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Back then I was almost friends with the ground that looked so different from home.
I was here again; revelling in idealism.
The open free be yourself air was like nothing else; nothing like that which was compressed with the stress of home where when returning I wandered how I’d lived like that for so long.

The sea was a pure, grand buzz to view.
Elation!
No sense of being alone while playing and exploring.
Danger embraced when climbing crumbling cliffs.
Excitement!

Then there was the quaint village vibe.
The charm of night time walks near the sea.
Stars!
Ship lights!
Tranquility!
Folding paper writing tunes
A little poem or a cartoon

A song at bedtime a stadium gig
A dream that’s small a dream that’s big

Painting by numbers or a priceless piece
Stories of heroes or golden geese

Its nobodies business to treat as rust
what to you is sprinkled with magic dust
Should this be made longer or kept small?
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                        doom // the///
                            color of despair  
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                    emerald rainbow
              hues // rubies //
               topaz // peridot //
              deepest sapphire
          blue // but the ///
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        feathers // or /////    
           plumes if you poets    
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clipped /// they /////    
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SoulSurvivor
(C) 11/14/2016
I hope this comes out!
This one goes to the real poets.
To those who decide to carry the world on their own.
To those who carry hell in their head and a graveyard of lost love stories in their heart
To the brave ones who fight darkness with darkness.
Tho those who the only answer they seek from a god is if there's eternal life for their loved ones, because they know there's no space for them in that paradise.
To those who know that suffering is the most humane feeling there is.
To those who loved and hated the wrong person.
This goes to Lorca isolated, hiding in a closet in New York.
To Unamuno craving to believe in something impossible.
To Quiroga drinking the poison of his sorrow at a hospital.
To Becquer and Espino for dying so young.
To Neruda for cheating on himself so many times.
To Machados' lost spirit.
To Marquez and his melancholic ******.
To Poe's tormented soul and his raven.
To Shakespeare and his Juliet.
To Dante and his story of woe.
This goes for the only beings who can live with a hell inside of them, and still manage to write heavenly things for those in need to read.
This one's for us.
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Like dead souls struggling to construct our own serenity  
Shattered at the prospect of another morn
While all along planned from before eternity
His tribulations would bring a new dawn

Like strays from the herd with no direction
Unknowingly craving the presence of the sheep herd
Being pursued and needing His loving correction
But tired of hearing what we had NEVER heard

Torrential impeachment reigning in our hearts
While truth knocks our door daily
Seasoned with sardonicism  we bolt like a dart
Back to the darkness almost gaily  

A pretext assumed before reading one word
of scripture so remote yet the richest of its kind
wallowing in our own understanding; so absurd
how Joyful to leave all of that behind

The prince of peace I pray to thee
That you sustain me continually
Then maybe I can share you
And set others free
Amen
Sometimes we goof; sometimes we’re aloof
yet all of truth is under one roof

All the same really; not always so clearly
Reduce not to merely the entire theory

The arts carried magic before mass production
But still can be found, the numinous induction

Minority knows; majority knew
Sonority is truth….can you hear it too?
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