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Sometimes I think that our bodies are like caves.

We're cold and rich with fungal mirth, swimming in the same mineral soup that stars were born of.

We spend our days working our marrow raw, breaking our joints to the beat of our daily commutes, and to what end?

For hope that the next ten-thousand generations will flourish, for the dream that they'll struggle less and have the chance to breathe—

We never did.

In all of our side-swept longings, we denied ourselves freedom of the ocean, the roads, the forest and nights spent in a lover's arms without setting our alarms.

Conformed to the grasp of routine we find small comforts in hot packed lunches and children's laughter heard from behind tinted windows as we drive past.

It hurts, and you don't know why, because they tell you that it shouldn't.

"You've got it all."

They say it with a smile that never meets the corners of their grey eyes.

"But it doesn't feel like it."

You want to scream back and let your lungs erupt into sun-gilt sky, your eyes scorched and searching for release.

You understand why Icarus licked his parched lips as he drowned into a welcoming sea:

You wonder how sweet it must have tasted.
Amanda Kay Burke Nov 2020
You aggravate an array of ways
Not listening to anyone
Have to correct everyone always
To you fight is never done
My mother is always on my *** about EVERYTHING
Grey Rose Nov 2020
Tell me
That gun that you're so proud of
Why does it tremble so much?
Is your hand following your unstable mind?
Is that the same hand that holds your child's?

Your emotions
Fragile enough to be crushed with a hug
Insecure enough to attack a compliment
Corrupt enough to endlessly reload on lies and deceit
Are those the same emotions you shoot into your wife at night?

Your bullets roar so loudly
What voices are you trying to drown out?
Your heartbeat clanks at the speed of the fallen shells
What are you so afraid of?
A man armed and ready to go off at any moment like you?

Tell me
What can you manage to defeat?
With those trembling hands
Uncertain of what to take aim at
You shoot down anything that moves
Uncertain of where the trigger is
You pull at anything you can reach
Uncertain of how much enemies are left
You forever stay in the trenches
I now know that when you bow your head at church that it's not for prayer

Then hoping to nullify your senseless you refuse to leave the battlefield
And take no-mans-land everywhere you go

You wear your bulletproof vest and rifle to the supermarkets, schools, offices, dinner tables, churches, and funerals

Forever firing
Forever charging
Forever defending
Forever fighting
Yourself.
Dave Robertson Nov 2020
Hedge sparrows drink the sun
as it wanes
and the draining year passes

they still glean a family happiness
in spite of the closing dark,
a spite richly deserved

listen to their lead and chatter,
ruffle and preen together, apart
as hearts and feathers wait
Big Virge Nov 2020
Now When It Comes To Conversations...
And Making Sure That Talk Runs FLUID...

It Seems That Some People...
NEED To... “ Learn How To Do It “... !!!

These Feeble Sheople...
Who Are NOT In Tune...
With Words of TRUTH...

Because What They Use...
Is Talk And ATTITUDES...
That Go WAY BEYOND Rude... !!!

Because They Seem CONFUSED... ?!?
As To How Discussions Should Really Move... !!!

Like Sticking To The TRUTH...
Instead of... ABUSE... !!!!!!!

When Other Heads Talk...
DOESN’T Sit With Theirs... !!!

Or The Thoughts In Their Head...
That Are... INCORRECT... !!!!

Like... THINKING That They...
Can Make... FALSE CLAIMS...

About... WHO YOU ARE... ?!!!?
And YOUR Family Chart...
As If It’s THEM Who Marked...
... YOUR Parents Card... ?!?

When They NEVER EVER Met...
EITHER ONE of THEM... !!!
BEFORE Their Deaths... ?!?

The Kind of DISRESPECT...
That’s NOT EASY To Forget... !!!

So These Heads Need To CHECK...
What They Want To Express...
When They Get... UPSET... !!!

But Then Have To REFLECT.....

Because of Things Said...
That Caused... Arguments...

And The LOSS of Friends...
When GROWN ASSED Men...
Start To Act Like CHILDREN... ?!?

So There’s NO MORE LOVE...
Or Arrows From CUPID... !!!

Because Their Talk LACKS PRUDENCE...
And CLEARLY Shows That They REALLY NEED...

To... “ Learn How To Do It “... !!!

Instead of Being STUPID...
Running Talk That’s PUTRID... !!!

That’s Gone Past ROTTEN... !!!
Cos’ It’s Filled With NONSENSE..... !?!

And The Type of PRIDE...
That Should Be DENIED... !!!

But It Seems That SOME...
Use The Talk OTHERS Run...
To Cause PROBLEMS...
In Their Conversations... !?!

When They THINK That They...
Can Make DUD Claims... !!!

Because of Things...
They’ve Heard OTHERS Say...

That ALLOWED Them To See...
A LITTLE Piece of Who You Be...

And Bits About YOUR Family...
That Could NEVER Paint...
The... ENTIRE Scene... !!!!!

So They’re Quick To TAINT...
And Make... STUPID CLAIMS... !?!

That Then... POLLUTE...
What Was Actually TRUE... !!!

When They Have NO CLUE...
What It Is That You’ve Been Through... !?!

OTHER Than...
What They’ve HEARD...
In The Next Mans Words...
That Could NEVER Show...
How DEEP Their Feelings Go... !!!

These Days I Don’t Know...
What’s Wrong With Some Folk...
And That’s.... NO JOKE... !!!!

When Things That They Quote...
Go... WAY PAST STUPID... !!!

Because When It Comes To...
Keeping Talk FLUID...
That’s... NOT ABUSIVE... !!!
Or AT ALL... Confusing... ?!?

It’s CLEAR To Me Now...
That A LOT of Folks NEED To.....

“ Learn How To Do It !!! “...
Wow, people sometimes can be truly UNBELIEVABLE !
Bre Nov 2020
Death came knocking on my door, the day of the funeral. It wanted me to write my name in ink, instead of tears. I would have never thought I had all these years to say goodbye. To say goodbye to life, my children, my family, friends, and of course myself. Death came and told me a story; not everybody has the courage to say goodbye in this life. But you are the good one who stayed, and put up a fight! So here I say to you, sleep tight.
crazy story, meanwhile I wrote this one because my Dad is laying in his death bed as we speak.

Hold your loved ones close!
Christina S Nov 2020
Leaves drained of their vibrant green
Snow gently falling on the ground,
Deer sneaking around in the meadow
All without making a sound.

Winter is here with slick icy roads
With COVID and others to boot
Thanksgiving is around the corner
And then we get our Christmas loot

Family is the name of the game
Friends are welcome too
Friends are family we pick
Bonds stuck together like glue

Joy beams from my heart
I love this time of year!!
For the birth of our Savior
My family, my friends and my dear
Just some thoughts about the season......
Leigh Nov 2020
She rambles a bit when she's excited to see us.
We're brought up to speed with her goings on
In the home that was built around her

As fast as her walker will go, we scurry to the front room
Where bread is cooling on the rack, and her excitement brims
To regale us with the morning's itinerary

It's all done to bring us into her world; to make us a part of it.
It's how she holds us close, making sure we're there with her,
As she may not grasp enough to be there with us...

She doesn't hear so well anymore you see,
But she didn't hear that from us as we smile and nod intently;
Just happy to be there, to be a part of it all
Flor Nov 2020
Your name is as sweet as the flowers
If only heaven has visiting hours
Then perhaps this pain would hurt less
I miss you more than words can express
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