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Michael Stefan Apr 2020
Like flour in baked goods,
You must always measure your words,
With appropriate weight,
For the situation addressed,
If you want your speech to convey,
The correct and proper message
Michael Stefan Apr 2020
They counted each and every wire,
Strewn about your room with ill intent,
Copper mountains unwound like veins,
Multicolored like rainbow spiderwebs

Seven separate screens flickered-
Status reports to keep you up to date,
Well-informed on the internal temperatures,
Digital pressure gauges - warnings in red

You build this broken complexity,
The heavy smells of oil and iron,
As gears rotated on steel shafts,
Maintaining your machine's inner workings

They'll never know the purpose you built,
Circuit boards sparking, illuminating

They'll never understand your utter complexity,
Nor fathom the logical depth

And you'll never understand,
This jury-rigged monstrosity of logic,
Can never replace or repair,
The structural damage to your heart
Michael Stefan Apr 2020
I pray for the front lines
I pray for a rain
My prayer's for this tough time
Let's wash terror away

I pray for the workers
I pray for the sick
Let's move research further
Let's find answers quick

I pray for the house-bound
And for families more
Now say a prayer for me
As I leave my front door
Be safe everyone who has to leave their house and provide for themselves and their families.  Please be smart and stay home if you can.
Michael Stefan Apr 2020
Sometimes
I wish that I could sink
Back into the red earth that bore me;
Into the hard clay
That springs life into plants;
And I think to myself
That maybe this earth
Could finally force life
Back into this collapsing husk;
If only I could sink
back into the dirt.
Michael Stefan Apr 2020
Use care or scissors
When pulling on your threads
Lest you unwind
From beginning to end
The sweater of your heart
Michael Stefan Apr 2020
my heart is made of worms
each of them takes turns
pulling to and fro
and making my thoughts squirm

butterflies in my chest cavity
defying my inner gravity
from my fingers to my toes
lifting feelings that are filling me

spiders cover all my skin
waves of gooseflesh all begin
fangs like thorns upon a rose
pierce my confidence like pins

...

when I see you
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