Life

In the deepest darkest reaches of my soul I find myself
I understand the truths that reach out and destroy
When I feel I feel the depth of all that binds me
I know all the pain and all the hate
I take it for myself I make it my own
I try to kill it try to throw back to the hell where it came
But hell spits upon me the blackness
There is no end it seems
The darkness sets in and holds
The light that once was is not
The only retaliation is emptiness
Emptiness from all
From the earth from the death
From the earth from the life
Gone are the feelings of a life passed
Gone the darkness that was
Gone the life that should be
Gone
.............
Life comes to those who ask
Life comes when death has failed
Life has the power to find
Comes the light that lost
Comes the life from the past
Comes the feelings of before
Love comes to those who ask
Love is there in the end
It finds those who need it most
I have found some love to hold
I have discovered the past that had run
I love one who found
Comes the light that she brings


I don't know what this was it just came out when I felt like blogging. I apologize for the... inadequate way I speak but its mine so take it as it is.

Ruled by Secrecy

repress and restrain 
still the pressure and the pain 
wash the blood off your hands 
this time she won't understand 

change in the air 
and they'll hide everywhere 
and no one knows who's in control 

you're working so hard 
and you're never in charge 
your death creates success 
and you'll build and suppress 

change in the air 
and they'll hide everywhere 
and no one knows who's in control 

change in the air 
and they'll hide everywhere 
and no one knows who's in control 

Sing for Absolution

Lips are turning blue 
A kiss that can't renew 
I only dream of you 
My beautiful 

Tip toe to your room 
A starlight in the gloom 
I only dream of you 
And you never knew 

Sing for absolution 
I will be singing 
And falling from your grace 
ooh 

There's nowhere left to hide 
In no one to confide 
The truth burns deep inside 
And will never die 

Lips are turning blue 
A kiss that can't renew 
I only dream of you 
My beautiful 

Sing for absolution 
I will be singing 
Falling from your grace 

Sing for absolution 
I will be singing 
Falling from your grace 

yeah 

Broken Windows

In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict: a broken window.

A broken window.

One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don't care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short space of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner's desire to fix it. and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.

The "Broken Window Theory" has inspired police departments in New York and other major cities to crack down on the small stuff in order to keep out the big stuff. It works: keeping on top of broken windows, graffiti, and other small infractions has reduced the serious crime level.

Don't leave "broken windows" unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered.

Sources:

Pragmatic Programmer, p4-5

The Police and Neighborhood Saftey, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1982, James Q. Wilson and George Kelling

I really liked this. I thought about it and decided to adopt the idea and to fix all my "broken windows" as soon as I could. I suggest we all follow this set of thinking and never let anything go unfixed for too long, otherwise we might end up with an "old abandoned building" when all we needed to fix was a "broken window".