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 Sep 2014 rob
PEARL SMOKE
turned 17
 Sep 2014 rob
PEARL SMOKE
iTurned 17 Today.
Never imagined id make it this far.
iTs A Blessing.
iN Every Journal iHave, ive mentioned i wouldn't make it to this age. Would Have Died
Off An Overdose, Gun Shots or Stab.
But im Here, iJust Came in
from The Adorable Party my neighbor Threw me, out of every one
iWas First To Go in.
iTs late night, iM 17 And iM About To Get High, Got The Pipe
And the Bic Ready to light and twist
Find This Disgusting and
Sick. about to begin another year to this dope ****.
Started At 14, Now im Heading towards Another sad year.
 Sep 2014 rob
alwaystrying
through the use of some actions, you've made use of some of my organs
I don't complain
my third finger is claimed long ago by a band of gold
no complaint
your words etched in the wrinkles of my time
easy peasy
now with my legs encased in ice
can't walk

let me be, let me walk, let me breathe, let me be
Banksy said it best.
“When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.”
 Sep 2014 rob
Victoria Jasmine
power
 Sep 2014 rob
Victoria Jasmine
I'm not gonna try to save you or fix you
you've got to want that on your own
I am not an idea or a concept
or a means to feel whole again
I am not mediocre
I am not simple
I am not the girls you climb in bed with when your heart hurts
I am on a journey and I will hold out my hand
you can grab it and come with me
or you can waste your life away with your "I can't"s
I will dance and sing with you anywhere
but at your pity party
I don't care about what your exes did wrong
tell me what they did right
tell me about your dreams
don't you dare tell me
you can't have or be or do anything you want
because I will tell you
you are wrong
you are wrong you are wrong you are wrong

you are so close to everything you desire
you just have to truly want it
do not doubt yourself
your strength
there is power in your thoughts and importance in your attitude



*act accordingly
© Victoria Jasmine
 Sep 2014 rob
Sjr1000
Changing Tides
 Sep 2014 rob
Sjr1000
When the tide comes in
the tide holds back
for
no man
no woman
no child.

It keeps on rising.
You're going to get your feet wet first
your ankles are next
but
it's not stopping there
your legs and thighs
your stomach too
as
panic
starts to set in.

Your will won't stop it
Your prayers won't stop it
Your love won't even slow it down.

Ego disintegrates immediately
but that tide still rolls on in.

Some will try to hold on like
flags in the rising waters
some will swim
others will run
some passively will perish.

This tide, like change, will not recede
and those that survive
are those that ran to higher ground
as the water receded from the land
for they
knew exactly what it was
they were seeing.
"The Times They Are A Changin"
 Sep 2014 rob
aphrodite
Chinatown
 Sep 2014 rob
aphrodite
Busy streets of China town,
busy folks with their heads down
busy people blowing cigarette smoke.
We'll sneak past the man
and run as fast as we can
to hop on the train because we're broke.

You're sat next to a crazy
and though this Sunday should be lazy,
we've taken on another task.
You shelter me away from the homeless,
but we're too ignorant to notice
the irony as we drink from a flask.

Too young to not be reckless,
but too old to be this senseless
when it comes to ignoring the label
that illustrates blackened lungs and hearts
Still, we ask strangers for darts
to get the cheapest high available.

They say the human world is a mess,
but we'll accept nothing less
than all the adventure life has to share.
Obsessed with our youth,
unsure of the truth
but too madly in love to care.
How do some of you interpret my poems, for example, this one?
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 Sep 2014 rob
aphrodite
Irony (10 w)
 Sep 2014 rob
aphrodite
Full of such heavy thoughts, yet feeling so unbearably empty.
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