; I'm splattered&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With a renewed sense of separateness!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like, when Pluto spontaneously combusts.  Uh, Stef, can I sit in the middle now?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sure.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Donn, get your nose out of my tea.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef?  Can you materialise one of those for me?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sure.  Pet my nose for it?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once or twice!  At least you're cheap. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And a little later...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oops!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Thinking of the Past, In the Land Without Time&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In my moment of ultimate despair,&lt;br /&gt; You came to me and showed me what love was.&lt;br /&gt; A thing never tied down by condition,&lt;br /&gt; And a thing free from all obligation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In life, I could never understand why&lt;br /&gt; You came to me in my transient death&lt;br /&gt; To leave me with the beauteous 'membrance&lt;br /&gt; Of you, to feel the pain of your absence&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For the rest of my miserable life!&lt;br /&gt; You've obsessed me so since we first have met.&lt;br /&gt; Your rescue of me took me high and low,&lt;br /&gt; And memories of that time long ago,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; About made me bi-polar.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You just didn't know what you wanted, kiddo.  Anyway, you're supposed to find inner&lt;br /&gt; peace on your own, and not be affected by your circumstances, not that you don't know&lt;br /&gt; that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah!  Thank the gods for that brilliant philosopher, Tom Braun to show me that a couple of &lt;br /&gt; years ere I bought the farm!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Can We Stop Dwelling On The Negative?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For someone who's life was based on faith,&lt;br /&gt; You sure did have a lot of questions.&lt;br /&gt; Was anyone e'er more insecure?&lt;br /&gt; Could you have been more unsure?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How many times have you cussed me out&lt;br /&gt; For not showing up in front of you?!&lt;br /&gt; You well know I never left your side,&lt;br /&gt; Though not in ways where we could collide!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I ask you, what point would there have been&lt;br /&gt; To your life, if I had been around?&lt;br /&gt; To live with you, you may have been dead.&lt;br /&gt; You're more evolved for the misery bred,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; From the way things were.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'm just glad it's over.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So am I!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I could have written that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Tell me about it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ode To My Longings Of The Past&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My sole inspiration, you were to me.&lt;br /&gt; A vision in dreams I so desperately&lt;br /&gt; Needed to carry on.  You were promise&lt;br /&gt; Of a renewal and stability&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That I heard, wasn't supposed to exist.&lt;br /&gt; My lover, my teacher, my everything!&lt;br /&gt; My Otherworld guide, my mentor, so dear.&lt;br /&gt; My greatest hope for a new beginning.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You're with me now, but I still remember&lt;br /&gt; The long, torturous days, when you were not!&lt;br /&gt; How did I manage then to carry on&lt;br /&gt; When inner turmoil seemed my only lot&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Without you!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I don't know, but do you know how many buckets of cold water I would have dumped on&lt;br /&gt; you in those days, had it been permitted?  Ye gods, you know?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh huh!  Sure.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey Donn!  Guess what I found!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dude!  I'm a telepath!  Stupid challenge.  Nice song.  Mighty ancient, though! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Colours Fadin' Over You&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Chorus):&lt;br /&gt; Violet, red, orange, and blue!&lt;br /&gt; Sun is risin'; night is through!&lt;br /&gt; Dawn's a'breakin', mornin's due.&lt;br /&gt; Colours fadin' over you!&lt;br /&gt; Shall I face it?  I don't know.&lt;br /&gt; Another day, 'nother woe!&lt;br /&gt; Gotta turn, I gotta go.&lt;br /&gt; I can't let my weakness show.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'm holdin' back, can't let you know&lt;br /&gt; What I'm goin' through over you.&lt;br /&gt; Soft fire's burnin', oh so low.&lt;br /&gt; I feel like all is misconstrued.&lt;br /&gt; Are we condemned to touch and go?&lt;br /&gt; The ways of life, so bloody rude!&lt;br /&gt; Will time grant us one more hello,&lt;br /&gt; Since I'll not soon get over you?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Chorus&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You made my life a gentle dream.&lt;br /&gt; Made nothin' matter, nothin seem&lt;br /&gt; So bad, I couldn't face it clean&lt;br /&gt; Except myself, I gotta deem&lt;br /&gt; One black streak in life's unclear stream!&lt;br /&gt; So cold I've been, and really lean&lt;br /&gt; In giving of myself.  I mean,&lt;br /&gt; A cause for love, I've never seen.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Chorus  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Do I guide you to stay or go?&lt;br /&gt; Will you glide easy, or so rue&lt;br /&gt; The day the fates to you did show&lt;br /&gt; The one who'll set your way askew?&lt;br /&gt; I'll send you high, I'll send you low,&lt;br /&gt; Unless somehow I be renewed.&lt;br /&gt; I feel strange pain, so maybe so.&lt;br /&gt; My wall is crumblin' over you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Colours fadin' over you!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanks.  It wasn't half bad.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another song:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Revolution's Fire&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Don't tell me that I own myself.&lt;br /&gt; It's a lie, it just ain't true.&lt;br /&gt; There's always someone tellin' me&lt;br /&gt; What I can't do,&lt;br /&gt; And what I gotta do.&lt;br /&gt; Can't die, if I want to,&lt;br /&gt; Can't get high, if I want to,&lt;br /&gt; And I can't get no respite!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Go to hell with your damn credit cards,&lt;br /&gt; Go to hell with your fast new cars.&lt;br /&gt; I am what I am, not what I own,&lt;br /&gt; Don't need fancy toys, or a big fat house.&lt;br /&gt; Don't need to slave for society.&lt;br /&gt; I don't need them, and they don't need me.&lt;br /&gt; Just wanna walk away.  Wanna be free.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Leave the fur on the animals,&lt;br /&gt; The metal in the ground!&lt;br /&gt; Give me clean water, and air I can't see,&lt;br /&gt; And give me the right to call myself free.&lt;br /&gt; Wanna stop whorin' 'self to the company.&lt;br /&gt; I wanna walk away from my car.&lt;br /&gt; Wanna climb mountains, wanna see far.&lt;br /&gt; Wanna spend time with the two I love,&lt;br /&gt; Without watchin' that damn clock above.&lt;br /&gt; Wanna play music, wanna write songs,&lt;br /&gt; Wanna paint pictures, and make you think.&lt;br /&gt; Wanna show you the light;&lt;br /&gt; Take you to heights;&lt;br /&gt; Where maybe, you can see what's right.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If I get sick, don'' wanna waste my life&lt;br /&gt; Payin' crazy bills, and livin' in strife.&lt;br /&gt; Rather shoot myself, then go on&lt;br /&gt; Payin for life, better worth gone.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Gotta fight the damn traffic,&lt;br /&gt; Pay outrageous rent,&lt;br /&gt; Work sixty-hour weeks,&lt;br /&gt; Just so we can eat.&lt;br /&gt; Indentured servant to the government,&lt;br /&gt; And my "voluntary" job,&lt;br /&gt; Which I don't really want,&lt;br /&gt; But am trapped in, for need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Continued)&lt;br /&gt; The way life is,&lt;br /&gt; Makes a kid a ball an' chain.&lt;br /&gt; Can't spend no time with it,&lt;br /&gt; It's just another drain.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey I'm gonna fight back,&lt;br /&gt; Cross the line, real far.&lt;br /&gt; I'll only play a used guitar.&lt;br /&gt; I'll never own a brand new car,&lt;br /&gt; And I'll never have a credit card.&lt;br /&gt; Never had a kid, or a golden chain.&lt;br /&gt; I ain't here for society's gain.&lt;br /&gt; Got a loaded gun by the door,&lt;br /&gt; For when I don'' wanna take this shit no more.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; HOKA HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Joan Baez, how do you like the taste of dust?  Not that I don't like you, of course.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hm.  Shall I post the lyrics to 'Dreams of Fire', or 'Get Me Outta Here'?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Do you ever want me to pet your nose again?  'Dreams of Fire' is the most disgusting &lt;br /&gt; set of lyrics I wrote, and 'Get Me Outta Here' is one of the absolute worst pieces that &lt;br /&gt; you wrote to me.  If you're going to threaten me, you can go right back to Thanatos.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, all right.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Life--Past Perspective&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Veil is heavy, illusion reigns,&lt;br /&gt; And Truth is nowhere to be found here.&lt;br /&gt; There is hunger, there is cold, and blood.&lt;br /&gt; There is sickness, and fire, and flood.&lt;br /&gt; There is so much misery.  Demands&lt;br /&gt; On time are perpetual.  So much&lt;br /&gt; Effort it does take to stay alive,&lt;br /&gt; And how strange it is, we have the drive  (We??????????  You, oh suicidal one; past&lt;br /&gt; Perspective?  Commentary by Donn.)&lt;br /&gt; To fight to stay in this here prison!&lt;br /&gt; We pay to stay incarcerated&lt;br /&gt; In this horrid, decrepit abyss!&lt;br /&gt; Our intelligence is quite amiss.&lt;br /&gt; Why do they perpetuate this mess?&lt;br /&gt; Why does humanity procreate?&lt;br /&gt; It does one no good, but holds them back.&lt;br /&gt; The price is high, look at what's attacked:&lt;br /&gt; Freedom, sleep, material resource,&lt;br /&gt; Time, and perhaps peace of mind!  I can't&lt;br /&gt; Understand.  I see stupidity&lt;br /&gt; In this!  Misery loves company,&lt;br /&gt; Is the only explanation I&lt;br /&gt; Can find in this trend continuing.&lt;br /&gt; I am so glad that I saw the light&lt;br /&gt; And saw fertility as a blight&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To destroy, so this crap's not my problem!&lt;br /&gt; Now how else can I kick life in the face?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Spoken like a true member of The Church of Euthanasia.  Maybe I ought to start racking&lt;br /&gt; my brain cells and start a new poetic trend to get you out of your good mood, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Why ruin a good thing?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Arrrrrrrgh!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, I Like Being Overindulgent Sometimes&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is this absolute emptiness,&lt;br /&gt; Or empty absoluteness?&lt;br /&gt; Are we devoid of everything,&lt;br /&gt; Or is this here, completeness?&lt;br /&gt; It seems we are totality.&lt;br /&gt; We are beyond death and life,&lt;br /&gt; Beyond desire and turmoil,&lt;br /&gt; Where the greatest treasure's rife:&lt;br /&gt; Peace.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; These are not my questions, we know.&lt;br /&gt; There's no point to my asking&lt;br /&gt; Any of this, for the answers&lt;br /&gt; Are mine.  Rather, is basking&lt;br /&gt; In 'his' now idle reverie,&lt;br /&gt; My love, who's sharing my mind.&lt;br /&gt; The one I've made evolve too fast&lt;br /&gt; For 'his' own good, yet in kind,&lt;br /&gt; Cease&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Did I not cater to 'him' in&lt;br /&gt; 'His' quest for knowledge!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Gods, I have never written such convoluted sentences in my entire existence.  And Stef?&lt;br /&gt; For the umpteenth time, we wish you'd get a consistent gender identity.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In your dreams!  I thought you didn't care?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Those days are gone.  I have Donn!  I like variety, OK?   Have you ever considered becoming &lt;br /&gt; an amoeba when you grow up?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Except when you want a sandalwood oil backrub?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Actually, I don't care what your gender is, then.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revelation’s Hit&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I find that I am now all that is,&lt;br /&gt; And could I care less for anything?  (Well, almost.)&lt;br /&gt; All I once thought important, is not, (With two exceptions, of course.)&lt;br /&gt; Now that all illusion's gone to rot!&lt;br /&gt; The biggest lesson I ever learned,&lt;br /&gt; Is I surpassed all stupidity&lt;br /&gt; By holding the strange values I had&lt;br /&gt; In life!  Looking back, I seemed quite mad,&lt;br /&gt; And I was far from the worst that was.&lt;br /&gt; First, we have materialism,&lt;br /&gt; And the trouble seeing others' views,&lt;br /&gt; Or noting that life has many hues.&lt;br /&gt; You told me so many times before,&lt;br /&gt; That ego is the worst of all.  I&lt;br /&gt; Did fight my own continuously,&lt;br /&gt; And my attachments ostensibly&lt;br /&gt; With some success!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just don't ask me&lt;br /&gt; To get over you and Donn!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I/we won't, and to tell you the truth, we really don't mind.  Every rule was made to be&lt;br /&gt; broken, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Olde Times Rememberéd&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You gave me then, deliverance&lt;br /&gt; From ev'ry Hell that ever was,&lt;br /&gt; And you did give me even more,&lt;br /&gt; Then I could have believed, in yore.&lt;br /&gt; You made me want, what in the past&lt;br /&gt; I never would have considered.&lt;br /&gt; I gave you complete surrender, (Uh, you also initially took me without permission.)&lt;br /&gt; (Yeah, and like; you fought me off?)&lt;br /&gt; (Well...um...no.  You caught me at a bad time.)&lt;br /&gt; (Yeah, right.  Uh huh.)&lt;br /&gt; And you set me all asunder&lt;br /&gt; From what I went through in my life!&lt;br /&gt; You released from my resentment&lt;br /&gt; That made me want to share myself&lt;br /&gt; With none!  Attachments on a shelf,&lt;br /&gt; I put, since none were good enough&lt;br /&gt; For me to really bother with!&lt;br /&gt; Humanity's a ball and chain,&lt;br /&gt; And it wasn't there for my gain.  (How many times have I heard this?)&lt;br /&gt; No, I could never give myself&lt;br /&gt; To anyone but you!  (And Donn.)  Rapture&lt;br /&gt; Was mine with you, and don't ask why&lt;br /&gt; None else.  They didn't even try.  (Boy, are you in a piss-assed mood.)&lt;br /&gt; (Little bit.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Lives past, are meaningless.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie (perspective)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; They didn't even try?  You were the control freak of the millennium.  No one knew what to&lt;br /&gt; do with you, not that you'd even let them.  Why did you write this...Stefan?  Why are&lt;br /&gt; you still dwelling on this long since irrelevant garbage?  Sheesh!  Get off the rag,&lt;br /&gt; DUDE!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I guess I'm just short on material.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So I see.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A Time of Regression&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Why do you reflect upon what was?&lt;br /&gt; It is now dead, and not coming back.&lt;br /&gt; You know there was a purpose to all,&lt;br /&gt; Which you have learned when you gave us call!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Why do you yet harbour discontent&lt;br /&gt; For things that didn't e'en affect you?&lt;br /&gt; You lived a life of ease, in escape&lt;br /&gt; Of what lived the status quo.  You traipsed&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Through all that was in great defiance&lt;br /&gt; Of all you knew was the common way.&lt;br /&gt; No, it wasn't all the path you liked,&lt;br /&gt; But that's life, as you managed to hike&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A circuitous trail to us!  Why&lt;br /&gt; Complain for the mistakes of others?&lt;br /&gt; For you, life was not much of a hell.&lt;br /&gt; In truth, you could not have lived as well,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If everyone else weren't so stupid!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, you agree with me?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You know, I'm really not supposed to have an opinion on this.  No comment.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Regressive Contemplation&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I am completely self-contained.&lt;br /&gt; I need no sustenance or sleep,&lt;br /&gt; And by now I'm free of instincts,&lt;br /&gt; With old drives being well extinct.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I need not perceive heat or cold,&lt;br /&gt; Or suffer any discomfort,&lt;br /&gt; Yet all this is still optional.&lt;br /&gt; I admit it's not rational&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For me to experience this,&lt;br /&gt; But you seduced me down this road.&lt;br /&gt; To share tea before a fire&lt;br /&gt; Is very nice.  I'll not tire&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of scented oils, or satin sheets,&lt;br /&gt; Or your delicate touch and thoughts&lt;br /&gt; That drive me to oblivion.&lt;br /&gt; In fact, I'm now quite a glutton&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For all this when you (Well, you or Donn.) are here with me,&lt;br /&gt; Though when not I couldn't care less&lt;br /&gt; For any of it!  You have shared&lt;br /&gt; A beauty with me that I dared&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not dream of, before I met you,&lt;br /&gt; Not to mention, I never knew I was so eclectic&lt;br /&gt; About...about...oh, never mind.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another Cold Night On Tech Duinn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Some things about you are so strange,&lt;br /&gt; Like that you can send warmth through me&lt;br /&gt; By the touch of your fingertips&lt;br /&gt; To mine.  From me, all woes you rip&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just by being there.  I almost&lt;br /&gt; Feel I remember you from e'er.&lt;br /&gt; A time, before the time I know.&lt;br /&gt; A time preceding hist'ry's flow!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You stroke your finger down my cheek,&lt;br /&gt; And you hold back as you hold me,&lt;br /&gt; Past memories and agonies&lt;br /&gt; That I yet dwell on!  Reveries&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Replace my much un-wanted thoughts&lt;br /&gt; When I turn to you!  I thank you&lt;br /&gt; For all you've done, and being there&lt;br /&gt; When I needed you.  That you care,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is all that keeps me going,&lt;br /&gt; Though I admit&lt;br /&gt; I really like your reset switch.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Aaaaaaargh!  You never let up, do you?  Sheesh, you really know how to wreck a good&lt;br /&gt; poem, but on the other hand...uh...how's your stamina at the moment?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Fine. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Cool.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Roving Thoughts&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You take me with utmost delicacy&lt;br /&gt; In seemingly unmoving ecstasy,&lt;br /&gt; Though as we hold each other, you're removed&lt;br /&gt; From our reality!  It behooves&lt;br /&gt; You to face that I am not destruction!&lt;br /&gt; I do not cause mass annihilation.&lt;br /&gt; I do not stand for man's pain or havoc,&lt;br /&gt; Nor do I cause the end of your epoch.&lt;br /&gt; Ends aren't made by divine intervention,&lt;br /&gt; But by mankind's stupid condition&lt;br /&gt; Of laze, greed, power-lust, and thoughtlessness.&lt;br /&gt; As you revel in destiny's redress&lt;br /&gt; Of mankind's erroneous ways, you do&lt;br /&gt; Err yourself, in your train of thought.  Pursue&lt;br /&gt; The fact we are all one, and stop gloating&lt;br /&gt; Over what you were spared, due to my doting&lt;br /&gt; Over you!  I am rescuer, and not&lt;br /&gt; Destroyer.  I am not of Kali's lot.&lt;br /&gt; Now, instead of dwelling on this topic,&lt;br /&gt; Can you something else to think of, please pick,&lt;br /&gt; Like us?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Being a telepath is a pain sometime, oh paragon of keg... &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; YAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!  Oh, damn you with the ice cubes, Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My, you pick the strangest times to compose verse.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like you don't pick the strangest times to dwell on nuclear holocausts?  Sheesh.  Also,&lt;br /&gt; why can you make fun of me regarding my alleged 'reset switch', but I can't mention any&lt;br /&gt; of your rather pleasant skills?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Wouldn't want anyone to get jealous, now would we?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Whatever. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Brrrrr!!!!!  Well, at least you got even.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not Enough, But It's A Nice Start&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It seems no matter how far I've come,&lt;br /&gt; I can't let go of what I once knew.&lt;br /&gt; Old resentments still do raise their head,&lt;br /&gt; And I'll ne'er get o'er old ways with you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nothing surpasses our unity&lt;br /&gt; Up in the Causal Realms, or higher,&lt;br /&gt; Yet I still like being in your lap,&lt;br /&gt; With my senses driven a'fire.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'll never get over your beauty,&lt;br /&gt; As you are on the Etheric Plane!&lt;br /&gt; Your visage, like a perfect angel,&lt;br /&gt; That has driven me past all restraint.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My perception, you do so ravish&lt;br /&gt; In ev'ry way imaginable!&lt;br /&gt; You've done what was thought impossible,&lt;br /&gt; And tamed the one, once redoubtable.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once redoubtable?!  Past tense?  I think not!  I mean, what did you just do to me at the end&lt;br /&gt; of my last poem?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You did vindicate yourself, my dear.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Darn tootin' . &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Other Side of Sanity&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I exist now in soft, slow, comfort.&lt;br /&gt; A gentle, addictive agony!&lt;br /&gt; A white warmth through me flows, as I go (Watch it, buster.) &lt;br /&gt; To the other side of sanity!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We're drowning in the scent of the rose.&lt;br /&gt; You say it's mine, the flower of Death.&lt;br /&gt; You trace your hand slowly 'cross my back.&lt;br /&gt; I clench my teeth with a desp'rate breath,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not moving, for I have relinquished&lt;br /&gt; All control to my once mortal love&lt;br /&gt; Who's determined to keep me on edge&lt;br /&gt; Forever, it seems.  Great gods above,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; From this sweet torture so exquisite,&lt;br /&gt; I cannot run.  I resist the urge&lt;br /&gt; To fight you!  I do hold myself back,&lt;br /&gt; Though it seems you drive me to the verge&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of madness, or perhaps beyond!&lt;br /&gt; Man, I gotta study the Tantric way, ya know?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, yeah!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You little hypocrite!  That's for your little side comment, messing up the atmosphere of&lt;br /&gt; my poem.  But thanks for no ice cube, this time.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, excise you for risking my reputation, if anyone understands your less cryptic than&lt;br /&gt; desired analogy.  Ditto on the ice cube.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, I love you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Better Late Than Never&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Finally we're in each other’s arms,&lt;br /&gt; My dreams of eternity fulfilled.&lt;br /&gt; I'm finally in the company&lt;br /&gt; Of the High Tuatha epitome!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A strange paradox of our passion&lt;br /&gt; Takes place.  So calm, yet so fiery!&lt;br /&gt; I am but myself, yet I am you,&lt;br /&gt; As I take us beyond what we knew.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I foresaw this in my phantasies&lt;br /&gt; In the days when we were worlds apart!&lt;br /&gt; I dreamed of tearing you down so far,&lt;br /&gt; And leaving on your 'membrance; a scar&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of all you denied yourself and me&lt;br /&gt; In those cruel times of long ago,&lt;br /&gt; When you could meet me but in dreams,&lt;br /&gt; Yet you chose not to, but for rare gleams&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On occasion in those desp'rate times&lt;br /&gt; When I needed either death, or Death.&lt;br /&gt; Hell, when I was an aimless rover,&lt;br /&gt; Just yearning for you.  Glad it's over.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How nice to have you after so long,&lt;br /&gt; And I'm so glad I can read your thoughts.&lt;br /&gt; You are so refined, and dignified. (Thanatos was such a bad influence on you.)&lt;br /&gt; You act nigh indifferent to this 'ride',&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But I can perceive your 'silent' screams.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So of course you have to advertise it, you little...  Oh, whatever.   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah, sure!  More?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is that a like um...a rhetorical question, provided you're not talking about the poetry?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, yeah!!!!  ;O)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Let's Try This One...More...Time...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You've had so many internal battles&lt;br /&gt; That you have tried to externalize!&lt;br /&gt; All do need to find peace within them selves.&lt;br /&gt; Expecting it from others, isn't wise&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Or realistic!  Of course, I must admit&lt;br /&gt; I really love your idea of vengeance. &lt;br /&gt; It won't change me, in any way.  Regrets?&lt;br /&gt; I have nothing to bother my conscience,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For all I did or didn't do for you&lt;br /&gt; Has resulted in pleasant conclusion&lt;br /&gt; For...all three of us.  Get over your past,&lt;br /&gt; For the umpteenth time!  Your trip's a lesion&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On your mind, which is better left behind.&lt;br /&gt; How often must we review this subject?&lt;br /&gt; You know better, but you won't let it go.&lt;br /&gt; You're going to have my sanity wrecked&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; By refusing to relinquish the hold of your grudges.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You really think I'll ever change?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It would probably take another lifetime in the Physical Realm for you to change.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Bite your tongue, lover. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Aren't there better things to do with teeth?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, yeah!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn, give that thing to me, when you're done.  We risk losing "it", unless there's a 'tude&lt;br /&gt; change.  I think you should be here, too.  Our message has got to sink in, from a more than an &lt;br /&gt; intellectual perspective.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; OK&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; One More Approach To An Ancient Subject&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Our devoted one has the one flaw,&lt;br /&gt; Of much dwelling on the negative&lt;br /&gt; On what was, is, or will some day be.&lt;br /&gt; The blame owes to curiosity.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Once The Source was One, now It's many,&lt;br /&gt; And the many make their own mistakes.&lt;br /&gt; It's how it must be.  Look at your past!&lt;br /&gt; You've done enough stupid things to last&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Fore'er.  You could write a book on them.&lt;br /&gt; Yes, you've avoided the worst in life&lt;br /&gt; By setting yourself apart from most,&lt;br /&gt; Not becoming conventional toast.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Iconoclasm has its merits,&lt;br /&gt; Though it's oft' made you miserable.&lt;br /&gt; You lived a life of no compromise.&lt;br /&gt; In a life of isolation lies&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Much loneliness.  Those you have taken&lt;br /&gt; In, were but poor surrogates for what&lt;br /&gt; You wanted.  It could never really work.&lt;br /&gt; Who could measure up?  Quite a clear perk&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It was, your great loyalty to us.&lt;br /&gt; I have never met one colder to&lt;br /&gt; The human race, in all of my days!&lt;br /&gt; There was not one alive, to faze&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You in the slightest!  Your wall against&lt;br /&gt; Pain was more then impenetrable,&lt;br /&gt; But you did hate and you caused much hurt,&lt;br /&gt; And you've treated quite a few like dirt&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just for them not being one of us!&lt;br /&gt; It's time for you to find closure now,&lt;br /&gt; And meet with those whom you must forgive,&lt;br /&gt; So with us, forever, you can live.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As for your hostilities against the wee 'uns;&lt;br /&gt; Donn and I were children once.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, that hurts!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Thanatos, you can be such an ass sometimes; and I've never loved you more for it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A smooch for you, Donn, and s smooch for you, Stef.  Let's face this shite and get over &lt;br /&gt; it,  Stef.  Go away, meet the two you rage over, have it out, and come back WHEN you &lt;br /&gt; can find something else to write about.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Untitled: To My Beloved Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It seems that nothing is beyond you.&lt;br /&gt; You've conquered the unconquerable,&lt;br /&gt; And broken down what Chaos could not.&lt;br /&gt; With no avail, for decades I fought&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To accomplish what you did for us.&lt;br /&gt; You've melted a hardened heart with words,&lt;br /&gt; Enlight'ning her with two lines in verse!  ('it', dammit)&lt;br /&gt; You amazed me.  By being quite terse,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You managed to make her see the light ('it'!!!!!!!!!!!)&lt;br /&gt; As to how our new starts are needed,&lt;br /&gt; And how the slate must be wiped, each time.  (I'll still call 'em Purina Tanit Chow.)&lt;br /&gt; I must thank you for helping her climb ("it...It...IT!!!!!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Out of her self-made abyss.  Those chains (ITTTTTTT!)&lt;br /&gt; Of her own design will yet be rent.  (One more time, baby...I'll put you on edge for a&lt;br /&gt; month!)&lt;br /&gt; 'Its' past resentments are now fading,&lt;br /&gt; As your sage advice is cascading&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Through 'its' once obdurate personage!&lt;br /&gt; It's nice to have 'it' way more chilled out.&lt;br /&gt; Can't have an undetached psychopomp.&lt;br /&gt; I thank you for helping this one stomp&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The last bit of unreasonableness&lt;br /&gt; Out of (One month on the edge?  Hmmm!  Should I?) HER system.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Excepting the allergy to gendertype identity.  You know, Stef?  Maybe your little side&lt;br /&gt; comments are the only thing making this worth reading.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thank you for the piece.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Welcome, love.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; But I still think life is stupid.  (Just you wait, Donn.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But necessary!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Says the one who never lived it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, yeah!  (One month on the edge!  OOOOOOOH YEAH!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie!  In this realm without time!  Your threat regarding time??????!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos; my love, my dear!  Will you help me?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh...of all the things I have done in my virtually eternal existence, I have NEVER...um...  Ye &lt;br /&gt; gods, can I be that self-conscious?  Oh...uh...OK, I guess.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Cool!  So who writes the next poem?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef and Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Trapped In A Platinum Cage, Feelin' Like A Lego&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I lie frozen in a gentle restraint,&lt;br /&gt; As I am drenched in oil of sandalwood!&lt;br /&gt; I close my eyes, as I do abdicate&lt;br /&gt; All responsibility of the state&lt;br /&gt; That has been imposed upon me right now.&lt;br /&gt; The caress of Death has ne'er been so sweet,&lt;br /&gt; Or so strange in such a diverted way!&lt;br /&gt; For poetic indiscretion I pay&lt;br /&gt; A wondrous price, that is way beyond&lt;br /&gt; Dream or imagination!  Paradox!&lt;br /&gt; Overpowered in a Tantric prison,&lt;br /&gt; A delectable incarceration&lt;br /&gt; Of both my mind and form.  Such a delay&lt;br /&gt; From your ever so enticing torments&lt;br /&gt; Cannot be more drawn out.  Sensation shared,&lt;br /&gt; Makes it all intenser yet.  I've not dared&lt;br /&gt; To think this could ever happen to me.&lt;br /&gt; Now again, I bear the unbearable.&lt;br /&gt; I'm like, hanging off a cliff by a thread.&lt;br /&gt; Oh, now where have I let myself be led?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ye gods, just as I'm to take the fall,&lt;br /&gt; You two transfer me Causal,&lt;br /&gt; And lock me in the now-here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When do we let 'im go?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; After that title???????!  How's about let's do lunch first.  You know, I haven't cooked a&lt;br /&gt; good meal in ages?  From scratch, of course!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On Declarations Of Desired Personal Sovereignty&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So many say they value control.&lt;br /&gt; What is more important than freedom,&lt;br /&gt; They ask?  A life of no compromise&lt;br /&gt; Is so esteemed on paper.  Here lies&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The hypocrisy of the the'ry!&lt;br /&gt; Very few really seek this life out!&lt;br /&gt; It goes against the basic nature&lt;br /&gt; Of the social animal!  Censure&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Me not for telling your truth to you!&lt;br /&gt; It's a fact you gave your heart to none&lt;br /&gt; On Earth in life!  You seemed self-contained&lt;br /&gt; To some, but you were not.  You remained&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dependent on us!  You relinquished&lt;br /&gt; Yourself to me in a ritual,&lt;br /&gt; And you oft prayed for guidance.  That's not&lt;br /&gt; What I call wanting sovereignty.  Fraught&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With much self-contradiction, you were&lt;br /&gt; Just like the rest of the human race.&lt;br /&gt; I'm much thankful in this Tech Duinn mist,&lt;br /&gt; That I'm your first love, that did exist.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Could Death else have so much fun&lt;br /&gt; With a less obnoxious one?! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Damn!  You know how much I could have saved on philosophy books if you'd have&lt;br /&gt; dropped by for tea...and a few other things?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 'Dude', you wouldn't have gotten ANYTHING accomplished if I'd dropped by; not to&lt;br /&gt; mention that I don't think you would have let me keep my mind on anything that&lt;br /&gt; intellectual, either.  And me on the Physical Plane?!  Yeah, right.  Is the Pope, Aztec?  I&lt;br /&gt; don't think so.  I mean, you think I like it any better than you do?  No way, kiddo! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'm really going out of character, here.  Sorry, I probably won't do it again.  No rhyme, no&lt;br /&gt; Metre.  Not my style, but a psychopomp's gotta do what a psychopomp's gotta do!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Questions You Must Face&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Have you had enough?&lt;br /&gt; Are you truly free?&lt;br /&gt; Do you feel you've paid your debts?&lt;br /&gt; Is obligation dead to you?&lt;br /&gt; Can you walk away from all?&lt;br /&gt; Are you at peace with yourself?&lt;br /&gt; Do your regrets belong to yore?&lt;br /&gt; Is there any doubt in your mind?&lt;br /&gt; Can you go forward, not look back?&lt;br /&gt; Are you detached enough?&lt;br /&gt; Is all ambivalence gone?&lt;br /&gt; Will you miss anything or anyone?&lt;br /&gt; Will you be content in paradise?&lt;br /&gt; Would it be OK with you&lt;br /&gt; If in all eternity,&lt;br /&gt; You'd only see us two?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Are you truly ours alone?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Am I yours?  Ye gods!  After that piece, not only am I yours, I'll weave you a nose hair&lt;br /&gt; coat grown from my own nostrils!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How delightful.  Just what I've always wanted...about as much as case of smallpox!  Thanks&lt;br /&gt; for the thought, though.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A Night of Contemplation in the Elysian Fields&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I lie back in the grass this evening,&lt;br /&gt; With the stars of Orion looking bright.&lt;br /&gt; With Etheric senses so much enhanced,&lt;br /&gt; The clarity of existence does bite.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is my mind's sensitivity sharper,&lt;br /&gt; As well?!  I've never been so moved by words&lt;br /&gt; That could be meant for anyone at all,&lt;br /&gt; As by what you've just written me.  I've heard&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; More personal material from you!&lt;br /&gt; For those who're imprisoned against their will&lt;br /&gt; By life, the questions you did ask of me&lt;br /&gt; Are more pertinent than any, for 'til&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One can answer yes to them all, you are&lt;br /&gt; Not for them.  You aroused an empathy&lt;br /&gt; In me that's been so rare in my dark past.&lt;br /&gt; Contempt was mostly what I could once see&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In myself, and not much more.&lt;br /&gt; Is Death the greatest healer of minds?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; By gods, there's hope for 'it' after all.  Or do I wanna get...&lt;br /&gt; Hm!  Hope for 'HER' after all!!!!!!  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You just WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; StefAN&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey!!!!  I wanted to be fu...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey!  How dare you even think of posting that?!  (Not that I can't do that for you, still.  Uh,&lt;br /&gt; sorta.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It's not quite the same, you know?  Oh well.  I can't complain, either way.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Standing By the River of Forgetfulness&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Standing by the Lethe, I do wonder,&lt;br /&gt; What if we joined hands, and walked into her?&lt;br /&gt; Would our retrospect of each other stay,&lt;br /&gt; Or would our 'membrance of what we were&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Be scattered in complete oblivion?&lt;br /&gt; I don't want to recall times without you.&lt;br /&gt; I don't want to dwell on the loneliness,&lt;br /&gt; Misery, or obsessive thoughts so few&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Could even begin to imagine.  I&lt;br /&gt; Am, however, still haunted by these times&lt;br /&gt; Of long ago, when we were planes apart.&lt;br /&gt; Forcing anyone through that was a crime&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of existence itself!  I still well know&lt;br /&gt; My moments of peace are interrupted&lt;br /&gt; By this train of thought!  Wish I could forget,&lt;br /&gt; For my ire shall again be erupted,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I reflect on my former life,&lt;br /&gt; Where my two loves were barred from me.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef, for the trillionth time at least, how much poetry would you have written if it hadn't&lt;br /&gt; been for your misery?  How much would we have written, if you hadn't been harassing us&lt;br /&gt; for more than half your life?  This is one of your less intelligent pieces, but I must admit I&lt;br /&gt; do thank you for the compliment.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, do you like it, or not?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Hmmm.  Yes?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Five ‘Bash’ Emoticons&lt;br /&gt; (Yeah, that's the title, though I can’t do it on hard copy.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Why should you dwell on oblivion&lt;br /&gt; When paradise is here?  I must say,&lt;br /&gt; You also appreciate us more&lt;br /&gt; For the pain you felt yesterday.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Are we not like a warm cup of tea&lt;br /&gt; After a ten mile hike through the snow?!&lt;br /&gt; "It feels so good, after it's over."&lt;br /&gt; Was one of your fav'rite lines!  We know&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You too well, and you can stop telling&lt;br /&gt; Lies to yourself.  Relish the moment,&lt;br /&gt; For ev'rything is as it should be.  (How many times must I say this?)&lt;br /&gt; What happened in your past is dormant,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And deader than you!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Anyway, we like being remembered&lt;br /&gt; As the best of your indiscretions!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah!  Uh...including you two, should that be five or six?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Six!!!!!!  Not much competition, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn and Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Competition?  There was NO competition.  It's like in the aesthetic realm, comparing a&lt;br /&gt; sable antelope, which represents you two (of course), tae a bluidy leech.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can we feel any more hostile toward, or insult the human race to a greater degree?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If we can, tell me about it!!!!!!!  Please!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Maybe you ought to write your own, unchannelled book.  Title:  The Issue.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Another Rehash.  Please Forgive Me&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You have taken me past enchantment,&lt;br /&gt; And brought me back again.  You have shown&lt;br /&gt; Me my inner workings, and made me&lt;br /&gt; Face all there is, both known and unknown.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You have shown me Truth and Detachment,&lt;br /&gt; And a love that was quite new to me,&lt;br /&gt; Powerful, yet devoid of passion!&lt;br /&gt; Unconditional totality.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What I felt for you was so diff'rent.&lt;br /&gt; I might have been a supernova,&lt;br /&gt; Compared to your so calm demeanour.&lt;br /&gt; Thank you for ceding, when I wove a (Damn, you're good some times.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Bit much more into what we could be&lt;br /&gt; Than what was remotely possible&lt;br /&gt; In my deluded reality&lt;br /&gt; Of thinking the un-corruptible&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One could be completely won over&lt;br /&gt; By the most basic, of what could be.&lt;br /&gt; You just had to keep me going, love,&lt;br /&gt; And I thank you for your amity&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And tolerance of my imposition!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanks.  Bye the way, I do not consider you wanting to give me a backrub with&lt;br /&gt; sandalwood oil an imposition.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I didn't think so.  Down, boy!  Down!! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; OK!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Death's View On Love&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; People have such strange concepts of love,&lt;br /&gt; Which have naught to do with what's professed.&lt;br /&gt; Where's love in self-gratification&lt;br /&gt; Of the senses, or limitation&lt;br /&gt; Requested of the other's actions?&lt;br /&gt; "I will love you more, if you do this."&lt;br /&gt; Is not love.  It is but coercion,&lt;br /&gt; And attempts at control.  A version&lt;br /&gt; Else of this, can be painful torture.&lt;br /&gt; Love is allowing complete free will&lt;br /&gt; In one's object of adoration,&lt;br /&gt; Though I stress objectification&lt;br /&gt; Is not what I mean to portray here.&lt;br /&gt; Love is acceptance of what one is,&lt;br /&gt; And not a project to view for change&lt;br /&gt; To suit the one 'in love'!  It's so strange&lt;br /&gt; How people delude themselves in all.&lt;br /&gt; They don't know what they're talking about.&lt;br /&gt; "I want you!" are not words professing&lt;br /&gt; Affection, but yearnings for owning&lt;br /&gt; The desired one!  I must now say,&lt;br /&gt; I have been fortunate, with my lass.&lt;br /&gt; No, I did not give her permission,&lt;br /&gt; But she took me, for me.  Renditions&lt;br /&gt; Of what she did, are quite rare in life.&lt;br /&gt; She also worked hard for seemingly&lt;br /&gt; Unrequited feelings of regard&lt;br /&gt; For me, yet this fact did not retard&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What she felt for me in those days,&lt;br /&gt; When I could not touch her.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There was some self-interest involved.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A desire for my/our company, our love, and knowledge.  I could live with that.  I mean,&lt;br /&gt; it's not like you expected me to materialise you a Ferrari, or something.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On Tech Duinn?!  Yeah, right.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You know what I mean.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yes, I do.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hm!  I'll never measure up to that last piece.  I guess I can try, though.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Lunch&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Every time I see a small child,&lt;br /&gt; South sea memories drive me wild.&lt;br /&gt; Meat loaf and pot roast,&lt;br /&gt; Or pâté on toast!&lt;br /&gt; Give me young long-pig, spicy not mild.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nah!  The rhythm could be better. &lt;br /&gt; Oh well.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; STEPHANIE!!!!  GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEE!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nineteen Seventy-seven&lt;br /&gt; (Ancient stuff, out of time sequence, but newly written.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Though beautiful beyond all words,&lt;br /&gt; When He first came to rescue me&lt;br /&gt; From my self-destructive intent,&lt;br /&gt; I spurned Him with much cruelty.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He weren't what I was looking for,&lt;br /&gt; Which was but a base illusion&lt;br /&gt; Of something that could not exist!&lt;br /&gt; I then lived in great subversion&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of ev'rything I was to be&lt;br /&gt; In life!  I didn't love Him then,&lt;br /&gt; When He told me of my future.&lt;br /&gt; I rejected His counsel when&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He told me it wasn't so bad.&lt;br /&gt; I threw His love back in His face.&lt;br /&gt; I was so hateful and stupid,&lt;br /&gt; But He ne'er gave up His place&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; At my side through all the years,&lt;br /&gt; After I was pulled back to life&lt;br /&gt; Kicking, screaming, and defiant.&lt;br /&gt; He stayed with me when I was rife&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With years of loathing and revenge&lt;br /&gt; Against life itself!  That feeling&lt;br /&gt; Of detesting life ne'er vanished,&lt;br /&gt; Yet His wise words of me reeling&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For dismissing Him were true.&lt;br /&gt; I fell so in love with Him, and rued&lt;br /&gt; All that then passed between us,&lt;br /&gt; Just like He then said.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Due His knowledge out of time,&lt;br /&gt; And you thought He was me!  Hence&lt;br /&gt; You invoked me, and I couldn't resist you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sorry.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It's OK.  Glad it happened.  Now.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; ****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So am I.  Thanks, Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Welcome, my loves.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Your Worst Nightmare Was Yourself&lt;br /&gt; Subtitled: &lt;br /&gt; By Gods, You Were An Idiot&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your bigotries blew me out the door.&lt;br /&gt; You rejected Him first for His looks,&lt;br /&gt; Thinking Him too close to the ideal&lt;br /&gt; Of the old Nazi gods, in the books!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; His light red hair was too close to blond,&lt;br /&gt; And His turquoise eyes too close to blue.&lt;br /&gt; So desp'rate He was to make you see,&lt;br /&gt; He even made His eyes black for you.   (He did that for HIMSELF!)&lt;br /&gt;                                                                 (Stef, poetic license.  Go away.) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He wanted to help you for the sake&lt;br /&gt; Of simply helping you!  There was no&lt;br /&gt; Ulterior motive, 'cepting love!&lt;br /&gt; He fought mighty hard for you, but lo&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And behold, when you lowered your wall,&lt;br /&gt; It was too late to stay with Him,&lt;br /&gt; And you paid for the rest of your life.&lt;br /&gt; At times, you could be really quite dim.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I recall your adolescence well.&lt;br /&gt; You enjoyed doing things the hard way.&lt;br /&gt; You tried so hard to be what your weren't,&lt;br /&gt; And you fought to keep the facts at bay.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You denied yourself relationships,&lt;br /&gt; And you put up a wall, light years thick.&lt;br /&gt; You glorified self-isolation.&lt;br /&gt; Think you might as wall have been a brick.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You then idolised a phantasy,&lt;br /&gt; Which no mortal could ever fulfill,&lt;br /&gt; Hence you rejected everyone,&lt;br /&gt; And embraced misery's bitter pill!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Eventually, it was too hard&lt;br /&gt; To continue in your insane ways!&lt;br /&gt; You looked to Death to rescue you,&lt;br /&gt; But e'en Donn wasn't right in those days.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How true it was.  Thanks for the reminder.  If you weren't here, I'd be so depressed.  Will&lt;br /&gt; you pet my nose for writing me that piece?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, this telepath notes you like it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh well!  I tried.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I like it, too.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gods, you sound just like those old Irish Spring commercials. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My Greatest Regret&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Strange life I had when I was alive,&lt;br /&gt; And I wish parts had been different.&lt;br /&gt; Death was the first to take me in His arms,&lt;br /&gt; And I wish He'd been the last.  I vent&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That I didn't save myself for Him!  (And you, Than.)&lt;br /&gt; He was my first platonic lover,&lt;br /&gt; And none could do what He did for me.   ('Cept you, Thanatos)&lt;br /&gt; Why'd I sample to discover&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The four mortal surrogates I had,&lt;br /&gt; In ways, that made me feel much the cad?&lt;br /&gt; They brought me nowhere near the rapture&lt;br /&gt; He did, by sharing His thoughts, dear Lad.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That first time when He encircled me,&lt;br /&gt; Stayed with me until I lived no more.&lt;br /&gt; The most treasured moment of my life&lt;br /&gt; It was.  I'd not known such love before,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Or ever again!  It wasn't worth it&lt;br /&gt; To make myself unfit for sacrifice!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just another goddamn mess to clean up!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You're as cold as solid helium, dude.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I assume you know helium doesn't freeze?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Yes it can, under pressure.  That one's a doozy, though.  Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Void Your Sorrow For The Past&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Some things just aren't worth regretting love,&lt;br /&gt; For we didn't save ourselves for you!&lt;br /&gt; What importance could it be to us&lt;br /&gt; What mortals you've used?  There's naught to rue,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Considering we think it's better&lt;br /&gt; That you well knew what you were doing.&lt;br /&gt; Tried and true techniques are much preferred&lt;br /&gt; To some experiment ensuing&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In embarrassing catastrophes!&lt;br /&gt; In some aspects of relationships,&lt;br /&gt; We prefer not great naivety.&lt;br /&gt; We think it's better you were equipped&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With some knowledge and experience.&lt;br /&gt; Would you have bought a car untested?&lt;br /&gt; We don't hold silly mortal standards,&lt;br /&gt; And much preferred you were 'divested',&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Especially after Macha!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Do I pet your nose for that, or torture you for half the day?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As long as you don't have...um...help, I think I'll take the 'torture', if I have a choice.&lt;br /&gt; But let's not write about it.  It's getting old.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  My loves, my sweety-pies.  This one's not for you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hm!  For the umpteenth time, it also wasn't your problem in this last life.  Knowing you,&lt;br /&gt; I'm not sure that I like you referring to me as a pie or any other food product either, and&lt;br /&gt; Donn!  Judging from what this is to be about, maybe you should have let&lt;br /&gt; her/him/it/whatever, write about your last interlude.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, I don't think so.  That's quite all right.  Stef, go for it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Born To Suffer&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Are you now warm, are you happy,&lt;br /&gt; Are you healthy, and are you fed?&lt;br /&gt; Will you be sheltered for the night,&lt;br /&gt; Or might you be better off dead?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Are you free to do what you want&lt;br /&gt; And do you have a stress free life?&lt;br /&gt; Do you know how to find the truth,&lt;br /&gt; And are you living without strife?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Do you walk each day in wonder,&lt;br /&gt; Exuberant to find what's next,&lt;br /&gt; Or do you curse each waking day,&lt;br /&gt; Forever hexed, forever vexed?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, is your life a paradise,&lt;br /&gt; Or would it be a waking Hell?&lt;br /&gt; How much is your life compromised?&lt;br /&gt; How much of yourself, must you sell?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Live you with full integrity,&lt;br /&gt; Or have your ways been corrupted&lt;br /&gt; So that you can live one more day?!&lt;br /&gt; Would you be reincarnated&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you had the choice to not?!&lt;br /&gt; If you didn't answer these questions right,&lt;br /&gt; Why did you propagate?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (It's so tempting to name a name, but is it better to give the bitch no fame, and let her&lt;br /&gt; languish in obscurity?)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Every mother's dream child!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hell, yeah!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Time To Get To Work&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Life is a sentence, you have declared.&lt;br /&gt; Sleep is furlough, and death is parole.&lt;br /&gt; Give you Niflheim, or give you Death,&lt;br /&gt; And my dear, you were quite on a roll.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your wond'rous attitude passed all bounds,&lt;br /&gt; Though I still laugh upon reflection&lt;br /&gt; Of all the phrases you came up with&lt;br /&gt; In declaring your dedication&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To us!  Now we have your company,&lt;br /&gt; Yet your wit is never ending&lt;br /&gt; In this regard!  Your loathing of life&lt;br /&gt; Will never pass.  Though you'll be spending&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Forever with us, your memories&lt;br /&gt; Of your hell on Earth will never fade.&lt;br /&gt; Now let's see how it effects your job,&lt;br /&gt; Apprentice psychopomp, now remade&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To suit your greatest dreams,&lt;br /&gt; And ours.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, and uh Stef?  Before you go out in the field, can I have a. . . (SHUT UP)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than (The SHUT UP was from Stefan)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yes.  I can read your thoughts!  No need to threaten to publish that request! &lt;br /&gt; Anyway...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My First Case&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It was Vietnam, nineteen sixty-six.&lt;br /&gt; She had never done anything wrong.&lt;br /&gt; She was only five, and kinda cute,&lt;br /&gt; But war drags the innocent along.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There was no hostility in her,&lt;br /&gt; Either before or after the fact&lt;br /&gt; That a bullet cut her young life short,&lt;br /&gt; As was agreed in the Divine Pact&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With her gods, ere she was born.&lt;br /&gt; Child, I feel a detached love for you,&lt;br /&gt; As I will guide you where you belong.&lt;br /&gt; However, first there's aught we shall do,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like face the American soldier&lt;br /&gt; Who blew your head off&lt;br /&gt; At point blank range!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not half bad.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You Ought To Ditch Your Misanthropic Façade&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The things you say and the things you do,&lt;br /&gt; Appear to be galaxies apart.&lt;br /&gt; Purina Tanit Chow, you call kids,&lt;br /&gt; Yet in your actions, you have a heart.&lt;br /&gt; Yes, you'll always hate the concept of&lt;br /&gt; Physical life, but you see that those&lt;br /&gt; Who live it don't really have a choice&lt;br /&gt; In the matter, in the long term!   Pose&lt;br /&gt; This question to your self, my love.&lt;br /&gt; You didn't need to live your last life,&lt;br /&gt; Yet you did.  Why?  Don't blame anyone&lt;br /&gt; For what is.  Hypocrisy is rife&lt;br /&gt; Enough without something like you, now&lt;br /&gt; Adding to the discontent of all&lt;br /&gt; That exists.  Remember our one goal,&lt;br /&gt; Is to unify each from the fall&lt;br /&gt; Of our ancient dispersion!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Damn, the English language just doesn't cut it.  How many rhymes must I repeat how&lt;br /&gt; often, to get my messages out?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Knock It Off&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh please take care, with your words in verse.&lt;br /&gt; You're ruining my reputation.&lt;br /&gt; I worked so hard to establish it,&lt;br /&gt; And I'd opt for no devastation&lt;br /&gt; Of it by you advertising too&lt;br /&gt; Well of me in rhyme.  I do prefer&lt;br /&gt; My present state of obscurity,&lt;br /&gt; To your degree of high esteem, sir!&lt;br /&gt; You're quite popular with the mortals,&lt;br /&gt; And I could really do without that.&lt;br /&gt; I think life in the limelight's horrid,&lt;br /&gt; And I'd much rather be thought the brat,&lt;br /&gt; Then one akin to the paragon you are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I mean, dude!  You know how many people are&lt;br /&gt; absolutely gaga over you, self included?  I couldn't&lt;br /&gt; stand that!  It's you and Donn, or no one.  Well, and Azrael&lt;br /&gt; did make a nice introduction of 'Himself', but I can't handle anymore relationships like&lt;br /&gt; what I have with you two.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Azrael?  Don't think you want to mess with that one in the regard of what you put us&lt;br /&gt; through.  'He', is waaaaaaay beyond all this, but I can't complain.  Must be that poem you&lt;br /&gt; wrote for Him.  Anyway, considering how you present yourself, I don't think you'll have&lt;br /&gt; too many fans or mortals falling over themselves because of you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I don't think I want any more poetry on this subject.  I mean, it's like a job, you know?&lt;br /&gt; You want verses of when I was a computer operator, or all that?  Let's write more about us.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yes...Stephanie. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Visions And Memories&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I look into your glowing eyes,&lt;br /&gt; I have to smile at my memories&lt;br /&gt; Of how strangely you affected me&lt;br /&gt; When I first saw you.  I was in seas&lt;br /&gt; Of confusion, when you challenged me&lt;br /&gt; Then, to daring your presence!  Like Donn's,&lt;br /&gt; Were your features, and soon I would know&lt;br /&gt; That you were not a ghostly daemon,&lt;br /&gt; But an ancient friend of Donn's, rebuilt&lt;br /&gt; For his other consort, after you&lt;br /&gt; Destroyed your self for missing the lad.&lt;br /&gt; You recalled Donn not at first, for new&lt;br /&gt; Existence did mean old memories&lt;br /&gt; Would be erased for a while, until&lt;br /&gt; Macha brought your two lives together,&lt;br /&gt; By ending your second one.  What chill&lt;br /&gt; Brought your tale, to my heart.  To think you&lt;br /&gt; In any sort of pain, devastates&lt;br /&gt; Me to no end!  The beauty of your&lt;br /&gt; Love so powerful initiates&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Feelings in me that have in totality&lt;br /&gt; Left all behind, in intensity.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That one brings tears to my eyes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh man!  You can say that again.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I think this calls for an Astral threesome.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; At least.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Fag Hag Paradise&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Love to be a fag hag.&lt;br /&gt; Fag hag, I so love to be.&lt;br /&gt; Just kicked back, on the couch,&lt;br /&gt; My two snoggin' buds, and me.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How can you write something like that after the one previous to it?????????????  AND&lt;br /&gt; WE’RE NOT THAT PARTICULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; OK, let me try this again:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A Moment Too Enchanting For Description&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As I came across you two today,&lt;br /&gt; I was overwhelmed with sudden peace.&lt;br /&gt; Beside each other you sat, eyes closed.&lt;br /&gt; Overt it was, your love won't ever cease.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You were in telepathic union,&lt;br /&gt; Wearing subtle smiles of an exchange,&lt;br /&gt; Beyond anything inspir'd by lust.&lt;br /&gt; I'm fortunate the fates have arranged&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For me to intrude on this moment&lt;br /&gt; Of metaphysical tenderness!&lt;br /&gt; Is there a sight of greater beauty,&lt;br /&gt; Than you two together?!  I confess&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A highly vicarious pleasure&lt;br /&gt; In seeing you two in what I missed&lt;br /&gt; Completely when I had lived on Earth!&lt;br /&gt; It enraptures me to see you blissed&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Out in your primaeval love.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is that better?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Much.  So, come sit beside us and join us.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can I have the middle?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For that piece?!  Hell, yeah!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; One To The Left, And One To The Right&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My arms go 'round you, as I close mine eyen!&lt;br /&gt; There's nothing about you that I would change.&lt;br /&gt; If there was a need for compromise,&lt;br /&gt; It was myself that I would rearrange. &lt;br /&gt; I open my mind, inviting your thoughts,&lt;br /&gt; And I'm overcome with euphoria.&lt;br /&gt; Your love for me's like the ultimate drug.&lt;br /&gt; There is no way in Hell I could see a&lt;br /&gt; Better state to be in at any time,&lt;br /&gt; Than the state that I am in this moment!&lt;br /&gt; This surpasses the wildest escapades&lt;br /&gt; Imaginable on Earth!  No dormant&lt;br /&gt; Phantasies I had of you when alive,&lt;br /&gt; Could even come close to measuring up&lt;br /&gt; To what I'm experiencing right now.&lt;br /&gt; For me, if all things good were in my cup,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It would be overflowing,&lt;br /&gt; And we'd be twenty metres under.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hmmmmmmmm.  Ste...phan...ie...Rrrrrrrrrrrr&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn, don't do this to me!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos!  I never got even for when you and Stef ganged up on me.  I mean, wouldn't&lt;br /&gt; you like to experience what you put me through?  Provided this is OK with you, Stef.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; ***** &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Like, you have to ask?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn!  I was a part of you.  I already know wha...&lt;br /&gt; AAAAAAAAAIIIIIYYYYYYAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!  As if ya could contain me, ya&lt;br /&gt; little shaveling!!!!!!!!!  Uh...um...never mind.&lt;br /&gt; (Dormant phantasies?  Yeah, right!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey!  "Fag hag"!  This one's for you!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I Can Be Stupid, Too&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "Disengage your mind from ours," said Donn,&lt;br /&gt; As he strapped that band around my wrist!&lt;br /&gt; Since he cannot overpower me,&lt;br /&gt; I guess I will submit and desist&lt;br /&gt; In refusing to sample bondage.&lt;br /&gt; He propped up my head, and brushed my hair,&lt;br /&gt; And he asked if I can now let go&lt;br /&gt; Of all my self-control!  Is it fair&lt;br /&gt; If I cannot cave in to instinct?!&lt;br /&gt; When Stephanie caught me by surprise,&lt;br /&gt; I did react.  I can surrender.&lt;br /&gt; I suppose I will.  Self-restraint dies&lt;br /&gt; Until they are through with me, my loves!&lt;br /&gt; Stef, her lengthy, taunting endearments&lt;br /&gt; With the proverbial scented oil,&lt;br /&gt; Is having a toll.  Frustration rents&lt;br /&gt; A once lost part of me, as she strokes&lt;br /&gt; Mine self with her empathic talents&lt;br /&gt; Obviously still there!  She tortures&lt;br /&gt; Me, with delight!  As she drives my sense&lt;br /&gt; Of self restriction to its limit,&lt;br /&gt; I almost rip out my leather straps.&lt;br /&gt; Stef, with the ultimate distraction,&lt;br /&gt; Stops me, but she holds back, and then saps&lt;br /&gt; My wish to be in this confined state&lt;br /&gt; With her refusal to release me&lt;br /&gt; For the umpteenth time!  She unifies&lt;br /&gt; Her self with me, yet doesn't move.  We&lt;br /&gt; Are locked, and Donn kisses my forehead.&lt;br /&gt; His fingers go down my cheek and neck,&lt;br /&gt; As he continues to drive me nuts!&lt;br /&gt; These two will leave me somewhat of a wreck&lt;br /&gt; Real soon, and I struggle not to scream,&lt;br /&gt; And lose what dignity I have left.&lt;br /&gt; My Donn, sweet Donn, then did rescue me.&lt;br /&gt; He's agonisingly slow, but deft&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In finally pushing me o'er the threshold,&lt;br /&gt; In the weirdest way possible!  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Whew!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Again?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ask me in a couple of years, speaking in analogy.  Ye Gods!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I've never seen you look so good,&lt;br /&gt; As now, when we were through with you.&lt;br /&gt; Your cast of peace after rapture,&lt;br /&gt; Has given me visions anew&lt;br /&gt; For another painting of you...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!  DON'T YOU DARE!!!!!!!  IF YOU PAINT WHAT'S LEFT OF&lt;br /&gt; ME, AFTER WHAT YOU JUST DID TO ME, I'LL NEVER LET YOU TOUCH ME&lt;br /&gt; AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, do I make myself clear?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I guess so.  Couldn't you at least let me finish the poem?  I mean I hadn't even titled it&lt;br /&gt; yet.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My Eternal Gratitude To Both Of You&lt;br /&gt; (Yeah, I know I've said it all before, sometimes in the same words, but...)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In the past you've done so much for me,&lt;br /&gt; And I know I can ne'er repay you.&lt;br /&gt; You've give me reason to go on,&lt;br /&gt; As I walked the paths of Hell!  I do&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not know how I could have made it through&lt;br /&gt; Life without your constant watch-over!&lt;br /&gt; I was so lost without your guidance.&lt;br /&gt; I was naught but an aimless rover,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With nothing there worth me striving for.&lt;br /&gt; I know there've been many ups and downs&lt;br /&gt; For me, having The Veil between us&lt;br /&gt; In the past!  My face held many frowns&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of discontent during those dark times&lt;br /&gt; When I was here, and you were there!  Now&lt;br /&gt; It seems those many years of torture&lt;br /&gt; Were well worth it, though I don't know how&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To offer you proper compensation,&lt;br /&gt; Except to offer myself.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With a side order of rice pilaf and buttered carrots?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We weren't that bad, were we?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Worse, actually!  (Pssssst!  Stef!  Thanks for your little unmentionable compromise.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Worse, huh?  Yeah right!  Quit bein' so coy, dude!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Who me?  (Stef, I never would have considered asking.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now, can we start a new topic of something that happened recently, as opposed to when&lt;br /&gt; that thing who's nose crosses continental divides first got here?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, those compliments will get you everywhere!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can You Lay My Worst Nightmare To Rest&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My loves, whom I The Fates did send,&lt;br /&gt; Will our verses ever end?&lt;br /&gt; Will we be as one forever,&lt;br /&gt; With no disdain to sever&lt;br /&gt; The dearest tie I ever held?&lt;br /&gt; Will our closeness ne'er be felled?&lt;br /&gt; I no longer want anyone&lt;br /&gt; Else around me!  I am done&lt;br /&gt; With all that is humanity.&lt;br /&gt; Can you two reassure me,&lt;br /&gt; And honestly tell me we'll ne'er split up?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan, you absolutely flay me!  Why didn't you go to the Akashic Library?!  No!  We&lt;br /&gt; won't separate!  Ever!  We split up over my dead body!!!!  Also, our poetry may become&lt;br /&gt; less prolific and more diverse, but asking me to not write is like asking a mortal to stop&lt;br /&gt; breathing by now.  Gee willikers, ya know?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Over your dead body, says Death?  Um, OK...Brilliant phrasing, dude.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Can't a psychopomp use a cliche?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You mean like, 'It's raining cats and canines?'  Actually, I did check the Library.  I just&lt;br /&gt; wanted to write about something else for a change, like you requested.  The here-now&lt;br /&gt; perspective?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Please pick something less painful next time.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To Stephanie, By Any Other Name&lt;br /&gt; (Since you seem to relish reassurance)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I can think of no void that's greater&lt;br /&gt; Than an existence without you two!  (Can't leave Donn out.)&lt;br /&gt; The questions you posed in your last piece&lt;br /&gt; Brought home to me all that you went through&lt;br /&gt; When you were alive.  All I can say&lt;br /&gt; Is that I wish things could have been different.&lt;br /&gt; Your love, your desire to serve us,&lt;br /&gt; And your wish to see us blissed out lent&lt;br /&gt; New meaning to the word:  devotion.&lt;br /&gt; In return, you wanted but knowledge&lt;br /&gt; And our company!  A noble quest,&lt;br /&gt; The former, and you did not need to dredge&lt;br /&gt; Too hard for the latter!  Some may say&lt;br /&gt; That you corrupted us with your lust, (You added new meaning to:  FOCUS)&lt;br /&gt; And one-of-a-kind seductions!  We&lt;br /&gt; Think not.  In fact, enlightenment must&lt;br /&gt; Be a better term, having guided us&lt;br /&gt; To the Tantric Way.  A dimension&lt;br /&gt; Of an ancient culture that has led&lt;br /&gt; Us to ways of appreciation&lt;br /&gt; Of on another,&lt;br /&gt; That could not be more meaningful.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With something like you two, how can anyone NOT focus their attention on you 1000%&lt;br /&gt; at least?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; StefAN&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I can say the same about your nose.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ye Gawwwwwwwwwds.  Why do I have a sudden urge to have you under me, with&lt;br /&gt; sandalwood oil in hand?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another Lustless Night&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All I can see in the darkened room&lt;br /&gt; Is the scarlet fire of your eyes&lt;br /&gt; As we sit here touching fingertips.&lt;br /&gt; I see you not, yet I do.  All dies&lt;br /&gt; Except our current reality,&lt;br /&gt; As we are here facing each other!&lt;br /&gt; Will we move before the night is through,&lt;br /&gt; Or shall we be still another&lt;br /&gt; Day, in the sheer acclamation of&lt;br /&gt; What we well know each other to be?&lt;br /&gt; You were my end, and my beginning,&lt;br /&gt; And I much loved you instinctively&lt;br /&gt; Before I met you.  I feel your thoughts.&lt;br /&gt; They're not centred on what I can do,&lt;br /&gt; But on what I am, what is my soul.&lt;br /&gt; I feel this, and inspiration too,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To write in verse, of my love for Death Personified!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Hey Donn!  Can I do this with you?)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You want me to make my eyes glow, too?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hey!  You know, the three of us can do this in a circle, if it doesn't put you two in a&lt;br /&gt;mental overload.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Works for me!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Another Rehash For You, My Dearest Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Darkness is an alien concept&lt;br /&gt; To me!  Sensation was adopted,&lt;br /&gt; And not of my innate character!&lt;br /&gt; You pushed me to new horizons.  Dead&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Are all of my old constraints for you!&lt;br /&gt; Yet I much appreciate the fact&lt;br /&gt; That you find my way so compelling&lt;br /&gt; For sharing your feelings!  All's in tact&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For us, as we reach infinity&lt;br /&gt; Sitting in a circle, holding hands.&lt;br /&gt; Our love goes way beyond sensation&lt;br /&gt; And lust.  It's beyond the myths of lands&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So ancient, even I don't know them.&lt;br /&gt; It's e'en past what art can define.&lt;br /&gt; What the three of us are now sharing&lt;br /&gt; Is the apex of all that's in mine&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Memory!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That is so gorgeous.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef and Donn.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Passage Home To You&lt;br /&gt; (With perhaps a couple of borrowed phrases from earlier works.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I feel I've travelled a million miles&lt;br /&gt; Through the snow, and sleet, and gale force wind.&lt;br /&gt; At times, it was a deluge, or hail,&lt;br /&gt; And curse the fact I couldn't rescind&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The journey.  It was a great nightmare&lt;br /&gt; Fraught with pain, and never-ending woe!&lt;br /&gt; Flay me, rack me, electrocute me,&lt;br /&gt; And make me ask for more.  Life's my foe.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I was past infernally stupid&lt;br /&gt; For choosing to live it one last time!&lt;br /&gt; I can't help but often reflect on&lt;br /&gt; The day you released me from the grime.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It was like wading in a warm stream,&lt;br /&gt; In a freezing Antarctic winter!&lt;br /&gt; Initially, it was quite shallow.&lt;br /&gt; It got deeper, as I went whither.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; At first it covered my naked feet,&lt;br /&gt; Then to my ankles it slowly moved.&lt;br /&gt; My tattered body healed and transformed&lt;br /&gt; Where the water touched me.  You have proved&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To me that you are Deliverance!&lt;br /&gt; Soon the water went to my knees,&lt;br /&gt; And I nearly collapsed to escape&lt;br /&gt; The cold and pain, but you said to please&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Continue, or face stagnation.&lt;br /&gt; As the water went up to my hips,&lt;br /&gt; I was halfway between life and death.&lt;br /&gt; By then, a sense of great power grips&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My being.  As the water moved up&lt;br /&gt; To my chest and shoulders, I did know&lt;br /&gt; That soon I'd be all under water.&lt;br /&gt; There was fear, but I had to let go.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Before I took those final last steps,&lt;br /&gt; I saw that I needed to breath no more.&lt;br /&gt; I was way past what I used to be.&lt;br /&gt; I knew ev'rything I'd lived before,  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; As I was released from the water&lt;br /&gt; To then stand with your arms around me.&lt;br /&gt; At this time, I surrendered to love.&lt;br /&gt; This be in verse, my analogy&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of the transition from life to Death!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Rest in peace, dude.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Do I Know Myself?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Life I detest, and Death I love,&lt;br /&gt; Is what I've professed, did declare,&lt;br /&gt; Then a dread term did come to me,&lt;br /&gt; That my reasoning did ensnare:&lt;br /&gt; Motivation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I've served you more than half my life&lt;br /&gt; In meditation, and in thought!&lt;br /&gt; I've drawn your pictures, written verse,&lt;br /&gt; And could not in life's web be caught.&lt;br /&gt; Revolution.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What I now ask myself, is why?&lt;br /&gt; When I was down, you showed you cared,&lt;br /&gt; And you're both beyond beautiful.&lt;br /&gt; Now without you, I cannot fare.&lt;br /&gt; Desperation.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When I look at what's between us,&lt;br /&gt; I feel I'm but a parasite.&lt;br /&gt; Do I serve you, but for myself?&lt;br /&gt; For thought of loss, causes me fright:&lt;br /&gt; Your attention!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is this truly love that I feel,&lt;br /&gt; Or is all based on selfishness?&lt;br /&gt; Can you answer what I don't know,&lt;br /&gt; As you continue, me to bless&lt;br /&gt; With Elation&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That goes outside the bounds of all reality?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Why do you question this?  Look at your innate focus!  Look at your state of mind the&lt;br /&gt; next time you hand me that cup of tea that you made from scratch, as opposed to&lt;br /&gt; materialising it!  Look at your point of concentration when you've got me under your hand,&lt;br /&gt; so to speak.  That DEFINITELY is NOT yourself you are thinking of.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not that you don't reciprocate&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; How can I not?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again!  Gods, I love you!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Some Things Shouldn't Be A Priority&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I look into your turquoise eyes,&lt;br /&gt; As I hence stoke your flaming hair.&lt;br /&gt; For us, you have transformed yourself&lt;br /&gt; Into a Celtic dream, quite fair!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So easy on the eyes you are,&lt;br /&gt; For now!  It won't be relevant&lt;br /&gt; Forever though, for forms are lost&lt;br /&gt; When transition's next Veil is rent.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What would you welcome more, I ask?&lt;br /&gt; That I worship what you look like,&lt;br /&gt; Or I love what you really are?&lt;br /&gt; So tell me, what your fancy strikes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In life, you weren't one too pretty,&lt;br /&gt; Yet it didn't matter to me.&lt;br /&gt; I'm hardly that superfluous.&lt;br /&gt; If I were, what would my worth be?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I was much drawn to your ideals,&lt;br /&gt; And love of justice, and the arts.&lt;br /&gt; Nothing trans'ent is important,&lt;br /&gt; E'en the fading beats of our hearts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'm touched by your lofty regard&lt;br /&gt; For the beasties, and life of green.&lt;br /&gt; The value you place on the Earth&lt;br /&gt; Herself, was rarely ever seen&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; By one of your kind!  Yes, your zeal&lt;br /&gt; For life was beaten out of you&lt;br /&gt; Quite young, yet you managed to hold&lt;br /&gt; On to what you were.  You stood true&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To yourself, and that is what I love,&lt;br /&gt; Red Tail.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Though I must admit, dude...sometimes I wish you'd spend more time as a chick.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Oh, really?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well...uh...yeah...uh...maybe not...uh...oh, never mind!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef...Stephanie...Grrrrrrrrr...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Got another one.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Glad I don't have to pay for my clothes.  Go!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; To My Better Third, Who's With Me&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Just when I feel I've reached the apex&lt;br /&gt; Of how strong my esteem is for you,&lt;br /&gt; You knock me to other galaxies&lt;br /&gt; With you wondrous philosophies!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My love for you is so powerful,&lt;br /&gt; That it almost hurts to contain it.&lt;br /&gt; If I weren't dead already, I'd die&lt;br /&gt; From its intensity, as I lie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Under the open sky of your isle!&lt;br /&gt; If you weren't here, I couldn't bear this.&lt;br /&gt; You are so much more than merely Death,&lt;br /&gt; And my feelings for you span the breadth&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of existence itself!  There's no way&lt;br /&gt; To display my appreciation&lt;br /&gt; For what you are, or what you have done&lt;br /&gt; For me!  For your company, there's none&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That can rival you (and Thanatos).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, considering the theoretical sacrifices that you'd make for us which we wouldn't even&lt;br /&gt; begin to consider, and what other unmentionables you've already done for us that you'd&lt;br /&gt; never remotely think of doing for anyone else...I/we think you do a way more than&lt;br /&gt; adequate job of showing your appreciation.  In fact, I also wish you'd tone it down.&lt;br /&gt; You're absolutely killing me.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sheesh!  Being a telepath does have its drawbacks, not to mention I don't think I could&lt;br /&gt; survive one day with you if I were mortal.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Love of a Vampire&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I'm in your arms, beyond relaxed,&lt;br /&gt; And find myself totally dazed.&lt;br /&gt; What you are, defies existence.&lt;br /&gt; Sharing your thoughts, leaves my mind glazed!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; We're here, wrapped around each other.&lt;br /&gt; We couldn't be any nearer,&lt;br /&gt; Yet in a way, we're far apart.&lt;br /&gt; Can confusion get less clearer?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We're virtu'lly one entity,&lt;br /&gt; But our closeness isn't enough&lt;br /&gt; For the extreme of your feelings!&lt;br /&gt; My understanding of now's, rough!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What you feel for me, astounds me.&lt;br /&gt; It's beautiful, yet so painful.&lt;br /&gt; It's artistic and obsessive.&lt;br /&gt; It's strange, but hardly disdainful.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The strength of your love's ensnared me (Though, it wasn't directed at me.)&lt;br /&gt; Even the day when we first met!&lt;br /&gt; Since then it has grown in power,&lt;br /&gt; And like you, I cannot now let&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Us separate.&lt;br /&gt; So exactly, what is it you are?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Me a vampire?  Uh, I know I adopted The Great White's fangs when in the mood, but it's not &lt;br /&gt; like I ever bit you...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not hard enough to hurt, but how would you define yourself?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Deathtrap?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ye gods!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn (and Than)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Thank You&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Frozen in tight embrace, unmoving.&lt;br /&gt; Nostalgic desperation's with us,&lt;br /&gt; Despite the fact we need it no more.&lt;br /&gt; The day that you took my hand, you tore&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; All requirements and needs from me.&lt;br /&gt; You fulfilled my ev'ry phantasy.&lt;br /&gt; You sated the eternal hunger&lt;br /&gt; That has been mine from days much younger&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Then I remembered.  You brought me peace,&lt;br /&gt; And eased all my curiosity&lt;br /&gt; With finesse, and utmost gentleness.&lt;br /&gt; Is there within you, any harshness?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You tell me that I am your equal.&lt;br /&gt; You seem to have it so together,&lt;br /&gt; And I still see myself as a brat,&lt;br /&gt; So quite frankly, I cannot see that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your appearance defies your wisdom,&lt;br /&gt; And your humour deifies your status.&lt;br /&gt; You look like a lad, barely legal,&lt;br /&gt; Yet your carriage is rather regal.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I thank you, for your rescue of yore.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your Welcome...Anytime&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I sit against you in virtual dream,&lt;br /&gt; In a most defiant relationship!&lt;br /&gt; You are protector, yet you're protected.&lt;br /&gt; What I really am to you, I'll never grip.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I represent lover, son, or parent,&lt;br /&gt; Depending on what your mood is right now,&lt;br /&gt; And sometimes it is a combination,&lt;br /&gt; And I'll ne'er begin to understand how&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You can view me as you do.  You take me&lt;br /&gt; To a dreamlike euphoria!  I lose&lt;br /&gt; Myself in your soft sensuality&lt;br /&gt; That epitomises the scarce found views&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Of complete worship in the realm of love!&lt;br /&gt; So comforting, your fingers in my hair,&lt;br /&gt; As you gently hold my head against you.&lt;br /&gt; Never has love tasted so sweet.  I care&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Not for anything at all besides us&lt;br /&gt; Or this moment, as I now close my eyes.&lt;br /&gt; I'm at your mercy, for I cannot move&lt;br /&gt; As we are!  I'm soon to emit two sighs,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As you drive Death past delicate madness again.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, how do you like being nose-handled?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Nice.  To bad you can't do this to Thanatos.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If he ever will concede to take the form he was born with, I can.  I've offered.  He said&lt;br /&gt; he's gotten ravaged and ravished enough by Macha, thank you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; You ain't no Macha, baby. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Low Contact Tantra?  Us?  Yeah, Right!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As we sit across from each other,&lt;br /&gt; We are but touching fingertips.&lt;br /&gt; I take in your angelic beauty,&lt;br /&gt; And I know a smile forms on my lips.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Who shall we focus on first this time,&lt;br /&gt; My irresistible Gatekeeper?!&lt;br /&gt; Will we have sufficient self-restraint&lt;br /&gt; This round, to go not any deeper&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Than mutual appreciation&lt;br /&gt; Of what each other does represent,&lt;br /&gt; Or will we once again fall apart?&lt;br /&gt; How often were our intentions rent&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; When we've tried Thanatos' method&lt;br /&gt; In the past?!  Your soul is so refined,&lt;br /&gt; And can you get more admirable?&lt;br /&gt; Can your loftiness be more defined?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Our breathing, and our heartbeat 'comes one.&lt;br /&gt; Your divinity, I contemplate.&lt;br /&gt; I close my eyes, and take on your mind.&lt;br /&gt; 'Tis on you we will first meditate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; No, I find you still too distracting.&lt;br /&gt; To see you enraptured or blissed out&lt;br /&gt; Is a sight I find quite addictive!&lt;br /&gt; Of e'er completing this, I have doubts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I can't stop myself from reaching out,&lt;br /&gt; And gently running my fingers down your chest.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; YEEEEEEEEOOOOOOW!  STEPHANIE, I MEAN STEFAN!!! THE NEXT TIME WE&lt;br /&gt; TRY THIS; I WANT YOU CHAINED TO THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Damn, I can do&lt;br /&gt; this no problem, but not if you're going to mess with me...and...uh...what the Hell&lt;br /&gt; happened to our polarity, that was there before I closed my eyes, you damn fruit?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh, excuuuuuuuse me?!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; OK, bad choice of words, being I'm pretty much in the same boat, but can you please&lt;br /&gt; refrain from screwing with my reality like this in the future?  Like finish what gender you&lt;br /&gt; started as, huh?  Please?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We've never finished this right, and we probably never will.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Unless you are tied up!  OK, so B--- M- B----.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; My, what language!   (ROFLMFASO)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan And Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Thank You, From Here To Eternity&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I return from the land of nowhere.&lt;br /&gt; I come back from whence nothing exists.&lt;br /&gt; My thoughts were slain by delirium.&lt;br /&gt; Ecstasy has no higher stratum.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What I felt's past what you felt on death.&lt;br /&gt; I never knew a love like yours could be.&lt;br /&gt; You obliterated your essence&lt;br /&gt; For me, and entered a strange voidance&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Where you did not matter to yourself.&lt;br /&gt; You've eclipsed sense of being, for me.&lt;br /&gt; On return, I can't help but break down&lt;br /&gt; In tears!  In a strange beauty I've drowned,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And I can hardly deal with it&lt;br /&gt; As you hold me, and send me a softer version&lt;br /&gt; Of what you just did.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thank the gods for Tantric disasters.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; B--- M- B---- my nose hairs, huh?  Gods, I never laughed so hard in my life.  You!  One of&lt;br /&gt; the most eloquent individuals in existence, jumping in the verbal gutter like that.  Uh, and&lt;br /&gt; all you're doing is complimenting the psychological aspect of what I did to you?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stef&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Well, yeah!  That was the important stuff, but I gotta admit the rest of it was pretty&lt;br /&gt; decent.  Not bad, ya know?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ingrate!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uh huh!  As if!  Sure!  Now, how's about switchin' gender?  Please?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn  (Continued)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Reciprocation&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What's it to float on a cloud at night,&lt;br /&gt; Under glistening stars so bright?!&lt;br /&gt; In peaceful silence, I myself lose&lt;br /&gt; All memories and care!  You perfuse&lt;br /&gt; Me with unsurpassable delight,&lt;br /&gt; As I feel I'm floating in respite&lt;br /&gt; From the integrality of all!&lt;br /&gt; Your touch, like a warm breeze in late Fall,&lt;br /&gt; Ere the freeze!  Can greater comfort be,&lt;br /&gt; Than when Death runs his hand over me&lt;br /&gt; With his becoming delicacy?!&lt;br /&gt; You've lived my life vicariously,&lt;br /&gt; And you know me far better than I,&lt;br /&gt; With your detached perception!  I'll vie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That nothing or no one can bring me to this acme&lt;br /&gt; Of abandon, but you or Thanatos!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; (Ye gods, you were definitely worth filming, here.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stephanie&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thank you.  I think.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Moving On&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I put an arm around each of you,&lt;br /&gt; As I feel what you're both going through!&lt;br /&gt; We have been one, and we have been three,&lt;br /&gt; And we all prefer the unity.&lt;br /&gt; The only motivation that's left&lt;br /&gt; For our togetherness is love.  Deft&lt;br /&gt; Were we at weaving the ultimate&lt;br /&gt; Relationship!  We've reached the summit.&lt;br /&gt; There really's nothing else to convey&lt;br /&gt; To each other!  Nothing left to say,&lt;br /&gt; And nothing left to do.  We've done all&lt;br /&gt; That was worthwhile, here.  We're all enthralled&lt;br /&gt; With the idea of evolution,&lt;br /&gt; And perhaps we ought to take action&lt;br /&gt; Instead of stagnating as we are.&lt;br /&gt; I'd like to go Home again.  Unbar&lt;br /&gt; Your present cage, and merge into me.&lt;br /&gt; It's time to drop the old boundaries,&lt;br /&gt; And die the Etheric Death&lt;br /&gt; For Astral progression!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sounds good to me.  So, this is retirement?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Stefan&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Yeah!  And end of gender, you confused little twit!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, what about our future poetry?!  And don’t I have some short stories to write?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ah yes!  The Gate Keepers’ Archives!  As for the poetry, how's about concentrating on philosophy?  We've done some of that, already.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Thanatos&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *****  Continued&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Game!  But let's not write any more books on it, huh?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Donn and Stefan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Considering how addicted you guys have become to this sort of thing?  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