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Sadness has eyes
That never stop leaking
And two lips that tremble
Whenever she's speaking.
Don't let her find
A tear in your heart,
Because if she does
You'll drown there in the dark

Fear has two hands
That fidget and shake
With a voice like knives she whispers
All the risks I shouldn't take.
She closes all the windows
And stands watch at the door
To make sure I'm not tempted
To go out and explore

Loneliness is shrouded
In a suffocating cloak
It's heaviness she often shares,
It smothers me like smoke.
She shivers, aching in the cold
With arms outstretched and yearning
For a love that never lingers
To leave a fire burning  

Happiness is fickle
She seldom comes to stay
Her light once filled my soul but now,
That glow has gone away.
With all these faces that I know
I tell myself I'm fine
But through the glass I see the truth:
Their faces mirror mine.
 Feb 2015 Gabby Jazzy
Duck
Supposing that we lit some candles.
One for each person on this earth,
we would blow one out at a funeral
and light one up at a birth.

The world would grow darker
every time we lost a fighter
but with every new born baby
it gets just that bit brighter.

If you travelled into a city that was dark and gritty
you'd know that they didn't have many in their committee.
But.. If the light was brilliant and bright
it would send a beaming message throughout the night.

Saying "We are here! And we are alive!"
Not wanting to be alone we endeavor to collide
and form one giant, shining beacon
that burns so fierce we're sure it can't weaken

We sparkle and crackle and bend nature to our whim
the mighty fire so strong it just had to gave in.
With it we forged iron and buildings, cars and computers
and lit paths of lives to guide commuters

We lit up the universe as far as we could see
Improving our lives greatly with technology
obsessed with our professed fixture on practicality
we completely forgot about morality

Our fires forged weapons which we aimed next door
In one swift movement we saw the effects of war
6,000,000 candles extinguished
over arguments on which light is most distinguished

So fixated on this light we blinded our eyes
and the candle smoke filled the skies.
We thought candles were good, they elevated us higher
but now all we have is thick smoke and fire.

The fire consuming all in its route
the root of our lives follow suite.
It's eating the oxygen and burning the grass
the sand is melting and forming to glass.

The glass it shatters into a thousand pieces
more candles are lighting, the temperature increases
The resources decline, as do the candles
buried in ash a hundred thousand scandals.

Now only a few lit candles remain
as they slowly melt and fade away.
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 Feb 2015 Gabby Jazzy
Duck
If you were the sky
Then I'd be the sea
And when you shined bright
It would reflect in me.
When you're at rest
Then I am steady.
If you wanna get rough
I'm always ready.
Past closing at the bars
If you show me the stars
I'll open right up
And cast them out far.
And on the darkest night
If you won't shine a light.
Then I'm silent alongside you
Until you feel right.
We'll meet at the horizon
Where lovers will stare
And wonder with passion
Why they can't meet there.
And you'll share me a kiss
As bright as two suns.
When they meet in the middle
I'll know the days done.
And I can tell that's your way of saying to me.
Goodnight my love.
If you were the sky and I were the sea.
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 Sep 2013 Gabby Jazzy
Jeff Leslie
Reclining in my easy chair
I drifted off to sleep
When suddenly my youngest boy
just bounced up on my knee.

"Hey, whatcha doin', Dad?" he asked
with eyes as big as dimes.
"My time is yours, my son," I said
"Is something on your mind?"

"Well, yesterday at Sunday School,"
His little voice began
"The teacher said to try to picture
Heaven if we can.

"And then she said to make a list
That next week we can show
Of all the things there we will see.
So, Daddy, do you know?"

I wrapped my arms around him and he
Felt my warm embrace.
Then leaning back he laid his head
Against my bearded face.

"Now close your eyes, my son," I said,
"Pretending you have wings
And flying high you’ll see a sight
Beyond your wildest dreams.

"Imagine first a bluer sky
Than eyes have ever seen
And light not from a golden sun
But glory of the King

"Then listen for the music heard
From angels all around
And run your toes through cotton soft
White clouds along the ground

"My grandma and my grandpa's there
Whom you have yet to meet.
Surrounding them are faces filled
With smiles from cheek to cheek.

"They live within a city lined with
Streets of solid gold
In mansion after mansion
Like the stories you've been told.

"A river filled with living water
Flows through Paradise
With just a sip your soul will be
Forever satisfied.

"Just think about the greatest day
on earth you’ve ever had
Then multiply a million times
And that’s the fun you’ll have."

My son then turned and squeezed my neck
And asked, "Can we go now?"
I smiled and said, "We have no wings.
We'll have to wait somehow."

He then slid down and spread his arms
As if to fly away
And shouted out, "I love you, Dad!
Today's my greatest day!"

Then rising up I watched him whirl
And spin into his room.
I shouted back, "I love you, son!
It’s been my greatest, too!"
The Broken Ties of happier days,
    How often do they seem
To come before our mental gaze.
    Like a remembered dream;
Around us each dissevered chain,
I    n sparkling ruin lies.
And earthly hand can ne'er again
    Unite those Broken Ties.

The parents of our infant home,
    The kindred that we loved,
Far from our arms perchance may roam.
    To distant scenes removed,
Or we have watched their parting breath,
    And closed their weary eyes,
And sighed to think how sadly death
    Can sever human ties.

The friends, the loved ones of our youth,
    They too are gone or changed,
Or worse than all, their love and truth
    Are darkened and estranged;
They meet us in the glittering throng
    With cold averted eyes,
And wonder that we weep our wrong,
    And mourn our Broken Ties.

Oh !  who in such a world as this,
    Could bear their lot of pain,
Did not one radiant hope bliss
    Unclouded yet remain?
That hope the Sovereign Lord has given,
    Who reigns beyond the skies;
That hope unites our souls to Heaven,
    By Faith's enduring ties.

Each care, each ill of mortal birth,
    Is sent in pitying love,
To lift the lingering heart from earth,
    And speed its flight above;
And every pang that rends the breast,
    And every joy that dies,
Tell us to seek a safer rest,
    And trust to holier ties.
Breathing to beat my life to the punch
Knock it a hard one and take it to lunch
Offer the sandman a ransom note
Taking on water but staying afloat
Never was good at selling the sell
But I knew a time that you never could tell
Sewing the seam shut crooked and long
Makes my appearance wicked and wrong
The world leaks life through cracks in the surface
Running in place and slipping on purpose
You experience things you regret, maybe not
But you always remember the way you were taught
Beating dead horses is tiring work
Yet we finish gladly and leave with a smirk
Maybe you don’t get it, maybe you do
Maybe you wish I was already through
But wishing on stars is for those that believe
That doing your best ensures you achieve
That spoon brought forth from your palette shines bright
While I scratch at dirt and pray for the light
So punch my face and take my pride
I’ll let you pass while I stand aside
Trick the mirror and show some teeth
Shut the demons deep beneath
I never knew what to expect from the race
Would I cross the finish and see your face?
Or would I collapse several steps from the start
Hearing only the silence of my dry, beaten heart?
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I am the loud scream that elevated behind closed doors and barred walls.
I am the elevated sense of self when your heart was put up and shelved.
I am the likeness of every color that the rainbow forgot..
The time lost when you saw your future rot..
The time that could've been spent in a garden of possibilities...
The time used to pluck out the wishes and truths to be blown on as seeds will have spread and landed to form a new root..
Your root of possibilities to reach the core and turned into the tree of everlasting favor.
The branches that would have stretched tall and stretched high...
So when a new family of free birds come to lay, they'll have more than enough room to build and lay...
I am the theory deemed insane...
The new thought made without using your brain...
The danger used in switching to a new lane...
A new road with the uneven path...
The bump that disturbed your morning coffee and new style...
I am the stain that tells you apart form the perfect and well put....
The secrets that lie beneath the cover of that ******* book...
Just dig deeper and take a concentrated look...
Put your hand on your heartbeat and let the power from it knock you off your feet...
We are the divine likeness that gives us the ability to leap!
Now jump and know who I am....
I'll give you a wild guess...
I am not the lamb.....
(roar)
Get to know me.
 Sep 2013 Gabby Jazzy
C. S. Lewis
By and by Man will try
To get out into the sky,
Sailing far beyond the air
From Down and Here to Up and There.
Stars and sky, sky and stars
Make us feel the prison bars.

Suppose it done. Now we ride
Closed in steel, up there, outside
Through our port-holes see the vast
Heaven-scape go rushing past.
Shall we? All that meets the eye
Is sky and stars, stars and sky.

Points of light with black between
Hang like a painted scene
Motionless, no nearer there
Than on Earth, everywhere
Equidistant from our ship.
Heaven has given us the slip.

Hush, be still. Outer space
Is a concept, not a place.
Try no more. Where we are
Never can be sky or star.
From prison, in a prison, we fly;
There's no way into the sky.
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