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                                              Out of Control
                                            by Lisa Scarboro

Have you ever felt like a blast furnace of rage burning
out of control like a California wildfire gone past the
point of containment consuming everything in its path
in a blind white sheet of destruction leaving in its
wake only ashes and traces of memories that make the
eyes burn and sting with bitter sweet pain and
sickening awakening of loss and regret for things that
cannot be salvaged and things so damaged can they 
ever be the same as they were before when hopes were
expectantly optimistic and conversation light and
punctuated with laughter and lingering glances and
slight touches that tingle the senses with
foreknowledge of things to come in warm embraces
and soft kisses and endless shivers of excitement and
the even warmer feel of contentment and safety of
knowing that you are special to someone somewhere
that makes all the bad things that happen not matter
quite so much at least a break from them anyhow
because when you burn the fire out youÕre all empty 
on the inside anyway because you know it doesnÕt 
matter because youÕre never going to win or matter or
amount to anything anyway.


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Out of Control is copyright 1998 by Lisa Scarboro