I went down to the river,

I set down on the bank.

I tried to think but couldn't,

So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!

I came up twice and cried!

If that water hadn't a-been so cold

I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator

Sixteen floors above the ground.

I thought about my baby

And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!

I stood there and I cried!

If it hadn't a-been so high

I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',

I guess I will live on.

I could've died for love--

But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,

And you may see me cry--

I'll be dogged, sweet baby,

If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine

 by Langston Hughes

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

-Robert Frost(1874-1963) shared by kimmy

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow--

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

when you came to me,
i was happy
when you left me,
i was sad
Don't go anywhere
Don't leave anywhere
by Edgar Allen Poe
and shared by yongjae

You'll never love

Someone else

As much as you love me

And she told you:

 you'll never be loved

As much as you are loved 

By me.

You'll never find

Anyone else

To give their all

To throw it all away

All for you

-GDLCR 
Share by Dave

By Claude McKay

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, 

And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, 

Stealing my breath of life, I will confess 

I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. 

Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, 

Giving me strength erect against her hate, 

Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. 

Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, 

I stand within her walls with not a shred 

Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. 

Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, 

And see her might and granite wonders there, 

Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, 

Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

Never lose hope.   

Always have faith,  

It allows you to cope.   

Trying times will pass,  

As they always do.   

Just have patience,  

Your dreams will come true.   

So put on a smile,  

You'll live through your pain.   

Know it will pass,  

And strength you will gain

By Amandamal Amanda,

and shared by Jessica 

Lying, thinking
 Last night
 How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone
 I came up with one thing
 And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody,
 But nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 

Alone, all alone
 Nobody, but nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 

There are some millionaires
 With money they can't use
 Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors
 To cure their hearts of stone.
 But nobody
 No, nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 

Alone, all alone
 Nobody, but nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 

Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, 

But nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 
Alone, all alone
 Nobody, but nobody
 Can make it out here alone. 

 By Amy Cheung Siu Han

 The furthest distance in the world

is not the way from birth to the end.

It is when I stand in front of you

but you don't understand I love you.

The furthest distance in the world

is not when I stand in front of you

you don't know I love you

It is when my love is bewildering the soul

but I can't speak it out

The furthest distance in the world

is not that I can't say I love you.

It is after missing you deeply into my heart

I only can bury it in my heart

The furthest distance in the world

is not that I can't say to you I miss you

It is when we are falling in love

but we can't stay nearby

The furthest distance in the world

is not we love each other .

but can't stay together.

It is we know our true love is breaking through the way

we turn a blind eye to it

So the furthest distance in the world

is not in two distant trees.

It is the same rooted branches

but can't depend on each other in the wind

The furthest distance in the world

is not can't depend on each other in the wind

It is in the blinking stars who only can look with each other

but their trade intersect.

The furthest distance in the world

is not in the blinking stars who only can look with each other

It is after the intersection

but they can't be found from then on afar

The furthest distance in the world

is not the light that is fading away.

It is the coincidence of us

is not supposed for the love.

The furthest distance in the world

is the love between the bird and fish.

One is flying in the sky,

the other is looking upon into the sea.

- I cannot live with you 

I cannot live with you,

It would be life,

And life is over there

Behind the shelf

The sexton keeps the key to,

Putting up

Our life, his porcelain,

Like a cup

Discarded of the housewife,

Quaint or broken;

A newer Sevres pleases,

Old ones crack.

I could not die with you,

For one must wait

To shut the other's gaze down,

You could not.

And I, could I stand by

And see you freeze,

Without my right of frost,

Death's privilege?

Nor could I rise with you,

Because your face

Would put out Jesus'.

That new grace

Glow plain and foreign

On my homesick eye,

Except that you, than he

Shone closer by.

 BY Emily Dickinson and shared by Jina