delete button
- Lightning Rod
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delete button
you may be able to hit the delete button on
things you type
on things you write
but you can't hit the delete button on things you say
or things you do
you own them forever
things you type
on things you write
but you can't hit the delete button on things you say
or things you do
you own them forever
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I wrote this some years back.
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Would that in our daily speech
we had a button to delete
the words we've spewed in anger or
those thoughts which from emotions soar
like missiles launched without a thought
from lips which should be locked up taut!
But no, we all are guilty of
harsh words which bite and cut as love
feels damaged! So, we'd best forget
when others should be blamed.
Since as of yet
real life ain't like the internet.
There's no delete
some words aren't sweet
and some can cause a flame!
If you can't forget
Sometimes it's best
if you forgive them just the same.
___________________
Would that in our daily speech
we had a button to delete
the words we've spewed in anger or
those thoughts which from emotions soar
like missiles launched without a thought
from lips which should be locked up taut!
But no, we all are guilty of
harsh words which bite and cut as love
feels damaged! So, we'd best forget
when others should be blamed.
Since as of yet
real life ain't like the internet.
There's no delete
some words aren't sweet
and some can cause a flame!
If you can't forget
Sometimes it's best
if you forgive them just the same.
- Lightning Rod
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this whole topic is about altering history
(also the theme of 1984)
can you change what happened by just talking about it differently or making it disappear?
I don't think so.
If one person witnessed it, it is history.
Even if it's a tree falling in the forest, it's history.
forgiveness and mea culpa are much better than
DELETE!
(this never happened)
well, it did happen
forgive but not forget
(also the theme of 1984)
can you change what happened by just talking about it differently or making it disappear?
I don't think so.
If one person witnessed it, it is history.
Even if it's a tree falling in the forest, it's history.
forgiveness and mea culpa are much better than
DELETE!
(this never happened)
well, it did happen
forgive but not forget
- Lightning Rod
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the delete button is very handy
when you are typing it is handy to correct mistakes
too bad it doesn't work in life or music
once you have uttered the word or played the note
or done the deed, it is there forever locked in time
you can't do it over again, the beat goes on
It would be nice to have a delete button for the holocaust
we could deny that it ever happened like the nut in Iran whose name I can't say
the delete button can be a denial device
but once something is done, it's done
not even the river in Egypt can wash it away
when you are typing it is handy to correct mistakes
too bad it doesn't work in life or music
once you have uttered the word or played the note
or done the deed, it is there forever locked in time
you can't do it over again, the beat goes on
It would be nice to have a delete button for the holocaust
we could deny that it ever happened like the nut in Iran whose name I can't say
the delete button can be a denial device
but once something is done, it's done
not even the river in Egypt can wash it away
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I think the same can be said for the things we never said and never did. There are almost as many regrets (for me at least) in that file...and...it's much too late now to hit the "insert" button on most of them.
We should not mind if on our ear there fell. Some less of cunning, more of oracle...Thoreau
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what an interesting take on this topic, scott
the contrast between the sins we did and the sins we didn't
I guess we could photoshop our lives after the fact
cure all sins of omission
(did you know that I dated Fiona Apple? Here's the picture to prove it)
there's an 'insert' button? Does it have hair around it?
the contrast between the sins we did and the sins we didn't
I guess we could photoshop our lives after the fact
cure all sins of omission
(did you know that I dated Fiona Apple? Here's the picture to prove it)
there's an 'insert' button? Does it have hair around it?
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