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 Jan 2015 Bra-Tee
epictails
I am madness contained in a vessel
A chaos sequenced as a man
My mind is a nebula of beliefs
A soup of confusion, understanding
And a dash of awareness

I spit my fires of idea like a volcano
Or I will implode and die in my bubble
I worship and **** my mind
That concocts my insanity and undoing
It is brimming with conspiracies or optimisms or
Lies
And sometimes all at once
Dancing like wildfires in my skull

But then my hand sought a pen
Gripped it
And never wanted to let go
My insanity was now written
Visualized in a beautiful black ink
That was to be the link
From my walled spectrum
To the limitless world

The shackles of having this mind
Freed eternal words
from a prison of imagination
A passion now burns
In a mere dreamer that is
Who I am
A longing now lingers
To be known
To be spoken
A purpose is now uncovered:

I must write
To leave a mark
I must write
To tell stories
I must write
so I can tie with
The brokenness, the joy, the imperfection and
even the contradicting beliefs
Of strangers, of friends
Of murderers, of victims
Of idols, of the outcasts
Of the loved, of the abandoned
And of people,  just normal, coexisting people
So finally, finally,
We might understand
One another
This is an extremely personal poem that wells from deep within me and I hope that just like me, you can find that "I must ___ " and continue believing because of that.
I hate breaking hearts
I do it unintentionally
I hate when people like me
Do you have to?
Do you like getting hurt?
If you have to be hurt
Like me
I break everyone's heart
 Jan 2015 Bra-Tee
epictails
Mother,
Tell me why people
Hurt each other
Why father tears you apart
Yet you smile in pain

Mother,
Remember the time
When a homeless man
Was a filth
In a woman's eyes?
A curse even in his helplessness?

Mother,
Why do the kids in school
Despise a color?
Is black all that bad?
I happen to like that boy,
why can't they?

Mother,
Why did cousin die
Just because
She wore the wrong clothes
Acted funny
When she was having fun by herself?

Mother,
Why do people hurt each other?
Make me understand
Please,please
My chest feels weird
When I see tears and black and blue
And scars, too
I hate seeing people sad
Don't you hate it too?
Tried to think of this poem as something that my inquisitive seven year old sister will say. And I think when I was young I asked something similar to someone ( cant remember who)
 Jan 2015 Bra-Tee
jeffrey conyers
Hey you
This gift of love coming to you.
Is unselfish but more giving than you imagine.

Like the stars(the stars)
That lighten up the skies.
This's the feeling I feel for you inside.

It's like heaven above.
A place many wishes to explore.
This gift of love I'm giving you.
Is the type every lover wishes for.
But in this cases, it's yours.

Hey you.
Yes you.
This gift of love.
That I'm guiding your way.
Can't be purchase for any amount of earth.
It will never ever be for sell.
No how?
No way.
It's yours forever and a day.
Yes, this gift of love.

We, oh we.
We meant to be.
Others has stated it.
And long before that, we believed it.

Hey you.
Stay mine forever.
Even if you leave.
In my mind, you'll be mine forever and ever.

Cause this gift of love.
Is on reserve only for you.
Yes, to you it has been assigned.
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