LYRICS: MY IMMORTAL (evanescence)

I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears


And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave


Your presence still lingers here and it won't leave me alone






These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real


There's just too much that time cannot erase






When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears


When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears


And I held your hand through all of these years


But you still have all of me






You used to captivate me by your resonating light


Now, I'm bound by the life you left behind


Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams


Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me


These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real


There's just too much that time cannot erase






When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears


When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears


And I held your hand through all of these years


But you still have all of me






I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone


But though you're still with me, I've been alone all along






When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears


When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears


And I held your hand through all of these years


But you still have all of me, me, me

samurai song

here is a poetic piece of Robert Pinsky..i liked it and hope you too will like
ROBERT PINSKYOD. 1940)


Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was educated at Rutgers and studied
with Yvor Winters at Stanford. He has written, in addition to poetry, several books of criticism
and an acclaimed translation of Dante's Inferno. As U.S. poet laureate, he started the Favorite
Poem Project, a video and audio archive featuring Americans from all walks of life reading their
favorite poems. The third stanza of Pinsky's "Ode to Meaning" is in the form of an abecedarius,
recapitulating the alphabet. The impetus for "Samurai Song" came from hearing a welder
in Salina, Kansas, read a fourteenth-century Japanese poem based on the formula "When I . . .
then I . . ."

Samurai Song

When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.
When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.
When I had no father I made
Care my father. When I had no
Mother I embraced order.
When I had no friend I made
Quiet my friend. When I had no
Enemy I opposed my body.
When I had no temple I made
My voice my temple. I have
No priest, my tongue is my choir.
When I have no means fortune
Is my means. When I have
Nothing, death will be my fortune.
Need is my tactic, detachment
Is my strategy. When I had
No lover I courted my sleep.