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The deafening sounds of police sirens
Tear through the evening air
Leaving behind an air of indignation
Hoping, out of thin air, to create a nation

The ebb and flow of truth and lies
Turns our interests into a public pastime
And we watch on in abject fascination
As we bring to its knees, this nation

They come and go as plastic figurines
With serpent-like tongues and vice-like grips
As we promote excessive procreation
The wheels must keep turning, to this nation

Progress, Growth, Youth, and Opportunity
Are but some of the buzzwords
Abdication of thought is the foundation,
To the structure of this nation

Power and oppression are but two sides of the same coin
Without one there cannot be the other
Smothering each other with precise calculation
Just to access the throne to the nation

Storytellers stand atop podiums and enchant the masses
While they shower them with praise
Year after year, they stand in the same formation
And salute the flag, the one that makes this nation
The scorching fires of hell
Cannot burn those who do not believe
Or those who don't have an imagination
For those who are blessed with poverty of the mind
Are cursed too with poverty of the body
Those who have been bent by life
Do not need to bend before a god
For then they shall be one with the dirt
Long before their time has come
For only those who feel the need to be have their voice heard
Answer the call from lands unseen
And tell stories of immortal men
Who hold the power to move Heaven and Hell
And bring forth salvation of the weak
For the weak need to be led, by the hand
As they haven't been blessed by My father
Who is omnipresent and hence within me
But not in them
For they are weak
Forgive them
For the sins of their prior lives
 Nov 2014 Raj Arumugam
Just Melz
One more step closer
                     is heartache
One step back would
                           be regret
I'll just stand here,
                    confused

I don't know what else to do...

        I can no longer
           breathe...
        I can no longer
                     move...

Just take a step towards
                      me
Then I'll gladly step towards
                *you
 Nov 2014 Raj Arumugam
K Mae
walking hearts the long way
up mountains
down mud ice rock
carrying anima
and animal as needed
with intent sensitive agility
and brilliant sullen creation
beyond my comprehension
walking bliss walking
no where home
no lack
I hold the needs
as you walk free
 Nov 2014 Raj Arumugam
K Mae
magnets
 Nov 2014 Raj Arumugam
K Mae
wary of sharp edges
magnets north to north
        and south to south
              our weariness abides
           long the view through loves lens
               seduced by wisping innuendo
               cunningly untrue
                                         stubbornly we here remain
                                                           the spark to see us through
I am missing you intensely
Feeling hollow inside

I am aching for your touch
Your hands rough and warm

I am craving your taste
Sweetly masculine

I am just half of me
Without you
Because I am yours
POP
Tested
Torn
All of the past gone

Weak
Manipulated
All while being envied or hated

POP
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