Found my old journal so I figured Id post some of my favorite stuff from it, hope you enjoy
Unknown Stufftastic - 16 years, 5 months, 16 days ago

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."
-- Francis Bacon
Unknown Stufftastic - 16 years, 5 months, 16 days ago

Like an angel, she appeared into my life
To vanquish all my troubles and my strife
Beauty unmatched by an other
Scent like a cool breeze in summer
Like an hourglass, her body curved that way
I would give anything if I could make her stay
But like the beauty she is, she passes me by
Not knowing that im there, I wonder why
Im nothing but a pane of glass you see
Another face, another name, why should she look at me
I see her almost each and ever day
Every time going by in much the same way
So many others want her to be there own
I think that I will always be alone
but such is life, and such is death as well
But why must living life be much like hell
And so another day begins you see
And I wonder still, will she ever look at me

To an Angel by Charles Edward Williamson - age 16
Unknown Stufftastic - 16 years, 5 months, 16 days ago

Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

INVICTUS by William Ernst Henly
Unknown Stufftastic - 16 years, 5 months, 16 days ago