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You are beautiful and sad
worn out at such a young age.
tired and bored and endlessly unsatisfied.
whether you're surrounded or alone
whether you're standing in front of a mirror
or    attempting to sleep  on your bed.

There are days you laugh at the silliest things and nights
you cry, because of nothingness.

And you know you're young, but you feel old.
and you feel you're growing old and youth is slipping away
from your finger tips.

"I wanna do so many things"
" I want to be happy"

you say, but you continue to stand move less.
are you a coward or perhaps a fool?
what are you doing here?
why do you continue to stay so, very sad?

I am not allowed to say  

"get over yourself"
"stop whining"

because you're depress aren't you?
special, more fragile.
because you are worthless.
and I am not allowed to say.
what you repeatedly say to yourself.

last night you wanted to die--
no one listened to you, no one understood you.
and no one will ever understand you, no one will ever listen

You want to get over yourself, but you can't.
and you chug another pill, maybe another one just in case.

But you see... the harsh truth is,
you are alone, you will always be alone.
and your parents will not understand you, neither your friends
and sometimes even you, yourself would not understand.
that is why, my dearest friend--

You must **** it up.
Get up. Grow.
Prove me wrong, that you're not worthless.
prove yourself wrong. That *
you can.
i want: an elbow-crook to rest my head
             a cigarette to share,
             naked forms in riverbeds
             and universal train fare.

i need: breastplate percussion under my ear,
            a breathing on my spine,
             a sunrise built -- my eyes to sear,
             and send me to my sign.
to a boy named sam because i never got to say mine
fingernails
through the slits
of borrowed garments
brilliance
leaks from sinkholes
riddling your forearms
earth touch
in your tendons
tarred feet to sync
with astral chords
and soil chains
-
the subject of this poem~
"Escribe con los pies, poeta de la calle"
"Write with your feet, poet of the street"


days of no inspiration,
nights of emptiness irritation,
labor strife strives to divide,
the desire, the greedy needy,
to unburden, touch lips to tablet,
unsatisfied, muse departed
for foreign lads in foreign lands,
where dark eyed ladies sing
put the load right right on me

where once I saw poetry,
now I see lessons of less,
trees blowing whipped me frenzied,
saw cappuccino foaming,
revisited, now, see but tired dancers,
de-auditioned, sent home to wonder,
poets with paper cuts but no bleeding,
so eager so desirous of conceiving, thinking,
will I ever......................................again

once, every step a poem,
every sidewalk crack,
a smack down of nuance,
eye recorded,
mind disordered,
run home, to dance
each vision into words,
gloria, glorious just to walk
my city streets

once upon a time,
a traffic light rainbow,
stopped n' go, was a word design,
demarcated visions of spun sugar,
bodegas sold me
magic beans by the pound,
masterminded into cups of delight,
treasury's bounty overflowed,
now, dregs drain, sink stained,
as are my writing utensils,
my ink stained, us-less, fingers

come visit me, unknown stranger,
let us exchange fluidity, barbs,
a contest of kissing, eye lashing
wit ands shared vision stashing,
and together, once more,
write with our feet,
while holding hands,
becoming once more
poets of the street.

Only, come quickly,
Oct 13th, 2012
1:36 pm
Tinkered with July 2nd, 2013
 Jul 2013 unashamedlyashley
st64
just the eyes of a child
fixed
seeking its place
in a meadow
of flowers
fixed on the horizon
out to sea

steep climb
yet I want to sit in that storm with you
in the eye of it all

sitting with Mimi-meouw and biscottis
and mind .... so far away...

the heart
one more line
closer to the sky



S T, 30 June 2013
Ha... 'tis a beautiful Sunday....is it not :)

Despite the cooler climes....the sun shines yet for....all.


(Am enjoying Bowie at present and his outrageously cool outfits....really love this innovative song!
Performed it last night - smashing feeling :)
Only wished my courage matched his avant-garde presence! lol


Sub-entry: “Space Oddity” - David Bowie

Ground control to major Tom
Ground control to major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on..

Now it's time to leave the capsule .... if you dare

.. I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go


.....your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me...........
Can you...
Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do


www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY‎
 Jul 2013 unashamedlyashley
st64
What will I say to you
That you haven’t heard before...before?
Never occurred to me, to meet you.
You, at all....you, at all
So great a legend...to comprehend
Oh, at all...oh, at all.

CHORUS:
What I’ll say to you, I don’t really know
But you must know...that I .....thank you
I thank you.

What will I say to you
That you haven’t heard before...before?
Guess I will never know, but I’d like to try.
Oh, I love you; how I want you.
Will we ever meet one day?
Heaven knows...oh, please tell me!         REP CH

S T, 30 June 2013
Tick-tock...tick-tock....will dreams ever be realised?
Song written long ago...dreaming of stars....still hoping to get to one....




sub-entry: ‘hot-water bottle’

in the cold of the night
when whistling wind whispers...  who the hell knows what
count on ...hot-water bottle 
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