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Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025
by Gavin M Roy

After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org.
What you need to know:

* No accounts will be automatically created
* No content will be automatically transferred
* When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org

We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform.

Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021
by V. Blake

Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks!

Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020
by V. Blake

Hope you and yours are well.

A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019
by V. Blake

..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.

So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard!

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Poem of the Day for 11/01/26

While You Dream
by Charles M Harrison

I will watch over you
while you dream.
I will work to provide
all that you need,
shelter
a bed
food and drink
while you dream.
I will be the responsible one,
the dependable one,
the shopper,
cleaner,
chief cook and
bottle washer, and
chauffeur
while you dream.
I will face the real world
to battle it’s demons
and the evil it contains.
I will give all I have
even my life for you
while you dream.
I will build walls
of steal
moats of acid
against tomorrow
and the change to come.
I will shed tears
when you smile
as you sleep
while you dream.
I will dread
when your dreams end
and life beats you down
with it’s days
of no ending.
I will die as I watch
the sparkle in your eyes
dim as the world
crushes in around you.
Mostly I will pray
with every breath
with all my heart
with all that I have
while you dream.
I will pray
your dreams never end
that they all, always
come true.
This I will do
while you dream
because I love you.

03/02/2010

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