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 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Call Me Sara
Let me tell you a little something about love.
It does not complete me.
You do not complete me.
We are different galaxies, different dimentions that do not fit like a puzzle piece.
There is a me and there is a you.
But there is an us in the stars we both make, in the futures we create.
There is a togetherness in our time and in our space, you are my continuum.
We are not two halves of one whole.
Simply because that is not how I love.
We are not the black hole that everyone shapes their love around. ******* love into darkness until there is no light to be found.
I refuse to love you like I am scared, killing peices inside me until half is not there.
I refuse to make you my other half because I don't want to lose my whole.
That is not how I love.
That is not how I love.
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Beleif
My pen is drawn,
I play my card.
In opposition, bullets charge
At the humble hull that graces space.

I row through open,
Sound is broken,
Yet I feel the great explosions
As I begin my work of art.

His beard can change the name of Virgo,
As it entangles her with rugged work.
His fingers grasp the fins of Cetus,
Guiding him through hallowed dirt.

Upon my course of groundless ground,
A chorus spits its sinful praise
Upon the Heavens, hands are raised;
Filthy angels make the games.
Holy traitors, boundless bounds,
And sacrilege will fall as rain.

The ones who think they are marionettes,
Will taste the blood on their swords.
Controlled by delusion,
They swing from confusion,
There are no strings in an aimless space.

The pen masters dance in allusions!
Imprison the stories of old,
And execute them with ink!
A war to break out in a comedy show,
Over one wordless tome—
On an altar in my vision zone!

My pen unarmed,
My senses harmed.
A soundless token of echoing voices,
To be spoken in softness, over thundering roughness.
This altar carved with wood and stone,
This tome of words with sheets of ink,
These words wear masks— I cannot read.
Tear a page,
It falls like rain.
Observe the rage,
Let freedom faint.
Soak the page,
Its masks detatch.
Lift the rage,
I row away.
Part III and finale of "Pennons of Madness."
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A House upon the Height—
That Wagon never reached—
No Dead, were ever carried down—
No Peddler’s Cart—approached—

Whose Chimney never smoked—
Whose Windows—Night and Morn—
Caught Sunrise first—and Sunset—last—
Then—held an Empty Pane—

Whose fate—Conjecture knew—
No other neighbor—did—
And what it was—we never lisped—
Because He—never told—
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Mike Hauser
the best place to live

is in a glass house

where people see in

and you can see out

you never throw stones

with words that you say

clean as can be

never opaque

where fingers prints

are easily wiped

easily seen

easy to find

if you've ever been

in a glass house

you can easily see

what i'm talking about
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Mike Hauser
Isn't it hard
To put on a front
Pretending to be
Something your not

Aren't you afraid
They'll find out in time
After all of these years
That you have been lying

Wouldn't it be easier
To just be yourself
Then you would have less
To worry about
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Mike Hauser
I set out one fine day
Along life's endless highway
Where I plainly thought that
I could travel on it my way

Until the day I ran into
A beggar who I thought I knew
Who carried with him a special gift
One he was willing to let loose

He gave to me the gift to try
No need to ask or question why
Take it with you, you're bound to find
How it changes others lives

The only condition he said to me
Is that I give it out freely
To those with no hope along the road
To all the lost and needy

There and then I soon found out
As I went from town to town
The special gift he'd given me
Was the one of self

I gave to those who did not earn
A lesson I was soon to learn
It's best to give and to mean it
When there's nothing in return

This gift I found helped those around
And most of all I did find out
I can not lie to my surprise
It mainly helped myself
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
Mike Hauser
i took some time to think
and what it is i thunk
double time inside my mind
is i don't think enough

whether on this side of smooth
or the other side of rough
is mostly what i thought it was
when it was i thunk

when i'm on the brink of think
my mind in overdrive
thinking what i thunk i thought
is what i thought this time

mercy sakes alive
goodness gracious please
now that i've thunk all of this out
why do i even think
 Jan 2016 Anna Eaton
jamy
My father had told me
That a man of God shows no weakness
That he bears the shame of his father's
But repents nightly
A man of God
Walks with his head high
And his grandeur low
Because the lord almighty
Takes from those who get cocky
So I grew to walk in his shadow
Willing him to snare me for my sins
And strike me down for my sorrows

But as the congregation hung to my words
Of everlasting love and imminent doom
I only became certain of one of the two
And as the bible unfolded into a loss of proof
My faith diminished and my anger furnished
A thirst for blood, whiskey, and the youth
I had given up
By always trying to do right
By an uncreated being
Who allegedly lived in the sky

Being a man of God had lost it’s power
In my heart
But had kept its weight in their eyes
Questions were never asked
And as a flurry of nameless women
Passed through my room
I wondered if my place
With God was holding my wife back

I wondered if her praying was an act
I wondered if she registered the smell of jack
I wondered if she minded the blue and black
I knew I had

I knew I had

I knew I had

I knew I had cowered at my father’s
Ironclad fist and brimstone eyes
As he sung the melodic justice
Of Romans 2:5
To the beat of my disfigured body
Growing into a discolored
Story of accidental black eyes
But a man of God does not dare cry
And because of my stubbornness and my unrepentant heart
I was storing up wrath against myself for the day of God's wrath
when his righteous judgment would be revealed
And now I dare him to try
As I grab the bottle and flee to the devil's side

I am a man of God
When the pews are full
And the word is by my side
I wonder if I repent enough
With the gun between my eyes
Will I still make it there
Will I even still try
I am a man of God
I will do what’s right
Say I’m sorry to my wife
And tell my mother goodbye
I am a man of God
Whiskey, lighter, Bible
By my side
Just give me chance
To dismiss my congregation
One
Last
Time
It was many and many a year ago,
  In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
  By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
  Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
  In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
  I and my ANNABEL LEE;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
  Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
  In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
  My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
  And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
  In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
  Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
  In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
  Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
  Of those who were older than we—
  Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in heaven above,
  Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
  Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
  Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
  Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
  In her sepulchre there by the sea—
  In her tomb by the side of the sea.
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