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~for those who will read this and weep~ *the quiet ones, the silent Job ones, who quote not from the Book of Lamentations, but author their own, based on-the-job experience localized versions of cryptic elegiacs accepting the wooden crosses borne, stepping up to the unrequested unforeseen, then buried under, burnt alive, yet never relieved by dying, nailed by words, stronger than iron, promises sworn, promises kept with no ending date relief, promises by and to themselves, but not for themselves!* *the wearers of crystal glass shackles, adorned with decorative locks for which no key did the maker make, nor any divine creator dare conceive an early release, never no escape contemplated, for the lock human, unrepentant unbreakable, a decorative useless metaphor gesture, a blunt “life ***** advertisement I compose amidst a bus pond of mismatched city folk, a tapestry of ages colors and differing views on god/no god, none would believe that as the bus sways me, it’s in rhythm to holy choral music, hundreds year old, divinity masses and motets worships, where one human can hide temporarily a safe house, to calm his questioning relentless from the horrors of no answers, for when the mind has no solution to the rough and tumbling lives, lived in glass shackled confinement, the poets desperation equals theirs* *summon eagles to transport these imprisoned, but the shackled refuse, I come to them but they wave me off, I go crazy for once I was enslaved, thirty years war that left devastation, from which so many poems created so I speak with heightened regard of one who planned futures for others where his non-existence was a founding father (ha!)* *but the day came and I was released by my own inactions, but means nothing until a way to away found to release the yet bound early* got a couch, airline miles, hundred dollars in my pocket and an unrelenting need to save them, a consumption disease, the glass shackled, at ease, won’t rest till all are freed this my creed no one left behind these cyber words do not mock for they are unbounded, set free, when the flesh connects and the needs of the flesh are stronger for they are in heart conceived
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Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 5:45 PM UTC
The Glass Shackles
~for those who will read this and weep~ *the quiet ones, the silent Job ones, who quote not from the Book of Lamentations, but author their own, based on-the-job experience localized versions of cryptic elegiacs accepting the wooden crosses borne, stepping up to the unrequested unforeseen, then buried under, burnt alive, yet never relieved by dying, nailed by words, stronger than iron, promises sworn, promises kept with no ending date relief, promises by and to themselves, but not for themselves!* *the wearers of crystal glass shackles, adorned with decorative locks for which no key did the maker make, nor any divine creator dare conceive an early release, never no escape contemplated, for the lock human, unrepentant unbreakable, a decorative useless metaphor gesture, a blunt “life ***** advertisement I compose amidst a bus pond of mismatched city folk, a tapestry of ages colors and differing views on god/no god, none would believe that as the bus sways me, it’s in rhythm to holy choral music, hundreds year old, divinity masses and motets worships, where one human can hide temporarily a safe house, to calm his questioning relentless from the horrors of no answers, for when the mind has no solution to the rough and tumbling lives, lived in glass shackled confinement, the poets desperation equals theirs* *summon eagles to transport these imprisoned, but the shackled refuse, I come to them but they wave me off, I go crazy for once I was enslaved, thirty years war that left devastation, from which so many poems created so I speak with heightened regard of one who planned futures for others where his non-existence was a founding father (ha!)* *but the day came and I was released by my own inactions, but means nothing until a way to away found to release the yet bound early* got a couch, airline miles, hundred dollars in my pocket and an unrelenting need to save them, a consumption disease, the glass shackled, at ease, won’t rest till all are freed this my creed no one left behind these cyber words do not mock for they are unbounded, set free, when the flesh connects and the needs of the flesh are stronger for they are in heart conceived
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He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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Lovesong
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
you sometimes bite your lip during laughter
you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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Let the time pass Without any bitter words the softest laugh is yours By the glow of moonlight With your face close to mine The confused tears come   Yet those passing hours Leave not a mark I suppose we are all nailed to misery In our own little way
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Nov 11, 2014
Nov 11, 2014 at 6:35 PM UTC
Moonlight
May we live in and see interesting times, the old saying goes another offers that when the mind is blind, the eyes cannot see for me my days are interesting and the laughter readily and often comes for the grapes of wrath brings forth mirth filled grapes on grapevine tendrils As lemmings and sheep enact bellyaching absurdities, as the ridiculous does Veracity on sojourn and falsehood in residence with doors firmly closed Hamlet re-enacts hapless role, with Red Robin Hood and vigilantes to a tee eager audiences, participatory scenes in towns and cities, leaving empty homes come all and vent your spleen and satiate your prejudices without paying a fee This land belongs to us, it is our birthright and we will send Hamlet to the catacombs Nothing is private anymore, rights and freedom nailed, anywhere we roam Ophelia not only went to Italy, she went to Hull, Turnpike Lane and even Essex but a joke here, if all these were good, why did she come to me, you simple gnomes perchance unlike you common goons,  she knows distinction has no comparison to thee Your vacuous hate filled mind cannot see that difference in a Prince, that regally looms Act two, dim, fooled actors in their Beggars Opera, screaming, 'we oppose' with glee so called republicans, laughable in their ardent favor, ignorant of their lobotomy botches we will do Hamlet's head in, totally unaware theirs been done in, for the brains of fleas in a civilisation, our conscious and stable populace, roots for vigilante and mob rule, yeah for a man of distinction is a threat reminding you of your insignificance and lack of tomes Come friends, lets see how the home of Democracy, hounds a citizen for us all and we lets know that Robin Hood is alive and taxing, and 'Windrush' is still active in dispatches indigenous people power, meets criminal gang stalking, meets racism and we all drink tea and in true cowardly fashion, its all done by insidious, indictable, nefarious, malcontents and psychopathic crazies It is our proud duty that we should all ruin Hamlet, for mediocrity has no distinction for aspiration et excellence Copyright LaurenceA. JUNE 2018.All rights reserved.
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 8:00 PM UTC
Mediocrity knows no Distinction.....
May we live in and see interesting times, the old saying goes another offers that when the mind is blind, the eyes cannot see for me my days are interesting and the laughter readily and often comes for the grapes of wrath brings forth mirth filled grapes on grapevine tendrils As lemmings and sheep enact bellyaching absurdities, as the ridiculous does Veracity on sojourn and falsehood in residence with doors firmly closed Hamlet re-enacts hapless role, with Red Robin Hood and vigilantes to a tee eager audiences, participatory scenes in towns and cities, leaving empty homes come all and vent your spleen and satiate your prejudices without paying a fee This land belongs to us, it is our birthright and we will send Hamlet to the catacombs Nothing is private anymore, rights and freedom nailed, anywhere we roam Ophelia not only went to Italy, she went to Hull, Turnpike Lane and even Essex but a joke here, if all these were good, why did she come to me, you simple gnomes perchance unlike you common goons,  she knows distinction has no comparison to thee Your vacuous hate filled mind cannot see that difference in a Prince, that regally looms Act two, dim, fooled actors in their Beggars Opera, screaming, 'we oppose' with glee so called republicans, laughable in their ardent favor, ignorant of their lobotomy botches we will do Hamlet's head in, totally unaware theirs been done in, for the brains of fleas in a civilisation, our conscious and stable populace, roots for vigilante and mob rule, yeah for a man of distinction is a threat reminding you of your insignificance and lack of tomes Come friends, lets see how the home of Democracy, hounds a citizen for us all and we lets know that Robin Hood is alive and taxing, and 'Windrush' is still active in dispatches indigenous people power, meets criminal gang stalking, meets racism and we all drink tea and in true cowardly fashion, its all done by insidious, indictable, nefarious, malcontents and psychopathic crazies It is our proud duty that we should all ruin Hamlet, for mediocrity has no distinction for aspiration et excellence Copyright LaurenceA. JUNE 2018.All rights reserved.
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Insecurity is wool blanket drenched in water laying across my nose and mouth, every breath i take in is a wicked reminder of everything i am not. its sharp needle points prodding my pores ripping apart the skin of my throat with every word i'm unable to speak. Insecurity is facing a firing squad, every bullet comes from the mouth, every tongue a trigger, every tooth ammunition Your feet are nailed to the ground, an iron staple of your own making lacing through your toes. The worst thing about it is that your hands are bulletproof shields, and if you had the strength to raise your thousand pound arms, you could use them to block your bruised up brain. But you can't. So you don't. its being uncomfortable in your own skin, a bone shattering, helpless feeling that you cannot change this. no amount of compliments or beautiful words whispered in the darkness can fix it insecurity is the building blocks of my personality, I'm constantly tailoring everyone in my life to fit it, like a worn dress I can't walk down the hallway, down the street, through a store without the feeling of a thousand weighty words cutting into my skin In every war my mind wages against my body i stand there like marble, letting the bullets eat me alive.
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
a personification of crippling insecurity
I Am The Sunshine Upon This Land I Am The Pure Love Of Woman & Man Creatures Of Sea Creature Of Sand Creatures Obove Trees I Am Sunshine Im Feeling The Heat I Am Sunshine Love Shining In Me Through My Eyes Timeless Sweets I Am Purity Healing All That Need A Calling Of Leap The Falling Of Leaves That Tracends To Beauty When Waters Affection Harvest The Neat Harvest The Trees Harvest The Fruits & Vegetables For All Us To Eat God Were Sunshine I Am You & You Are Me Realms Of Angels Elves Mermaid Reefs Purity Illumniated With A Sphere In Me Its Clear To See I'm Near The Sea Abundance Prosperity Inside Manifested Through Charity Expand Consious Clairty Increase Awarness Perception Cherry Trees Beautiful Judgment Free Free To Be We So Let's Just Breathe I Love You , You Love Me Meditation Vibratatin At The Peak Of My Frequency Elvish Whispers In The Breeze Angels Untangle The Tangled I Angle Dreams The Frequency Of Jesus Is Needed Let It Seep Through You May Not See Him But He Sees You Bianry Ritual 3 Help Darknes Nailed I'm From An Elvish Realm Where Fairy's Bleed Blue Its Easy To Relate Escape The Hate With Aatral Gates Be True Be You Sunshine Light Bright Right Through Ooh I Feel It In My Soul From Outer Space Down My Face Waist & Shoes Normal Is So Distant Weird Is JDifferent & Difrent Is Just So Cool Sune Shine Amazon Fine Island Side Frequency High Twin Soul Flame Is Feeling My Vibe Pure Dear Come Here Feel The Kundalini Rise Eye To Eye Hands On Back Of Thighs Hearts Hugging So Tight Protected By The Eye Private Meeting Souls Singing Ocean Side Stars Cry Body's Weaving Greeting Gentle Screaming Oh My Dna Embedded With Electric Healing Rhymes Were Amazing Gazeing Sunshine Breathe Release The Beast No Need To Find All Is Within So Grin Ya Chin Your In Ya Win Sunshine Sunshine Fill My Fins Swimming Through Realms Of Elevish Kin Affection Covers My Skin I Am Sunshine Sing It Again Sunshine
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 11:54 PM UTC
Sunshine
I Am The Sunshine Upon This Land I Am The Pure Love Of Woman & Man Creatures Of Sea Creature Of Sand Creatures Obove Trees I Am Sunshine Im Feeling The Heat I Am Sunshine Love Shining In Me Through My Eyes Timeless Sweets I Am Purity Healing All That Need A Calling Of Leap The Falling Of Leaves That Tracends To Beauty When Waters Affection Harvest The Neat Harvest The Trees Harvest The Fruits & Vegetables For All Us To Eat God Were Sunshine I Am You & You Are Me Realms Of Angels Elves Mermaid Reefs Purity Illumniated With A Sphere In Me Its Clear To See I'm Near The Sea Abundance Prosperity Inside Manifested Through Charity Expand Consious Clairty Increase Awarness Perception Cherry Trees Beautiful Judgment Free Free To Be We So Let's Just Breathe I Love You , You Love Me Meditation Vibratatin At The Peak Of My Frequency Elvish Whispers In The Breeze Angels Untangle The Tangled I Angle Dreams The Frequency Of Jesus Is Needed Let It Seep Through You May Not See Him But He Sees You Bianry Ritual 3 Help Darknes Nailed I'm From An Elvish Realm Where Fairy's Bleed Blue Its Easy To Relate Escape The Hate With Aatral Gates Be True Be You Sunshine Light Bright Right Through Ooh I Feel It In My Soul From Outer Space Down My Face Waist & Shoes Normal Is So Distant Weird Is JDifferent & Difrent Is Just So Cool Sune Shine Amazon Fine Island Side Frequency High Twin Soul Flame Is Feeling My Vibe Pure Dear Come Here Feel The Kundalini Rise Eye To Eye Hands On Back Of Thighs Hearts Hugging So Tight Protected By The Eye Private Meeting Souls Singing Ocean Side Stars Cry Body's Weaving Greeting Gentle Screaming Oh My Dna Embedded With Electric Healing Rhymes Were Amazing Gazeing Sunshine Breathe Release The Beast No Need To Find All Is Within So Grin Ya Chin Your In Ya Win Sunshine Sunshine Fill My Fins Swimming Through Realms Of Elevish Kin Affection Covers My Skin I Am Sunshine Sing It Again Sunshine
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Dear God, I heard so much about you Until it is burning me in my heart I want to tell you how I feel, but I don’t know where to start. They say that you are the answer To the way I feel inside And once I am in you, I will Have something to be my guide I picked up the bible that Had collected dust on the shelf I decided to read it and find out for myself. I read about how they nailed your Precious body to the cross, And the reason for this; was to Save that which was lost. Tears poured from my eyes as Joy overtook my soul I found a lot out about you that I was never told. I read about Job and All that he went through And the three Hebrew boys That had all faith in you I just had to write you Jesus And let you know how I feel No matter what I am told; In my heart I believe you are real. As long as I have your spirit, I will never be alone You told me if I hold on, You would give me a new home. I am taking you at your word Because it means a lot to me The day you died on Calvary, It was to set me free. Thank you for bringing me out of the world And giving me a brand new life I promise to keep your commandments And do that which is right I promise to teach my children To obey every law And not let a day go by Without you being in their thoughts I have to go now Jesus And share you with someone else As much as I want to, I can’t keep you to myself. I want to thank you for saving me, And being my friend I thank you for your love, And your grace unto the end. Love Your Precious, Precious Child
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 8:43 PM UTC
A letter to God
Dear God, I heard so much about you Until it is burning me in my heart I want to tell you how I feel, but I don’t know where to start. They say that you are the answer To the way I feel inside And once I am in you, I will Have something to be my guide I picked up the bible that Had collected dust on the shelf I decided to read it and find out for myself. I read about how they nailed your Precious body to the cross, And the reason for this; was to Save that which was lost. Tears poured from my eyes as Joy overtook my soul I found a lot out about you that I was never told. I read about Job and All that he went through And the three Hebrew boys That had all faith in you I just had to write you Jesus And let you know how I feel No matter what I am told; In my heart I believe you are real. As long as I have your spirit, I will never be alone You told me if I hold on, You would give me a new home. I am taking you at your word Because it means a lot to me The day you died on Calvary, It was to set me free. Thank you for bringing me out of the world And giving me a brand new life I promise to keep your commandments And do that which is right I promise to teach my children To obey every law And not let a day go by Without you being in their thoughts I have to go now Jesus And share you with someone else As much as I want to, I can’t keep you to myself. I want to thank you for saving me, And being my friend I thank you for your love, And your grace unto the end. Love Your Precious, Precious Child
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We nailed the hands long ago, Wove the thorns, took up the scourge and shouted For excitement's sake, we stood at the dusty edge Of the pebbled path and watched the extreme of pain. But one or two prayed, one or two Were silent, shocked, stood back And remembered remnants of words, a new vision, The cross is up with its crying victim, the clouds Cover the sun, we learn a new way to lose What we did not know we had Until this bleak and sacrificial day, Until we turned from our bad Past and knelt and cried out our dismay, The dice still clicking, the voices dying away.
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Friday
¤¤¤ I've had dreams by day That brought the nightmares back. In the daylights exposure it was dark   When the negative light was bright. In the sea of people I was the floating remains Of a Great White's meal.  On the lonely roads of thought My mind was in gridlock. Comforting memories were suspended Over a psychic black hole By jagged and rusted Medieval-type surgical tools. My remaining senses Were nailed to a cross-section Of psychically atrophied grey matter Along neural pathways Guarded by gladiator-type tormentors. Left with nothing But the stinging desire to be freed From a curse that had to be cured And the hell of searching for a cure When I was convinced there wasn’t one. The powers that be come with force To quell primal lusts & desires Forbidding you of them As they seductively Dangle them before your eyes    Until you are so frustrated and unfulfilled That you no longer Care for your world.   This cracked glass remains empty Even though it is constantly being filled Then spilled or leaked on the floor Until you learn to lap it up Like the lapdog that you have become For their amusement. You remain with a love for freedom   But your cage is so large  That you think you are free Lost in societal fantasy. You think for a while That these fantasies are real    Until you come to your senses that aren’t As you join other fools In comfort that you're not the only Broken-back pack-mule.  But in spite of it all And in the face of them all Don't let these birds of prey                                                           And powers that be Deprive you of what they cannot see In that hidden corner Of what is still untouched-- The real you Uninfected by the world.   Take care of your spiritual affairs. Don't let the global beast And your primal hissing forces Make you be your own pallbearer.
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Jun 27, 2017
Jun 27, 2017 at 6:28 PM UTC
A Soul Suspended Over a Psychic Black Hole
¤¤¤ I've had dreams by day That brought the nightmares back. In the daylights exposure it was dark   When the negative light was bright. In the sea of people I was the floating remains Of a Great White's meal.  On the lonely roads of thought My mind was in gridlock. Comforting memories were suspended Over a psychic black hole By jagged and rusted Medieval-type surgical tools. My remaining senses Were nailed to a cross-section Of psychically atrophied grey matter Along neural pathways Guarded by gladiator-type tormentors. Left with nothing But the stinging desire to be freed From a curse that had to be cured And the hell of searching for a cure When I was convinced there wasn’t one. The powers that be come with force To quell primal lusts & desires Forbidding you of them As they seductively Dangle them before your eyes    Until you are so frustrated and unfulfilled That you no longer Care for your world.   This cracked glass remains empty Even though it is constantly being filled Then spilled or leaked on the floor Until you learn to lap it up Like the lapdog that you have become For their amusement. You remain with a love for freedom   But your cage is so large  That you think you are free Lost in societal fantasy. You think for a while That these fantasies are real    Until you come to your senses that aren’t As you join other fools In comfort that you're not the only Broken-back pack-mule.  But in spite of it all And in the face of them all Don't let these birds of prey                                                           And powers that be Deprive you of what they cannot see In that hidden corner Of what is still untouched-- The real you Uninfected by the world.   Take care of your spiritual affairs. Don't let the global beast And your primal hissing forces Make you be your own pallbearer.
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We were boys, once. Our mother liked to dress us in tailored suits and leather shoes. Every Sunday morning. Ready bright and early for mass at 11. We'd sit in the classroom at the back of the old church hall. After mass. After the chatter of voices hushed down to whispers; virtuous gossip. Our teacher fed us images of hellfire and brimstone. *** and sin. Satan in a red cape and Halloween horns. He didn't always look like that. Oh, no. Mother said that he'd come out all dressed in a suit like mine. He'd be handsome! His voice would be a choir of one billion ****** souls and once you'd hear it, you'd never want it to stop. In my eight-year-old mind, I wondered what he did and what he felt when his own father cursed his name. Did he stare at his dad with his thousand-eyes? Did he protest? Did he laugh as he fell? In a cascade of feathers and blood. Maybe he was better off without him. He'd spend the rest of eternity trying to prove his father wrong. That he was worthy of his love: That he would be the only son to grieve for the mistake of humanity. The holy adversary. The one who would shout his love for The Lord until his throat cracked dry and his chest ached. He, who could see the suffering of his father's own creations. He, who tempted Eve and proved God wrong and we were flawed from the very beginning. Did he watch Eve eat the apple and savor every bite? He loved his father. Did he deserve it? I stopped going to church on my eighteenth birthday. What kind of parent would **** one son and praise the other? Who would let one son be nailed to a board and the other to rot in flames? Even as a child, I knew. Through every slap, scold and bruise. I would never bow.
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Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM UTC
Adversary
We were boys, once. Our mother liked to dress us in tailored suits and leather shoes. Every Sunday morning. Ready bright and early for mass at 11. We'd sit in the classroom at the back of the old church hall. After mass. After the chatter of voices hushed down to whispers; virtuous gossip. Our teacher fed us images of hellfire and brimstone. *** and sin. Satan in a red cape and Halloween horns. He didn't always look like that. Oh, no. Mother said that he'd come out all dressed in a suit like mine. He'd be handsome! His voice would be a choir of one billion ****** souls and once you'd hear it, you'd never want it to stop. In my eight-year-old mind, I wondered what he did and what he felt when his own father cursed his name. Did he stare at his dad with his thousand-eyes? Did he protest? Did he laugh as he fell? In a cascade of feathers and blood. Maybe he was better off without him. He'd spend the rest of eternity trying to prove his father wrong. That he was worthy of his love: That he would be the only son to grieve for the mistake of humanity. The holy adversary. The one who would shout his love for The Lord until his throat cracked dry and his chest ached. He, who could see the suffering of his father's own creations. He, who tempted Eve and proved God wrong and we were flawed from the very beginning. Did he watch Eve eat the apple and savor every bite? He loved his father. Did he deserve it? I stopped going to church on my eighteenth birthday. What kind of parent would **** one son and praise the other? Who would let one son be nailed to a board and the other to rot in flames? Even as a child, I knew. Through every slap, scold and bruise. I would never bow.
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I have been in the moon In search of love all noon Searched through deserts Even through garden of Eden. I have Searched beneath the sea Travelled wide even to overseas Still could not find love. I went to Vatican Even to Mecca Driven through the romantic sites of Paris Bath in the Brazilian beaches Flown across the Atlantic Pitched my tenth for few days on the Antarctic Spend some more on the arctic Still I saw no love. All I saw was lust Angels with broken hearts, Rotten roses, Withered lilies, Death faiths and monsters on beautiful faces. I saw bullets in church offering boxes Just wedded on number plates of ambulances. I saw wars in diversity Pain and mourning crowding all cities The devil celebrating the dead of peace. I saw three wise men Where went love, I asked them They said love has been nailed on the cross Buried with trust They are heading to Galilee To await his return. I followed with dreams I met many returning with smiles of frustration From where I was going with pregnancy of expectations. We arrived to the scene Like a nightmare, I witnessed higher sins I saw men taking pleasures with men Some with animals, some women with women. Gun everybody walking sticks People feeding on people flesh With human blood the thirsting ones quench their thirst. Is this where love is expected to return? The wise men retorted, Yes, the saints have been raptured And his seven years  reign has just began. Then in a flash, I remembered that I have been taught Taught about this dreadful end I had also taught kids Under trees at nights Just to threaten them to live right. What I thought was a mare threat or a fallacy Has been awaken against my fate in reality. Oh! We are among the leftovers Left to reprove ourselves or be doomed forever.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC
The Leftovers
I have been in the moon In search of love all noon Searched through deserts Even through garden of Eden. I have Searched beneath the sea Travelled wide even to overseas Still could not find love. I went to Vatican Even to Mecca Driven through the romantic sites of Paris Bath in the Brazilian beaches Flown across the Atlantic Pitched my tenth for few days on the Antarctic Spend some more on the arctic Still I saw no love. All I saw was lust Angels with broken hearts, Rotten roses, Withered lilies, Death faiths and monsters on beautiful faces. I saw bullets in church offering boxes Just wedded on number plates of ambulances. I saw wars in diversity Pain and mourning crowding all cities The devil celebrating the dead of peace. I saw three wise men Where went love, I asked them They said love has been nailed on the cross Buried with trust They are heading to Galilee To await his return. I followed with dreams I met many returning with smiles of frustration From where I was going with pregnancy of expectations. We arrived to the scene Like a nightmare, I witnessed higher sins I saw men taking pleasures with men Some with animals, some women with women. Gun everybody walking sticks People feeding on people flesh With human blood the thirsting ones quench their thirst. Is this where love is expected to return? The wise men retorted, Yes, the saints have been raptured And his seven years  reign has just began. Then in a flash, I remembered that I have been taught Taught about this dreadful end I had also taught kids Under trees at nights Just to threaten them to live right. What I thought was a mare threat or a fallacy Has been awaken against my fate in reality. Oh! We are among the leftovers Left to reprove ourselves or be doomed forever.
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I saw him in the fields as a boy And he was smiling Such a tender youth and full of love For every living thing great and small The sheep were all around him And each he fed out of hand One by one, smiling at his flock With eyes full of love And a heart ever giving I saw him in the market square And he was smiling The great teacher And all those who follow him The people did flock to see him And he spoke to them and told stories He taught the masses, young and old I saw the shepherd king When jesus of Nazereth came to market I saw him in his chains Lead through the town bruised and ****** Lead by roman jailors toward death While all around the crowd was in turmoil He never cried out, nor begged for life He never moaned, never complained Even when the raised him up, and nailed him to the cross His only words were a dying prayer He was smiling.
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM UTC
I saw him smiling.
I said, "God, I hurt." And God said, I know." I said, "God, I cry a lot." And God said, "That is why I gave you tears." I said, "God, I am so depressed." And God said, "That is why I gave you Sunshine." I said, "God, life is so hard." And God said, "That is why I gave you loved ones." I said, "God, my loved one died." And God said, "So did mine." I said, "God, it is such a loss." And God said, I saw mine nailed to a cross." I said, "God, but your loved one lives." And God said, "So does yours." I said, "God, where are they now?" And God said, "Mine is on My right and yours is in the Light." I said, "God, it hurts." And God said, I know." ~ Posted on the wall at the Oklahoma City bombing site.
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Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 12:47 PM UTC
And God Said...
The crown of my unrighteousness pierced Thy skull, And drops of blood flowed into the veins of Thy brain, Quite often I please the ruler of the flesh, But all my ways ripped the heart of the Redeemer. Thou wert stripped when I am shrouded with iniquities, Thou wert spit when I choose the fleshly acts, Thou wert scorned for my fruitless words, My sins of pleasure nailed Thy palms on the Cross. Intermittently I let the spirit of evil into my soul, And how often Thou wert lashed by filthy transactions, Thou wert kicked with the filth of my boot, With my heart of pride Thou wert slapped. Thou hast created me and all within; Yet Thy Love for Thine made the Way with Thy humility.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM UTC
Thy Love, Thy Humility
Oh grace, oh that grace. I am a sinner, He is my Savior. I should die but He took my place. I was saved, He was tortured. Oh grace, oh that grace. Oh grace, oh that grace. Bruised and broken, tears and blood on His face, He suffered all the pain. Oh grace, oh that grace. Oh grace, oh that grace. The King of kings was hung and nailed on that cross, for my case my Holy God was mocked and jeered Oh grace, oh that grace. Oh grace, oh that grace. I once was lost, followed my own ways. and now I am found Oh grace, oh that grace. Oh grace, oh that grace. I don't deserve all of these The love, the joy, and the forgiveness, All He did and all He went through. It was grace. Oh my saving grace, oh that amazing grace.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 9:58 AM UTC
Oh Grace
Jesus runs in Everglades, Mohammed climbs the roof The Angels stamp in anger as the Devil stands aloof, A wandering Pope in la-la land while Jewish hands do writhe Those apoplectic Muslims glare while Catholics pay the tithe. Religion, girls, has hit the skids…the game is up on God With rosaries rotating hard, theologians do nod, While Mormons rant moronically with frankincense and myrrh The irreligious bark and howl in Rastafarian fur. Sectarian’s recant Sanctum’s Shrine the rite of soul is lost As neophytes are dancing… the High Priest counts the cost, Theocracy unbalances as Voodoo’s stamp the floor And the Prophets throw their hands up, fast retreating for the door. It’s transcendental disbelief that’s nailed it to the Cross With the Priesthood chasing little boys all credence here is lost. With sanctity’s monastic plunge the pagans roar and shout As Shamans scream their incantations…God declares a route! There is silence in the Temple now, stillness in the pews As dust lies thick on altars, a nervous clergy holds reviews, What, once, was good and vibrant here, is now as dead as dust As the Blood Red Wine evaporates and Holy Bread…to crust. Marshalg Feeding the pigeons by the dusty, open door of the very, empty Chapel. 30 November 2013
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Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 2:55 PM UTC
And Holy Bread...to Crust!
I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand, And they had nailed the boards above her face, The peasants of that land, Wondering to lay her in that solitude, And raised above her mound A cross they had made out of two bits of wood, And planted cypress round; And left her to the indifferent stars above Until I carved these words: She was more beautiful than thy first love, But now lies under boards.
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A Dream Of Death
I lost a friend last night because my poems are too dark. She said they scare her, and make her cry. She said she can feel me slipping with each verse, and that she'd enjoy them if they were written by a stranger she never loved. She said she feels her heart going out to me but she had to pull it back because she needs to keep it for herself, so she can see though her own issues. No one ever stays because once they see me naked of my walls they stare into my sheltered world and see things that would make even the Earth cringe. It's too late to destroy it, because my thoughts have evolved into a race of beings far more powerful than myself. They'll be the death of me, but their empires will stand long after I'm gone, before my time. But every once and a while I can hear one or two of them praying to me, begging for me to bring peace to this world inside my head that I have no control over. They don't realize that I'm not a god, and that their whole existence is nothing but the product of years of abuse from a universe they cant comprehend, that I can't comprehend. So I sit nailed to the couch, suffering for their sins while pointlessly checking my phone for a text from that friend that says “I'm sorry”
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:19 PM UTC
suffering
From the moment I walked in, I felt the piercing eyes. Same eyes that nailed Jesus to the wooden cross. Jesus said, by this, all man will know you are my disciples, if you have love one to another. Pharisees, Pharisees, Pharisees. Oh, how the mighty have fallen into apostasy. Like the Nephilim which came & has yet to come again. Surely heading back to the beginning, the Days of Noah. The entire time I sat in those fold-up chairs, my heart couldn't stop racing. Perhaps it was the spirits aligning to seek whom they may devour. Heard many vain repetitions today, didn't Jesus say that's what heathens do? For they think that they will be heard for their many words. We all crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. We have all blasphemed. One perfect Godman died on our behalf, then rose 3 days later to break the curse. Sacrificial love. Let us not break bread & drink grape juice. Guess you never knew that's symbology for cannibalism. In which He never commanded us to do. Simply two commands were left. Love God with all your heart, with all your soul & with all your mind. Secondly, love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 11:42 PM UTC
Dear Fellowship Bible Church,
My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. The horse strained at his clicking tongue. An expert. He would set the wing And fit the bright steel-pointed sock. The sod rolled over without breaking. At the headrig, with a single pluck Of reins, the sweating team turned round And back into the land. His eye Narrowed and angled at the ground, Mapping the furrow exactly. I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake, Fell sometimes on the polished sod; Sometimes he rode me on his back Dipping and rising to his plod. I wanted to grow up and plough, To close one eye, stiffen my arm. All I ever did was follow In his broad shadow round the farm. I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, Yapping always. But today It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away.
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Follower
I-Spy A ladybird, busy, On a sunny September day. A farmer, Just finished cutting the hay. A wasp on a dried out flower, Autumn is here, He is losing his power. A penny nailed to a tree, I-spy is fun lots to see. All left at peace for others to spy, From our feet up to the sky. Leaving the penny hanging there, Maybe there is no change to spare.
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Sep 6, 2011
Sep 6, 2011 at 11:04 AM UTC
I-Spy
Why Do You Always Have To Hurt Me? Why Do You Always Have To Think So Negatively? Why Do You Always Look At The Glass Half Empty? Instead Of Looking What We Have, I Guess The Ice Cubes In That Drink, Make It Hard For You To Think, Always Complaining That It's Not Good, Yet You Wanna Go To The Party In The Hood, Mess Up Your Life, But Saying You're Making Life Right? You Have A Past, But Who Am I To Judge? I Thought This Would Last, But Now It's A Life Long Grudge, Saying You Stopped All This Nonsense With Drugs And **** Yet If I Ask About Your Past You Start To Yell At Me, Criticizing My Beliefs Because They Have No Cross To Be Nailed To, But Being In This World I'm Starting To Live That Lifestyle Through, Criticize The Unknown Because You Are Afraid, Yet You Love Discriminating Because You Think It's Brave, Not Thinking Twice About Conspiracies, You Just Don't Think Critically, Unlike Me You Think We Are A Match Made In Heaven, When Truth Is All You Want To Do Is Pop Prescription Medicine, You Don't Think About You're Long Term Negative Affect On Me, All You See Is My Glass Half Full, Never Looking At It Empty, And You Don't Like That So You Strive For Us To Be Equal, This Romance Is Like A Never Ending Sequel, Hands Tighten Around My Throat As You Try To Kiss Me, But After The Fact You Sit There And Just Try To Diss Me, Trying To Smother Out The Truth, Letting Chaos Run Loose, Your Just Another Hand To Help Tie The Noose, Waiting To Strangle My Inner Being And Make Me Scream Truce, First And Foremost I Believe Everybody Lies, And I Will Relate To That Until The Day I Die, Black And White Frames Try To Swallow My Color, Making Me A Copy Just Like Every Other, You're Like A Bill O'Reily Or Maybe A Mitt Romney, When I Try To Speak The Truth You Always Interrupt Me, I Don't Mean To Name Names, But These Are Few Who Bring Us Shame, For Trying To Think Outside The Box, Who Put The Key Inside The Lock, And You Sit There Telling Me How School And My Belief's Are Bogus, But Who Are Trying To Act So **** Heroic? When I Soar On A Natural High You Say Im Crazy, But At Least I'm Not Sitting There With A Glass Half Empty...
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM UTC
Glass Half Empty
Why Do You Always Have To Hurt Me? Why Do You Always Have To Think So Negatively? Why Do You Always Look At The Glass Half Empty? Instead Of Looking What We Have, I Guess The Ice Cubes In That Drink, Make It Hard For You To Think, Always Complaining That It's Not Good, Yet You Wanna Go To The Party In The Hood, Mess Up Your Life, But Saying You're Making Life Right? You Have A Past, But Who Am I To Judge? I Thought This Would Last, But Now It's A Life Long Grudge, Saying You Stopped All This Nonsense With Drugs And **** Yet If I Ask About Your Past You Start To Yell At Me, Criticizing My Beliefs Because They Have No Cross To Be Nailed To, But Being In This World I'm Starting To Live That Lifestyle Through, Criticize The Unknown Because You Are Afraid, Yet You Love Discriminating Because You Think It's Brave, Not Thinking Twice About Conspiracies, You Just Don't Think Critically, Unlike Me You Think We Are A Match Made In Heaven, When Truth Is All You Want To Do Is Pop Prescription Medicine, You Don't Think About You're Long Term Negative Affect On Me, All You See Is My Glass Half Full, Never Looking At It Empty, And You Don't Like That So You Strive For Us To Be Equal, This Romance Is Like A Never Ending Sequel, Hands Tighten Around My Throat As You Try To Kiss Me, But After The Fact You Sit There And Just Try To Diss Me, Trying To Smother Out The Truth, Letting Chaos Run Loose, Your Just Another Hand To Help Tie The Noose, Waiting To Strangle My Inner Being And Make Me Scream Truce, First And Foremost I Believe Everybody Lies, And I Will Relate To That Until The Day I Die, Black And White Frames Try To Swallow My Color, Making Me A Copy Just Like Every Other, You're Like A Bill O'Reily Or Maybe A Mitt Romney, When I Try To Speak The Truth You Always Interrupt Me, I Don't Mean To Name Names, But These Are Few Who Bring Us Shame, For Trying To Think Outside The Box, Who Put The Key Inside The Lock, And You Sit There Telling Me How School And My Belief's Are Bogus, But Who Are Trying To Act So **** Heroic? When I Soar On A Natural High You Say Im Crazy, But At Least I'm Not Sitting There With A Glass Half Empty...
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