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Alarm clock kicks exhaustion into gut immediately as it sounds University student jolts into day still dark 20 years later body still too daft to recognize shrill wake-up call as prey rather than predator US kills Russians in Syria strikes How to get ready in under ten minutes—life hacks you won’t believe: leave without locking the door, forget to brush your hair, and more Five reasons breakfast is the most important meal of the day Trump wants to replace food stamps for impoverished Americans Snow in the forecast for the next three days Why is vitamin D important for our bodies? Sleep deprivation: a student epidemic I’ve had panic attacks every day for the past three years—here’s how I’ve coped Accused killer says victim hired him to do it on Craigslist Want to know how to budget as a college student? Stop buying Starbucks All she has to do to claim 560-million-dollar lotto is make her name public—she refuses Signs that your friendship is coming to an end Lions eat and **** suspected poacher Tips on how to be successful after college These are the victims of the Florida school shooting Binge-drinking on college campuses and escapism: the dangers of drinking to forget Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 12:27 AM UTC
Politics in the Dark
Sit say nothing just let things go Extra stress not needed as our lives find there flow A well oiled machine that's how we work you and me Unyielding emotions take there toll everything has a fee Not sure I'd have coped been able see these years through There is no one   who helps me the way that you do You give me strength where I lack I always know you've got my back You make this life a little lighter sad dark times a little brighter Thanks so much for all you do Thanks little sister I love you
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 11:40 AM UTC
Appreciation
Gumdrops come in many colors Yellow, orange and green My gumdrop hides his color So his feelings can’t be seen His character is charming His humor can’t be beat He’s loving, kind; a friend of mine Yet, he creates his own defeat Avoidance is an issue, Procrastination set in stone His fears are locked so deep inside He fights the world alone. I understand his silent walk My feet step in his tracks Circumstances changed the soul; True confidence we lack. When tragedies besieged him His body young in years He coped the only way he could While fighting back the tears He lost himself eventually Gave in to worldly sins But, Gumdrop has the strength of few He stood-up, once again. With work, he rose above the clan Temptation everywhere He faithfully now walks the walk Recovery he shares Sadness still surrounds him Eyes open for dark skies Preparing for the looming breach, He limits joy inside Why would he risk familiar odds? Reality is rough To avoid the possibilities, Is safer than to trust Don’t try to understand him He won’t let you in He’s had to learn the hard way He won’t get kicked, again. But I am pretty lucky, I’ve known him for so long With memories and good times and Billy Joel’s top songs I wish for him bright colors Prayers I’m always sending But Gumdrop holds the steering wheel He writes the script and ending Yep.  Gumdrop is a blessing My friend he’ll always be Can he step outside his comfort zone? I guess we’ll have to see.
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Mar 20, 2011
Mar 20, 2011 at 7:51 PM UTC
Gumdrop.
Gumdrops come in many colors Yellow, orange and green My gumdrop hides his color So his feelings can’t be seen His character is charming His humor can’t be beat He’s loving, kind; a friend of mine Yet, he creates his own defeat Avoidance is an issue, Procrastination set in stone His fears are locked so deep inside He fights the world alone. I understand his silent walk My feet step in his tracks Circumstances changed the soul; True confidence we lack. When tragedies besieged him His body young in years He coped the only way he could While fighting back the tears He lost himself eventually Gave in to worldly sins But, Gumdrop has the strength of few He stood-up, once again. With work, he rose above the clan Temptation everywhere He faithfully now walks the walk Recovery he shares Sadness still surrounds him Eyes open for dark skies Preparing for the looming breach, He limits joy inside Why would he risk familiar odds? Reality is rough To avoid the possibilities, Is safer than to trust Don’t try to understand him He won’t let you in He’s had to learn the hard way He won’t get kicked, again. But I am pretty lucky, I’ve known him for so long With memories and good times and Billy Joel’s top songs I wish for him bright colors Prayers I’m always sending But Gumdrop holds the steering wheel He writes the script and ending Yep.  Gumdrop is a blessing My friend he’ll always be Can he step outside his comfort zone? I guess we’ll have to see.
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The breeze flew effortlessly between us and I begged for it to be enough or even just enough to pull me with my everything apart from you. With my toes in the sand that seems so blue I refuse to allow my eyes to meet yours afraid that in your dark galaxy I see her and afraid that my eyes will scream the lullaby of just how much your name means to me. I’m trembling to the thought of you knowing how much of my heart you’ve wooed for many years it was in your deathly grasp and for many years I’ve maintained this mask. I’ve kept my vulnerability safe for so long away from your knowledge was where it belongs simply because I’m afraid of how small I’ll become of how insignificant I’ll be to a heart that was so numb. I don’t want to seem irrelevant on your end for I was a good friend, a great friend and it aches me to allow you to see that the good friend, the great friend I seem to be was only a camouflage I used to keep my love, my desire, my everything hidden deep deep away from you for I refuse to be like one of them; the pets you treat with little to no respect but thinks they’re all gems. What does it take to be a gem in your life? Does it take a threat; with a pen, a gun or a knife? Or does it take laying bare aside you not giving you a hard time? Paying for all your lies with every feeling, every desire and every dime? Pretending to be a fool like all your pets, and hope just hope… That one day you’ll reward me for all the pain that I’ve coped? A good friend, a great friend isn’t enough for me anymore play the pet, buy the lies, **** the modesty, become the ***** -fir.m
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Mar 3, 2021
Mar 3, 2021 at 4:33 AM UTC
a good friend, a great friend
The breeze flew effortlessly between us and I begged for it to be enough or even just enough to pull me with my everything apart from you. With my toes in the sand that seems so blue I refuse to allow my eyes to meet yours afraid that in your dark galaxy I see her and afraid that my eyes will scream the lullaby of just how much your name means to me. I’m trembling to the thought of you knowing how much of my heart you’ve wooed for many years it was in your deathly grasp and for many years I’ve maintained this mask. I’ve kept my vulnerability safe for so long away from your knowledge was where it belongs simply because I’m afraid of how small I’ll become of how insignificant I’ll be to a heart that was so numb. I don’t want to seem irrelevant on your end for I was a good friend, a great friend and it aches me to allow you to see that the good friend, the great friend I seem to be was only a camouflage I used to keep my love, my desire, my everything hidden deep deep away from you for I refuse to be like one of them; the pets you treat with little to no respect but thinks they’re all gems. What does it take to be a gem in your life? Does it take a threat; with a pen, a gun or a knife? Or does it take laying bare aside you not giving you a hard time? Paying for all your lies with every feeling, every desire and every dime? Pretending to be a fool like all your pets, and hope just hope… That one day you’ll reward me for all the pain that I’ve coped? A good friend, a great friend isn’t enough for me anymore play the pet, buy the lies, **** the modesty, become the ***** -fir.m
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God, if you only knew the things these eyes have seen. I feel as if I’m the only one to have felt this heaviness in my soul. It breaks me down. I’m scavenging for survival. For hope, for humanity. I wait patiently in the dark hoping to watch as the light breaks through this darkness I live in. Will the sun rise? Will the moon give in to its brutal blows? Or will I be left again, left wondering where I’m meant to travel to next. I watched my family torn from the places once called sacred. The treasures they held once before meant nothing, their lives were the only treasure they had left. The only treasure I had left. Some tore their way out of that hell. The mental affliction that caused them to drown in their own murderous screams. They moved on with their quest for a purpose, ripping away the flaws and scars left by the pain experienced. Becoming something new, remade. Still beautiful, they didn’t break. They persevered. I watched as others tied the fear and pain to their ankles, always dragging it with them. Others would notice the chains they pulled, but never say a word. Never reach out a hand to search for the key to these aches. Just watching them survive, I watch them survive. I survive. But the worst of all to watch was The Interpreter. The ones who fell for the lies that got them with me in this black hole. The ones who never coped, never wanted a purpose, they wanted revenge. Revenge on the ones who tore their soul apart, piece by piece. The ones who took every bit of sanity they had and laughed as it fell unreachable by any man. I watched as something once so beautiful, miraculous, pure and true turn into something that made me want to cringe. So hungry. Always remembering the starvation they suffered from and using it as a crutch and weapon to fill the hole that cannot be filled by things as such. I try to help but they snarl in defense, forgetting that once I was their friend. Only thinking of the world as an enemy, and everyone in it an enemy as well. I try to stop them, plead for them to stay, just to here a few words. Just to know that they aren’t alone, I’m here in the darkness too.
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 8:11 PM UTC
Lone Wolf.
God, if you only knew the things these eyes have seen. I feel as if I’m the only one to have felt this heaviness in my soul. It breaks me down. I’m scavenging for survival. For hope, for humanity. I wait patiently in the dark hoping to watch as the light breaks through this darkness I live in. Will the sun rise? Will the moon give in to its brutal blows? Or will I be left again, left wondering where I’m meant to travel to next. I watched my family torn from the places once called sacred. The treasures they held once before meant nothing, their lives were the only treasure they had left. The only treasure I had left. Some tore their way out of that hell. The mental affliction that caused them to drown in their own murderous screams. They moved on with their quest for a purpose, ripping away the flaws and scars left by the pain experienced. Becoming something new, remade. Still beautiful, they didn’t break. They persevered. I watched as others tied the fear and pain to their ankles, always dragging it with them. Others would notice the chains they pulled, but never say a word. Never reach out a hand to search for the key to these aches. Just watching them survive, I watch them survive. I survive. But the worst of all to watch was The Interpreter. The ones who fell for the lies that got them with me in this black hole. The ones who never coped, never wanted a purpose, they wanted revenge. Revenge on the ones who tore their soul apart, piece by piece. The ones who took every bit of sanity they had and laughed as it fell unreachable by any man. I watched as something once so beautiful, miraculous, pure and true turn into something that made me want to cringe. So hungry. Always remembering the starvation they suffered from and using it as a crutch and weapon to fill the hole that cannot be filled by things as such. I try to help but they snarl in defense, forgetting that once I was their friend. Only thinking of the world as an enemy, and everyone in it an enemy as well. I try to stop them, plead for them to stay, just to here a few words. Just to know that they aren’t alone, I’m here in the darkness too.
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Wood smoke carries on the air The time driven memory Of ****** basics and soulful Earthy humankind Surrounding each personal cell and Lifting the arm-stretching power Of fire and the need to feel warmth The technology of modern man Is dashed on the rocks of time As we drift with the stench of our youth The well worn shoe and the eiderdown The hot water bottle and the candle Flickering and holding us with A knowledge of comforts And our understanding We live within this world and feel The circle of life that smells of Log fires in the autumn and the sooty Blackbird song of impending winter The warble and the peaceful heart of Everything we love as seasonal Mists and dancing flames keep us Wrapped in our primeval lives Will autumn bring a kind or hard winter No matter, we have coped with them all By Max Hale
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM UTC
Autumn
You're not really a baby, no more than I am an adult at 20. I'm struggling to find the words to tell you that I understand. I have been where you are. I went through those days and nights when it felt like the world was against me. Oh the nights were worse than the days, nothing like the ticking of a clock to make you feel alone. Growing up isn't easy, kids at school are cruel and dumb. I coped the way you're coping too. Turned my body into a canvas in which I only painted with red. Hid behind hoodies and long sleeved shirts. Told mom and dad white lies about my newly painted "artwork". So I'm not just some concerned family member condescendingly saying that I understand, I actually do. I have fought that battle, and some days I still do. I've been stuck in that darkness, felt the need to open myself up to fight my demons. But baby brother, opening yourself up, painting those canvases will only win battles, and only for so long. It takes family to really win that war.
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 10:59 PM UTC
To My "Baby" Brother:
Coping is just a solution you do what you can not what you must and there's nothing but higher purpose as must no rules in the land of lust it's a hard decision to know such how to put it so I can understand? Coping is finding a way then finding you've gone astray Coping is the key and the lock Coping it's just the way heart works But there's something higher, you will find it like it or not. The time I coped, I was living good, on my own. Hands below my ******* you on the phone. Beautiful mistake! Of the planned move - beware But how to do it, when everything else fails when contraries meet No rules for life, so you get lost some time. You can trace yourself back. Get found, so you can be lost again. Wonder, revel. What I feel for you - something I can't describe I want the bed with you - I always did want that But I am afraid the demons are howling again Using the word love as a threat This is not love, won't be fooled this time No big adventure without ditching something I ditch you pain, I ditch you unhealthy attachment, I ditch you love, because you tore down my guts The world has opened its jaws not to swallow me but to let me gently in it's showing its teeth, saying "Girl, you can look, enjoy this" (Enjoy my sharpness, how I slice you open but A butterfly in every **** an ecstasy even when you're about to drown) A gift from above - did I work for it? The world is smiling at me It always did, it always did And the road might be bumpy And awhile I might have to solve it But I am on my road towards Somewhere better than where I come from.
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Sep 4, 2019
Sep 4, 2019 at 6:06 AM UTC
Coping
Coping is just a solution you do what you can not what you must and there's nothing but higher purpose as must no rules in the land of lust it's a hard decision to know such how to put it so I can understand? Coping is finding a way then finding you've gone astray Coping is the key and the lock Coping it's just the way heart works But there's something higher, you will find it like it or not. The time I coped, I was living good, on my own. Hands below my ******* you on the phone. Beautiful mistake! Of the planned move - beware But how to do it, when everything else fails when contraries meet No rules for life, so you get lost some time. You can trace yourself back. Get found, so you can be lost again. Wonder, revel. What I feel for you - something I can't describe I want the bed with you - I always did want that But I am afraid the demons are howling again Using the word love as a threat This is not love, won't be fooled this time No big adventure without ditching something I ditch you pain, I ditch you unhealthy attachment, I ditch you love, because you tore down my guts The world has opened its jaws not to swallow me but to let me gently in it's showing its teeth, saying "Girl, you can look, enjoy this" (Enjoy my sharpness, how I slice you open but A butterfly in every **** an ecstasy even when you're about to drown) A gift from above - did I work for it? The world is smiling at me It always did, it always did And the road might be bumpy And awhile I might have to solve it But I am on my road towards Somewhere better than where I come from.
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I don't remember his face I tried my hardest to block it out In the black in the back of that delivery truck I fought and I fought but I was but a mere girl I was 12 years old See No Child Left Behind Had come along And everyone thought it was the best thing ever But they didn't teach a course on how not to get ***** I didn't know So I didn't share I held it in and i coped the only way i knew how Every single night I slid that blade across my skin And the red would come Unfailing I couldn't count on my savior in the back of that truck But the red The red was unwavering My poor poor Innocence Lost and alone I had no choice but to replace you with Pain The pain that clouded my mind And prevented me from reliving that moment when My dear dear Innocence Lost and afraid I had no choice but to replace you with Liquid Courage Nothing mattered when he was around My sweet sweet Innocence Gone eternally I had no choice but to replace you with the same amount of destruction that made me loose you
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 10:24 PM UTC
Ode to Innocence
she was the girl that everyone wanted the reckless young rebel who was a question mark to most and an answer to others she kept most things to herself such as her secrets and her razor for that's the way she coped when everyone expects perfection you have to be perfect she was the one boys went after but could never quite catch her drinking was the infinity and her smoking was a protest she did not smoke to enjoy herself but to die .
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 3:39 PM UTC
The girl who wore a porcelain mask.
You could have called it a blind date, The manner in which we first met, But one that was truly desired, Not one made for some stupid bet. A year has now passed since that day, My life then so completely changed, When my future was realigned, And not just merely rearranged. With the little sight I had left I really liked what I first saw But my social skills were lacking And my emotions were red-raw. She saw through my anxieties; The pain I had coped with for years, She seemed to sense the imprint left, By many invisible tears. Empathy was her strongest suit, That was obvious right away, Her bright sunny manner ensured, We had an enjoyable day. It’s strange how two can so quickly Be bonded and then become one, And all seeming as natural As the rising of the dawn sun. With the little sight I had left, I really liked what I first saw, And I knew the feeling was mutual, When she nuzzled me with her nose And then offered me - her paw …
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 3:16 PM UTC
Anniversary Of A Blind Date
Most of the people hate isolation only a few taking it as blessing and such is the one I'm talking about. What if the familiar have shunned me, he would say, the world is now mine, to the strangers I bare my heart, as they do to me, a complete stranger, in the once and possibly the only meet between people otherwise divided exchanging thoughts and contacts sure no call would ever follow but happy in the chance encounter. He thus meets a melange of people, the man whose wife fled with her lover, the woman whose husband deserted her but she still wears red in his name, the son abandoned in childhood the old woman disowned by son. He takes all their sadness into him and feels his own greatly diminished thankful that fate hasn't been as harsh or how he would have coped with the misfortunes that befelled those strangers. He bows his head, for in the isolation, he knew how it hurts to be deprived of what was obviously legitimate.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 8:42 PM UTC
Familiar Faces
His now withered hand hardly moved and yet I still knew what he meant but it hurt me so to see my Dad once a man so powerfully strong be brought down by a bad heart and by arthritis so cruelly bent. His last eleven years were all in pain it was plain for all to see he worked all through the second vile war sometimes in long eighteen-hour shifts but he died at only fifty-two in front of my siblings and me. I will never know how my Mum coped there were six of us to raise and though she struggled, oh how she struggled she fed and clothed us by means It was only much later as an adult that I understood and looked back in praise. ©Joe Wilson – My beloved parents…2014
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 4:10 PM UTC
My beloved parents...
How many were going to St Ives?  Were the cats in sacks alive? Who cares if every one arrived? For the greatest riddle I derive Is how on earth, do you surmise, that poor man coped with seven wives?
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Apr 27, 2010
Apr 27, 2010 at 1:27 PM UTC
As I was going to St Ives
It’s not meant to bee Humble and BlondeBee’s latest date was at ‘Where it’s at.’ All their friends were there too, so it wasn’t that bad. But by the end of the night, they realised there was no spark. Sure enough, good friends they were and still are, But there was no love, even when the two of them slow danced And by the end of the night, They each had the same doubts about the romance. They arranged a date for the following day, Because they both really wanted it to work. They went for a fly and made their way to a pool, And the two of them began to friendly flirt. But after a while BlondeBee said I’m sorry Humble, I can’t do this anymore. I do like you, but only as a friend And Humble said thank The Queen! I was worrying for sure. I do like you too, but I’m not falling in love. If we can remain friends, that would bee so cool, But I think we both agree, that this should end, Before I act even more of a fool. Yes Humble, it was nice to dream, But there is someone else on who I am keen And I think he could bee the one. You sure move fast, Humble said with a laugh. I wish you all the luck in the world BlondeBee. I will see you anon. The two of them parted and Humble’s new search started. He still had such hopes on who she would bee. The Queen had been right. If it doesn’t feel right, it’s wrong; But it was time for Humble to go and find his own song, But who would Humble’s bee bee? He hummed to himself as he made his way home And he told his parents what had happened when he arrived. He coped with it quite well, and only once when all alone, Did he allow himself to cry. Soon he was fine and a new love he would find. There has to bee a way. He knew his heart would once more fly. (C)2019 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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Aug 18, 2019
Aug 18, 2019 at 6:57 PM UTC
14D - It's not meant to bee
It’s not meant to bee Humble and BlondeBee’s latest date was at ‘Where it’s at.’ All their friends were there too, so it wasn’t that bad. But by the end of the night, they realised there was no spark. Sure enough, good friends they were and still are, But there was no love, even when the two of them slow danced And by the end of the night, They each had the same doubts about the romance. They arranged a date for the following day, Because they both really wanted it to work. They went for a fly and made their way to a pool, And the two of them began to friendly flirt. But after a while BlondeBee said I’m sorry Humble, I can’t do this anymore. I do like you, but only as a friend And Humble said thank The Queen! I was worrying for sure. I do like you too, but I’m not falling in love. If we can remain friends, that would bee so cool, But I think we both agree, that this should end, Before I act even more of a fool. Yes Humble, it was nice to dream, But there is someone else on who I am keen And I think he could bee the one. You sure move fast, Humble said with a laugh. I wish you all the luck in the world BlondeBee. I will see you anon. The two of them parted and Humble’s new search started. He still had such hopes on who she would bee. The Queen had been right. If it doesn’t feel right, it’s wrong; But it was time for Humble to go and find his own song, But who would Humble’s bee bee? He hummed to himself as he made his way home And he told his parents what had happened when he arrived. He coped with it quite well, and only once when all alone, Did he allow himself to cry. Soon he was fine and a new love he would find. There has to bee a way. He knew his heart would once more fly. (C)2019 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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I chose you for captain though you were off course I saw you a hero, a knight on a horse I dreamt of you sailing when I saw you’d no boat I spoke of your valour, put you on a high note I believed you were convinced though I knew you had doubt I willed you a listener while hearing you shout I put you up high even though you were low I smiled and I laughed to cover your sorrow I wished with all hope while you crawled and you groped I submitted to faith while on logic you coped I watched in helplessness as you slowly slid away I heard my words echo when there was nothing more to say
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Feb 20, 2011
Feb 20, 2011 at 1:07 PM UTC
LOSING YOU
I think that the scent of a blunt all over me will always remind me on those late nights and early mornings we spent on the rooftop of a building, you rolling a joint and we're smoking it up until our lungs gave up on us. It will remind me every time people hot box a room and it is filled up with smoke and in those smoke clouds I will forever see you lighting up that blunt and you give me that smile in your face and you offer me some. I might just be hallucinating with the fact that your face is still clear but everything in my surrounding is becoming a blur. Whenever I see a person about to light up with a spliff, my mind wanders off and looks for you even if you aren't there in the very moment. Pretty sure this has become your signature scent because no matter what I end up thinking about you. Some people may not be able to appreciate and cannot withstand of how it smells, but to me it means everything. Cause with the months of hanging out together I've learned to love it and I know whenever I am with you I breathe in the smell of happiness, because with you that is what I truly feel. With all the memories shared and made, I learned to have a liking for this scent and this is how I've also learned how to love you. I got to know that this is how you sometimes coped with problems, how you bonded with friends, and how you spent your free time. Hence to when I smell a blunt it reminds me of home and your sweet embrace, for you are my home and your arms is where I feel most safe. The hours between 1 am to 4 am have never felt so high and amazing and it is truly an amazing feeling. A connection I've never had with anyone before. I smile when I get to smell a blunt because the thought of you brings joy in my life and I hope that I'll never lose my home.
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 8:42 PM UTC
sweet fragrance of the lovely stoner
I think that the scent of a blunt all over me will always remind me on those late nights and early mornings we spent on the rooftop of a building, you rolling a joint and we're smoking it up until our lungs gave up on us. It will remind me every time people hot box a room and it is filled up with smoke and in those smoke clouds I will forever see you lighting up that blunt and you give me that smile in your face and you offer me some. I might just be hallucinating with the fact that your face is still clear but everything in my surrounding is becoming a blur. Whenever I see a person about to light up with a spliff, my mind wanders off and looks for you even if you aren't there in the very moment. Pretty sure this has become your signature scent because no matter what I end up thinking about you. Some people may not be able to appreciate and cannot withstand of how it smells, but to me it means everything. Cause with the months of hanging out together I've learned to love it and I know whenever I am with you I breathe in the smell of happiness, because with you that is what I truly feel. With all the memories shared and made, I learned to have a liking for this scent and this is how I've also learned how to love you. I got to know that this is how you sometimes coped with problems, how you bonded with friends, and how you spent your free time. Hence to when I smell a blunt it reminds me of home and your sweet embrace, for you are my home and your arms is where I feel most safe. The hours between 1 am to 4 am have never felt so high and amazing and it is truly an amazing feeling. A connection I've never had with anyone before. I smile when I get to smell a blunt because the thought of you brings joy in my life and I hope that I'll never lose my home.
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I got elbowed in the stomach At 9 o'clock tonight I was working And the woman I was working for Stole the wind Right out of my lungs And I bit my tongue And I swallowed blood Which tasted like Rusted metal, Salt water, And acidic anger Burning in my gums I don't get paid enough To feel like my ribs are breaking; Trying so hard not to cry I'm literally shaking Well, **** I have no one to talk to My best friend called An hour later To tell me all about The party she's going to With kaylee and alexa; She's dressing as Crown Royal, I don't know what that means And I don't ******* care She doesn't ask how I am And I don't tell her She doesn't really wanna know And I don't really wanna say it There's a distance A fluctuation in her voice That reaches a place My ears can't get to I don't hear her sometimes When she talks about the things She loves And I don't know why Why I'm so disconnected From twenty-two I'm not above it- I like to think I'm not beneath it- Maybe just floating somewhere In the atmosphere that surrounds it My boyfriend is much prettier Than anything my hands have ever held And his voice is softer than The blanket I bought Kiernan On her birthday, The one she doesn't use... He's really deep When he's sleepy He makes no judgement When I'm angry He isn't coping With his condition Lately But I've never coped with mine So who am I to mention I guess I'm just feeling weak I'm just feeling kinda hazy I'm just feeling sorta empty I'm just feeling Feeling A little bit Too much Feeling Maybe Just not enough
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Oct 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016 at 12:39 AM UTC
Gut Punch
I got elbowed in the stomach At 9 o'clock tonight I was working And the woman I was working for Stole the wind Right out of my lungs And I bit my tongue And I swallowed blood Which tasted like Rusted metal, Salt water, And acidic anger Burning in my gums I don't get paid enough To feel like my ribs are breaking; Trying so hard not to cry I'm literally shaking Well, **** I have no one to talk to My best friend called An hour later To tell me all about The party she's going to With kaylee and alexa; She's dressing as Crown Royal, I don't know what that means And I don't ******* care She doesn't ask how I am And I don't tell her She doesn't really wanna know And I don't really wanna say it There's a distance A fluctuation in her voice That reaches a place My ears can't get to I don't hear her sometimes When she talks about the things She loves And I don't know why Why I'm so disconnected From twenty-two I'm not above it- I like to think I'm not beneath it- Maybe just floating somewhere In the atmosphere that surrounds it My boyfriend is much prettier Than anything my hands have ever held And his voice is softer than The blanket I bought Kiernan On her birthday, The one she doesn't use... He's really deep When he's sleepy He makes no judgement When I'm angry He isn't coping With his condition Lately But I've never coped with mine So who am I to mention I guess I'm just feeling weak I'm just feeling kinda hazy I'm just feeling sorta empty I'm just feeling Feeling A little bit Too much Feeling Maybe Just not enough
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It was quiet strength that did you in. Your belief that pain was simply the cost of life, You had been crippled for so long Leg straight and fused, Tremors assaulting your once strong hands, Still you coped. You pushed through. As if to laugh at the hand you had been dealt. Like you were betting the house would go bust. You fought. You fought getting out of the your truck at the doctors office You fought when they forced you into a sleep study You fought when they ran a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia And when they said cancer You fought Who cares that they said Stage 4. Cancer didn't know who it had picked its newest fight with It didn't know your 25th wedding anniversary was two weeks away So you fought Because it wouldn't take this from you You wouldn't let it, Stubborn ******* you were. You fought You fought Having purchased a card for the special day Having it delivered by a friend In tears she read and she knew You had fought And on that following day we sang you to Heaven There was Power in the Blood As you found Amazing Grace And as your last breath escaped Tooth then Lip. I was reminded You fought.
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May 23, 2015
May 23, 2015 at 3:10 AM UTC
7/1/04
I wonder What you saw when you looked at me Drinking with the devil's thirst Smoking the cowboys dirt Laughing much too loud Walking round the next day in my ex's stolen underwear Bloodshot eyes and ready for another round I was chaos and storms I was weather worn But inside I was holding me together With the too loud music and too much fake smiles I was something too behold I wonder what you saw When you looked at me I was told you like to fix things And to you I'd be the ultimate challenge with all my broken dreams I told you to leave well enough alone That I'm putting myself back together on my own You heeded my warnings not You looked at me as though I was all you saw And into my heart and life you clawed You spoke to me through my favourite songs Made me feel like to you alone I belonged You said you never felt this way and that I was your safe place I wonder now When I look at you How hard it must've been For you to pretend you're all in How you must've hated every moment we touched Though how well you did fake lust I shudder to recall How difficult for you to fake those looks All your tricks,  you said you learned from books Your romantic ramblings must've been so tiring You made me feel like I was dying How hard was it for you,  I wonder You faked it all so convincingly Everyone believed it,  even me I thought I met my other half While you thought you were smart I hope someday I'll find it funny For all your great intentions you forgot About what happens at the end,   we both lost You lost a friend,  I a lover You quickly went back to your other And I am back at the start So your pretty words didn't fix me like you hoped I was doing fine,  I would've coped Just fine without your interference Your intentions were careless You broke another piece off me
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Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015 at 5:57 PM UTC
I wonder
I wonder What you saw when you looked at me Drinking with the devil's thirst Smoking the cowboys dirt Laughing much too loud Walking round the next day in my ex's stolen underwear Bloodshot eyes and ready for another round I was chaos and storms I was weather worn But inside I was holding me together With the too loud music and too much fake smiles I was something too behold I wonder what you saw When you looked at me I was told you like to fix things And to you I'd be the ultimate challenge with all my broken dreams I told you to leave well enough alone That I'm putting myself back together on my own You heeded my warnings not You looked at me as though I was all you saw And into my heart and life you clawed You spoke to me through my favourite songs Made me feel like to you alone I belonged You said you never felt this way and that I was your safe place I wonder now When I look at you How hard it must've been For you to pretend you're all in How you must've hated every moment we touched Though how well you did fake lust I shudder to recall How difficult for you to fake those looks All your tricks,  you said you learned from books Your romantic ramblings must've been so tiring You made me feel like I was dying How hard was it for you,  I wonder You faked it all so convincingly Everyone believed it,  even me I thought I met my other half While you thought you were smart I hope someday I'll find it funny For all your great intentions you forgot About what happens at the end,   we both lost You lost a friend,  I a lover You quickly went back to your other And I am back at the start So your pretty words didn't fix me like you hoped I was doing fine,  I would've coped Just fine without your interference Your intentions were careless You broke another piece off me
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He bounced around from town to town, never becoming whole. 'Cause in his parents' eyes, he was a parasite, hiding in a hole. And he let his friends down, with promises and hopes that deluded and destroyed him. Throwing his words a- -round, never slowing down to enjoy the beer and bodies. He bounced around from heart to heart, gathering sympathy like gold coins; hoping that he could, if they really would, stay and cope a little. And he let them down, like his friends and his parents. He thought a- -bout dying and writing. He thought about his brother and every girl he thought he loved, trying to understand if he could love if he could not love himself. He bounced around from key to key, writing about nonsense. Or maybe it was important and he minimized it, because that's how he coped; or that's how his father talked about his son's accomplishments. I guess his son would have to ask himself if he ever accomplished anything worth making his dad proud. And when he went to the ward, Chestnut Ridge, that was three years ago. I guess he's still around, working hard, New Yorker something, something, something. Dad is proud, likes Bojack Horseman and The Walking Dead; all of this stuff is so ******* irrelevant. My dad is proud.
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Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 9:32 PM UTC
14. Bouncing Around Beer and Bodies; Degenerates
Emotional changed for the better Physically changed rise to power Felt and coped with dark emotions Dealt with good but clutching onto them It's easy to punish yourself feeling bad A guilt consciences weighs you down Focus on the greatness be better than the mistake Change your ways encourage others Hopefully they do the same Be better than the ppl talking about you Since they have done nothing but blame others Own up to your flaws correcting yourself Others try to use that against you but use it to be better Rise from the darkness take care of yourself Only you can provide all you seek Not letting them get to you they infect your good with their bad Once your immune don't let that toxin overcome Give yourself credit for doing it others haven't started or tried You'd feel bad but why should you care if they belittle your accomplishments they knock you Encourage them but don't let them stop you or detour your mission Goals are set meet them on your time not others Dreams are how you see them not others Live life to your standards not other Be who you know you can be not who others make you out to be
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Mission statement
I only remember being hurt Can't recall what it was worth Could something have happened? That made you disappear Turn around and come back Your love is what I lack Making sense of what is left You stole my heart, you ******* theft Someone mentioned you to me It reminded me of when it was we So I'm wondering if you are fine Wishing our lives were still entwine I coped with it every day Each time a different way Think of a feeling, I felt it Each one making me feel like **** I should have gotten over you Still longing to hear you say I love you to I couldn't shake that empty feeling For your forgiveness, I'm ever waiting Someone mentioned you to me It reminded me of when it was we So I'm wondering, if you are fine Wishing our lives were still entwine
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Jan 23, 2011
Jan 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM UTC
Wondering(Co-Written with Mitchell Dufton)
**** Religions Instituted by man understand we can Think for ourselves Take that Dusty *** bible off the shelf And restore your health With mental wealth too many welts Left on your subconsicous Sick of the nonsense my hearts growing intense Make enemies run to fence But its too late to date my mental state In a sate from all the wisdom that my brain ate Never full never mule 40 acres been missin While black folks still kissing White surpremacy *** But then get mad when I ask Questions about the recollection I'm battling the sable For my restitution But I see religion seems to be the only solution Giving false hopes coped and eloped To a ***** that never existed I'm exempted Out reality *** I pose questions behind answers Too many folks stuck in a cancer Status no I'm not the baddest But one of the wisest Open your eyes and realize Religions ain't nothing but profits in guise Ask any body about the end times ? Corruption poor folks still in destitution But they say pray for brighter days But them days growin dimmer and dimmer While yo hunger growin thinner What's next for dinner? Us we fed for deaths food They got a thousands of coffins Stashed Georgia Now check yo self And ask what religion done fr ya It just suppress those I guess? Naw me never show love to them hypocrites They quick to fight me and **** Cuz I recognize they ******** out the pulpits I see preachers getting richer And church folks getting poorer Its like the modern day horror But only thing is This a live script so here's a few tips Wake up out them dreams Cuz ya gotta be asleep to believe it Man once instituted beliefs Trying to be God but they no different than thief Robbing people of time and glory Christianity itself has history gory Slaughtered those who didn't oppose To conversion **** them ******* cuz they made it a **********
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Feb 22, 2017
Feb 22, 2017 at 9:14 PM UTC
**** Religions
**** Religions Instituted by man understand we can Think for ourselves Take that Dusty *** bible off the shelf And restore your health With mental wealth too many welts Left on your subconsicous Sick of the nonsense my hearts growing intense Make enemies run to fence But its too late to date my mental state In a sate from all the wisdom that my brain ate Never full never mule 40 acres been missin While black folks still kissing White surpremacy *** But then get mad when I ask Questions about the recollection I'm battling the sable For my restitution But I see religion seems to be the only solution Giving false hopes coped and eloped To a ***** that never existed I'm exempted Out reality *** I pose questions behind answers Too many folks stuck in a cancer Status no I'm not the baddest But one of the wisest Open your eyes and realize Religions ain't nothing but profits in guise Ask any body about the end times ? Corruption poor folks still in destitution But they say pray for brighter days But them days growin dimmer and dimmer While yo hunger growin thinner What's next for dinner? Us we fed for deaths food They got a thousands of coffins Stashed Georgia Now check yo self And ask what religion done fr ya It just suppress those I guess? Naw me never show love to them hypocrites They quick to fight me and **** Cuz I recognize they ******** out the pulpits I see preachers getting richer And church folks getting poorer Its like the modern day horror But only thing is This a live script so here's a few tips Wake up out them dreams Cuz ya gotta be asleep to believe it Man once instituted beliefs Trying to be God but they no different than thief Robbing people of time and glory Christianity itself has history gory Slaughtered those who didn't oppose To conversion **** them ******* cuz they made it a **********
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