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 May 2018 Stara
Edmund black
Some would have
You to believe that
     Love is blind

Love isn’t blind
       At all
Love sees every
        Color
Love does not require
Sameness to love
          
Love sees every shade
And every relishes
        In each one

Love seeks to understand
And give freedom of
    Expression to every
      Brilliant color

     Love has perfect
             Vision
That sees and celebrate
          Every color

           Like love
         I see color
       And it is indeed
             Beautiful
            
      Love in color
              It’ll
     Change your life
Cigarettes and friends have so much in common
Friends are cigarettes to skin
The longer you hold them temptation grows within
To smoke or watch others choke
Cancer sticks, worse when ignited
So many people smoke and are delighted
To inhale the words of warning
Strangers are sticks and stones their words never hurt
With friends, this expression disappears
As if the pain doesn't accumulate every fiscal year
Running deep into your lungs, skin, and even the heart
Friends can do as much as a cigarette
We smoke our friends as if nothing is wrong and forget
Until our lungs and heart collapse and fill up with regret  
Quit cold turkey, suffer relapses try again later
Anything to soak up this toxic flavor
Friends or cigarettes?
Your choice of flavor to savor
 May 2018 Stara
Shaine van Brug
My shrink left too
She said it can be done
I said I want to live on coffee and strangers
In places I don't belong
But I wonder
Is this your upswing now?
In the Valley of Wires
I can always pick the prize
You strange storm of a person
Came rolling in from the West
To mess up my death, But
I will gladly be your mirror
Reflecting back whatever it is you want to be
I have a gift to give souls buoyancy
Even while mine drowns
 May 2018 Stara
MD
category five
 May 2018 Stara
MD
when our two tragedies met,
we created a storm.

it was you and me against the world,

but eventually there was nothing left to tear down
besides each other.

what's a hurricane without the wind?

I let you engulf me.
 May 2018 Stara
Lyka Mosca
Time keeps ticking
Heart keeps beating
Tears are falling

I keep thinking
How my death would come

I cried to You
I called out to You
DepressionGet me with your power

All these pain
Won't fade
 Mar 2018 Stara
Petrichor
When you said,
"You're the strongest person I've ever known"
I didn't understand.

When you said,
"You can go through a lot and still smile"
I didn't understand

And when you said,
"You can feel pain and agony and still stand up"
I didn't understand.

So you held my heart
and twisted it.

You threw away
all I loved,
broke them into pieces,
and never managed to pick them up.

You broke silence
with blood.
blood
that I now convert to
ink.

like you said,
I smiled through it all.
I didn't want to disappoint you.
I don't blame you.
 Mar 2018 Stara
George Raitt
Moonlight lays a path
Across the water. To think
One could walk on it.
 Jan 2018 Stara
Ivan Brooks Sr
Woman
 Jan 2018 Stara
Ivan Brooks Sr
When one woman cries somewhere
God sends storms the same afternoon
Torrential rain falls elsewhere
And Heaven pours down monsoon.

Whenever she's happy and smiling
Sun shines brightly in all dark places
life sprouts and plants start growing
Souls brighten and everything balances.
A woman gave me life ...precious!
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