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Someday we'll be just like a garden,
growing together in our souls.
Sharing the flowering dreams,
blending the new with the old.
Tasting the bitter-sweet flowers,
which grab, but have no hold.

Sunday's peace will stay the same
throughout the multi-varied week.
Living to feel and love together.
Accepting that strong may be weak.
Finding that the newborn flowers
join our hearts as we begin to meet.

Someday we'll have peace
when all borders are erased.
Remembering that love is forever
Flowing in from almost every place
Someday we'll be as a garden
growing together as we race.

Yesterday's pain all forgotten.
Tomorrow's peace growing free.
Someday we'll flow as a river
meeting together at the sea.
Growing into the garden
where tomorrow's world will be.
without you, oxygen is poison
 Apr 2016 Keith Labonte
Julie
If I was trying to be funny, I wouldn't be funny at all.
If I was trying to be romantic, I wouldn't be romantic at all.
If I was trying to be someone, I wouldn't be someone at all.

Stop using the word 'trying'
And start believing in your aspired dreams.
Be funny.
Be romantic.
Be someone.

Don't just 'try'...

Become.
If I was trying to be a poet, I wouldn't be a poet at all.
 Apr 2016 Keith Labonte
Julie
You will be okay.
...
The world isn't jealous of everyone, but you.
Under its golden crown, it expulses you from happiness.
You have found cell bars hiding you away from the plastic people
who haven't discovered that their hinges are coming loose.

The world isn't afraid of everyone, but you.
Under its golden crown, you aren't there.
The world thinks it has buried you
but the hinges are coming off.

The world is absolute,
flourishing massacres with its sharp tongue.
It explodes our rights, masking them like supernovas;
something needed for life to continue.

You'll be okay. Don't let them take you down.
Up above, in the skies far from Earth, there is a crown.
This one isn't golden, silver, blue or green.
It is our minds.

You'll be okay. I promise you.
Take back your thousand suns and be happy.
Knock the crown off the world's head and
claim the one hidden amidst the clouds.

Take it back. For you. For me. For everyone.
Retrieve our minds.
Once upon a revolution.
...
You'll be okay.
They say that love is blind.
Evidently it also has no sense of smell.
And come to think of it,
Love has poor taste as well.
Summer 2015
Oh imperfect soul, that does not know it's worth. Oh damaged flower that feels less than beautiful. Know that you are of great value, your kindness cannot be measured. What may seem as nothing to other, is truly an undiscovered treasure. If you feel that you lack any good thing, remember that the simplest kindness to one in need is more valuable than a precious gem in a kings crown. So do not despair, you are of great worth. Show kindness and pray for wisdom and in time you will shine forth like the sun on the first day of creation, for you are indeed a beautiful soul.
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