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Jon Sawyer Sep 2022
A force has awoken me today, and I feel again.
In a drunken stupor, I pour my heart out,
expecting it to be devoured again.

And yet I commit,
the only thing I have to give,
time and time again.

What this brings to me I may never know,
but I expect it to take me and my mind to a lower place,
the voice beckons from behind the screen,
because it means so much to me.

I forsake all that I know,
in the hopes that the fire within me rings true,
to be trodden in the future I never knew,
the voice speaks from behind the screen.

The day's conclusion is never done,
even when sleep takes me on the morrow,
forever it beckons to me untrue,
why I should listen, I never knew.

Friends of old comfort me,
saying, "your voice is heard,"
but after the lights dim and the noise shuts out,
my own mind yells at me "get out."

This rhyme I speak is never meant to be,
a rhyme proper, but we'll see.
Yet it is my voice I speak this day true,
never to be found again, until this day is through.
Silly, I know.
Jon Sawyer Mar 2014
A whirlwind of pain
between a rock and a spear
all to be dinner
13 March 2014
Jon Sawyer Apr 2016
Nothing tries a person more
than the fire of their own soul.
13 April 2016
Jon Sawyer Mar 2014
Fields of music
And caverns of light,
Fill me with
A void of night.
12 March 2014
Jon Sawyer Jul 31
The organized systems of the past,
become the random numbers of the future.
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Jon Sawyer Jul 2018
We are what we are not.
30 July 2018 - A musing.
Jon Sawyer Mar 2014
"Crumb Control to Captain Munchie:
Any sign of foreign debris?"

"Negative. We've got Berry Crackles to the East,
Marshmallows to the West,
Graham Crackers at your six.
No imminent danger at this time.
Will inform upon foreign sugar filled morsel encounter.
Over!"
10 March 2014
Jon Sawyer Mar 2014
A canvas of possibility,
colored magnificently for the occasion,
yet inevitably disposable.
Though my life be short,
I witness the Joy of my purpose.
And they love me for it.
9 March 2014

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