wayne-h-colegateWhisper

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A Self WarningA Self Warning / Anxiety pulls at my soul on a daily track / I try with all I have to stand and fight back.
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Jun 9, 2025
Summer's DemiseSummer slowly sneaks away and leaves behind dreams / Could it not live on forever and stop my winter screams / The cold burns into my bones and makes life whine
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Oct 1, 2024
The Little ManThe little man stood upon a hill, for it was all he could climb, / He lived upon the low land and his world was built on rhyme / All his words found a way to touch each other and cry
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Jul 3, 2024
ValueOften times at my dreadful old age I wonder at my value / My worth is something that may at this stage still be due / What might I do to fix this world or even this tiny home
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Jul 3, 2024
The PlanTime tends to twist and bend the gentlest of thoughts / it seems we want more of it even during the painful times. / Time and light are the currency of life, if we have both
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Jul 1, 2024
WantsEach time it gets harder to dig up words with real meaning / I feel like an actor walking in to his first screening. / Its not important to anyone but me what I stumble to write
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Jun 11, 2024
PleasePlease keep the noise down I’m trying to grow old / It’s hard and it’s painful and wickedly cold. / I need more flowers, more brilliant green trees
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May 9, 2024
ConfusionAs years and days pass by and leave small shadows / I spend more and more time buried in angry fear / At an advanced age I struggle running through meadows
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May 7, 2024
LifeOld eyes stare at faded walls, / A glance at a landline maybe for calls / Yesterday crosses the line of sight
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May 7, 2024
Together in AgeTogether in Age / Deeper then the cracks on the summer sidewalk yet / strong as the wind that the heat will share and set.
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Jul 28, 2023
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