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Cat-a-tonic
London
Doubts can consume your soul, destroy your dreams and every inch of your hope.
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Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020 at 4:54 AM UTC
Consume Your Soul
9 moves in 8 years. In one place I laid down roots But they were torn up by another c*nt landlord But then, I was never destined for a boring life I always felt that. Adventures and misadventures Tornadoes and rollercoasters Love affairs and melodramas Foreign lands and languages Toes in forbidden territories Showing off forbidden fruits. Cutting ties and spinning high Dancing through and charging in Pausing for a stifling breath Convincing myself of safe untruths Drowning in the comfort of Another's arms or four brick walls Till, wings repaired with itching feet She sweeps me off to lands unknown Ruffling feathers with a warm wind. I feel it may be time again.
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Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020 at 7:33 AM UTC
Shifting Universes
How did we forget to know The souls of all but human beings? When did we stop listening To language different To the one we speak with ease? Those elders knew, they were involved With nature, not apart They worked together Until the witch hunts, And before capitalism ate art... And medicine, and childbirth, Marriage, communities; Profit would too much be capped If common people lived their lives With love and empathy Because some they feared the awe they felt; the danger sensed in crushing Waters, crumbling rock, and the power Of biting jaws and ripping claws Over small **** energy imposing So they taught us to ignore the souls Of rocks and stones and moss and trees... We're taught to value human life Above all that nurtures us - Even clearly animated beings And still amongst these human lives Are some more valuable than others, Categorised by colour or class, Gender, size, way of life, Or simply their choice if lovers They re-wrote the myths of first beginnings To omit other beings, except where they placed Them only as antagonists To bring ruin and shame upon our bodies And eternal servitude we've faced Modern Christianity pervades here And other poison ideologies - Not Jesus' way but the opposite... Organised religion serves only to prop Up our capitalist economies
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Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020 at 7:02 AM UTC
Small **** Energy
Now there were two of them Separated between thousands of read texts and timely chats touched by sound but not skin   Awake in the others sleeping Sleeping in the others awake   Restless as they wait Restless as they wait
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Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020 at 9:54 AM UTC
A Friendship
You can't contain me Or tame me. I'll let you play And you'll be charmed.... It's too easy. I might even get attached. Oxytocin, dopamine Flushing through our bloodstreams, But eventually I'll break free 'Cause I want to be All of me, Not a watered-down Accessory For you to feed off My energy. No, Yours I will never be. I am an ocean, Not a calm see With boundless possibilities And strength below That you can't see... Changing, Always changing. Fluid; Moved by the moon, Stirred by the weather, Out of your control And free of your tether.
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Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 at 11:49 AM UTC
Fluid
A chameleon I've become Self taught To blend And quietly fade Or to POP Stand out Impress I know the tricks But not myself I know the types And what they like - But what I like My memory fades Not fades But blocks It's there Deep down And now I search And some I've found Are things of which I have had fear For years and years... Buried like gold For my thirty-year-old Self to discover What joy In finding joy In such small things. Joy and Openness of being What use have I For one true love When I feel loved By the moon above? Love is all around and in Love is joy and peace and sin Love is want Of no-thing Love is connection With everything; Not just One other Now and forever Never to be shared With any others... Love cannot be possessed And possession cannot be Love. Love is life Love is knowing That that life Fuels every Rock Bird Tree Cell To realise That we are not special; Not you Not me And not your lover All of us Just like any other Humbling Heartbreaking Love.
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Jul 26, 2020
Jul 26, 2020 at 5:02 AM UTC
Possession
Takes years to build a friend, my friend. Takes seconds to destroy, The bellicose, the blunt, the wrong, The insults and the coy? Takes seconds for it all to blow Like gossamer in wind.... With that in mind, what chance ya give Destruction to rescind? Chuck in the pearl of humankind The hate, the greed, the sin The you'll begin to realize The depth of **** we're in. To win this fight, to win this war To exorcise a change Will mean we let the women rule The world, to rearrange Priorities of human nature, Mans tendency to fight, And the way we just discard the peace As if we had the right? Ponder this my brother, Cast aside your wrath For human kinds survival Is dependent on this broth. M.
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Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 6:59 AM UTC
The Broth to Exorcise the Wrath
It's here underneath behind the signs of Private - Keep Out The Spirit is here Older than woman stronger than man wiser than rulers unphased unaltered life
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Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020 at 10:35 AM UTC
It's here
I want to be outside in that sky Summertime, so free, so high Four walls are my captivity This roof overhead contains me I have so much to release, to give, To share, to sing, to dance, to live! So let me outside in that sky Summertime, so free, so high
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Jul 14, 2020
Jul 14, 2020 at 6:22 PM UTC
Summertime