Links In Royal Green (#37)...
Links #4, BD 2007
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30 April 2007
This Is Six Hundred And Seventy Eight...
6. Replace or relate.
7. Release or repair.
8. Repeat or relay.
7. Release or repair.
8. Repeat or relay.
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29 April 2007
ISO Or SC31...
Life is ticking away, like a bomb. Maybe pains, will keep the senses quick. Souls are spilt on the street, sight disintegrates in the fog. Can't disguise it, it's useless to fight it. A car without a driver, is going to be crashing. Ready to roll the dice, no chance to name the price. Goodness, is fiction, a story as endearing as concrete. Science fiction, the world addiction. Minds are gripped to the dark, the broken lights ripping apart.
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28 April 2007
Structures, Crooked...
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? - Psalm 11:3
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I Could Talk About It For Hours...
She sounds cute when she exclaims her realisation of something...
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27 April 2007
Wake, Grow, Certificates, Wild Parties, Suits, Under The Weather, Babies, Marriage Divorce, Take It Or Leave It, Back Down, Sleep, What's Hope For...
Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on earth.
The origin of life as we know it remains very much a mystery, but biochemists have learned about how primitive nucleic acids, amino acids and other building blocks of life could have formed and organized themselves into self-replicating, self-sustaining units, laying the foundation for cellular biochemistry. Astrochemical analyses hint that quantities of these compounds might have originated in space and fallen to earth in comets, a scenario that may solve the problem of how those constituents arose under the conditions that prevailed when our planet was young.
Creationists sometimes try to invalidate all of evolution by pointing to science's current inability to explain the origin of life. But even if life on earth turned out to have a non-evolutionary origin, evolution since then would be robustly confirmed by countless microevolutionary and macroevolutionary studies.
The origin of life as we know it remains very much a mystery, but biochemists have learned about how primitive nucleic acids, amino acids and other building blocks of life could have formed and organized themselves into self-replicating, self-sustaining units, laying the foundation for cellular biochemistry. Astrochemical analyses hint that quantities of these compounds might have originated in space and fallen to earth in comets, a scenario that may solve the problem of how those constituents arose under the conditions that prevailed when our planet was young.
Creationists sometimes try to invalidate all of evolution by pointing to science's current inability to explain the origin of life. But even if life on earth turned out to have a non-evolutionary origin, evolution since then would be robustly confirmed by countless microevolutionary and macroevolutionary studies.
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26 April 2007
PETA...
All this frustration that I cant meet all my desires and these strange conversations mean self-control has just expired, all an illusion... who are you fooling?
People don't need a shrink they need an exorcist. Caught up in the webs, where's the confusion - the vision of what life is like; that doesnt deal in black and white. Wasted time talking about who is to blame, when all it would take is a thought to change. Am I living in the weirdest dream, where nothing is the way it seems? Where no-one is who they need to be? Where nothing seems that real? What can we build our lives upon? Theres no wall of stone, no solid ground - the world is spinning endlessly and we're just clinging to our own beliefs.
People don't need a shrink they need an exorcist. Caught up in the webs, where's the confusion - the vision of what life is like; that doesnt deal in black and white. Wasted time talking about who is to blame, when all it would take is a thought to change. Am I living in the weirdest dream, where nothing is the way it seems? Where no-one is who they need to be? Where nothing seems that real? What can we build our lives upon? Theres no wall of stone, no solid ground - the world is spinning endlessly and we're just clinging to our own beliefs.
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Who Are These People? They're Too Stupid To Be Your Real Parents...
Living things have fantastically intricate features, at the anatomical, cellular and molecular levels that could not function if they were any less complex or sophisticated. The only prudent conclusion is that they are the products of intelligent design, not evolution.
This argument from design is the backbone of most recent attacks on evolution, but it is also one of the oldest. In 1802 theologian William Paley wrote that if one finds a pocket watch in a field, the most reasonable conclusion is that someone dropped it, not that natural forces created it there. By analogy, Paley argued, the complex structures of living things must be the handiwork of direct, divine invention. Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species as an answer to Paley: he explained how natural forces of selection, acting on inherited features, could gradually shape the evolution of ornate organic structures.
Generations of creationists have tried to counter Darwin by citing the example of the eye as a structure that could not have evolved. The eye's ability to provide vision depends on the perfect arrangement of its parts, these critics say. Natural selection could thus never favor the transitional forms needed during the eye's evolution, what good is half an eye? Anticipating this criticism, Darwin suggested that even "incomplete" eyes might confer benefits and thereby survive for further evolutionary refinement. Biology has vindicated Darwin: researchers have identified primitive eyes and light-sensing organs throughout the animal kingdom and have even tracked the evolutionary history of eyes through comparative genetics. (It now appears that in various families of organisms, eyes have evolved independently.)
Today's intelligent-design advocates are more sophisticated than their predecessors, but their arguments and goals are not fundamentally different. They criticise evolution by trying to demonstrate that it could not account for life as we know it and then insist that the only tenable alternative is that life was designed by an unidentified intelligence.
This argument from design is the backbone of most recent attacks on evolution, but it is also one of the oldest. In 1802 theologian William Paley wrote that if one finds a pocket watch in a field, the most reasonable conclusion is that someone dropped it, not that natural forces created it there. By analogy, Paley argued, the complex structures of living things must be the handiwork of direct, divine invention. Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species as an answer to Paley: he explained how natural forces of selection, acting on inherited features, could gradually shape the evolution of ornate organic structures.
Generations of creationists have tried to counter Darwin by citing the example of the eye as a structure that could not have evolved. The eye's ability to provide vision depends on the perfect arrangement of its parts, these critics say. Natural selection could thus never favor the transitional forms needed during the eye's evolution, what good is half an eye? Anticipating this criticism, Darwin suggested that even "incomplete" eyes might confer benefits and thereby survive for further evolutionary refinement. Biology has vindicated Darwin: researchers have identified primitive eyes and light-sensing organs throughout the animal kingdom and have even tracked the evolutionary history of eyes through comparative genetics. (It now appears that in various families of organisms, eyes have evolved independently.)
Today's intelligent-design advocates are more sophisticated than their predecessors, but their arguments and goals are not fundamentally different. They criticise evolution by trying to demonstrate that it could not account for life as we know it and then insist that the only tenable alternative is that life was designed by an unidentified intelligence.
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25 April 2007
24 April 2007
The Better Answer, Right Answer, Wrong Answer, No Answer...
I had such a good idea for this title, that, now, as I come to write it; it has completely evaded me...
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23 April 2007
Got My Papers And My Ticket For The Train, To Anywhere...
Natural selection might explain microevolution, but it cannot explain the origin of new species and higher orders of life.
Evolutionary biologists have written extensively about how natural selection could produce new species. For instance, in the model called allopatry; if a population of organisms were isolated from the rest of its species by geographical boundaries it might be subjected to different selective pressures. Changes would 'accumulate' in the isolated population. If those changes became so significant that the splinter group could not or routinely would not breed with the original group, then the splinter group would be reproductively isolated and on its way toward becoming a new species.
Evolutionary biologists have written extensively about how natural selection could produce new species. For instance, in the model called allopatry; if a population of organisms were isolated from the rest of its species by geographical boundaries it might be subjected to different selective pressures. Changes would 'accumulate' in the isolated population. If those changes became so significant that the splinter group could not or routinely would not breed with the original group, then the splinter group would be reproductively isolated and on its way toward becoming a new species.
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22 April 2007
If You Want To Fit In, Get A Salary...
Mutations are essential to evolution theory, but mutations can only eliminate traits. They cannot produce new features.
On the contrary, biology has catalogued many traits produced by 'point' mutations (changes at precise positions in an organism's DNA) bacterial resistance to antibiotics, for example.
Mutations that arise in the Hox (homeobox) family of development-regulating genes in animals can also have complex effects. Hox genes direct where legs, wings, antennae and all those other body segments should grow.
Further, molecular biology has discovered mechanisms for genetic change that go beyond point mutations and these expand the ways in which new traits can appear. Functional modules within genes can be spliced together in novel ways. Whole genes can be accidentally duplicated in an organism's DNA and the duplicates are free to mutate into genes for new, potentially complex features.
Comparisons of the DNA from a wide variety of organisms indicate that this is how the globin family of blood proteins evolved over millions of years.
On the contrary, biology has catalogued many traits produced by 'point' mutations (changes at precise positions in an organism's DNA) bacterial resistance to antibiotics, for example.
Mutations that arise in the Hox (homeobox) family of development-regulating genes in animals can also have complex effects. Hox genes direct where legs, wings, antennae and all those other body segments should grow.
Further, molecular biology has discovered mechanisms for genetic change that go beyond point mutations and these expand the ways in which new traits can appear. Functional modules within genes can be spliced together in novel ways. Whole genes can be accidentally duplicated in an organism's DNA and the duplicates are free to mutate into genes for new, potentially complex features.
Comparisons of the DNA from a wide variety of organisms indicate that this is how the globin family of blood proteins evolved over millions of years.
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21 April 2007
You're the Tree to My Leaf
I was thinking about how leaves are one of our themes. They remind me of the fall, when we met. They remind me of the seasons, and how we change and grow. They remind me of all our shades, and the light that's us. They catch the sun and hold the rain.
But leaves are fleeting. And the leaf turns brown, and falls to the ground, only to be reborn in the new season of the tree. A leaf can only be what it is because of the tree who births it. It's the tree that remains steady and strong always.
But leaves are fleeting. And the leaf turns brown, and falls to the ground, only to be reborn in the new season of the tree. A leaf can only be what it is because of the tree who births it. It's the tree that remains steady and strong always.
Past Parallel Progression (Moments: Realisations Continued)...
04.12.2007, Kris 2007We're not parallel...
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Pysanka...
We reached1 and linked2. Unlocking3. Entwining4 on our walk along our path5. Lighting6 the leaves7 with plans of our dreams8.
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20 April 2007
Small Victories
Just now I was able to blow snot out of my left nostril for the first time since November 26, 2006.
The Earth Is Solid, You Can Dig It Up Or Pave It Over...
Today felt like one of those days, I was just passing the time with you on my mind...
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Feed The Human Nature, Lead The Life God Gave You...
Mathematically, it is inconceivable that anything as complex as a protein, let alone a living cell or a human, could spring up by chance.
Chance plays a part in evolution (for example, in the random mutations that can give rise to new traits), but evolution does not depend on chance to create organisms, proteins or other entities. Quite the opposite: natural selection, the principal known mechanism of evolution, harnesses nonrandom change by preserving "desirable" (adaptive) features and eliminating "undesirable" (non-adaptive) ones. As long as the forces of selection stay constant, natural selection can push evolution in one direction and produce sophisticated structures in surprisingly short times.
As an analogy, consider the 13-letter sequence "TOBEORNOTTOBE." Those hypothetical million monkeys, each pecking out one phrase a second, could take as long as 78,800 years to find it among the 2613 sequences of that length. But in the eighties Richard Hardison wrote a computer program that generated phrases randomly while preserving the positions of individual letters that happened to be correctly placed (in effect, selecting for phrases more like Hamlet's). On average, the program re-created the phrase in just 336 iterations, less than 90 seconds. Even more amazing, it could reconstruct Shakespeare's entire play in just four and a half days.
Chance plays a part in evolution (for example, in the random mutations that can give rise to new traits), but evolution does not depend on chance to create organisms, proteins or other entities. Quite the opposite: natural selection, the principal known mechanism of evolution, harnesses nonrandom change by preserving "desirable" (adaptive) features and eliminating "undesirable" (non-adaptive) ones. As long as the forces of selection stay constant, natural selection can push evolution in one direction and produce sophisticated structures in surprisingly short times.
As an analogy, consider the 13-letter sequence "TOBEORNOTTOBE." Those hypothetical million monkeys, each pecking out one phrase a second, could take as long as 78,800 years to find it among the 2613 sequences of that length. But in the eighties Richard Hardison wrote a computer program that generated phrases randomly while preserving the positions of individual letters that happened to be correctly placed (in effect, selecting for phrases more like Hamlet's). On average, the program re-created the phrase in just 336 iterations, less than 90 seconds. Even more amazing, it could reconstruct Shakespeare's entire play in just four and a half days.
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19 April 2007
18 April 2007
It's A Leap Of Faith Or A Crash Landing...
On the admissions, it says stop dwelling. Empty words are free from connotations. I couldn't fight your utterings, I communicated your needs and prepared your vocabulary... I was left, with the dividing lines. Like a cut, standing still.
Some people hide their emotions and some show too much, I'm aiming for somewhere central.
Was the verdict worth the trial? Did we go to far, is that why my nose is bleeding?
Some people hide their emotions and some show too much, I'm aiming for somewhere central.
Was the verdict worth the trial? Did we go to far, is that why my nose is bleeding?
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17 April 2007
A Sense Of (Continued)...
I have always felt a multitude of attractions for my beautiful, the way she looks - easy start, it would be an easy estimate for anyone to make that she has got this element of attraction under control, given her pet name. Her pet name is for so much more., but it's be a safe bet.
She is beautiful, the details that make her pretty face, the curves that make her lovely figure, the eyes that shine in the morning, I 'think' I've mentioned all this before...
I am attracted to her mind, she is intelligent - I struggle to keep up her, (not with her knowledge of words though!) I enjoy this chase. She has always challenged me, corrected me, taught me, even outdone me during our 'banter'. I like who she is and who she is aiming to be, her mindset.
I'm attracted to her when the lights go down.
The meeting of minds, was in short quite a long time ago; yet the magnetic attraction of the colours is as strong if not stronger.
I am attracted to her spirit, her light. I am reminded of the first gift I gave her, a gift like no other I had ever given and unlike one I will ever give. I am attracted to how she can be the child that no-one can control, how she plays and laughs. I'm attracted to how she makes me feel.
Beautiful, the attraction to a future with you, sharing our dreams, is what drives me at the moment...
Isn't it obvious?
She is beautiful, the details that make her pretty face, the curves that make her lovely figure, the eyes that shine in the morning, I 'think' I've mentioned all this before...
I am attracted to her mind, she is intelligent - I struggle to keep up her, (not with her knowledge of words though!) I enjoy this chase. She has always challenged me, corrected me, taught me, even outdone me during our 'banter'. I like who she is and who she is aiming to be, her mindset.
I'm attracted to her when the lights go down.
The meeting of minds, was in short quite a long time ago; yet the magnetic attraction of the colours is as strong if not stronger.
I am attracted to her spirit, her light. I am reminded of the first gift I gave her, a gift like no other I had ever given and unlike one I will ever give. I am attracted to how she can be the child that no-one can control, how she plays and laughs. I'm attracted to how she makes me feel.
Beautiful, the attraction to a future with you, sharing our dreams, is what drives me at the moment...
Isn't it obvious?
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When Night Comes, From Above Towns Just Look Like Circuitboards...
Modern architecture, already looks in decay. People now, consider what they are breathing in more than the things they say. No market values, can justify the rent. Ignorance isn't bliss, discovering the reality is just causing contempt. We're going to need some time. Are you hopeful or gullible? Who was happy living being nervous about tomorrow? News, blackout, that means things just got worse, status, depends on the nationality of the delivering fists. We won't be safe, but at least we can think about the pretty logic gates...
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Quip 5...
After another defeat BBC Sport try to catch ex-Southampton manager, Gordon Strachan as he passes in the tunnel.
CT: Gordon, can we have a quick word please?
GS: Velocity.
CT: Gordon, can we have a quick word please?
GS: Velocity.
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16 April 2007
(She Is The) Brightest In A World Made Mostly Of Light (Continued)...
Brightest Links, BD 2006 [REVISION]
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Stella Polaris...
Clinging to naked thought, considering tactics for impossible means.
Do we really live in an abyss that laughs in the face of its creation? Has it just turned into a circus, complete with a regiment of clowns? Society has itself a foundation that has lasted the ages, is it to be completely ripped from its root?
Beyond what is good is this 'terror', like the loose grip of a mercenary hand. If educated reason, is projected as savagery then there's no turning back, no last stand.
Do we really live in an abyss that laughs in the face of its creation? Has it just turned into a circus, complete with a regiment of clowns? Society has itself a foundation that has lasted the ages, is it to be completely ripped from its root?
Beyond what is good is this 'terror', like the loose grip of a mercenary hand. If educated reason, is projected as savagery then there's no turning back, no last stand.
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15 April 2007
14 April 2007
Orchestral...
Memories are just where you leave them, in the past or present in plain sight...
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12 April 2007
Povera Sincronizzazione...
Themes: Leaves / Hearts / Reds / Warmth / Purple / Paths / (Natural) Links, BD 2007
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91 Days...
There are one hundred and thirty one thousand, forty minutes in ninety-one days...
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11 April 2007
Links In Layers (Natural Links And Layers Continued Further)
TPIOLTY, BD 2007 [REVISION]
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10 April 2007
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What's the World Coming To..
..When top ranked high schools allow teachers to nominate kids who are pregnant and trying to kick the habit, delinquent, criminal, consistently truant, and barely aspiring to be marginal for an award that is given for exemplifying the good character and school spirit..?
What do awards mean when anyone can get one?
What do awards mean when anyone can get one?
Freezing...
...we should never ponder,
on our thoughts today.
Cause they will sway,
over time... - Oasis / Some Might Say
on our thoughts today.
Cause they will sway,
over time... - Oasis / Some Might Say
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Random Thoughts
Have you ever noticed how hotels feel like hospitals? I'm glad I don't have to stay in them that often. It's odd how we create large boxes with little drawers to keep people in and how we retreat to our little drawers to fixate on things that have such little substance and whose reality is arguable.
09 April 2007
The Walls Get Smaller...
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings... - Andre Maurois
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08 April 2007
Need Or Want...
Everything you touch, you don't feel. It only takes a look to hurt, but a hand can destroy.
Everything you feel, you don't touch. It only take a hand to hurt, but a look can destroy.
Everything you feel, you don't touch. It only take a hand to hurt, but a look can destroy.
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07 April 2007
Unable To Fake It Anymore...
She knows where to hide in the dark, no, shes nowhere to hide in the dark she's a star... - James / She's A Star
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06 April 2007
The First Time I Saw Her, I Couldn't Leave Her Alone...
We Think The Same, Dolores Zinny / Juan Maidagan 2005-2007
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05 April 2007
Comeaux...
Living in a bubble, thinking the days were never ending. Never concerned about what life was sending.
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Intertwined, Naturally - Entwined, Technically...
Black Mobius Strip, Cerith Wyn Evans 2006Infinity upon infinity...
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04 April 2007
A Sense Of...
I have always felt a certain admiration for my beautiful, the things she does - how she performs with the constraints she suffers. Being her number one fan, I may appear slightly biased but she will tell you about my mean tone and that should be evidence I am still objective at heart.
I am very proud of all of her achievements, personal and professional: she would be first to admit she has made mistakes (she sometimes admits them at the time), yet last to take credit for the good she does for people, for me, for her family, her children, the good she does in her work.
A sense of pride filled me when she told me that she was to present at a conference, a national out of state conference. Surprisingly this is a first, presenting that is. She has done a lot of really good work (lest we talk of my bad advice and irrelevant input) in preparation and I hope she gets her publication from it.
Obviously at the same time there was a slight bitterness about not to be getting looked after on her expenses and mingle with the educated 'crowd'.
Her focus is probably why you are all having to put up with my posts, you come here thinking what has JT posted and all you get is a BD post - I can picture the sinking shoulders...
Jokes aside, she is a beautiful person, an intelligent woman with a potential for many great things. She has always had a light, just kept under the surface.
It is now a goal of mine, not to let her be caught under the personalities that seem leash her, to keep the bright bright.
Beautiful, you are very special to me you are a good person and I am proud of you, you still impress me. I am sorry I can't be there to see all that effort pay off.
I am very proud of all of her achievements, personal and professional: she would be first to admit she has made mistakes (she sometimes admits them at the time), yet last to take credit for the good she does for people, for me, for her family, her children, the good she does in her work.
A sense of pride filled me when she told me that she was to present at a conference, a national out of state conference. Surprisingly this is a first, presenting that is. She has done a lot of really good work (lest we talk of my bad advice and irrelevant input) in preparation and I hope she gets her publication from it.
Obviously at the same time there was a slight bitterness about not to be getting looked after on her expenses and mingle with the educated 'crowd'.
Her focus is probably why you are all having to put up with my posts, you come here thinking what has JT posted and all you get is a BD post - I can picture the sinking shoulders...
Jokes aside, she is a beautiful person, an intelligent woman with a potential for many great things. She has always had a light, just kept under the surface.
It is now a goal of mine, not to let her be caught under the personalities that seem leash her, to keep the bright bright.
Beautiful, you are very special to me you are a good person and I am proud of you, you still impress me. I am sorry I can't be there to see all that effort pay off.
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03 April 2007
I'm In Love With You...
So much about you that I miss, even when I just see a couple kiss... - Art Brut / Emily Kane
...you're my one.
...you're my one.
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02 April 2007
01 April 2007
Altruism
An idea we created when we grew past the limbic brain... to hide the fact that it's still what really controls us.
Tulips
Yellow, the warm glow
you lit inside me
(Our beginnnings)
Purple, the smooth calm
you wash over me
(Your first gifts)
Red, the passion we share,
That never cools
(London)
Orange, merging shades,
The slow burn between us
(We've built a fire)
Floating in leafy greens,
Under fluffy white clouds.
(A walk on the trail)
They always make me think of you.
you lit inside me
(Our beginnnings)
Purple, the smooth calm
you wash over me
(Your first gifts)
Red, the passion we share,
That never cools
(London)
Orange, merging shades,
The slow burn between us
(We've built a fire)
Floating in leafy greens,
Under fluffy white clouds.
(A walk on the trail)
They always make me think of you.
