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You may not ever get this moment again —
Like written in a previous poem, I have notes, thoughts, and poem ideas everywhere... I jot words and lines down that capture me in the moment and may then transform them into something different depending on my frame of mind and/or heart at that time. This poem was inspired by one of those promptings.
I end up
Where I'm
Going
As later turns
Into right now.

And,
I bought
The ticket.

So,
I take the ride.

Yesterday there
Was supposed
To be
No tomorrow.

Yet,
Here I am,
A child of God,
Given more time
Than I deserve.

Or.

Even
Want.
How many
More creative
Ways can I say
I wanna die.

I hear they're
Gonna
Go to
Mars.

While I moulder
In my filth,
Ferment in
My forgetfulness.

And God
Says,
Put in more
Work
Slave.

And,
I do.

But I've gone
Past redemption
Got stuck
In retribution.

And all of this
Torment
Would end.

If I could only
Just disappear
Into
The epilogue
Of an
Obituary.
And if you look
Hard enough
Into tomorrow
You will see the
Future,
I will create.

Not out of hope.

Not out of love.

But out of persistence
In failure
And the strength
Of disobedience.

I am not a ray of light.

I am
A
Cataclysm.
Love disguised as friendship

                         is

neither friendship nor love.
Your face is not a secret

to hide behind a veil.

It is your identity—

show it to the world

with pride.
 Sep 15 The Unsaid
Shang
how absolutely
unassuming one will be
blind-sided by love
© Shang
 Sep 15 The Unsaid
Shang
inside everyone you
know,
there is someone you don't
know.
© Shang
10 word poem
 Sep 15 The Unsaid
Shang
clear
 Sep 15 The Unsaid
Shang
sometimes you will
be absolute in your resolve

and sometimes you will
be the issue needing solved

a question unanswered
is the vessel to affliction
it's synonymous with
all of your uncertainty  

sometimes you must
accept that you may never
find the answers

and I know that's hard to swallow.
© Shang
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