Walls surround me
I think I am trapped
Pressure is building
Where is my map
Misplaced with other things
Too focused I have been
On unimportant matters
Will I find the escape
To once more try again
But time is running short
Options No
Have arrived at the stormy cape
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Democracies yield
To capitalistic excesses
Then destructed by revolutions
Which end in chaos
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No one speaks
Wars are no more
Holding hands in silence
From shore to shore
Acceptance creates freedom
How to get there
Never follow
Be yourself
Empty the square
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Nights are long
You fail to breathe
Stretching your arm
It hurts what's wrong
Must exercise in time
Muscles did dwindle
Lifting and bending
Do you have to.....
Of course
It's never too late
Be again strong
In the morning dew
A whistle a song
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Drum up the memories
Slide into your past
Enter a long lane
Where blurred memories
Identify dreams
Long ago cast
Push away your Demons
The ones who haunt you
now and then
Cause those you want to forget
Not the good times you had
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During conversation
Between young and old
Certain leader mentioned
His practices beyond scope
Human civilization
Dignity and charm
Not nurtured but contested

A young person gives a point
Thinks coarse language and lies
Are better than smooth talk
Or suffering cries

But how will that person ever know
If blinded by rhetoric
Out of the land of dystopia
My worn knee
Just made that hurting click
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Immense beyond comprehension
Once you hit time changes within
A country a human being
Only the latter might commit sin
The sinner the lover
Who plays by the rules
Ever-changing measures
To be hot to be cool
Changes in temperatures
A degree up maybe down
Dynamics of a country
Causing floods same time drought
Our hemisphere be large within
Like the country or sphere
How far do we look
To value we are here
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Stand up straight
Regain posture
Commands ring my ear
Always feared
Never experienced
They are still around
You ducked life as it ought to have been
Take pen and paper
They endure
Your self doubt exhillirations
All combined and accepted
How to be sure?
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Lines of discontent
Drawn out for decades
It doesn't make sense
Keep on going scratch and muddy
Self-righteous behaviour
Why bury yourself
Diminish family
Isolate friends
Can't see a light
Dullness sets in
Where are you now
This battle you won't win
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Years as a loner
Under the big changing Sky
work and commitment
Family shared, misbelief  a far cry
Yet down in his heart
A burning light
Hidden, secretly shielded
Condescending bullies outside
Illumination never extinguished
Shined at an occurence
Where clashes opened windows
Into a new bright world
He had to find a deed personal
To give it all he had
Persona physic in real time
No apprehensions met
Taking the reign of his gatekeepers' soul
Chose desires to be freed
To find freedoms mole
His mind at ease
A song danced his whistle
This lad with a brithel
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Tomorrow is the future
Today is the last day
Yesterday I made promises
Last week I stayed away
Last month I caved in
To moodiness and lack of discipline
Look forward to the day after tomorrow
When I shall bathe in glory and sin
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To a new age
Replace door
Between incompetence
And applied principles
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Ideas plummet into belief
Solidify
Become convictions denials
any true facts
Caught in the eyes
Which close
To avoid *******
Conserve and intensify
Their own misconceptions
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Drain me of pleasure
To be numb frightful and bound
Sink your teeth into my flesh
Rob me of willpower
So I can crawl into myself
A heap of my being
Let me rest steam for the hour
I will escape my jail
And head for the shower
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Hovering just above ground
Unreachable
Imagine a sound
Pasts come alive
Futures are vain
They are hope in the darkness
Illusions causing pain
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It had to be
Seperation at last
Not death but choice
Many differences in the past
It was a nightmare
Love gave in
To differences unconquerable
Witnessed by the next of kin
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I walked to the hollow
The empty in my soul
Trees surrounded me
Moving and tall
In the middle a dead one
Bare of skin
Now a pole
I looked up alongside
There to find hope in the blue sky
I am where I have been

My old bike
It just didn't want to take me
Another kickstart
Was this a maybe
I did feel resistance
Another try
And you go
Now we can ride
Feel the oxygenated air
Until reminded
I am low on fuel
Stop and replenish
At the next feeding station
We burn and we power
Every day every hour
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Don't want to go back
To before I met you
Tell me there is no need
To dig up old wounds
Long gone history
A place I have been
Where I felt lost and weak
Trapped in my own skin
You helped me shed
My layers of doubt
Which strangled my senses
I realize now
Thank you for being
A beautiful mind
A treasure of hope
In this enduring life

Passion eludes me
When I get lost in a task
Can't let go of the draw
To change and to build
Awake my passion
For love and desire
Give me your yearnings
Let's once more
Light this bonfire
When we ****** into sensations
Together we are whole
And soak in uncontrolled dreams
Nightmares are now on hold
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Give me some answers
To questions I pose
Convince me of their merit
Be honest be bold
Let's start a debate
Research and find facts
Rather than fooling ourselves
By accepting unproven hacks
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Soft was my texture
When we met
You liked my eyes
I was enthralled by all of you
We shared a new Lands sheet
Worked made children
Raised them fair
Love is a big word'
You once said
Just before our journey slowed
to a long days love affair

An organism is born
Out of laughter then envy then fear
A pattern easily followed
Mean deeds remain and tear
Truth not the subject
Imaginations have the reign
Battle is brewing
Yet there is the laughter
Of conspiracies' fame

Leave stones and sweat
Floers' fragrance in summer
Limitations set forth
Watching the blue sky
Or the waves of the sea
Erased from view
Parents' nightmares
Memories, war, refugees ,prisoner
Yet the earth doesn't budge
A spiritual foothold
This plot remains sacred
As long as I live
Plants shall now die
Transplanted and sad
To either in the sunlight
They lost the will to live

Doors and windows shut
We shiver
Waiting for sounds
Tensions are rising
Blood rushes to our foreheads
My legs are hurting
Scratches on our bedroom door
Intensifying
Getting up time
Our dogs time clock has spoken
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Try to tame my rhyme
To find more expression
free verse reads so well
Many writers have the possession
Would like to try
Will be reading more
Moreso in succession

Complexities these verses harbor
Climaxes achieved
Always makes me wonder
Of the depth of the seas
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Weigh the unconscious
Movements and touch
Put into hibernation
There is liberty
A state I found such
Never want to wake
Keep doing
You Angles of Dreams
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When a king went into exile
Someone rescued his soul
When the crowd came closing in
Freedom fighters
with survivals' goal
Stern rulers now must leave
The story of revolving
A cycle mankind weaves

Looking at my own head
A globe on a torso
Two ears are the poles
Two eyes the oceans
Flooding empathy's tears
Add many selfish looks
No answers expecting
Long nose the sniffer
distinguishes fears
While the mouth is the gobbler
will **** in all the pleasures
A foodies tastebuds at work

One has chosen to be in exile
Even when submerged
in a crowds game
Done to myself there is no shame
The feeling of exile
Within the whole of me
Suddenly my ear itches
It shuts me down
It throws me off
My irrational thinking
The buzz in my ear
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Not knowing who I am
Calling out
Do you feel me
You never heard my voices' sound
To whom do I put this forward
I really don't need to know
Fact is I feel and write
At this hour
I am literally alone

Selfish thoughts of failure
The moons face did grip my stare
Many times I look at it
It's calm illumination
Relieved anguish ignited hopes' flare
Really tough to be selfish
Myself just a speck of desire
There is no lack
Until a loved ones' worry
Releases me brings me close
Inform and explore
Appointments made
No explanations
Nuclear medicine
What are they looking for
She is anxious
Lets me feel it
Fear of enclosure four to five sixty
They say the procedure
Or test as you will

She asks me to drive her to stay until finished
'That's what I did for you
when you busted your leg'
She beggingly whispered
I did sense her fear
Moments of closeness release me
From my own selfs' sphere

Gone down the ladder
Climbing back up the steps
Positions are changing
In societies frames
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You are out there.........




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Feel guilty of living
Express sin and glory
Made it this far
Able to compress the story

It wants to unfold
Not coming out
Seeking a rainbow
Hidden behind a cloud

There are others
joining and dancing
Invisible moves
Flashes glancing

One time to break out
Stopped in its tracks
Epic journeys
Back to back
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Short whispers
We long for silence
A cushion of air
invisible distance between two
leaf drops in the zone
Eye lids whimper
Glowing irises
Meet in pairs
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Risks been taken
Pushing hard
You are bidding
Dreams of triple money
Dancing visions
Go higher loose sight
You are on fire🔥
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Futuristic thinking in a time compressed
Accelerated by technology
Will robots annihilate humans gist?
Rapid decline in cultures destinations
Mass bullying less debating
You are with us or you perish
Alarm bells are ringing
Who is ringing the Bells?
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Where do they March
Symptoms of a time
Repeated in history
Collected discarded resurrected
Blunt statements of ideas
Based on good will
Distorted and fractioned
They divide become a bitter pill
Blunt statements of facts
Pushed aside
Blamed as treason
Applicable everywhere
Explore and discover Reasons
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Questions his intentions
When he starts his battered truck
Ready to take him places
In awe when he realizes
He left
Is it nowhere or somewhere
Forced to judge he is alone
He keeps driving
Enters a roundabout
Full circle on the inside lane
Deciding on an exit
Not now he is playing his game
Indecision marred his intention
Second right for going south
Stop for gas
Back in your seat
His intention is
To be about
Does his thing no frowns now clear
Ready to go
Enters a new lifegoals' pier
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Cowards are screaming
Yelling to the point of
Loosing their identity
A big massive fright
An outside subjection
To terror polarization hate
Bring the wake-up calls
Don't wait
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My time is limited
To undo what I've done
Remorse never questioned
Tunes majorities sang
Quietness overwhelmed me
Hearing the warning bells
Everybody had the possibility
To at least help turn that key
To the truth documented
Defined observed
A glance
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A young boy in surrender
To his skills' fears and foes
Is overhearing arguments
Affecting him most
Youthful and helpful
Naive it can't be
Troubles are brewing
Not to be told
It
He can't see
Not to grab the extent
Of problems not his own
His family's fairing
No solution to save home
So he wanders and abandons
He did listen through the wall
Never spoke spoken to
The end of it all
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A chance in a moment given
Time of utter importance
The guts to come forward
To grab the extended branch
A quick evaluation
Does a chance mean it's right?

Step back and adjust posture
Deep breath before facts
Flood your thoughts
A river
Water flows faster than chance

To see it float away
Staying behind
A moment in decision making
A new chance will come this way
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Long journeys he longs for
Connect and disband
Histories follies
Yet approaching an end
A decision or movement
Into reality
When emotions give way
To a homeless gullibility
When leaning
Over this blackened soil
Once home to a testament
Of generational coils
Bounced through the ages
By successions of systems
Generated and foiled
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When resolutions become
empty space
In a lifetime
Why wanting to change
Only to adapt
To what is the question
Individualism is speaking out
Remind yourself while living
Of your adrenalin your strength
Do you hear your breakout shout
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Been deceived
Shiver down my spine
Been a sure crime
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Historical battles
In words and swords
Recognize and resemble
When you hear today's battles
Locally and on the world stage
Opposing groups deny the truth
Hired lawyers and dictators
Their combinations fool many
Question tactics and motives
When said forces
Display
Actions of visible guilt
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Try understand
Madness in crime
In sinister goals
Conspiracies' slime
Politics gone awry
Madmen are reigning
Beware
Be strong
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Not to need a reason
For explaining a state
Found in advanced aging
When past nowhere on a scale
Avoiding comments or displeasure
With oneself
It's society within to reside
Steps are shorter now
No leaps leaning wide
Enter the new hemisphere
Without temptations glide
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Ya right
Down the middle
Separated or joined
Ideology or mayhem
A country split
Let healing begin
Outsiders are listening
Histories' comparisons being made
Read and educate
Acknowledge true Media
Start your own
Throwing insults at each other
Never heals a bleeding womb
Ignore slapstick politics
A tool right now used
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No one speaks
The wars are no more
Holding hands in silence
From shore to shore
Acceptance creates freedom
How do we get there
Don't follow
Answer to yourself
Empty the square
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