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j a connor Oct 2020
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Welcome to Earth
j a connor Feb 2021
We are a lot like our shoes
Some left, some right
Some soles worn
Some just tarnished
Some tied
Some free
All different colours and shapes
Polished and rough
Tongues hang out
Waiting for someone to walk us forward
Together
j a connor Oct 2020
The path of youth is a shallow grave
Develops character only to misbehave
Focus on watching, wasting and sighing
Prepare for the future, the old life is dying
j a connor Oct 2020
Wide open spaces
Far away places
Where the sun rests on it's cloudy bed at the top of the high peak
The thoughts of dreams
Of maybe tomorrow schemes
As if we have forever to achieve all that we seek
This journey we take
That we constantly break
Lazy work rising to the fore
Civilised heart
Failing to start
Living behind a closed door

Perhaps

This is our forever
Our whatever

No longer waiting for the end to come
j a connor Dec 2023
And through the darkness I see
Light
It's there
I reflect in hope

It's growing with the day
I see it
Through the cloud

The beauty
The dawn

Peace
j a connor Jul 2023
Lost is the mood that drives me today
Wherever I go it follows my way
This society depresses
Why am I so bad
Crisis in the world directs me to sad
Emotional blackmail for a world that is broke
Business ain't bad but I still can't be woke

Where are the elected in this generation of need
Happy for votes to sow their seed
No progress is made to end conflict and hate
Economics prevail despite all that is said

To end like this
Is not too smart
But I feel we are lost
Unless we start
Standing for truth
Not succumbing to fear
Challenging not accepting
Or
Living
Does
Not
Exist
Here
j a connor Jun 2023
I fly on thoughts to the distant horizon
All before is gone
History
Not mine
I am leaving too late to enjoy what is left
Awake in a reality not of my choosing
But is it a dream
Is it real life
Is it me
j a connor Mar 2021
Don't think I was wrong
Leaving this place
The names are the same
Just a different face
I've changed
I've grown
A better life
I chased
But
Somewhere on my journey
I missed something in my haste

Look to the future
You can't change the past
Respect for each other
Let's build a world to last
j a connor Feb 2022
I appear to have misplaced my life
I knew where it was until recently
but now
I can't find it anywhere
j a connor Oct 2023
departure gate
9:15
alone
j a connor Nov 2023
Into the dream depths
where my hopes rest
The thoughts of the day disappear
nowhere near
I exist only
in the truth of the lonely
j a connor Feb 2021
Am I here ?
Where is here ?
Am I there ?
Where is there ?
Where do I exist ?
Perhaps
Nowhere
j a connor Jan 2022
Am I here ?
Where is here ?
Am I there ?
Where is there ?
Where do I exist ?
Perhaps
Nowhere
j a connor Apr 2021
By the time we get to Mars
Saturn will be ringing

"Please Leave A Message And We Will Get Back To You ASAP"
j a connor Feb 2023
time has flown
ocean groan
birds have sunk
j a connor Nov 2023
My direction is simple
Take me to the horizon
Lead me from the storm
j a connor Dec 2021
but I digress
too many distractions like colours in a peacocks tail
lead me from seeing the real thing
camouflage is only skin deep
j a connor Oct 2023
but I digress
too many distractions like colours in a peacocks tail
lead me from seeing the real thing
camouflage is only skin deep
j a connor Mar 2021
Going on a journey
Catch up with my past
Need to see it all
Not going fast
Back
To my hometown
Back
To my roots
Back
To a time
I did what suits

Look around
Place not the same
Developed the vision
Where my beginning remains
j a connor May 2021
My direction is simple
Take me to the horizon
Lead me from the gales
j a connor Oct 2021
My direction is simple
Take me to the horizon
Lead me from the gales
why
j a connor Apr 2023
why
pity lives unowned
lost at sea
forever alone
j a connor Apr 2021
Observing from space
All they see is failed intelligence driven by deluded hierarchy
j a connor Jan 2021
For the sun
I leave my heart
For the stars
I leave my wishes
For the world
I leave my love
For time
I leave my soul
j a connor Oct 2020
The palate of sand
Rises to an extreme dryness
Reinforced by subtle elements
Perhaps grainy
Unexposed Pistachio
Ah
That certain crunch
Hits like a punch
Only to grind
My ivory
To paste
The illusion
I chase
j a connor Jun 2023
Warmed by the cover of clouds
The ground is frost free
No windscreen clearing required
j a connor May 2023
descending at the start
to societal expectation
I have to refocus
and understand
this is not the shape of things
escape the boundaries
look within
free real life
j a connor Aug 2021
Blue collar
White collar
Noose
j a connor Apr 2021
W   hat's
O   ur
R   ole
L   ife ?
D  eath ?
j a connor Oct 2021
Leaders debate
People stagnate
j a connor Dec 2024
To journey
To touch the language
To translate the invisible sword
j a connor Nov 2020
I read as the light goes
Or is it my eyes
The impending darkness
Changes my mood
Shadows form around me
The night likes to herald its own truth

Oh the drama

Time for bed
j a connor Jan 2022
laugh at yourself
laugh at life
enjoy yourself
enjoy life
time is short
in the age of earth
have fun now
its a long death
j a connor Jan 2021
Begone all the nay sayers
I have risen to be me
No more will I be passed over
No truth I will not see
For life is mine
And I must live
As this is the only time
I can give
To those who are sighing
What about tomorrow
Live like you're dying
Self pity
Is
Sorrow
j a connor Jun 2023
Identifying with things distracts from who you really are
Close your mind to the outside influences
Clear your thoughts
Live now as you choose
Just be
j a connor Sep 2023
Be who you are forget about the gimmicks
We were born original don't let us die mimics

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