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Smile
Even though your in pain
                 Laugh
Even though your upset
              Be brave
Even though your scared
               Be still
Even though the world is moving
                 Cry
Even though your happy
            Be strong
Even though your weak
           Stand tall
Even though your small
         Love yourself
Even though others don’t
            Be proud
Even though some people are not
         Try your hardest
Even though it is hard

Always looking at things in a different way
Emotions run wild
Acting like a child
We’re all here for a reason
Whether you know now or not
You’ll find out in due time....
I’m a little weird I know but that’s ok
Feeling broken
Purposely caused by the beauty of pain
No longer dancing through the hourglass of time
Picking up the broken pieces
One shard at a time
Right now
Somewhere in the world
Is on vacation
Is laughing
Is making memories
Is working hard
Is making money
Is relaxing
Is having ***
Is drinking
Is doing drugs
Is sick
Is sleeping
Is having a baby
Is dying
Is being *****
Is being tortured
Is getting hurt
Is being murdered
Is committing suicide
Is fighting for their life
Is burying a loved one
Is missing a loved one
Is depressed
Is scared
Is homeless
Is broke
Is upset
Is feeling worthless
Is giving up
Is alone....

Ever just stop and think of these things?
Ever just stop and think of this?
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
And what about the lairs
Who whisper in our ears
Shadows in the corridors
Envy in their stare's
Evil eyes awatching
Wishing wicked things
I can feel them
Crawling across
The dirt of all our
Graves




An exercise in creativity....
Traveler Tim
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
Shall we dine
On wine and flesh?
There seems to be
Plenty left!
So pass around
The possum pie
Wine made out
Of dandelions

Lazy days
Of summer sun
Sleeping in
Like we're still young
Falling free
Blue ocean skies
Let our hearts
Never die...
......
Traveler Tim
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
She needs me
like a service dog
When ever
Her heart turns black
Everytime I run away
My hungry heart comes back
......
Traveler Tim
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
Oh sea of madness
Oh ocean of fools
This water between us
Is but a drowning-pool

Tomorrows is out of focus
In the dimness of foresight
Sticks and stones in pockets
This involuntary fight

No shelter from the tempest
The storms that never end
Just a longing to return
To embrace your love again....
Traveler Tim
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
Deep in my psyche
There's a poetry thirst
Dry are my thoughts
In wind storms of words

My heart is a desert
Of blistering heat
My mind is crawling
Towards a salty sea

And there at the edge
Of an ink-less abyss
I so hunger
And thirst
Just to write
And to live
>>>>>>>>
Traveler Tim
 May 2018 Jeff Gaines
Traveler
Monsters
Bigger than life
Eternally reasoning
The profits of strife
Wars in the badlands
Guns on the streets
So many monsters
Roaming the world free

Cowards
Living in fear
Fighting the monsters
Year after year
On guard all the time
An eye stuck open at night
No sooner we walk
Then run for our life's

A cloud of unrest
Sets on our minds
Because monsters
And cowards
Are one of a kind
.................

Human!
Traveler Tim
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