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 Jul 2019
Graff1980
The drums of death
keep rolling in
followed by
the lightning kin.

Chaos reigns
where demons sing
of signs
that portend
the pretend
end.

The storyteller
tells us so.
So, we find a way
to go
along
a merry path
of destruction
that lays us low.

The bribes that brought
the lies they taught
to keep us all in line,

is it love
that make fools of us,
or is it fear
that makes us blind.
 Jul 2019
Karen Lang
Always keep what is true
in front of you
Make space to bear this truth
Step by Step
Let go of what you have always known
or believed would happen
and allow space to see
this truth,
this beautiful broken truth
I don't always want to face the truth or to see what is really happening within me or others.  But each time I have the courage to sit with it, see it and listen deeply.  I find a way through.
 Jul 2019
Jack Jenkins
To those who have walked away when
I gave everything
I forgive you

To those I have hurt when I sunk too deep
I am so very sorry
I seek your forgiveness

To every vacated prayer I have prayed
I have weak faith
and many sins

To the year that has tortured me
I will come up swinging
I will not bow
//On depression, relationships, and forgiveness//
 Jul 2019
Graff1980
The dark white winter brings
Spring’s horrible creeping scenes
of corpses hanging lifeless
from redwood trees
in the early fifties.

Secrets once whispered
by family members
of the victims,
and celebrated
by the magistrates
that perpetuated hate
to seal the fates
of innocent
human beings.

How these
rag dolls hung
dripping soft drops
of crimson stillness.
Heads tilting
in terrifying positions,
with no physicians
coming in
to rescue them.

Such strange fruit
not yet ripened,
swollen
with the growing
gas that was bloating.
Until, bowls evacuated.

Soul singers spoke
of such tragedies
but who heard
their heart’s beating verbs
that broke against
a shore of stupidity,
and arrogance,

and who will listen
to the same insistence
as more people join
the resistance
to fight against
a new age of injustices.
 Jul 2019
Raygan Emma Jane
The Matriarch of my family stands 73 years tall
One hip replacement
One lung and a long history of putting others before herself
She holds me as she cries
She whispers that she is so sorry for creating a history of women who put more love into men
Than they do themselves
I tell her
Not me Nana
I tell her that she is the most resilient woman on the planet
That selling her wedding rings and escaping material custody
Forced across the country with two small children is the bravest thing she has ever done
I reassure her that poverty is better than abuse
That one day I’ll take care of us all
I’ll stretch myself so big and hold all the women who live within lingering shadows
Scared to flee when it feels the entire universe is screaming stay into your face
Banging against the wall with angry fists
I tell her
Not you Nana
You don’t need saving
 Jun 2019
Serendipity
I guess
what I fear
cannot be
founded in fiction,
but in reality
itself.
 Jun 2019
Graff1980
This isn’t the greatest story ever told,
more like a garbage truck of bad luck,
with sad black moments sewn in
a swerving line threaded together
till the end of time
where we will find
the hive minds
dining on swollen swine
sipping blood red wine from the vine,
the one called the treasure of the golden sun,
the one for which we crawled and scrawled
useless scribbles of noisy dribble that dripped down
our sad clown faces, taking bits of chipped paint
and exposing our scarred flesh to the fearful crowed.

It is the way of the dead to lay in their bed
as the red wet stain spreads on wrinkled sheets,
as they excrete the remnants of feces,
dying to meet these
sick rotting expectations,
nature’s exploitation of our degenerating state of decay.

At the end of our life we donate this great feast of flesh
to the earth where we are laid to rest.
This is not some sort of sweet slumber
but how we count to the number
which equals nothing.

The unknown equation that some have guessed
while the fearful rest hang back depressed and obsessed
with buying into the very best excuses
to not do the math that help us see through
the illusion of immortality.

A shadow paints the moon,
a minor fleck falls from the lens of the telescope
to let us know the true scope.
I get by, but others fail to cope
with all that the madness of truth implies.

We will all die, and all the flowery words
cannot cover the stench of **** stained drawers
of unopened doors that lead to an infinite world
of what ifs.

The cosmos never forgets
because it never knew one inch of us
and gave the same measurement
of caring intent about our meaningless existence.
 Jun 2019
Graff1980
It is not maturity
that decreases my levity
whilst increasing the severity
and frequency
of my seriously souring
disposition.

It is experience
that lessens
the greater qualities.

Draining me
as I cough up
blood and dust.
Till, I cease seeking
the better angels
in all of us.

As I rust
and prepare
to fade
several shades
evaporating
into transparency
escaping as I must.

Because
the inner demons
are doing
the spring cleaning
leaving nothing but
drying mud
intermingling
with what was once living
crimson.
 Jun 2019
Pax
its the night when your
life becomes sleepless

your day might be reckless
doing things after things
of uselessness

i am tired,
no, i don't need sleep
no, i don't need rest
i just want that feeling
i could hold and hug
to where i kiss and wish
be loved for me to love back

i sigh waiting for a sign
that i am still alive
after all.
I feel so dead, feels so cold for so long..
Happy B-Day to me.
 Jun 2019
Graff1980
No one gets in.
Steel door locking,
like a point guard blocking,
heart clenching,
gut wrenching,
never connection fixing.

No many splendid
or dependent
love addiction,
no bridge building
or repairing
the broken tokens
I was wearing.

No watching
people leave me,
or stretch the truth
to deceive me.

No defending
lies I long for,
no one gets in
my steel door,

and I never
ever come out.
 Jun 2019
Graff1980
For some green
is the sweet sight
of life’s seasonal growth,
nature’s lovely note
wrote on a mudball canvass.

For me it is the shimmering grace
that gets caught
in the back of my throat
as I fail to catch my breath,
partially because I am stunned
but also because of my
****** allergies.

However,
for the darker
green things,
creeping,
and consuming
the people using
flat paper bills,
I am filled
with two parts dread,
one part jealousy,
and three parts regrets
for the time I wasted
pursuing a wasteland
of consumer goods.
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