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I’ve Been Broken By
A World That’s Filled With Pain


death and hate
  and all of the things
that i can’t explain


I’ve Been Soaked For Years
just
Standing In The Rain



You Ask Me How I’m Doing
I’ll Say That I’m Just Fine

yeah i got a job
and the work is alright
it isn’t complicated
and i’m there all the time

and sure i’ve a got a boyfriend
he treats me real nice
i see him on the weekends
if he isn’t working nights

and sure my parents love me
they tell me quite a bit
And Maybe I Was Abused
but at least i wasn’t hit
I promise my misuse of capitalization is intentional
I tried to
show me
Why I
loathe me
I sit in
the dark
Cause I can't
stand me
Doesn't matter if
I say
I'm sorry
to myself
There's no
forgiving me
I know that
the thing
That disgusts me
is me
do you
Wonder Why
it’s the negative things
we tend to believe
When people practice
to deceive

Nine people say
Something good
Yet we glam onto
The one negative
Whether we
Should

I’m a daft
Old cow
A fat sough
Plain Jane
Implications
Of a name

I never
Thought
I was
Something
I was
Not

Brow beat from
Head to my feet
I could never
Measure up
The pedestal
Is too steep

We are the worst critics
In a cynic world we create
We never give  
Ourselves a break
Go easy
For goodness sake

I was never one of the pretty people
Gilded Castle, Golden steeple
People in glass houses should never throw stones
Far Too much to atone
He who is without sin,
Cast the first stone

I’m A rough ragged Rock
With intentional purposeful refinement
Even while blemishes are detected
My inner self starting to show with no objective
Patient polish purposeful perfection
I became a brilliant diamond

Now I shine

I have grown in my reflection
No more negative rejection
Without stern objection
I’m No longer a whipping post
Live love, laugh Father Son Holy Ghost
Journey to self be a loving host

Inspired Songs;

1) Dream by Aerosmith 1973

2) I got a name by Jim Croce 1973

3) Be good to yourself by Frankie Miller 1977

4) Shining star by Earth, wind and fire 1975
This is one of the areas of grief I’m not sure which one. I’m just going with the flow working out the emotions best I know dealing with my brother’s death. He died July 15. We haven’t buried him yet. I haven’t let go. I think that shows. I’m going along having an OK day and a break out in tears not sure why the song I thought no reason at all really but every reason under the sun my emotional roller coaster has just begun I fear this might take a while I’ll put on a fake smile and Sam OK when it’s really not that way
Seconds from igniting
Powder keg
Of more infighting
And delighting
In dividing
Plots of history
Rewriting
Is a sleight of hand
Too deft to check
Totalitarians
Of tech
It all started with a  dream
The one where I don't scream
Tucking turmoils into my sleeve.
With a smiling face—
I tried to walk on — on my feet.
Holding in my  thoughts
Yet alone on these streets

After a long day!
Happy with my own dismay
I went to sleep.
For a slumber under a thunderous sky
It relays the splashing light on my wall
Like a cinematic reel —
Projecting scenes of our lives

Move with perfection — to your grave.
A thought - naive.
Got stuck in my mind.
Unable to comprehend its worth.
It was so hard to find.
Overloved, overworked
For the infinite times.
I fall for you—
Maybe that's the perfection.
And my longings are my grave,
In this line... In this rhyme...
lose everything
still pay a price
do anything for love
still consumed by hate
take all roads to freedom
still imprisoned in myself
Zywa 6d
Born in light
tasting what life is
rolling and running
full laughing most of all
and the wheel turns the water

around the earth around it
winds with clouds and
the fire of the sun
the wheel of beauty:
the seasons

bamboo shoots and blossoms
all dying
the fluttering flight of the skylark
the wonders of the forest
beavers reconstructing the brook

a May-bug on a journey
over my leg and flying
in my hand which I close
and open again
the smells

of vegetables being cooked
moss and steaming dew
mushrooms in autumn
the village in the winter months
when the stoves burn

the wheel of my life
my kids, my work
the colours of my clothes and
from my hands the healing voice
of seven long strings
Film "The tale of the princess Kaguya" (2013, Isao Takahata)

Collection "web tissue"
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