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Mar 2020 John parker

Glowstick

Mar 2020 John parker

Alex

"It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes you have to break before you can shine."

you can call me names
you can make me cry
but all the things you do
only help me learn to fly

you can call me stupid
say I just don't got a clue
but you're the one who's clueless
of the things that I've been through

But go ahead & try to hurt me
I've got a secret you don't know
anytime somebody breaks me
like a glowstick, they make me glow

So just try to bring me down
go ahead and cross that line
and just like any other glowstick
you'll only make me shine

Please let me know if you like it! Feedback of any kind is always welcome and extremely appreciated!!!!

Mar 2020 John parker

I just want to be happy

Mar 2020 John parker

Alex

I just want to be happy

"I just want to be happy,"
I said, as tears fell down my face
I just want to be happy
and get the hell out of this place.

I just want to be happy
but I know I'll never feel that here
in this place where love is scarcely shown
and most time is spent in fear...

I just want to be happy
I don't wanna measure up
to some stupid freaking standards
that society made up

I just want to be happy
I just want to feel free
I just want to feel secure...
like I can actually be me

I want to lay down my burden
kick my heels up & relax...
I just want to be happy...
Is that too much to ask?

Happiness seems to evade me at every turn... stupid me...I forget...I'm not meant to be happy...when will I ever learn?

Mar 2020 John parker

Untitled

Mar 2020 John parker

katie

Untitled

it opens
like a wound
a torrent of
flumes and
the worries
subsume.
the day has
broken
with a thud
& every thing
we are, were, was,
momentarily
stops.
a
system as
tightly
bound as
ballet shoes
loosens
and we
become
the mist.
and when it sighs
a part of us dies,
the world's
engine ignites,
and those
familiar cogs begin
to grind
inside the
mind.

Mar 2020 John parker

That's My Angel

Mar 2020 John parker

ymmiJ

That's My Angel

when you found me there
blinded in madness
covered in dirt

my bourbon filled eyes
blinking up to you

a sobering vision
(that pulled me through)

how did you ever know
that this lowly man
could be saved

sometimes the train leaves at 100 MPH and never slows down. till they throw you off and leave you there. Hopefully there is an angel standing on the platform, waiting.

Mar 2020 John parker

the lost

Mar 2020 John parker

Lily

the lost

I was bleak
Dying upon the floor
I wished I had sought
The lost
The rare and radiant, the angels

Here

In the recent wake of Kobe Bryant's death, we should all be reminded that we shouldn't take people for granted. Say what you feel while you still have the chance; you never know when those people will not be with you anymore.

#love #death #heaven #lost #dying #kobe #basketball #poetry #loss #regret

Mar 2020 John parker

Impulse Control

Mar 2020 John parker

Smothered Divine

Impulse Control

It's in a color
A shade
A sight.
Impulse control is brought to the light.
Creature creation;
Imagine a nation
Where attention isn't amazing.
Wow, the egg yolks are bright
On your false fur skin.