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		<title>I am dust</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2010/02/i-am-dust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am dust and I can&#8217;t help but feel a little dusty Pounded down on the ground after a Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick to the face and there you were again with the watching and the hands-off mentality.  Here I was getting my spine ripped off like some Mortal Kombat Fatality and I&#8217;m supposed to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am dust and I can&#8217;t help but feel a little dusty<br />
Pounded down on the ground after a Chuck Norris Roundhouse<br />
Kick to the face and there you were again with the watching<br />
and the hands-off mentality.  Here I was getting my spine<br />
ripped off like some Mortal Kombat Fatality and I&#8217;m<br />
supposed to kneel down and tell you &#8220;thanks for having me?&#8221;<br />
I think we&#8217;ve got this backwards and to paraphrase Trent &#8211;<br />
Somebody owes someone a great big apology and I&#8217;m not so sure<br />
If I&#8217;m the one who should say sorry.  Sure, I bought into the lie &#8211;<br />
How you&#8217;re more awesome than Superman&#8230;and Superman can fly!<br />
They threw words around like omnipotent and omnipresent<br />
So you must have watched them fight against The Star and Crescent,<br />
Watched people suffer and die throughout the centuries, so for someone<br />
with all that power, I&#8217;m not impressed and I can&#8217;t understand<br />
why you can&#8217;t lend a bigger hand.  &#8220;To whom much has been given,<br />
much will be required&#8221; wrote Luke, divinely inspired &#8212; but you&#8217;ve<br />
got everything, Jack, and nobody holds you accountable<br />
even though your inaction is quite palpable.<br />
Today, you remind people that they are dust &#8211;<br />
some sort of reality check to keep your sheep in check.<br />
To that I say &#8220;You are pixie dust&#8221;<br />
and I&#8217;ve got news for you, Tinker Bell &#8211;<br />
I&#8217;m not Peter Pan.</p>
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		<title>Tang Na To The World</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2009/12/tang-na-to-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a winter happiness, a celebration known &#8211; an air of joy and gladness that chills me to the bone. A little boy would grow up to say &#8220;they know not what they do&#8221; On the day they said &#8220;Tang Na&#8221; he thought it was me and you. &#8220;Tang Na Mo! Tang Na Mo!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a winter happiness, a celebration known &#8211;<br />
an air of joy and gladness that chills me to the bone.<br />
A little boy would grow up to say &#8220;they know not what they do&#8221;<br />
On the day they said &#8220;Tang Na&#8221; he thought it was me and you.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tang Na Mo!  Tang Na Mo!&#8221; They watched him suffer then<br />
and so in turn, he watches over the suffering of men.<br />
&#8220;Tang Na Mo!  Tang Na Mo!&#8221;  Haven&#8217;t we suffered long enough?<br />
Two thousand years of sorrow just seems a little rough.</p>
<p>Do you really sit there watching everyone you know die<br />
or are they all believers in a poorly fabricated lie?<br />
I&#8217;m hell-bound for the acts I failed to do and things I cannot know.<br />
Get off your ass and help us out.  Until then, Tang Na Mo.</p>
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		<title>Kill The World</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2009/06/kill-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[note: this parody was written in the early 90's] There&#8217;s a place by the seas where the people dream of peace rather than one whole world that kills each other. Take a knife, go outside there&#8217;s no place that they can hide, kill them all and forget that they&#8217;re your brothers. There are people dying; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[note: this parody was written in the early 90's]</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a place by the seas<br />
where the people dream of peace<br />
rather than one whole world that kills each other.<br />
Take a knife, go outside<br />
there&#8217;s no place that they can hide,<br />
kill them all and forget that they&#8217;re your brothers.<br />
There are people dying;<br />
If you care enough, kill the living.<br />
Save a lot of space&#8230;kill the human race.</p>
<p>Kill the world &#8212; make it a better place<br />
for you and for me and the anti-human race.<br />
There are people dying;<br />
If you care enough, kill the living.<br />
Make a better place for you and for me.</p>
<p>Need a change of the pace?<br />
Send a killer to this place.<br />
Bring them all, we&#8217;ll have fun in here together.<br />
Kill for love, kill for hate,<br />
we shall blame their deaths on fate.<br />
Kill the world with a soul light as a feather.<br />
Now the world is crying;<br />
If you care enough, kill the living.<br />
Make a better place&#8230;kill the human race.</p>
<p>Kill my friend, I&#8217;ll kill yours.<br />
Kill them all with brutal force.<br />
Destroy all who oppose the main objective.<br />
Take a knife, bring a gun,<br />
then together we&#8217;ll have fun.<br />
Kill for death, claim destruction as your motive.<br />
We&#8217;ve had people frying,<br />
you can go ahead burn the living.<br />
&#8216;Til there&#8217;s not a trace&#8230;<br />
kill the human race.</p>
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		<title>Infamous (Spoilers!!!)</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2009/06/infamous-spoilers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We used to go out to the movies then for a while we didn&#8217;t talk because you said I killed your sister when I delivered a fancy clock. The explosion gave me powers &#8211; now I can glow electric red but half the city hates me, dear, and the other half is dead. I tried [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We used to go out to the movies<br />
then for a while we didn&#8217;t talk<br />
because you said I killed your sister<br />
when I delivered a fancy clock.</p>
<p>The explosion gave me powers &#8211;<br />
now I can glow electric red<br />
but half the city hates me, dear,<br />
and the other half is dead.</p>
<p>I tried to save you from that rooftop &#8211;<br />
I heard you screaming as you fell.<br />
If only you had yelled for me sooner&#8230;<br />
And YOU&#8217;RE pissed off?  Man, what the hell?</p>
<p>The remnants of my heart were shattered<br />
As you condemned me with your dying breath,<br />
though what is one more victim slain<br />
by one who caused so much death?</p>
<p>I am confused by all of this &#8211;<br />
Having chosen to be evil, killed a lot &#8211;<br />
Forced to help ungrateful people<br />
just to advance the story&#8217;s plot.</p>
<p>I spent four hours killing reapers<br />
and beating Sasha in a fight<br />
only to later do her bidding for evil karma<br />
something about that just doesn&#8217;t seem quite right.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s something you must comprehend &#8211;<br />
I have CHOSEN TO BE EVIL, not merely misunderstood.<br />
The only way this game makes any sense<br />
Is if I played Cole McGrath as &#8220;Good.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Faith Like Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/12/faith-like-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can tell from that frown that the world has got you down &#8211; all this anxiety and stress has got you all depressed but my friend, it&#8217;s not too late &#8212; soon you will be feeling great if only you had faith like Bill and put your trust in God &#8217;cause it&#8217;s your own [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can tell from that frown that the world has got you down &#8211;<br />
all this anxiety and stress has got you all depressed<br />
but my friend, it&#8217;s not too late &#8212; soon you will be feeling great</p>
<p>if only you had faith like Bill and put your trust in God<br />
&#8217;cause it&#8217;s your own free will that makes this whole thing odd<br />
You know he&#8217;s the boss but that&#8217;s a line he will not cross<br />
though if you just ask him for a hand, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d understand<br />
if only you had faith like Bill and chose to follow God.</p>
<p>There are some things you can&#8217;t avoid like finding yourself unemployed<br />
and though the kids don&#8217;t get enough to eat, you shouldn&#8217;t sit there in defeat<br />
&#8217;cause my friend, it&#8217;s not too late &#8212; soon you will be feeling great</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve found you can no longer hide from famine, rape, and genocide<br />
It&#8217;s your fault you have it rough &#8217;cause you don&#8217;t worship hard enough<br />
but my friend, it&#8217;s not too late &#8212; soon you could be feeling great</p>
<p>Your heart must have sunk when you heard your child was run over by a drunk<br />
and God could have kept him from harm &#8212; that dead child in your arms<br />
but my friend, it is too late &#8212; life would have been just great</p>
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		<title>Another year for the immortals</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/11/another-year-for-the-immortals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another year for the immortals With celebrations to conduct And future members to annoint &#8211; To triumphantly instruct In our secret cult of cults That raise unwilling men From their decaying slumber &#8211; Snatched from the Lion&#8217;s den. The horrors from their faces still Echoing in darkness of a past century These actors in ancient [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another year for the immortals<br />
With celebrations to conduct<br />
And future members to annoint &#8211;<br />
To triumphantly instruct</p>
<p>In our secret cult of cults<br />
That raise unwilling men<br />
From their decaying slumber &#8211;<br />
Snatched from the Lion&#8217;s den.</p>
<p>The horrors from their faces still<br />
Echoing in darkness of a past century<br />
These actors in ancient entertainment<br />
Bring us all our revelry.</p>
<p>So pour the wine, my dear,<br />
And watch the disemboweled writhe in pain<br />
For dying is an immortal&#8217;s pleasure<br />
And the beauty of the insane.</p>
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		<title>Trembling, fearing, humans pray</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/11/trembling-fearing-humans-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trembling, fearing, humans pray Like cowards with moral decay. Oh the stress and pressure highly odd Of being a Destroyer god. From keeping track of prophecies To tact and strange diplomacies, A chosen few are cursed to trod The path of a Destroyer god. While every deity and boss Gets admiration and applause, No god [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trembling, fearing, humans pray<br />
Like cowards with moral decay.<br />
Oh the stress and pressure highly odd<br />
Of being a Destroyer god.</p>
<p>From keeping track of prophecies<br />
To tact and strange diplomacies,<br />
A chosen few are cursed to trod<br />
The path of a Destroyer god.</p>
<p>While every deity and boss<br />
Gets admiration and applause,<br />
No god nor mortal dare applaud<br />
The works of a Destroyer god.</p>
<p>Lonely, grumpy, tired of life &#8211;<br />
In hand, my sacrificial knife &#8211;<br />
The destruction, far and broad<br />
For I am a Destroyer god.</p>
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		<title>Not your mother&#8217;s soothing voice</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/11/not-your-mothers-soothing-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not your mother&#8217;s soothing voice, Not her gentle lullabye No comfort as you wish for death &#8211; That I would let you die. She never taught you right from wrong &#8211; That conceited selfish whore The respect you never learned and will not matter anymore. Not your wife&#8217;s angelic touch, Instead a blade against your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not your mother&#8217;s soothing voice,<br />
Not her gentle lullabye<br />
No comfort as you wish for death &#8211;<br />
That I would let you die.</p>
<p>She never taught you right from wrong &#8211;<br />
That conceited selfish whore<br />
The respect you never learned<br />
and will not matter anymore.</p>
<p>Not your wife&#8217;s angelic touch,<br />
Instead a blade against your skin.<br />
It never mattered how you conquered,<br />
Just that you would always win.</p>
<p>Not the courage of a man<br />
In knowing death is near &#8211;<br />
No song of comfort in this night<br />
Shall reach your waiting ear.</p>
<p>I never really questioned<br />
Responding to my dagger&#8217;s call.<br />
Death&#8217;s angel beckoned in my heart<br />
Demanding your torment and fall.</p>
<p>Sometime we may have been kindred<br />
Sometime we may have been the same<br />
Now you will lose more than you thought<br />
On what you thought was a game.</p>
<p>Not your father&#8217;s searching &#8211;<br />
You know he never cared<br />
Yet you hold on with dying hope<br />
To what little time you shared.</p>
<p>Did you know how this would end &#8211;<br />
Of everything you never learned<br />
How they would find your body here<br />
Disfigured, mutilated, burned.</p>
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		<title>To Whom It May Concern</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/11/to-whom-it-may-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[War, Famine, Genocide, Disease, Poverty Intolerance, Ignorance, Injustice, Suffering, Sorrow, Seclusion, My Sadness, My Afflictions, My Hatred &#8211; You can make all these things disappear but you do not.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>War, Famine, Genocide, Disease, Poverty<br />
Intolerance, Ignorance, Injustice,<br />
Suffering, Sorrow, Seclusion,<br />
My Sadness,<br />
My Afflictions,<br />
My Hatred &#8211;<br />
You can make all these things disappear<br />
but you do not.</p>
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		<title>Love, Rage, and Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.lagumbay.com/2008/11/love-rage-and-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verse -- Rage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Behold the three that rule and reign the delusions of the sane &#8211; The haunted memories that govern thought &#8212; that lead to ruin, strife, and pain View the bind with which it holds, view the terror it unfolds View the foolishness of seeking that which life itself withholds The curse of love destroys the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Behold the three that rule and reign the delusions of the sane &#8211;<br />
The haunted memories that govern thought &#8212; that lead to ruin, strife, and pain<br />
View the bind with which it holds, view the terror it unfolds<br />
View the foolishness of seeking that which life itself withholds</p>
<p>The curse of love destroys the soul &#8212; a demon that demands control<br />
convincing all these broken pieces into seeking an imperfect whole.<br />
A conflict with no resolution, love is, above all, a grand delusion<br />
And if love is the Creator God, I fail to see its grandest vision.</p>
<p>The curse of rage is man&#8217;s design, forged in the fires of the divine<br />
A freedom celebrated as we dangle from the vintner&#8217;s vine<br />
Though we are never truly free, rage defines humanity<br />
and thus described, it devours the fate of our society</p>
<p>Of all these curses I hold dear, I hold closest the curse of fear<br />
The quiet guiding comfort that found me at an early year<br />
In the darkness where I hide, fear is always by my side<br />
Its ruling crown dictating choices that I reluctantly decide.</p>
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