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Red lips
High heels
Nice dress
Painted nails
Curly hair
Make up

Every inch of her was made to impress
Every step she took was made to make him lose his breath

All she ever wanted was for him
To walk past her
Stop
And
Turn
Around

She looked for him in every street corner
She looked for him in every store
She looked for him in every train station
She looked for him in every dream she ever had

But he just wasn't made for her
Some of this is me, some of this is as far from me as it could be
Life is a war in which we're all in.
You cant win the battles until you've conquered the sin.
My heart, it is breaking, bludgeoned outside and within.

Cutting words and bleeding verse,
those who don't deserve it arrive to it first.
On hands and knees, digging trenches to hide,
preserving armor for the battle at first-breaking light.

First come the soldiers, the liars, the thieves.
Then come the sinners, who die on their knees.
The funeral bells ring with no discrimination;
for the war is our own, no help from our nation.

Life is for living, but often dying comes first,
while waging the wars that were known since our birth.
For plagues are not locusts, frogs, or a flood;
but in hate, persecution, abuse, and our blood.

Some day we'll all die, and cease to exist,
I just hope that you know I wouldn't ask for all this.
Some free form that I wrote in the Summer of 2012.
Designed for disaster,
betrayed with a kiss,
one bite from an apple and we cease to exist.

Is anyone listening?
Are we lost on our journey?
In our fancy fears are we yearning for glory?

How shall we know if your life is of merit?
What shall we know of these ruins we inherit?

From prejudice comes the prisons we share,
built with the drugs and the violence of those for whom we care.
We're all come of the same, but we act if its fair,
that another one's life is none others' care.
An unfinished piece I wrote in the summer of 2012.
There's a bomb in my head
That is about to explode
It was there when I went to bed
Still there at the morning commode

There's a bomb in my head
That will end it all
It will make me dead
It will make me fall

There's a bomb in my head
That can help me sleep
Put me in a coffin bed
And burry me deep

There's a bomb in my head
I won't let it hurt you
It will make me dead
It will make you feel blue

There's a bomb in my head
That can't stop my flow
It makes me dread
But will is stop me? No!
It seems when I truly start to doubt
There is a god, something whispers, no shouts
At me to look to the miracle of nature to see Him
It stared with a morning bike ride on a whim
The fluffy white clouds that dotted the crystal blue sky
Urged me to go for a Sunday morning bike ride
It began in on an ordinary, familiar trail
Water, glasses, computer, kit, and pull the bike off the rail
As I pedaled along, I felt Him in the breeze
I saw Him in each glimmering leaf suspended in a choir of trees
The rustle of the foliage harmonized with the birds
Creating a hymnal of music that filled my soul with each word
It became abundantly clear that I was in God's community
Nature spoke His words and delivered His truth to me
"What day was yesterday?"
"Why, Grandpap?"
"'Cause I want to know what day tomorrow will be?"
Childhood
Innocence

Teenage
Awareness

Twenties
Indestructibility

Thirti­es
Caution

Forties
Confidence

Fifties
?
Eyes that widen, that weep
Eyes frightened, rest now, sleep
©DWE072013
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