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We dip them in thought
In reverie
See them as marks on a page
In dark, in our sleep
Carved in stone
Hung on the walls
Out in the streets
Close and afar
They comfort
They wound
They evoke
They’ve brought many to ruin
From one careless stroke
They’re works of art
In all languages
In different classes
Some are spares
Some profound
Some pithy
Some glib
Some ancient
Others more modern
Everywhere we live
words
It telepathically
connects.
It levitates.
Each one has
their own encounter
rising from the ashes.  
This isn’t meant to be
laid to rest,
somewhere
in the earth,
with a stone.
Keep it
as a diary
in your bedroom drawer.
Water it
as a blooming flower.
Air it out
once a day.
Take it
for a walk.
Sit with it.
Prune it,
if it’s overgrown.
Tend to it;
it will attend to you.
Pass it on;
it will live forever
in hearts
who endeavor
its genius.
You and I
are enclosed
in a glass bubble.
It’s bullet-proof.

Nothing can enter it.
It’s impenetrable to harm.
Even when harm attempts
to enter it’s as the wind outside.

We hear it.
We see it blow everything around.
We see it knock down anything
that’s not fixed.

Yet it can never enter -  
This
The only thing that can break it is
our fist
It’s only a thought
An idea
It’s only a dream
A fantasy
It’s only a notion
Written on paper
It’s only a plan I devised
And it’s improvised
It’s only the beginning
A start
Nothing has happened
It’s only the first attempt
That failed
It’s only the second one, third and so on
Surprised?
It’s only a thought
Revised
we all like to wait sometimes,
and sometimes
waiting is necessary.
but at this point
you cannot keep waiting
for the good to come.
you cannot sit and waste the week
because you’re waiting for the weekend.
you cannot sit and waste months
because you’re waiting for the summer.
life is happening right now,
right in front of you.
you need to take today
to go and make yourself happy.
you cannot just wait for tomorrow
and hope it brings something more.


                  t.s.
Dear good friend,
Perhaps acquaintance.
To the masses we pass on a daily basis,
The worn out souls and weary faces
Painted in towers of glass.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Distinguished guests.
To those indisposed
By inexorable quests.
To the ones that were left
To search for what was right
Till there was nothing left
But memories of light

Blindfolds applied at night.

To the torn shoes,
Blistered feet.
The poverty we choose to greet.
It is pain, vain,
Somewhat plain to mention
That conversation's become outdated.
Sedated, restrained and correlated
To the denizens of a distant past.

We pass the world in silence.
Ignoring blatant acts of violence

Then claim that it is art.
Our body was well worn,
Born, bled then ill informed.
Skin shed
Torn
Dust to adorn a once pristene floor.
Bred to provide countless lives, more.
Martyr to a form it shall never see.
The water flows but cannot know
The extent of its captivity.
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