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Sometimes thoughts blanket the mind,
Sometimes stress smothers creativity,
Sometimes career collides with health,
Sometimes life forgets to live.
Don't know what to write , sometimes I wonder only death could provide me peace
Renn Aug 27
you’re the only one you can fully rely on,
only you can make a change.
people come, people go,
you will have yourself forever.
don’t stress over others,
friends or lovers too much.
if someone leaves,
grieve them as much as you please,
but don’t let it take over your life.
their presence will not save you.
There was a man not so very long ago, working as a mail man,
he hated his job,
hated his life,
barely able to survive.

He went home every night,
not a child or wife in sight,
spent his money on cable ****,
nothing in the cabinets but kernels of popcorn.

The end of his day was his pride and joy,
he had loved writing since he was a boy,
wrote books no one wanted to read,
publishers looking only for money and greed.

No one took chances, so he continued in his strife,
one day committing to taking his life.

An inbox message pings red,
he was surprised he wasn't dead,
a publisher willing,
to take a chance,
a simple offer,
a forever dance.

He said “I have one of two choices—stay in the post office and go crazy…or stay out here and play writer and starve. I have decided to starve.”

He wrote and wrote and worked to finish life as somebody,
finishing out his life on a high,

Yet the note on his gravestone reads

"Don't Try."
Why?
Based on Charles Bukowski's life.
CE Uptain Aug 27
Can’t catch the birds when they fly so high
You can’t see the world with tears in your eyes
You have to put your feet on the ground
To get your head in the clouds to look around
And you will never know unless you try

Now you might think you are above it all
Just before you take that call
But when you pick it up and say hello
You’ll be the one that has to go
And there will be no time left to stall

Right about then you’ll see the flashing lights
You can forget about all those lonely nights
You’ll be left with all you got
What you have and what you have not
And there will nobody cheering on your fights

When it’s all been said and done
You won’t be having any fun
You won’t get a second chance
You’ll be the victim of your own circumstance
And suddenly you’ll find out you’re not the one

When you finally come to realize
You’re seen through someone else’s eyes
You’re never as good as you thought
Can’t get to Heaven with what you bought
And you’re going to have to pay for all those lies

You’ll have to do some real explaining
Stop whining and stop complaining
Tell the truth to be forgiven
Admit the sins you’ve been living
And after that, in the Heavens will you remain
5/10/05
One from the library.
Jan Reest Aug 27
A fenced suburban dream
where we raised hyacinths,
and you had a faint smile
under the July sun,
under your cowboy hat.

Breath seeps from me
as I lay on the wet tile,
thinking of you.

Someday, I swear,
we can do everything we want to.
And we can pet the crocodiles.

Every day I think of
untwisting and untangling
these strings I’m in.

Every day I think
of taking your hand
and slaying all who stand in my way.

All these thoughts
have led me
to this cul-de-sac.
Jan Reest Aug 27
Condemned—
the mimes
count their beads,
a penance
well deserved.

Provocateurs soar
like Icarus—
lilies budding
from the orifice of evil,
flora and fauna
rising in my lungs.

Old coots clutch purses,
mourners cradle roses.
I have seen them all,
and heard
their prayers rot in the throat.
Paul Aug 27
Life can be tough
Life can be hard
Life can be unfair
Sometimes it only brings us despair

Life's challenges come in waves
Sometimes you laugh
Sometimes you cry
But you just gotta push and try

When everything feels sad and dark  
You gotta figth with all your might
Because you are the the brigth light in your life

Dont give up!
Norbert Tasev Aug 27
You wouldn't even admit it to yourself now, but you are forced to guard your own inner silence with open eyes, before being violated again and again every day; you couldn't believe that, like the beasts, you still await the Lack or the executioner's rope as your fate, you are chewing away the iron door of your prison cell of existence instead of yourself, because you have to jump into the subconscious nothingness, so that later you can safely catch yourself like a goldfish.

All that is now referred to as a solid fact-Reality may sooner or later become a terrifying fate, because even the enraged, snarling wild animal is increasingly stalking you; you pick up tiny crumbs as steps, while you only bend down with a sore back for a good bite, because your birth-beginning could never really begin, and yet it is forced to pass.

The thought keeps stumbling faintly, so that it can finally lie down in your melancholy mouth, because karma holds it captive. You are either forced or unwilling to drag your own weight every day, like many, many self-reliant millions of ants, who have a goal floating before their mental eyes; to climb the besieging sacred peaks of the social pyramid, laws, petty, meaningless rules of the game are binding you tooth and nail in the name of the broken balance, so that everyone is now hunting, slapping, or scraping for themselves.

On your bumpy, worn-out path set out from your heart, it would have been good if at least one person had accompanied you, but you yourself can easily see how much of a phrase this is now, a bumbling speech. You will remain locked in yourself for life, silently following your own beaten shadow, like some limping, confused Sisyphus, because you can hardly do anything else. Your wrinkles write your apocryphal will on the clown wall of your eternal childish face...
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