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James Lindsay Apr 2019
Core instincts have taken me for a ride
Inner values giving lucid reminders
to be kinder, gentler, indifferent
when it matters

New Shoes for new views
more clues but less to do

Compromise for my fellow guys
when masculinity revives
in men's eyes

Swift rebuke from common knowledge
if we knew now what
we wouldn't know then

how many times
must everything align
in different points of view
Until we know what to do

Knowing, but not growing
glowing, but not showing

making space and saving face

Changing place
in the middle of a race
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Expansion before the rebuild
Substitute progress for results
Replace before removal
Dual ideas for approval
Watch them duel

Revving up my engine
preparing for a ride
looking towards the future
but seeking deep inside

Let's hear it for the feelings
Once and for all
My head is still reeling
from what my heart holds inside
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Inspiration without conclusion
Arrival from a distance
Slow crawl to existence

Gravitating towards dull chaos
And embracing known unknown
living in a tomb
thinking its a womb

Colorful expressions rooted in
Empathetic pity rising from
emotional detachment
and re-attachment

Print out directions
and queue up

Single out insurrection
and together we will
give up
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Be one for all
and there will be no mutiny

Embrace the fall
Disregard extenuating inevitability

Sync up to the sound
the quiet prophecy

We all go around
creeping loss of me
sweating sense of curiosity

coiled up
a minor monstrosity

Detailed manners of speaking
Void of any meaning
Screaming for no reason
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Finding sliding memories
Rearranging constantly
Reminding you of infinity

On the brink of what you made
basking in the shady lane
forgetting how far you came
to have that feeling like yesterday

Decisions grow like branches
Consequences flowing in the wind

Beneath the quiet panic
lives peaceful harmony

Don't give back what you made
Pretend it was for something great

Ours is for everyone
if connection is what you crave

Go back and forget yourself
the meaning hasn't changed

Discovery for the last of us
is never seen again.

I haven't seen the best of me.
When I've been remembered
We are all forgotten

I live on in me, you, and
            all i see
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Tempting without asking
while slipping without grabbing

Underwater memories
floating to the surface

Lazy gravity
holding me magically

CORE VALUES
FILTERED REALITY

Former taboos
form the end of the beginning
and prepare for
a boring stasis of an oasis
James Lindsay Apr 2019
Deeper diving
and not arriving

Time is the answer
If you're the dancer

KEEP UP OR SHUT UP
AT THE BOTTOM

fill in the blanks
say thanks
back to the ranks

Curving modern thought
Catering to what we're taught
before we forget
what are we supposed to remember
and return to sender

Cloudy apparition clinging to inhibition
Osmosis-like reaction
to magnetic predetermination

Jumble time
inside your mind
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