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She was never sure it was what she wanted, arguing with a man who wanted her to carry a piece of them both. But sure enough a small bump formed, and from the first heartbeat she fell in love. Everything from then on was tiny socks in tiny shoes, fluffy cribs in shades of pink and blue. Excitement and worry and fierce protection, arms curling on top of her belly in intense affection. But when the time came, something went horribly wrong, when there was no screeching and crying to break the calm. A child, still, unusually peaceful and serene, she held the tiny shell where her baby should have been. Everything in her life reminded her of her pain, and nothing inside her could ever be the same. Not even he could understand, how she was stranded in her ****** wasteland. Clothes and toys quickly packed in a box, her body still creating milk for a being that would never grow. she'd have to find a way to move on, living with the constant ache, of the loss of a person she would never know.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 11:58 AM UTC
loss
well there's plenty of cutesy names to call one's children but his was 'unlovable trash' He remembered it from the time he was in the crib They held him there for longer than most parents held their kids in cribs. Though only dad called him so because he constantly claimed he wasn't his unlovable trash he had the wrong skin tone was too pale with curly orange hair and freckles but mom always pretended she didn't hear the words unlovable trash she would act as if they were never uttered and growing up he thought unlovable trash was a good thing thought it was how you show love to your loved ones "Mom, you’re unlovable trash." she was so happy to hear it she burst into tears and went into the kitchen and uncorked a bottle of wine and drank it all by herself. What an unlovable trash she was Unfortunately by the time he could pronounce the lovely words father was no longer in his life but father too was an unlovable trash
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Oct 26, 2019
Oct 26, 2019 at 9:58 AM UTC
unlovable trash
Somehow I ended up poor, Ended as mere dream my world tour Fancy cribs, fast cars, model wife Dinner with kings and good life -- Just me and my ****** ol' guitar Needless to say, it's out of tune. Oh!  I have a dog - wagging its tail Go to sleep, june Tonight, no midnight tale
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Jul 14, 2017
Jul 14, 2017 at 10:56 AM UTC
Mere Nightmare
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good Night” And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips— Then put their nightgowns on. As children caper when they wake Merry that it is Morn— My flowers from a hundred cribs Will peep, and prance again.
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As Children bid the Guest “Good Night”
i hate it when you have a hangnail but it is mostly a piece of skin that is really steadfast about not detaching from your finger. it’s like the piece of skin has separation anxiety and you can’t get it to leave ever all you want is for the piece of skin to move out. today is your twentieth birthday and you are thinking about your mortality a whole bunch and how you have provided the piece of skin with a comfortable home and now you want it to move on and make a big life for itself so when you’re old and more carrot-like you will have the piece of skin to take care of you until you are ready to make the big trip to hamilton known as dying alone and feeling okay about it because hamilton is a nice place to die alone hamilton is a port city in the canadian province of ontario you dream of hamilton and you are already a little bit more carrot-like on this day, your twentieth birthday. we want the piece of skin to get its **** together so we can all be happy for you one day when the amount of carrot-like characteristics you grow into becomes immeasurable and creamy. the piece of skin smiles and says it does not like your conservative-minded nonsense the piece of skin feels as though it has a right to prosperity and a new season of hey arnold and its own episode of mtv cribs. you say the piece of skin is too liberal and you get out a pair of scissors and cut of your finger the finger with the piece of skin that was too clingy is now resting peacefully on the hardwood floor of your apartment in a pool of blood that you are proud to say is something you made on your own. the piece of skin quotes hemingway as it dies the reference goes over your head and the reader’s head too
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Dec 30, 2011
Dec 30, 2011 at 1:56 PM UTC
feigned connectedness
i hate it when you have a hangnail but it is mostly a piece of skin that is really steadfast about not detaching from your finger. it’s like the piece of skin has separation anxiety and you can’t get it to leave ever all you want is for the piece of skin to move out. today is your twentieth birthday and you are thinking about your mortality a whole bunch and how you have provided the piece of skin with a comfortable home and now you want it to move on and make a big life for itself so when you’re old and more carrot-like you will have the piece of skin to take care of you until you are ready to make the big trip to hamilton known as dying alone and feeling okay about it because hamilton is a nice place to die alone hamilton is a port city in the canadian province of ontario you dream of hamilton and you are already a little bit more carrot-like on this day, your twentieth birthday. we want the piece of skin to get its **** together so we can all be happy for you one day when the amount of carrot-like characteristics you grow into becomes immeasurable and creamy. the piece of skin smiles and says it does not like your conservative-minded nonsense the piece of skin feels as though it has a right to prosperity and a new season of hey arnold and its own episode of mtv cribs. you say the piece of skin is too liberal and you get out a pair of scissors and cut of your finger the finger with the piece of skin that was too clingy is now resting peacefully on the hardwood floor of your apartment in a pool of blood that you are proud to say is something you made on your own. the piece of skin quotes hemingway as it dies the reference goes over your head and the reader’s head too
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Jean, death comes close to us all, flapping its awful wings at us and the gluey wings crawl up our nose. Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle, mine pushed into gnawing a stilbestrol cancer I passed on like hemophilia, or yours in the seventh grade, with her spleen smacked in by the balance beam. And we, mothers, crumpled, and flyspotted with bringing them this far can do nothing now but pray. Let us put your three children and my two children, ages ranging from eleven to twenty-one, and send them in a large air net up to God, with many stamps, real air mail, and huge signs attached: SPECIAL HANDLING. DO NOT STAPLE, FOLD OR MUTILATE! And perhaps He will notice and pass a psalm over them for keeping safe for a whole, for a whole ********* life-span. And not even a muddled angel will peek down at us in our foxhole. And He will not have time to send down an eyedropper of prayer for us, the mothering thing of us, as we drip into the soup and drown in the worry festering inside us, lest our children go so fast they go.
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The Child Bearers
By: Cedric McClester Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow We’re checkin for content As well as for flow You’re pimpin the game And the homies know You’re talkin ‘bout places That you’ll never go Talkin ‘bout crimes You never committed And it’s about time To fess-up and admit it Here is the deal You need to yield Cos it’s gettin too real In the field Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow Ya namean Let me give ya the low Some name themselves After I-talian criminals Sending public messages That attacks the subliminal Then start complainin Once they get popped And the uninformed Blame it on hip hop And it’s not fair That hip hop takes the blame For some of you out there That I could name Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow It’s about to be a rap For the rap game (yo) Rap is spiralin further Out of control And the government now Sees itself in the role Of overseer or regulator Ya knew it would happen Sooner or later If you go on trial You won’t be around That’s their way of keepin The Black man down All you have to do is jus look around Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow All it takes for you to be Good to go Is a mouth full of platinum And a video ** There’s more to life Than that you know Don’t let me be the one To say I told you so Cos the seeds you’re plantin Are kinda rough to *** But you’re convinced That you are it And a ****** like me Can’t tell you **** Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights (c) Copyright, 2015 Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 10:42 PM UTC
BANG BANG
By: Cedric McClester Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow We’re checkin for content As well as for flow You’re pimpin the game And the homies know You’re talkin ‘bout places That you’ll never go Talkin ‘bout crimes You never committed And it’s about time To fess-up and admit it Here is the deal You need to yield Cos it’s gettin too real In the field Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow Ya namean Let me give ya the low Some name themselves After I-talian criminals Sending public messages That attacks the subliminal Then start complainin Once they get popped And the uninformed Blame it on hip hop And it’s not fair That hip hop takes the blame For some of you out there That I could name Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow It’s about to be a rap For the rap game (yo) Rap is spiralin further Out of control And the government now Sees itself in the role Of overseer or regulator Ya knew it would happen Sooner or later If you go on trial You won’t be around That’s their way of keepin The Black man down All you have to do is jus look around Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow All it takes for you to be Good to go Is a mouth full of platinum And a video ** There’s more to life Than that you know Don’t let me be the one To say I told you so Cos the seeds you’re plantin Are kinda rough to *** But you’re convinced That you are it And a ****** like me Can’t tell you **** Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights (c) Copyright, 2015 Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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With a hint of Otis I say: "Sittin' on some steps by the...ocean, "Watching the people of today, Puttin' on that lotion... Couples walk by Never say hi. Pondering the meaning of life, Woah! My god, look at that girl! I really like her...shirt. Wow my sunburn really hurts. Ah, the beach. What a soothing feeling The ocean can reach...when one can Hear it over screaming kids. Parents Smoking as they push the cribs. Foreigners ...Probably judging us Americans. Finding Importance in life by being more tan. Hey look there's a seagull. So free To fall in the air. It's just not fair. I wish I could steal fries from Strangers and get away with it. Just made awkward eye contact With a runner. She was cute But what a ****** I couldn't Catch her if I tried. There's a Rent-a-cop. He may yell, "Stop!" But a nerf-gun can only do so Much. What a job. Authority and Such. This boardwalk is repetitive. Needy kids and whiny parents. I might need a sedative...there's A choir of noise in the background. Arcade Schemes...games...some bells, the ocean and The screaming kids that are yet to be tamed. Smh @ r generation.
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Dec 13, 2012
Dec 13, 2012 at 1:20 PM UTC
Improve At Rehoboth
'Cotton Candy Tree' Colored clouds in the sky, Bird nests held by the trees, Only if I could reach that high, I would swirl the sky to make a   cotton candy tree, Flowers growing ground up,   All the baby birds nestled in their cribs, made of floss, Incredible spiders on the ground, Then they go round and round, in webs that look like invisible rainbow gloss,   Mother Nature does love, I love her from the lowest to the highest above. written by @author_venjarnold
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Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021 at 2:03 AM UTC
'Cotton Candy Tree
Colored clouds in the sky, Bird nests held by the trees, Only if I could reach that high, I would swirl the sky to make a cotton      candy tree, Flowers growing ground up,   All the baby birds nestled in their cribs made of floss, Incredible spiders on the ground, Then they go round and round,   in webs that look like invisible rainbow gloss,   Mother Nature does love, I love her from the lowest to the highest  above. -Author Ven J Arnold
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Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022 at 9:40 PM UTC
COTTON CANDY TREE
It took humanity thousands of years to evolve into a society. A place where our thoughts would be heard. Our words could be shared, and we, as a whole moved past the barbaric creatures that we used to be. Few have stood up to the whole and screamed, “WE MUST BREAKOUT OF OUR WAYS! We cannot treat others as if they were dirt! Just because that’s how it has always been does not mean that it is right!” Their words have inspired, humanity has come so far. We have created an illusion that the more we have the better we are. We have cried and died just to say, “We broke out! We are different and have changed.” And how perfectly we lie as we say it. If we have truly evolved, then why are we fighting over love? Does changing mean lining the pockets of politicians so oil companies can make the rules and destroy the Earth? Is breaking out of our barbaric ways tying down and torturing our mentally disabled? Putting them in cribs so the age of twenty seven looks like a deformed four year old. They are not perfect as the media says that they should. So we hide them away like the Hunchback of Notre Dame was hidden. How can we say that we have left our ****** past behind us when we drug those who are different and condone the torture of the abnormal? It is not true! Some have screamed at our accusations. It will be changed… and we believe it. We believe every beautiful lie. Society bleeds peace from the skin of nuclear weapons. We scream for equality for those who are exactly like us and no one else who doesn’t fit the mold. Gangs run our streets like kings, their drugs flowing through our cities like blood in our veins. Hate is the skeleton with which we thrive and the beautiful lies we whisper are the muscles that keep us moving. How can we say we have broken out when ****** run the streets free and the pregnant victim is the one society assaults? How can we have broken out when colors that shouldn’t matter are the soul basis for the death of an innocent fourteen year old girl, who just happened to be riding her bike. How can we say that we have changed when families are starving to death because the price of living has gone so high that their stagnant jobs can’t support them like it once did. Society… Oh society how wrong you are with your honeyed, poisoned words. Do as you say and breakout. Change. Because you’re taking a long walk off a short cliff and those words will catch up to you. Breakout now, no one will do it for you.
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 4:39 PM UTC
Breakout! -Slam Poem
It took humanity thousands of years to evolve into a society. A place where our thoughts would be heard. Our words could be shared, and we, as a whole moved past the barbaric creatures that we used to be. Few have stood up to the whole and screamed, “WE MUST BREAKOUT OF OUR WAYS! We cannot treat others as if they were dirt! Just because that’s how it has always been does not mean that it is right!” Their words have inspired, humanity has come so far. We have created an illusion that the more we have the better we are. We have cried and died just to say, “We broke out! We are different and have changed.” And how perfectly we lie as we say it. If we have truly evolved, then why are we fighting over love? Does changing mean lining the pockets of politicians so oil companies can make the rules and destroy the Earth? Is breaking out of our barbaric ways tying down and torturing our mentally disabled? Putting them in cribs so the age of twenty seven looks like a deformed four year old. They are not perfect as the media says that they should. So we hide them away like the Hunchback of Notre Dame was hidden. How can we say that we have left our ****** past behind us when we drug those who are different and condone the torture of the abnormal? It is not true! Some have screamed at our accusations. It will be changed… and we believe it. We believe every beautiful lie. Society bleeds peace from the skin of nuclear weapons. We scream for equality for those who are exactly like us and no one else who doesn’t fit the mold. Gangs run our streets like kings, their drugs flowing through our cities like blood in our veins. Hate is the skeleton with which we thrive and the beautiful lies we whisper are the muscles that keep us moving. How can we say we have broken out when ****** run the streets free and the pregnant victim is the one society assaults? How can we have broken out when colors that shouldn’t matter are the soul basis for the death of an innocent fourteen year old girl, who just happened to be riding her bike. How can we say that we have changed when families are starving to death because the price of living has gone so high that their stagnant jobs can’t support them like it once did. Society… Oh society how wrong you are with your honeyed, poisoned words. Do as you say and breakout. Change. Because you’re taking a long walk off a short cliff and those words will catch up to you. Breakout now, no one will do it for you.
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GIVE me your anathema. Speak new damnations on my head. The evening mist in the hills is soft. The boulders on the road say communion. The farm dogs look out of their eyes and keep thoughts from the corn cribs. Dirt of the reeling earth holds horseshoes. The rings in the whiffletree count their secrets. Come on, you.
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Whiffletree
It started as a joke we all laughed at the thought of slanging coke or passing cops with a whole bag of thizz cheesing out ya window, just like Andre and Mac Dre in the Bay and Valley Joe But now the game got real I'm broke and choked for skrill (skreel) and this sandwich place can't even contend with the dough I'd make if I dealed But who could I trust and who would squeal, make me have to peel out in my whip as I dipped moved cribs and changed homies Do I have a soul of a drug dealer or one for slapping on pepperoni to a sandwich for another zombie Do I have the soul of a drug dealer?
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 11:25 PM UTC
Ghost Chair Raps
1991 I realized We were both born in rotting soil, plastic toys fed by Arabia's oil. Eyes closed, ears behest to broadcasts, we, could NOT protest. That was the beginning of our mass destruction, but cribs offsides, we slept soundly, thanking our stars, proud to be Americans. 10 years dormant, the lyrics laid, enough to stick, but their irony to fade. Until grade school, recess goaded, as burning buildings on our side exploded. The imminent threat preloaded, in airports we shed shoes, forever coded. The broadcast — our center was the theorem that planes, oil, and Arabs risked everyone's freedom. But when we raised hands, to ask why, teachers said hail red, blue, and especially white. We forgot our roots, because the Ellis Island trip was obviously cancelled. So we read headlines, instead of Orwell, the day 911 called for a police state. Trusted the government and ****** Muslims, the day turbans meant hijacking planes. Pledged allegiance disguised as freedom, the day war was declared on Saddam Insane. Our flag revealed a sham feeding flames, angst-ridden teenagers we became. With raised middle fingers, instead of hands, to Green Day lyrics, **** Amuricans. Because only idiots press a red button twice, when mass destruction is the price. And only villains make children orphans, while victims drown in New Orleans. And only gluttons eat caviar with silver spoons, tainting forever a nation's youth. Entrenched in dunes, we boarded blind, to debt, death, and jaded minds. Blamed by perpetrators in dollars and change, for a guerrilla war fought in vain! Voted Obama, with Osama slain, and soldiers withdrawn, we hoped for change. PLEASE, we cried, JUST STOP! We are CHAINED — to a bulldozer that has NO BRAKES! … So the broadcast said recently: We are losing control of the Middle East. And Al-Qaeda is far from weak — ISIS: THE PHOENIX OF HUMAN GREED, We just turned off our TV's and looked up, the kids who gave up, thanked Musk — our atlas, not yet shrugged, whose vessels of stars will rocket toward Mars, from this godforsaken civilization built on hate. And when you tell me, *** "We were both born in 1991," I can only sigh, and breath sympathy, for our dark history.
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:57 PM UTC
1991. @Justin Wampler
1991 I realized We were both born in rotting soil, plastic toys fed by Arabia's oil. Eyes closed, ears behest to broadcasts, we, could NOT protest. That was the beginning of our mass destruction, but cribs offsides, we slept soundly, thanking our stars, proud to be Americans. 10 years dormant, the lyrics laid, enough to stick, but their irony to fade. Until grade school, recess goaded, as burning buildings on our side exploded. The imminent threat preloaded, in airports we shed shoes, forever coded. The broadcast — our center was the theorem that planes, oil, and Arabs risked everyone's freedom. But when we raised hands, to ask why, teachers said hail red, blue, and especially white. We forgot our roots, because the Ellis Island trip was obviously cancelled. So we read headlines, instead of Orwell, the day 911 called for a police state. Trusted the government and ****** Muslims, the day turbans meant hijacking planes. Pledged allegiance disguised as freedom, the day war was declared on Saddam Insane. Our flag revealed a sham feeding flames, angst-ridden teenagers we became. With raised middle fingers, instead of hands, to Green Day lyrics, **** Amuricans. Because only idiots press a red button twice, when mass destruction is the price. And only villains make children orphans, while victims drown in New Orleans. And only gluttons eat caviar with silver spoons, tainting forever a nation's youth. Entrenched in dunes, we boarded blind, to debt, death, and jaded minds. Blamed by perpetrators in dollars and change, for a guerrilla war fought in vain! Voted Obama, with Osama slain, and soldiers withdrawn, we hoped for change. PLEASE, we cried, JUST STOP! We are CHAINED — to a bulldozer that has NO BRAKES! … So the broadcast said recently: We are losing control of the Middle East. And Al-Qaeda is far from weak — ISIS: THE PHOENIX OF HUMAN GREED, We just turned off our TV's and looked up, the kids who gave up, thanked Musk — our atlas, not yet shrugged, whose vessels of stars will rocket toward Mars, from this godforsaken civilization built on hate. And when you tell me, *** "We were both born in 1991," I can only sigh, and breath sympathy, for our dark history.
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The holding of his joyful trembling arms will clasp no more pink feeble fingers for even blood betrayed its passing. The most beautiful cry vanished without a single tune unheard by the looking grandparents. No unfamiliar friends in white giving genuine smiles and congratulations to the dad but the unacceptable shaking of heads and unwanted tap at their backs. Suppressed get-the-hell-out-of-heres. And the mother? Nothing is more hurting than to never touch a thing that she sheltered all her life To holler in pain of delivering would have been divine to scream, wonderful to roar, magnificent to rip bed sheets and curse the father while letting it out into world are mostly gratifying than to remain silent while the cannula forces its entry to the abandoned world of unborn. No stupid peek-a-boos will ever echo in this haunted crib. No tingling of rattles will ever irritate ears in smelly midnights No nursery rhyme will hum. School bus will never blow its horn To call upon the school child. No stars on a hand. No you’re-the-best-mom-in-the-worlds.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 10:28 PM UTC
Of Barren Cribs
Maybe thugs aren’t shooters, They all need to decompress. Calling themselves gangsters, Never should they be blessed. Thugs don’t get all their girls, They pay them just big bucks. Killing like they own all worlds, Murdering with all their Glocks. Blood gangs, where are the Crips? Crip gangs, where is the Bloods? They are fake owning their cribs, Murdering just to own any goods. Gangsters don’t own their swags, It’s the Rap Game, it’s the G Code. They rob and steal, filling all bags, Man, these gangsters seem all old!
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 4:54 PM UTC
Gangsters
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” That's Arthur C. Clarke. My wife always believed we are not; She was convinced we are not alone. 11 months ago, My sweet wife said to me, “Wouldn’t a pair of tiny feet Pattering around the house Sound so sugary sweet?” 10 months ago, The doctor told me how My count was pretty low and Asked my wife about a bike accident From when she was 10. My wife cried a little, and then At home, she cried More than I’d ever seen her. “I don’t want to be alone,” she said, But I told her we’re never alone, As long as we have God. She told me, in one of the worlds out there, We are complete. The ‘S’ in universes keeps her hopeful, And content. 8 months ago, I sat in the waiting room With my sweet wife who had Been puking and aching for weeks. The doctor called it a miracle And said our lonely days were gone. My wife said she was glad We weren’t going to be alone, With just her and me. 7 months ago, My wife ate right, and exercised, And sang to her belly, and Did all of the things She was told to do; But it was not enough, because 1 month ago, My wife — my sweet, lovely wife — She tripped on the staircase- That last creaky step I swore I’d fix- And fell, and bled and bled. The doctor said he was sorry, That my wife, she’d be okay, but That there was nothing to be done About the young one. My wife cried much more Than she had cried 4 months before. She said she didn’t want to be alone. “But we are not alone,” I held her and I said, “We have God in our midst,
we are not alone.” A week ago, I put out a sign That declared ‘Garage Sale’ (Unabashedly, as if mocking us) And lay out a motley of miniature clothes and objects- Unused cribs and Tiny, unworn shoes. One day ago, I said all the right things, And loved and supported her, And held her through her tears, but Right now, as I cry More than I’ve ever cried before, And ask why I couldn’t be enough, She is packing up her trunk, Saying she can’t take it, saying “I just want to be alone.”
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Feb 20, 2016
Feb 20, 2016 at 8:40 AM UTC
We Are Not Alone
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” That's Arthur C. Clarke. My wife always believed we are not; She was convinced we are not alone. 11 months ago, My sweet wife said to me, “Wouldn’t a pair of tiny feet Pattering around the house Sound so sugary sweet?” 10 months ago, The doctor told me how My count was pretty low and Asked my wife about a bike accident From when she was 10. My wife cried a little, and then At home, she cried More than I’d ever seen her. “I don’t want to be alone,” she said, But I told her we’re never alone, As long as we have God. She told me, in one of the worlds out there, We are complete. The ‘S’ in universes keeps her hopeful, And content. 8 months ago, I sat in the waiting room With my sweet wife who had Been puking and aching for weeks. The doctor called it a miracle And said our lonely days were gone. My wife said she was glad We weren’t going to be alone, With just her and me. 7 months ago, My wife ate right, and exercised, And sang to her belly, and Did all of the things She was told to do; But it was not enough, because 1 month ago, My wife — my sweet, lovely wife — She tripped on the staircase- That last creaky step I swore I’d fix- And fell, and bled and bled. The doctor said he was sorry, That my wife, she’d be okay, but That there was nothing to be done About the young one. My wife cried much more Than she had cried 4 months before. She said she didn’t want to be alone. “But we are not alone,” I held her and I said, “We have God in our midst,
we are not alone.” A week ago, I put out a sign That declared ‘Garage Sale’ (Unabashedly, as if mocking us) And lay out a motley of miniature clothes and objects- Unused cribs and Tiny, unworn shoes. One day ago, I said all the right things, And loved and supported her, And held her through her tears, but Right now, as I cry More than I’ve ever cried before, And ask why I couldn’t be enough, She is packing up her trunk, Saying she can’t take it, saying “I just want to be alone.”
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life is on sale but always paid with flesh a ship that sinks in an endless stream of pretty unforgiving things play with fire every chance you get whoever told you to grow up were insanely jealous stare at the sun wear your lack of a brain as a disguise forget umbrellas **** always attacks from below cross the line never look back time machines are called money you had wings once but lost them twice reflections chase mirrors because they're alone cradle machine guns like newborn babies turn off the TV and burn the books even hell has Instagram these days the only castles worth the candle are the one you built as a kid but that doesn't buy any press or a spot on MTV cribs followers are up life is on sale but always paid with flesh.
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Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 3:01 PM UTC
$$$
**Our eyes meet it's electric , almost magnetic we look at each other as if we are the only people on earth, and in our minds we are the gods of the universe, our souls are united , we are not two hearts but one, we are the love couple's in folk tales uniting in this life time**. *We exchange words that sound poetic while we sit and feel them course through our every vein. The love we share is a bit chaotic. We sit at night up in our attic. Watching the silver moonlight from the window frame. Counting the stars like it's the only game. We tangle our hands as if they are tied with shackles and chains. The only thoughts that come to our brains are thoughts of our love and how it all happened as it was  unarranged. Sitting in the attic you touch my skin. Making it feel like a wild flame that's being put out by rain. Looking in your eyes i see the prettiest sunrise. Holding your hands feeling ocean waves. I listen to your heart as its beats rhyme with mine. I want you curled under my skin and always in m mind. I want you standing safe and guarded behind the cage of my ribs. Just like babies do at night in their cribs. We are the lovers that the poet's mentioned back in the old age* We are the lovers whom are destined to meet each other in every life time again and again ~
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Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 12:20 AM UTC
Tough Love (A collaboration with Sajjad)
I have to hold back my tears. No one can see me like this, vulnerable and not in control.  They think that i can fend for myself, what do they know? Truth is im in need for their help, for their opnion and inspiring words. For a long time it was me in the middle of the sandwhich. My older sister covering me, and i protecting my ypunger twin. Its funny how the sandwhich turns into how my life is today. My older sister takes up all the spotlight, claimig it allfor herself. Absorbin all the attention until there is none left. I shake at the words she wont utter, like a simple please or thank you. How she would never help my mother how she leaves my mother fighting so hard, as she sits on the couch and jist watches. When my mother asks for her help she will make it more like a burden then helping out of respect. I will do any of those thigs in a heart eat just to take the stress off of my moms shoulders. But again thats how we differ... As for my twin the one that i had felt the need to protect since we had been in the wound together 16 years ago. How can i put in words all the feelings she leaves on me? She is so irritable yet i yearn to watch her succeed. She is as slow as a turtle, yet sometimes shes as sharp as a knife . Some nights ill catch her talking to herself, it pains me to see her over think things. After so much effort of tryin to help her all i can do now is make beleive im sleeping, pull the covers over my head and let the tears roll down my cheek, burning it under their touch. She has this problem and the tendency to ovetthink thongs from the stipidest things to the most important. She lays them all on the same scale not considekg the dfferences betwene them . As muh as she overthinks , when she has an idea she lets it cloud her judgement.l  I remember thst one time in our cribs its blurr but i still feel it in my blood. Diane had my moms attentiom absorbed for she was alsay a cryer even when her head hutt a lottle bit. Michelle  was sick with strep having my moms also and my dads granparents. Then my head throat and whole body was killing .. All i remmeber was keeping my mouth shut. And waitig for someone to come ask me how i was feeling. Which no one did.And still as i cry typing this no one will ask me how im feeling, for i have middle child syndrome
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM UTC
Family
I have to hold back my tears. No one can see me like this, vulnerable and not in control.  They think that i can fend for myself, what do they know? Truth is im in need for their help, for their opnion and inspiring words. For a long time it was me in the middle of the sandwhich. My older sister covering me, and i protecting my ypunger twin. Its funny how the sandwhich turns into how my life is today. My older sister takes up all the spotlight, claimig it allfor herself. Absorbin all the attention until there is none left. I shake at the words she wont utter, like a simple please or thank you. How she would never help my mother how she leaves my mother fighting so hard, as she sits on the couch and jist watches. When my mother asks for her help she will make it more like a burden then helping out of respect. I will do any of those thigs in a heart eat just to take the stress off of my moms shoulders. But again thats how we differ... As for my twin the one that i had felt the need to protect since we had been in the wound together 16 years ago. How can i put in words all the feelings she leaves on me? She is so irritable yet i yearn to watch her succeed. She is as slow as a turtle, yet sometimes shes as sharp as a knife . Some nights ill catch her talking to herself, it pains me to see her over think things. After so much effort of tryin to help her all i can do now is make beleive im sleeping, pull the covers over my head and let the tears roll down my cheek, burning it under their touch. She has this problem and the tendency to ovetthink thongs from the stipidest things to the most important. She lays them all on the same scale not considekg the dfferences betwene them . As muh as she overthinks , when she has an idea she lets it cloud her judgement.l  I remember thst one time in our cribs its blurr but i still feel it in my blood. Diane had my moms attentiom absorbed for she was alsay a cryer even when her head hutt a lottle bit. Michelle  was sick with strep having my moms also and my dads granparents. Then my head throat and whole body was killing .. All i remmeber was keeping my mouth shut. And waitig for someone to come ask me how i was feeling. Which no one did.And still as i cry typing this no one will ask me how im feeling, for i have middle child syndrome
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I will hold my breath, Still with anticipation of the day When children sleep soundly in their cribs, When hounds stand poised and alert at their master's side, When high school friends recognize each other after years of separation, When the mendicant wanders a cold city after dark, When the ever-thirsting stock broker buys the American dream with stolen money, When a sorry little girl embraces a once furious, now placated mother, When a college student spends days in a library and nights drowning in cheap beer, When a cozy red hand knit scarf protects an old man in the unforgiving snow, When I finally find what I've sought for so long, That will be the day I stop writing and start singing our song.
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Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010 at 10:59 PM UTC
Sing
The room is clear and the air is filtered Two chairs for me and her, to separate and segregate I grind my teeth and I clinch my fist, to the point where I experience near sudden paralysis in my right hand, and I think to myself, "I didn't love you because you were rich". No such things as unaccepted apologies. Between the two pillars of our own truth, there stands 32 Dr. Phils, and each one attempts to explain to me on how to be a reasonable and rational man, so I can grow old with her, and learn how to fly without having any mosquito wings. As I sit impatiently in this draconian chair of imprisonment with no restraints, I think of what we once had and what we can still accomplish by not believing in things such as unaccepted apologies. By realizing that we are no longer on training wheels, That the jagged surface that bridges us, From a love that can shave diamonds and convert children into angels after death. And when we get to that bridge, we will see ourselves with our children as they walk and crawl to our bodies, infesting their love across our fat bellies with their eyes and their drooling mouths. I want our children to learn their first words that signify the exact representation of our relationship; their vivid sounds of "mamas, dadas, goo-goos, ga-gas" hanging to our ears like raindrops on windshields, like a mobile softly swinging over their cribs. I relinquish myself from this seat as I run to hers, to grab her, to tell her how ****** this situation is. How our internal and legal battles are astronomically indifferent To the spheric gift from God that has shun His light to your tiny stomach, like the flickering spark of a dying flash.
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 8:47 PM UTC
Look At Me
The room is clear and the air is filtered Two chairs for me and her, to separate and segregate I grind my teeth and I clinch my fist, to the point where I experience near sudden paralysis in my right hand, and I think to myself, "I didn't love you because you were rich". No such things as unaccepted apologies. Between the two pillars of our own truth, there stands 32 Dr. Phils, and each one attempts to explain to me on how to be a reasonable and rational man, so I can grow old with her, and learn how to fly without having any mosquito wings. As I sit impatiently in this draconian chair of imprisonment with no restraints, I think of what we once had and what we can still accomplish by not believing in things such as unaccepted apologies. By realizing that we are no longer on training wheels, That the jagged surface that bridges us, From a love that can shave diamonds and convert children into angels after death. And when we get to that bridge, we will see ourselves with our children as they walk and crawl to our bodies, infesting their love across our fat bellies with their eyes and their drooling mouths. I want our children to learn their first words that signify the exact representation of our relationship; their vivid sounds of "mamas, dadas, goo-goos, ga-gas" hanging to our ears like raindrops on windshields, like a mobile softly swinging over their cribs. I relinquish myself from this seat as I run to hers, to grab her, to tell her how ****** this situation is. How our internal and legal battles are astronomically indifferent To the spheric gift from God that has shun His light to your tiny stomach, like the flickering spark of a dying flash.
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I I'm trying t' find my ID. I think I'm missing it. This thing, This bright, shining light, It's hiding in my blindsight. I'm swimming in mist, Trying t' find ... "I" First I'm living In my crib; Clinging wrists. Flitting my crib, I'm Shy Crying, whiny twit, missing bitty, With stinky kids, kicking kitty. I'm missing my crib. I'm piling thinking bricks with big kids. Slimy, smirking ***** hiss 'n' spit. I'm sitting still in ill-fitting shirts, shirking sight. Hiding might blind ****** kids crying, "It's billy!!! Skinny **** 'n' smiling in fits. "Try finding kind kids x" Finding "whys" in rising minds. My mind grinds. I'm kicking tins, spilling drinks. Sitting in IT, Sir chillingly insists "it isn't "fly" spilling drinks! "Shy" brings skills. "Why" brings ills." I'm still shy. This crib's tiny. Tiny minds, blind by bling. Fit chicks with big **** Thick ****** thinking with ***** I flit this Brit **** Brisk flight, I find "I" Simply shimmying "ir(o)n lik(e) li(o)n in zi(o)n". In Brit, I'm still shilling it, Finding thrill in it, Hiding 'til it lifts. I'm brisk fixing it, I'm hiding in drinks, Finishing in clink. Trying things, High by night, Slinking by, finding light. Thinking "this is it!! I'm in!" Tricky light. Light trick. Sight trick. Lying in my mind It's still **** Is it? His birth... This child is my kid! This brill kid! I'M in this kid! Big grin :D First kid is big kid, Mid kid is silly kid, Quickly hitch my Miss. Third kid. This kid, this girl is my girl. Brill kids! I bring my bling by flipping kids thinking bricks; Fixing bits in thinking ink; I'm finding it stinks. Kids drink slick skills. My mind chills with mind filling drills. Kids grinding, crying spills - "Sir, it's **** innit? With missing mining, missing mills, Im plying skills by filing bills." I'm plying skills with mind pills. Mrs "I" is criticising my id Im minding my Ps n Qs Biting my lip Fists tight, shifting slightly Slinking nightly This is **** Hit slight hitch Hit BIG hitch "'kin ***** I finish with my Mrs Kids split 'twixt cribs. Kids trips fix splits. Kiss lips *** "Night night x" "Light?" Click light. Right, "night!" I'm hiding my ills in girls. IT pimps, swiping right. Primp **** Minging swill. Fit chick. Swift flirt. Flirt, kiss, flirt, kiss. Big **** Tight slit. Milky spit. Wiping **** Hiding ***** sight in mind, I find it sticks. I drift Stick tight Fighting my plight Grin "It's 'right" Missing my crib My ID I'm finding my mind Sticking with it Fighting silly flirting **** Try finding inspiring sights My kids My crib My Inking My Writing My mind My eye I'm kind I'm "I"
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Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 8:03 PM UTC
I
I I'm trying t' find my ID. I think I'm missing it. This thing, This bright, shining light, It's hiding in my blindsight. I'm swimming in mist, Trying t' find ... "I" First I'm living In my crib; Clinging wrists. Flitting my crib, I'm Shy Crying, whiny twit, missing bitty, With stinky kids, kicking kitty. I'm missing my crib. I'm piling thinking bricks with big kids. Slimy, smirking ***** hiss 'n' spit. I'm sitting still in ill-fitting shirts, shirking sight. Hiding might blind ****** kids crying, "It's billy!!! Skinny **** 'n' smiling in fits. "Try finding kind kids x" Finding "whys" in rising minds. My mind grinds. I'm kicking tins, spilling drinks. Sitting in IT, Sir chillingly insists "it isn't "fly" spilling drinks! "Shy" brings skills. "Why" brings ills." I'm still shy. This crib's tiny. Tiny minds, blind by bling. Fit chicks with big **** Thick ****** thinking with ***** I flit this Brit **** Brisk flight, I find "I" Simply shimmying "ir(o)n lik(e) li(o)n in zi(o)n". In Brit, I'm still shilling it, Finding thrill in it, Hiding 'til it lifts. I'm brisk fixing it, I'm hiding in drinks, Finishing in clink. Trying things, High by night, Slinking by, finding light. Thinking "this is it!! I'm in!" Tricky light. Light trick. Sight trick. Lying in my mind It's still **** Is it? His birth... This child is my kid! This brill kid! I'M in this kid! Big grin :D First kid is big kid, Mid kid is silly kid, Quickly hitch my Miss. Third kid. This kid, this girl is my girl. Brill kids! I bring my bling by flipping kids thinking bricks; Fixing bits in thinking ink; I'm finding it stinks. Kids drink slick skills. My mind chills with mind filling drills. Kids grinding, crying spills - "Sir, it's **** innit? With missing mining, missing mills, Im plying skills by filing bills." I'm plying skills with mind pills. Mrs "I" is criticising my id Im minding my Ps n Qs Biting my lip Fists tight, shifting slightly Slinking nightly This is **** Hit slight hitch Hit BIG hitch "'kin ***** I finish with my Mrs Kids split 'twixt cribs. Kids trips fix splits. Kiss lips *** "Night night x" "Light?" Click light. Right, "night!" I'm hiding my ills in girls. IT pimps, swiping right. Primp **** Minging swill. Fit chick. Swift flirt. Flirt, kiss, flirt, kiss. Big **** Tight slit. Milky spit. Wiping **** Hiding ***** sight in mind, I find it sticks. I drift Stick tight Fighting my plight Grin "It's 'right" Missing my crib My ID I'm finding my mind Sticking with it Fighting silly flirting **** Try finding inspiring sights My kids My crib My Inking My Writing My mind My eye I'm kind I'm "I"
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