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Inflate me if you must You praise me, you inflate me, you build me up to be the kind of person, the kind of man I do not see. I feel that somewhere ?, within life’s shadow, between the shades of no man’s land, hollow are the places my soul and I seem to know. I have travelled in the fast lane. I have flew, with a few of the elite. I have walked in sun, in clouds and in pain. I have given nothing, accomplished no feat. Like so many of us nowhere men can tell you, - it’s in our dreams - and our nightmares too. It’s behind the veiled, distorted, mystic wisdom, from whence all true light must come. Impotency Oh !, to be the life in a good morning son rise, to carry on through, with passion, until noon on high. Oh !, to know the glory of a sunset clim. To reach the dreams of one who tried to achieve the satisfaction of, but was not to be . Melanie. Lee. Atfield. I see you – many times – slither up into your dungeon, wearing it, like it was a suite of armor protecting you from life, from the outside world, from the reality you are living. You hide from the world outside – so you think – your pain, your fears, you hide them behind shields, you hide them behind elaborate masks. Linda. Blair. I watch you build me up to be the kind of man I could never see. I feel, somewhere within the shadows, in between the shades of no man’s land is the place I and my soul can find to stand. I have travelled, with some, in the fast lane, flew with a few who thought they be elite. I have walked with men, / women who are plain. With either, I have accomplished no great feat, as so many, lost, nowhere man can tell you by his dreams of , and in his nightmares, veiled wisdom lost to the conscious mind. B. J. “A” 2 May 10th 2002
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