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Smile And Laugh Or Crash And Burn
by Erica Ivory → (All Poetry by Erica Ivory)
  
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To A Friend.. I hope! Repost for this friend.. Hope he understnds.
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I fear for you at times..
Always pretending
life is fine..
I hear your pain
in your laugh..
Do you think
you can fool..
The one
who fools you?
But you laugh..
And I laugh too.
Knowing it's a lie..
Knowing the pain
you try to escape..
Knowing it is too late
to undo what has already
been learned..
Smile and laugh
or crash and burn.
I feel your needs..
Your need to hide..
To feel in control..
To fool everyone..
Your successful goal..
I want to protect you..
Make this time of pain
fly away..
But I am just a friend..
Who knows how you feel..
Who can hear the pain
through the laughter..
Even as I laugh with you..
Because it is our way..
To survive or die..
It is too late to undo
what has already
been learned..
Smile and laugh..
or crash and burn.
No tears..
Just smile..
As we cry inside..
Wish I could
take your pain..
I would laugh it away..
I would gladly do
this for you my friend..
To save you from the
fate I fear..
That one day
your laughs
Will turn
into tears..
Then I will know ..
It is too late
to undo what has been learned..
Too late to save you..
as you crash and burn.

~Erica


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 Reviews of "Smile And Laugh Or Crash And Burn"
Reviewed by Woman Words (Reader)
Reviewed on April 25, 2003
lovely....such a moving gift

Reviewed by judeace
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
well done! you have a very open heart...

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
You are a true friend Erica. Beautiful write....

Reviewed by ya mama (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
wonderful write

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Erica,
"Then I will know ..
It is too late
to undo what has been learned..
Too late to save you..
as you crash and burn. "
excellent Peggy

Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
4-24-03

Very Good To Point,Do-Tell
It Is Why I Say Satan Devil Smiles_Well
I,(God), TRASK Laugh Last_

Pain, Face It Or You Will Crash N Burn_
No One Can Help Anyone Until That One Person Learns To Help Your Ownself 1st_

Truly, There's Nothing Funny In This World
Today, Then,Tear's Will Be Too Late...

TRASK

Reviewed by the phantom pheonix (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
you are not the only one who is beginning to worry over my dark depression and wants me to live life i thank you for caring about people like me who hide our pain and are scared of revealing ourselves you are such a special and sweet person for that

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Excellant testimony to friendship Erica and if this friend is a friend he will be so honored by your work!
~Nikki~

Reviewed by Dove (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Powerful statements here well done..!

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
very well done

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Erica this is awesome...I too can email a friend and sense the troubling spirit in them...my friends are amazed...it is a sensitivity that is a gift...you are a good friend Erica...glad you put it into words for us to read....Floria

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
You are a good friend.

Reviewed by Little Miss...
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Erica...
A beautiful testimoney to friendship ;)

Jilly & John

Reviewed by Anthony Yaccovacci (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
well done!

Anthony

Reviewed by Heidi Klein (Reader)
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Erica ... this is beautiful. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is let our loved ones live out the decisions they have made in their lives. You did a spectacular write.
Heidi

Reviewed by Digital Fairy
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Very touching sentiments expressed in this piece, well done :)

--Karissa

Reviewed by Singingbrooke
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
I hope this person sees what true friedship is all about. Friends can see into the heart.. past the tears..into their fears.. and will stick by you.. May he see this

Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
Just as powerful and caring as the first post, Erica! Great write of the meaning of "caring'! :)

Reviewed on April 24, 2003
This was very moving, I know this feeling of not knowing what to do, hang back, or say something, I think you must be a very good friend to understand and want to help him, I hope he does let you...

This one hit close to me,
Excellent and so caring,

Reindeer


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