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<DIV>Umbrella and Bridge</DIV>
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<DIV>I have never before been so glad to see the close of a season as I am to see the end of this miserable summer. From before the children left the schoolrooms in hordes, my scenic route through life halted. Since then it has been stop and go traffic, screaming hostilities and betrayals from even the pedestrian faction.</DIV>
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<DIV>How does a father live with the knowledge his child can no longer include him in her life? </DIV>
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<DIV>How can friends, one by one, betray trust, stop supporting dreams and enjoy feeling superior as they whip it out to piss on your bliss?</DIV>
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<DIV>How is it the sun shines brightly on the unjust? The criminal rain seems heaviest upon the weakest. Why it is when one is at the lowest that the rain pounds it's rhythm of defeat with the volume of echoes down a bloody canyon? Where did they go who promised themselves as umbrella and bridge?</DIV>
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<DIV>Why do they continue the assault when comfort is begged for? Friend...now there is a concept open to much interpretation. Lately comes the message....."you be there for me, and when you fall, do pardon the laughter, there's a good fellow!"</DIV>
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<DIV>No. I will pardon nothing. No more will I excuse the excuses. The bruises of friendship's unkind heart needs to heal and there has to be an ending. Solitary clarity is now the goal. </DIV>
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<DIV>Spare me your truncheon, sword and hammer. I have decided that loneliness alone beats suffering the center of attention in a ring of pain from friends.</DIV>
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<DIV>copyright R J Fernalld 2003</DIV>
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<DIV>Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life;define yourself.</DIV>
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