IMAGINATIONS

The Same Old Story

The same old story, the same old song

One broken heart that just couldn’t hold on.

It was perfectly complete at the start But, bit by bit, it was torn apart.

Aching with loneliness,

frozen with fear

It got weaker and weaker, year after year. Pieces were stolen; lost due to theft

Hope slowly vanished ‘til no more was left.

One innocent heart, which never knew joy Was shattered forever, by one troubled boy But it’s never no longer hurting;

It ended the war.

It’s eternally silent;

That heart beats no more.

The same old story, the same old song

One broken heart that just couldn’t hold on.

--Janette Callbeck

Computer Talk

Bad or missing!

I feel like kissing

The whole damn thing goodbye. Try as I might I can’t get it right But still I continue to try. i

Replace disk A

It continues to say

So that is the thing that I do.

Still it won’t work

“Cause of some little quirk

In a program I know is brand new.

Dos is its name,

Aggravation its game,

IBM seems to fit in somewhere. Virus or worms

Or some such terms : Seem to fly at me from everywhere.

All I want is to write

But it tells me to byte

Or some such crazy thing.

Insert or delete

I’ll admit that I’m beat

So I dread what tomorrow will bring.

--Alice L. Gallant

Will This Class Ever End?

To understand? This room’s a bore. Vague mutterings... I'll hear no more!! My mind will drift, From stuffy class; Destroy ennui

Like fragile glass... To dragon dreams, And ladies fair;

Of battles won And losses rare.

Of Mardi Gras, And Human Torch, Or Superman,

Or back yard porch... The only problem Still remains,

Is dreams all

End

Too soon...

My mind drifts back, To here and now; Can’t stay away,

I don’t know how To stay in dreams, For all class time... Must come to Earth And seek a sign;

Of major parts,

Of what was missed: The statements droned, Ideas hissed... Check in, for now,

~ See what’s to know;

Then back to dreams, And off I go.

--Herb Rotfeld Associate Professor of Marketing Auburn University, Alabama —

Destiny

I’m so scared.

I’m trembling

Way down deep inside, To think

That if I told,

You might say

Never come back.

I couldn’t handle that. I need to know

That I can see you, Whenever I feel

The time is right.

I love you.

But I am not allowed.

Until the tears

I am waiting waiting waiting

for the moment you’ll arrive. - lam struggling, struggling, struggling, just so I'll survive.

I am hoping hoping hoping,

that the moment will come soon. I am counting counting counting all the seconds until noon.

I am sighing, sighing, sighing, for I still am not with you.

I am crying, crying, crying,

as the hour turns to two.

Like waves upon the ocean, Standing serenely

Over those less steadfast. Torn by the ravages of time. The survivor of many

A winter storm.

Constantly adapting,

To the winds of necessity.

A sanctuary

For those who would enter,

And bring peace.

--Alice L. Gallant

The Ant

If you’ve ever stepped on an ant, You'll know my words are true. As your foot steps upon it,

It starts to turn to ‘‘goo.’’

And as you see it dying,

your heartlessness shines through. Instead of feeling sorry for it, you scrape it off your shoe.

--Janette Callbeck