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Lies in disguise
sound like caring words
Truth in your eyes
seem to cut me like swords
Guess it’s time to suit up
Breastplate and shield
Protect myself
until all wounds are healed

They say fighting is wrong
To forgive is to be strong
While I’m working on that
Just act like I belong

Keep saying you’re proud
Keep lying out loud
Your words don’t mean a thing
You haven’t helped or seen
The life that I’ve been through
It’s never for me
It’s all about you
But in the end you’ll see
Just keep saying you’re proud of me.

Adoration you expect
yet, you can’t provide the means
You chose to neglect
every cry and every scream
Not interested in love
Not interested in me
Interested in appearance
So saying “I believe”.

They say fighting is wrong
To forgive is to be strong
While I’m working on that
Just act like I belong

It’s time I started my quest
I’m out to conquer the world
For me, I must do what’s best
The map must be unfurled
I will pin my destination
the farthest I will go
to form a new foundation
So that I can truly grow.

But, keep saying you’re proud
Keep lying out loud
Your words don’t mean a thing
You haven’t helped or seen
The life that I've been through
It’s never for me
It’s all about you
But in the end you’ll see
Just keep saying you’re proud of me.
This is for all the girls
Who think they aren’t skinny enough
This is for all the girls
Who think they aren’t pretty enough
This is for all the guys
Who think they have to act a little more “tough”,
As if mere kindness isn’t enough.
This, my friends, is for you.

Our society today
Has painted its own little picture
Of how we should look
So that guy’ll wanna “get wit cha”
Of how to live and how to dream
Of what to do and who to be

Today it seems the only way to be “cool”
Is to smoke a little and drink a few
To stay out until all hours of the night
Partying, getting higher than a kite

See, what gets me confused is this

The things we are told are right
Are much different than what we see on TV
If there is one thing I hate more than lying,
It’s hypocrisy.
We are told to exercise
To get fit, and eat right
Then what do we see?
Models throwing up at night
Scared
Because the pressure is too much
To eat is too pricy
So food, they don’t touch.
What is a model?
Someone or something used as an example
I don’t know about you, but
When I shop, I grab up ALL the samples
Starving isn’t realistic
Nor is it “right”
Regardless of your pant size,
Regardless of your height.

We are told that beauty is only skin deep
That what really matters is all underneath
I have yet to see one person at the VMAs
With less than 5 makeup products on their face
Why is that?
There’s a simple Answer.
Thanks to Maybelline and L’Oreal
It costs 6 dollars for a beauty enhancer.

Girls talk all the time
About how there are no good guys out there.
I hate to burst your bubble
But saying that isn’t fair
There are plenty of guys
Who are respectful and kind
But you push them away
Without a care in your mind
You want one thing
Then it changes to another
Because movies make you think
You don’t have to really care for one another
They show relationships as prideful,
Full of lust and lies
So when it comes to the real world,
Kind guys are despised.
So they mask their emotions with
Hardness and Vulgarity
Showing love on occasional,
Rarely, and sparingly.
See According to society,
Men have to be “tough”
Or else they are judged and pushed aside
Left waiting for the one to call their bluff.

This is for all the girls
Who think they aren’t skinny enough
This is for all the girls
Who think they aren’t pretty enough
This is for all the guys
Who think they have to act a little more “tough”,
You’re beautiful, you are loved.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you
You aren’t enough.
 Oct 2012 Apollonian
Raj Arumugam
so in ancient Rome
Caelius bumps into
his friend in the streets
and he says:
“Hey, Domitius
I thought you were dead”


Domitius laughs and he says:
“Well, you can see I’m alive”

“Yes,” says Caelius, *“but you must be dead
for I had the information
from someone more reliable than you”
Poem based on a joke from a collection of jokes from ancient Rome, brought to light by Mary Beard (see her TV series “Meet the Romans”)…
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