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Alan S Bailey Aug 2015
Daddy has his "toys" still, he keeps them in good condition,
His sentimental joys or whatever he may want to "need,"
His toy car, his toy planes, his toy guns and ammunition,
And can you sense them? Millions of them, spinning at full speed,
At thousands of miles an hour, drilling to make the oil  bleed,
Just to make these toys be everything we'll ever know or see.

These "handy helpers" help themselves to all of their toys,
Vaguely I feel quite amused, they've given us everything?
So to speak they've "protected us," blown up and destroyed,
These things have clothed our bodies-whether or not-it's "free,"
And every day these are our "heroes," our micro-manage "masters,"
The ones who made this world the way it is so they can all succeed.

So I ask you this, did it ever occur to anyone here this is just a game?
That I never asked for any of this, never signed up to keep on playing,
But still we're all a ****** lot to ask for less, we're all insane,
Sorry! I just can't help it, I'm not just the one for living in this craze,
I'd rather have the other world, this one of golden sun and sand,
Of warmth and freedom to explore, rather then work for my old man.
Alan S Bailey Aug 2015
You put me in your hair,
twirl me with your fingers
the wind blows me here to there
so you put me on your sneakers.
I'm purple and pink, perfect punk'
upon your forest, atop tree trunk
I always am with you when you leave
and run around the school house trees.
We'll forever remember the rushing air
but we must have lost balance and crashed
the warmth and sun that glinted isn't there
*but still get up again, it's time for class!
Alan S Bailey Jul 2015
If I had a dime for every time I've been judged,
I'd be richer than a king.
If I had a penny for every time I lost my dreams,
I'd buy a diamond ring.
NO ONE IS REAL. No one...
Alan S Bailey Jul 2015
It's a vicious circle of love and hate,
Me and you,  you and me,
Cutting the thorns off around stem,
The rose looks beautiful,
Set next to me, all the color,
Nothing detracts from it,
But it's so hard to get them all,
The sheers are quite wonderful,
An extension, just like your hand,
Careful watch, gliding effortlessly,
Following cues is easy, fact of life,
Before we be ourselves let's take one
Moment to try to think of something
Besides how happy we would be,  right.

It's a thin line between masculine control
And making a women your prized treasure,
Like that rose if he takes more snips,
He can cut it down to "perfect measure,"
Have it to go with his set of trophies,
Whatever is the current prickly danger?
Fix it up, face the facts, your reputation flawed!
Until this rose is no longer so prickly sharp,
Makes it easy for me to have your cake and eat it,
In between your being *yourself and odd.
Alan S Bailey Jul 2015
In this desolate place of lovers lost
I can be the one who "isn't in need,"
When there is a "way to uncover"
The ones always on the silver screen.

I can be...
A person who you can trust.
I can be...
A beautiful "devil of lies,"
I can be...
A loner who only fantasized
I can be...
A musician who makes music fly
I can be...
A playful lover with so much life.

But here they found them,
These marriages of "perfect love,"
We live in your hopeful world
We eat your "good cooking"
We sit in your expensive shade
We hear your "creative" music
We  repent for our "faults so grave"

I can be whatever I will,
But I will never be the one
Who ever had a dream that
Can ever be fulfilled...
Alan S Bailey Jul 2015
A penny for your thoughts?
Variety of shades, just beneath
The red-rose of seats where I
Found you by the other day,
It's just this lie filled special
Cover that keeps all the "pests"
At bay, it's also the family
That you gunned down in a
Movie theater because they "had a
Need to be slayed,"
you thought
It made sense at the time that you were
Just "a little" nuts, *but some of us
Still don't give a fat flying %@#$!!!
Alan S Bailey Jul 2015
A place forever forgotten, the fresh rain on the grass of green,
Behind a backdrop of hills with the various dark dots of trees,
Before when rivers turned into waterfalls cascading down cliffs,
Rocky terrain and sandy beaches, lagoons, a backdrop of prairies,
The surge like a smooth endless steady roar, like a pulse, a rush,
Flowing through the earth's veins, becoming streams near where
We all used to camp out,  this life force, a flow that sustained us.
The middle of all greys and shades of blue in the skies, soft breeze,
A white golden sun streaming down gentle rays of natural life,
The laughter, the peace gone, but that's the price of our dream.
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