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Mar 2016
Scurrying all around city livin'
People and places
They step n repeat
Leisurely getting sunburned
In the Philadelphia sunshine
But I don't live here
No more.

If I wanted to turn around and head back
To where, the street
I use to live
I would find my past
Biting and painting in dark red
On the walls I once called home.

I hit a bowl of ****
Alone for the first time since sleep
Dreaming and laying atop wolves
I watch my ladies, my ladies
Love and give love
They trample their lives with beauty and grace
The hurt and the pain so many levels of
No longer.

The haunting has just about ended.

My heart pounded all throughout today
Anxiety in a tattoo shop
I confided in my mother
Who so eloquently listened and comforted
I could do nothing but look around and want to cry
When she said
"You are starting to become--sort of famous"

I don't run away with nothing
Married to my cell phone all these folks got questions
I'm so use to taking charge
I'm so use to taking charge
As a new one, a mysterious new one
I could be your baby doll
If you let me
If I let me.

It feels so good to grow smitten
Over someone so
Unlike you.

And just like twitterpatted gloves down my neck
I hear it again in my head
I don't know what I want
I don't know what I want

So I turn right, left, zigzag
Take in, open up like a blossoming
******
To love, to joy, to happiness, to support
I give and I give, I give.

Money, money
Its all just paper
I could stuff in my mouth
Like a guzzling pig.

Forget it.
Forget him.
Forget it it it it it it it.
For you, for us, for all of us
I chime into the night sky
Like a warrior on fire from wind
My anxiety faded as I vented into the light
I motion, gesture, and give
Because what else is there to do?
OnwardFlame
Written by
OnwardFlame  Los Angeles, CA
(Los Angeles, CA)   
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     David Ehrgott, mark cleavenger and ---
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