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Jake Aug 2018
Breathe deeply for
tomorrow may only
bring terror

Exhale slowly for
you never know when
you need another breath

Collect your thoughts
before they leave
your memory

And live them
again and again
until the fear ceases
Jake Jun 2018
Sat on stools
Sit the sappy
Sipping coffee and
Starting conversations

Loud voices
Lap the place
Listing places
Lovers live

Typing keys
Tap the air
Trapping words and
Tracing emotion

Above all
Although abrupt
Aims the arrows of many
Across a sky of avery
Written in a cafe
Jake Jun 2018
Like the last ember
of a dying cigarette
Away floats the worries
that clog today

Clouds as dark
as night itself
Wander effortlessly
in search of crowded skies

What was once
Taking life
Is now graceful
and returning peace

The melodic chirps
of creatures near and far
Embrace the space
around the table

I watch
gaze fixed
On that last ember
floating into the moonlit air
Jake Jun 2018
As the clock ticks
The melancholic realization
Digs deeper
Into my flesh

Yet
You still laugh
Your voice
Soothing like water

And here I sit
An emptiness within
Without knowing
Why or how

But I see
The answer
In your touch
And your love

For you are
Always the answer
And you will always
Remedy my fears
Jake May 2018
Tomorrow brings
thoughts of the past
hopes for the future
but presently zilch

I try to be big
but sometimes I fall
and mostly it's hard
to stand up again

And my feet dig
into the ground
as my hands
crawl to the sky

And I make it out
but barely
for tomorrow
will soon be the present
Jake May 2018
It's over me
towering tall
with possibilities
aplenty

Its architecture
sturdy
its foundation
vast

Sometime I can't
see the sky
other times
the sky sees me

But what do I do
if it collapses?
Raining emotions
all around me
Written in Rome
Jake May 2018
Above the barn the moon hovers
Laying its gently shimmer upon the land
He rose from the comfort of the bed
And pulled on his boots with a grumble

His heavy steps trod on a path
Walked hundreds of mornings prior
Down to where the lives lie
To give life and love away

The sweetness of hay covered
So slightly in morning dew
Arises into the nose of the beholder
And emits a drop of simplicity

The rising sun snuffs the moon's glow
Giving rise to a new day
Allowing the blind to see
That the man had love unlimited

Across the trail, among the fields
Sat the many soy beans tall
Expressing the drive of the farmer
Reaching towards the sky so blue
About my Grandpa.

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