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The fruits of what you planted here are rotting in my
mind
And every day I lock the doors and leave it all
behind
I'm looking for a fire that will **** the rancid
fume
But as for now I'll rectify in ink and through a
plume
Injustice reigns in all you do, oh planter of these
seeds
I've felt you water parts of me with hotly boiled
deeds
You've burned me more than I can say or memory can
claim
And how I can be of your flesh should drive me half
insane
Instead I balance what I know with what I've seen you
do
Let clarity prepare a way to purge what's left of
you
I'm almost there, I sense it now, the last I'll use this
key
For I have found the other room you tried to hide from
me
So take your place inside yourself and I will walk
away
And harbor neither hatred nor the curses you could
lay
I'm breathing now, I've filled my lungs with freshly seasoned
air
I'm entering with both feet in, a newly painted
lair
From the perspective of a boy writing to his father.
White the summer fields now covered in snow
lone fence, disappears long beyond the gray
tiny birds perch, soon gone the light of day
whipping winds gather, snowdrifts to lay

forest footsteps distant
this world so scarce a sound
hills and sky listen
snow falling to the
ground
Once upon a time,

Isn't that how fairy tales are supposed to start?

A man and a woman.

Fall in love.

And live happily ever after.

Isn't that how they all end?

Oh, not anymore?

There's too many dragons getting in the way.
I've wrapped it up in tinsel
although it made it itch
and hung a bauble on it
to watch it sway and twitch
I've written merry christmas
in lipstick red and pink
and I promise you will love it
(ignore my cheeky wink)
There's no reciept to swap it
but it's worth I'll guarantee
you'll get years of fun out of it
and without a battery
so slip it in enjoy it
let the turkey cook and burn
for this the type of stuffing
that I know you'll always yearn
so merry Christmas baby
on this sweet Yule tide
let's forget the sleigh this evening
and enjoy another ride.
I left my house with time to spare or so I had presumed
Until the trail I walked upon began to be exhumed
My eyes grew wide as I observed the things which had been hid
By the very thoughts I used to cover what I did
A rationale so skewed and dark was up against the truth
Internal battle's raging on til one side is consumed
These minutes pass and still I breathe just long enough to see
A future moment looms ahead, it's right in front of me
I'm stepping softly so as not to add to the unrest
That I have been alluding to, inside my empty chest
The wages earned exceeded far the debts I have to pay
For knowledge stored is not enough and nothing can outweigh
A lapse in judgement filled back up, revived and newly made
A wearied mind with nothing left, one nearly gone insane
Literally translated, "human" in Russian is, "eternal mind."
 Dec 2012 Keith J Collard
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This has not been a
Poem instead it was just
Some stupid rambling.

I apologize
For wasting some of your time
With this rambling mess.

If it is any
Consolation I am just
As bored as you are.

If you are reading
This rambling mess still instead
of moving along
Yeah...................I don't know and I don't remember writing this. I wonder if I was serious or making fun of something. Figured I'd post it. I got a kick anyway.
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