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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
i cried last night
and this night
i wrapped myself in misery
and sat alone
in the dark
feeling my despair
and alone-ness

take note,
not my usual
the universe is vast
i am in the void
loneliness
i can handle that
i am used to that

just a
i don't want to be alone tonight
alone-ness
a
what the hell is going on?
alone-ness

but
realist that i am
i knew no one was
coming for me
and
i would call
for no one else

the key to a semi-happy life
is simply
sufficient distraction
just the right
balance
of passion
and love
and energy
that's it.

so i distracted myself
shook off
my gravity pulling sadness
by turning on m u s i c
turning lights down
moving hips to sound
putting wine to mouth
(peanut m&m;'s don't hurt)
and neither does
other writer's
poetry

see?
i'm ok
distracted
by my distractions
in circles of vibrating
cycles of wants and
distractions

don't tell
but i'm keeping a
few secrets from you
i'm hiding some of
my words
i'm frustrated
by the way
my words fly out
or don't

hush.

it's exhausting
keeping myself
on the road
to happiness

ha.
 Jun 2013 JAK AL TARBS
K
Blue Box
 Jun 2013 JAK AL TARBS
K
Police box

Pull to open

Deepest shade of blue

Stole a mad man

Ran away

Off to see the universe

Each swirl and spark of time

The galaxies of space

Infinite possibilities

So easy to be lost

And never found

Flying through oblivion

Hope you don't fall

Into the black

Where light cannot touch

With its soft, yearning fingers

And dark awaits

With greedy hands

So fly

Don't ever stop

TARDIS and her mad man

Keep running

Don't stop

Souls and sights come and go

Losses and finds

Beginnings and ends

But ever constant

Are the TARDIS and her mad man

Always running

Never stopping

Lest they fall

Into the black

And end

So they run

The mad man

And

His

Police box

Pull to open
Roll of thunder, hear my cry. I will love you till I Die
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