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 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Work through the night,
With my hammer I swing.
Smile of delight,
When the iron it sings.

Back strong as oak,
With Fists out of lead.
Lift pipe well we joke,
Wipe sweat the from our head.

We work to the bone,
And don't care about rest
Our skills we do hone,
diesel pumps through our chest.

Dawn creeps through the trees,
See the grass and it's dew,
Mind clear and free,
Coming home to you.
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Start with a feeling,
A moment, a glance from across the room.
Lose yourself in her eyes for a second long eternity.
Can you feel it?
It's the connection that makes this life.
Writing a story.
Your life is one.
Make it fantastic.
Make it a romantic comedy where the guy gets the girl.
Be that witty charmer.
You've spent too much time focusing on the bad and the sad.
But it's all love now. And it's time to let it out.
It's time to love life and love someone.
This story is too short.
Like when you watch your favorite movie and you don't want it to end.
Keep the characters with you.
I met a beautiful girl today and she told me to smile.
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
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 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Where did all the beautiful souls go?
Once upon I time I knew so many,
And we danced, loved and lived to a music that no one heard but everyone felt.
We stood naked before one another souls bared.
Free of judgement.
Free of worry,
Before this life had to made itself so real.
When my friends would kick the can,
Not the bucket.
I always go back to one time.
It stays in my mind like a pond of serenity,
In a ocean of chaos.
Misty morning campfire, if these beans are warm,
I am content...
I am content.
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Kintsugi
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Sometimes I feel as though my heart has been shattered into so many pieces I can't put it back together.
But I've gathered all those pieces and tried to fit them together.
Slowly I realize that I've lost some of the shards.
Not lost.. I know where they are.
You took them with you.
It hurts, it burns.
But the burn melts the pain Into molten gold,that I use to fill the gaps off my shattered heart.
At first the gold is bold and clearly defined.
But it becomes part of my spirit like its always been there.
What can be done with something so fragile.
Do I Lock it in a chest, hide from the world and build high walls around my treasure.
Guarded by a dragon and lost to legend.

I say no.
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
I don't want to drink,
I don't want to wake up with demons crashing in my skull.
Mouth tasting like Black Death from torched tabacco.
Muscles feel like mud and I can barely raise my hand to wipe the **** out of my eyes.
I wonder how the **** I ended up in this all to familiar place, but here I am.
Not again, never again.
I don't want these devil thoughts in my mind.
Dragging me down to wear you feel like a proper *******.
Stay away, let the sun come warm these bones.
Let the trees and grass heal this broken spirit.
But wait, one drink.
Ok just one.
 Apr 2015 Rob M
JR McFadden
Bright must be the light that shines from within, deep and roaring with the overwhelming radiance of a thousand suns.
The fuel surges through our veins and our tried courage the ember which sets the blaze of triumph raging through the ages.
We are the light, bane of the dark.
Fear not the flames, for our valour is the blade that splits the sky a sunder, sending ripples through the very fabric of the universe for all eternity.
The great white wolf walks at our side and the raven reveals to us the route less traveled. Righteous with our every step to purge this existence of the wicked and the cruel.
Lay down beloved foe, you are forgiven.
And when it is our time to die, our death song will thunder with all the resounding clarity of a dying star.
Guardians of savage love and serine peace. Let the sweet scent of roses take you away,  feel the kind sun kiss your flesh and greet death with a smile. Hello old friend I'm coming home... Victorious.

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