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a eucalypt scent
wafted in the bush

its strong aroma
grasped the nose

plants gain notice
in nature's realm
by being pungent
i just want you to know,
the first time your hand touched my knee
my entire body came alive.
i saw a million fireflies.
looking at you makes me taste
sweet tea
and summertime.
your laugh is lemonade.
your tan skin makes me want
to die a thousand deaths.
and i would gladly.
to be jump-started by a million fireflies,
it would all be worth it.
i never knew i could feel so sick and so happy.
you tore me apart
in the most beautiful way.
the hole where my heart was still bleeds.
i wish you had taken my stomach
for, without butterflies in it, it is useless.
my brain has no purpose
now that you are not around to occupy it.
and worst of all you left me with lungs that i wish would collapse
because without you oxygen is poison.
never in your life will you have so much ahead of you
and yet you have nothing at all.
the first party, you drank too much.
at least your best friend held your hair when you vomitted.
the first kiss, was in the back seat of his car.
he ignored you the next week at school.
the first trip to the beach was in july.
the boys stared at you in your swimsuit for the first time.
the first date was at the movies.
he touched your knee and kissed your neck.
the first time life when really hit you,
was when you realized growing up isn't a good thing.
I wanted this to sound really disconnected, much like a teenager's thoughts. Hopefully you guys can relate to this--I sure can.
you cry in the shower,
because you dont want them to hear.
the people who are supposed to love you most,
are the ones who aren't even near.
you've been fighting a war on the battlefield of your mind,
a war that no one else seems to find.
i want you so bad.
for you are the moon and stars.
you are perfection.
I love writing when I feel something. And I feel in love right now. So here's a poem.
the rains shall bestow
the gift of flourishing growth
upon the landscape
the mainstream media feeds us
a lot of clap trap
it rarely reports the other side
of the news flap

we're drawn in by what is supposed
to be the story proper
yet there is independent
coverage on offer

mainstream media and governments
are in constant cahoots
to get to the nub of the story
the public should untangle their roots

it has been shown time and again
that we're been lead up the wrong story vein

so much of the truth is diluted
by the big media men
as they are so accommodating
of those policy making men

the facts are not always presented
in an accurate or exact way
regularly the state of the situation
is buried tidily away

the big media organizations
are our eyes and ears
to the world's happenings
but we the world community
would certainly like less of our news
undergoing all the sanitizing

linkages of media to government
do indeed exist
this ever so cozy arrangement
reports but only this combinations twist

independent news is there to give us balance
to the stories that are out there
the angels that it depicts give equilibrium
to the mainstreams daily fair
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