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Rule number 1: There are no rules.

Are no schools

To this life thing

No wrong thing, no right thing

Only decisions and choices

Which amplify our inner voices

Paint pictures like pablo

Are you a sinner or a saint?

Are you bold or are you faint

Like the lines I use to write these rhymes

Etched with such force they will never fade

Aesthetically brilliant like the everglades

 

 

Rule number 2: Why are you still reading?

Did you not see

There are no rules

Are no schools to this life thing

Do you not understand?

You can do what you want.

Do good or do bad,

Make another happy, make another sad

You can hug, harm, help, ****

It's always your choice

Some hesitate, many think twice

Some are reckless, some fear consequences,

Repercussions which can will haunt and terrorise you for the rest of your life

A life shrouded in regret

That you did not get

 

 

Rule number 3: What is your problem?

Did you not see

There are no rules

Are no schools to this life thing

Your life is yours to lead

Yet I give you great advice

Which you don't heed

And live a life, gasping for air

Desperate for grip

Gripping at the ledge of the window of the good life

Angling for a glimpse of the other side

Forever wandering, always wanting more

Yet you could be satisfied

Happy, joyous or content

Or a be lost without cause

And the choice is simple

The choice is yours

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Written by
caleb-azumah-nelson
English
Published
Jul 9, 2013
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