If you think that in life you've been a dismal failure
and also find it extremely hard to make ends meet
consider those people who're worse off but endure
and beg everyday from others for something to eat.
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There are mourners beside an unmarked grave
witness how quietly they all there do behave.
All shedding silent tears for one they’ve lost
perhaps some loved one in this way to accost.

It seems uncertain if anyone about really knows
who is buried there beneath the grass that grows
at this distant lonely place away from all the rest
perhaps it was the deceased person’s last bequest.

There isn’t any indication to say when, where or how the person died
just these mourners that have come here it seems from far and wide
to pay their solemn respects to one for which only they all know
perhaps it’s the least thing to the departed one they now do owe.

The buried person must have left a strong impression in everyone’s mind
and when alive would have been an influence of some remarkable kind.
There’s no real telling just what the circumstances might then have been
but judging from the expression on all their faces one of deep loss is seen.

The flowers brought by all the mourners gathered there
have been so placed on the ground at their feet where
they have formed a cross inside a circle of distinction
commemorating the passing of one with a benediction.
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Dreaming - input data:
unfamiliar territory,
space-time distortion;
half light - neither dawn nor dusk,
vague impressions and images.
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It had happened only a few times before
that while dreaming I would became lost
and in whatever direction I turned to go
it seemed that there was no familiar place
which I could recognize or associate with
and it would also be found to be a dead end.

Not really a nightmare in the general sense
or meaning of the word but coming close
and it felt good to be able to wake up from.
Indeed waking seemed to be the only way out of
the predicament and dilemma of going back and forth
as like that hopeless feeling of being lost in a dream.
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There’s a story about hyperbole and rigmarole
that may have something to do with rock’n roll
though there are many who will not think so
because it really depends on what you know.

The amount of garbage that is spread around
is more than enough to stay on the ground;
if it doesn’t get buried in some landfill
may in time continue on its journey still.

When we say one thing but mean another
this can be confusing even to your brother,
and if it gets in the ears of someone nearby
may be passed on without questioning why.

Word of mouth is a form of communication
which doesn’t need any lengthy explanation
yet it can in fact get the message across
irrespective of what is said to one’s loss.

Nowadays there is so much ******* and crap
it’s hard to distinguish just what isn’t a trap
to lure people into believing what’s being said
regardless of whether or not they end up dead.
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The more expensive thing doesn’t always turn out to be the best
even though it often appears to stand or shine out from the rest.
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A little bit of help can actually go quite a long way
and all we say and do make a difference each day.
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It is those people who criticize us that we often benefit the most by,
when they point out our shortcomings to be overcome if we only try.
It's also those people who are hard towards us we should be grateful to,
if they help us become strong through discipline which they make us do.
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