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  Apr 2015 Dawn King
Jason Cole
come now, fresh soul of pure intent
reach and grasp this human torch
of day and night and all mortal woes
abort your paradise of no constraint

choice is no privilege of yours
until the moment in which you breach
but go back you can't

'tis a forwardly motion you must endure
unless you choose wrong or quit your fate
yes, purest intentions can lead to hate
but also to love

come now, young life
heed this call for blind existence!
poem poetry soul life human day night love hate fate
  Apr 2015 Dawn King
Jason Cole
who would smile on broken pride?
alas, you - none other that called my name
shame, your willful heart content

i came and went
i came and went

untroubled still by peace of mind?
by peace of dreams?
no peace is mine

as thus a guiltless crime would be
could never be! should never be!

who would smile on broken pride?
you that called my name the least
dare i say you called it last?
no other sound could be the same
shame, your willful heart content

i came and went
i came and went
  Apr 2015 Dawn King
Mark Lecuona
The story on her back was painted by empty cargo ships, leaving
this earth but sailing to find who you are, or to deliver the news of
who you are now; the answer was revealed when someone thought
her name, filling the silence in a noisy room

But it was not in the wings that moved; as she strained her face never
moved; concern was the watchtower of her life; was judgment in the
eyes of the man who could not turn his eyes away? But it was her choice as it always is for a beautiful woman

The life on the streets watched as the dream disappeared without
charging fare to those who begged to pay for a new life; he looked to
the sky but did not return his gaze because they did not know each other; but blue knows blue and storms pass because calm is for worry

He wanted to listen to birds singing instead of interpreting darkness;
as terrified of being hurt as he was of being rejected the litheness
of her smooth neck revealed only his own attraction; but does a man
lose his dream or find a new one because she left without a sound?

He was tired of suggestion or hint; he wanted straight talk, no matter
if romance was left behind; she was a human being with every right
to suffer alone, but she didn’t know why or if she should cherish the pain, caught up in blessed hope covered by a past that told her story

The comfort of shadows was because the sun asked too many questions; fear is the only real power in the universe; fear of dying, fear of living; there are things she wants to tell someone in case the morning never arrives, but though the sun rose the ship finalized the distance between us
Dawn King Apr 2015
they were riders
on the iron horse
acting as though
it were a 30 minute
hitch to the next town
no one disembarked
there were no stops
some shared stories
some sat around
the man stood tall
dark wavy hair
tattered flannel shirt
words and symbols
as scars on chest and back
the woman was flattering
she had a musical laugh
vision fully impaired
yet grazed the mans skin
and read her epitaph
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