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 Nov 2013 Tabitha
Mike Hauser
Can I please have a do-over

Can I start all over again
Can this life I've lived for so many years
Be tossed back into the bin

Can I please have a do-over

Till there is nothing left
Toss a coin into the fountain of life
Wish away all my regrets

Can I please have a do-over

Take all of my past mistakes
Put them all into a box
By the curb to be tossed away

Can I please have a do-over

A slight bend of the rules
For those of us that are a mess
Playing the part of a fool

Can I have a do-over...please
Today is your birthday
And I hope it will be
A day you remember
Something special you see

May it bee filled with joy
And people you love
And may you be blessed
By the Man up above

Let there be lots of laughter
And warmness to share
With heart filled greetings
From people who care

But today on your birthday
The gift I give you
Is my love and my friendship
One that will always be true
We used to hear and value words
we used to share and value giving
we used to think and value things around us
we used to feel and value loving
we used to work and value service.

What then is become of us?
What is this eerie monster in our camp

we used to live and value life
we used to play together as peers
we used to dance and value rythm
what is this that hunted our joy away?

Who is this monster in our home
who is this beast that lives inside of us.
We are our woes
we are the beast that's hunting us

we are part of the sordid tales that holds our lips
we are the darkness fighting our light

until we've changed our ways
until we've changed our dogmatic attitudes everyday is our eerie note.
 Nov 2013 Tabitha
Heliodoro Linna
Portfolios of love stocks,
Investments in a fickle,
Worthless market,
Corporate madness,
Wall of brokers broken,
Crumpled ticker tapes.
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