Rachel Branscombe

Oh, what would life be like if things always stayed the same?
If worlds never changed, what would it be like?
The poor would always be poor and the hungry would be left unfed.
Would children always be children?
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In darkened night I see the stars
Shining against the sky
Golden buttons against a sea of black and blue

In darkened night I see the moon
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Lord I give thy heart to thee.
The Ones that have died are gathered by your side.
They are blessed Lord.
They no longer have to fight the fight we people of God fight here on Earth.
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Friends, you never realise just how important they are until they are gone.
They are like a glue that holds ones life together.
Everyone needs friends, everyone needs that group to which they belong.
They are the listeners who pay attention to your problems,
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Alone I sit and alone I dream
The world is naught but dust to me
In a place I know the place I dream
I dream of things I've never seen
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I wished I'd payed attention
I wished I'd listened to them
Those wise young men
They had tried to warn me
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The best place in the world
Where anything can happen
And dreams come true
Where the darkness never comes
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Love, the most painful of emotions
Everyone feels love but to lose love is torment
To find out that someone you love does care about you cuts right into the soul
Love is dangerous
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One day while I was dreaming I heard a soft like voice
It called me to a pond
and asked to recite
the stories of my childhood
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Mind is going faint
My world is overloaded
I cannot bear all this stuff with which my mind must think
all this worrying is making my poor body feel sick
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Even now I hear the weeping
The poor girl crying herself to sleep
She knows not why she cries
But tears come anyway
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In times gone by I remember it all
The fun we had
The friends I made
The love I won and lost
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The world spinning beneath my feet, the air surrounds me as I struggle to breathe.
I'm trapped in the box of society
I don't understand what it wants of me
This vile world has it's fingers wrapped around my throat
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The smoke billowing,
The people rushing and shouting
Luggage being carted,
The stationmaster gives a signal.
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The ground moving, the sky shaking.
The infinite thrill as I go higher and higher. Holding on for dear life, hoping that I don't let go. Laughing with excitement, never wanting this moment to end. Then someone calls that it's time to go and I realise that I must stop. The chains jingle, the ground crunches beneath my feet. 'Can I have just one more go mummy? ' I asked in my cheeky little voice. 'No darling it's time to go'
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The world we live in is not a nice world
Everywhere you go there is violence, poverty, and crime
The list could go on forever
But imagine what it would be like if it was switched
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The darkness, the pain
the despair when you realise that you mean nothing
the hurt of failure
the feeling of emptyness
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The Storm is coming
The day when nothing will matter
When troubles will be gone and war will be history
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All alone, always alone
Lonely is the world I see
Devoid of love and hope and peace
It is full of hate and envy
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One day while walking past a lake
I stopped and thought a while
Of the creatures that share this precious Earth of ours
Every creature both large and small
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