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Fret not
over
who you have been,
what you have done.

Simply seek
to do better
henceforth.

Look not back,
but forwards.

Be not constrained
by thy past:
unleash thy future.
Title is pronounced:
"Fehr-bess-air-ung"
Verbesserung is German for 'Improvement" or "Betterment"
 Jan 2015 Sana
Haydn Swan
We cannot have the candy
so we ****** it from the hands of a child
sneaking away on the tips of our toes
watching from a distance as she cries a million tears
why must it always be this way
confusing the night with the day
cotton candy dreaming
painting the rain
ashamed of our pain.
 Jan 2015 Sana
Sarah Emad
We live
We die
Life is but a journey
We share we care we flirt with
a love affair: with life.
We cry we are happy we are shy
We’re the friend and the spy
We pry on other people’s business
We are everywhere.
We are alive.

We care.

And then we leave, and retrieve all our shine
We intertwine
With the roots and the shrubs
Within the endless labyrinth of the mundane and the divine
We become part of it
It consumes us
Earth takes us in, and we begin
To unthink
unfeel

Is this real?

Am I buried, am I cremated, was I clothed, was I bare?
I don’t care.
Inspired by David Lynch's essay, "The Undertaking"
 Jan 2015 Sana
Christopher Lowe
Lately dreams
Have been more real
Than reality
And that blank fortune cookie
Seemed oddly pointless
In my dream
But in the waking light
It seems
To have revealed
Its many messages to me
Had an odd dream last night where at one point I pulled a blank fortune from my wallet.
 Jan 2015 Sana
ryn
Tornado
 Jan 2015 Sana
ryn
.
             *the *future is...a tornado of uncertain-
          ty• a swirling vortex, in its centre is
me•such power and speed, can ne-
ver see•can never foretell, it's hid-  
den debris•like clockwork, it will        
   make contact•by the second, bra-        
cing for next impact•the past is...      
  yet another•wild winds that echo      
     my mistakes as reminder•this twis-         
      ter within...tearing with no remo-    
           rse•destroying confident strong-
             holds, breaking feebly boarded
           doors•can't ease the rage...eat-
    en from the inside•won't stop
until...my beating heart had
        died•the present is...only this  
   frail little body•fighting huge 
battles that come incessantly  
  •fending off the future, con-        
    taining the past•not know-            
ing how long.......this disas-       
ter would last•but I'm still      
   here.....still holding integ-         
   rity......•still fighting this       
war waged in history's        
folly•will i be settl-
ed? will the winds
ever abate?•
will i ever
      come to    
terms...?
will i
ever
    acc-
          ept
                     fa      
                 t
               e
             ?
             •
 Jan 2015 Sana
Tyler Durden
You're the perfect thunderstorm.
 Jan 2015 Sana
Amitav Radiance
Love is a communication between two hearts
Silence, is the toughest riddle
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