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Dream me a River of Life that can hold
Your Blood, hold your Love;  hold your Soul to Mine
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Dream forth dreams that seem to flow like the Gold
From the Sun & contain All those you find
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Wandering,& lost in their bitterness
We are the Seed, the Plow:  honest Labor
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Of the Heart---the Lovers' softest caress
The Community;  the cherished Neighbor...
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...come to the 'fore in his own Purity
& whose own dreams become truly expressed
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As of the Earth, the Sky & of the Seas
The Will of Heaven--of human Strength
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Come, be Still.  Do not let your Courage fade
This is your World---your Story---This--your Day

:-)      We are the abbreviated people
Living our lives in short, loud bursts
On screens and through machines
Words are changed, made little, rearranged.
We are emoticons
Wearing a dead smile
Pretending to be happy
But *** and ***
We've lost so much.
Write with me
On walls and boards
And scented, silky paper.
Find your language, your voice
We'll rediscover what we were,
Articulate and complicated, full of words
If we write, we'll speak and feel
Indescribable, beautiful things
Unashamedly unabbreviated
More than a   :-(

Don't underestimate the power of lust.
It can unmake you
Unmask you
Bury good intentions in a landslide of overwhelming want.
You switch from sister to *****,
Disregarding friendship, family,
Faith, hope, happiness,
None are a match for the dopamine high.
Now you're on a slippery *****,
A path to disaster,
Tumbling faster,
Losing rationality, perspective, judgement, humanity,
Succumbing to the hungry beast within.
You will resist, you may think you have it sussed,
But lust will always win.

I withstand the pain
Because she needs me to bleed.
Brutal, mutual need.

It's a good time  -- (the anger's just for show)
Hunger & death? -- who knows if it's really there!
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Amid the fairy tales ; amid the gro---
tesque , macabre insinuations, -- where
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Mistrust cuts to the depths of the heart's blood
& we don't believe in what we hear or see
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When all we feel real is misunderstood
& we "fight for freedom" but are not free
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Little lost child ( your anger's just for show?)
Hunger & death? -- my god!  Such stories!
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Told by idiots! --- what do you really know?
We would ask you but we're much too afraid
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Little Mary & Joey in my sight
In the streets by day ;  in my dreams by night

I am trying so hard to be happy,
At times, I almost succeed.
I have a beautiful life
Filled with wonderful people,
Yet, my soul leans towards melancholy
Like a flower following the sun,
And will not be diverted.
I am opening up now,
Like the petals of that flower,
Hoping you will hear me.
I am tired of trying.
I need my kindred spirits
To lift me from despondency
And turn me to the light.

Fill yer Mind up with God
Fill yer God up with Everybody
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Fill everybody up with god
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Let the Love flow free

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Everybody is like you
Fillin their Mind up with God
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Fillin their god up with you and me
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Lettin the Love flow Free

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We are the image of god
All together We and He
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We are the whole world as One

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The love flows freely -----come on!
No need for Forgiveness if there ain't no Sin
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Just you and god and me
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With your Eye of Light
All is known