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If you could change the things you've done Would you jump and take the chance? Or would you leave your life alone And continue with the dance If you could make some things better But know that other things would change Would you keep your life the way it is Or would you choose to rearrange? I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp Would you change the job you're doing Would you make yourself real rich Remember though if things you change Time's fabric drops a stitch The things you do when you go back Will change the things now here So if you do things different Your life might disappear You can go make sick folks healthy But that will change the scope of time If I changed the things that happened you may not end up being mine I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp There are reasons that things happen And there are reasons some do not Would you change the life you're living For one that you are not? I know that I'd revisit The past for just a while And I'd leave things just the same I'd go back to see your smile I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp I'd leave time just the way it was I'd do everything the same That way, nothing would be different And I wouldn't be to blame. I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 5:00 PM UTC
Time Machine
If you could change the things you've done Would you jump and take the chance? Or would you leave your life alone And continue with the dance If you could make some things better But know that other things would change Would you keep your life the way it is Or would you choose to rearrange? I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp Would you change the job you're doing Would you make yourself real rich Remember though if things you change Time's fabric drops a stitch The things you do when you go back Will change the things now here So if you do things different Your life might disappear You can go make sick folks healthy But that will change the scope of time If I changed the things that happened you may not end up being mine I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp There are reasons that things happen And there are reasons some do not Would you change the life you're living For one that you are not? I know that I'd revisit The past for just a while And I'd leave things just the same I'd go back to see your smile I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp I'd leave time just the way it was I'd do everything the same That way, nothing would be different And I wouldn't be to blame. I wish I had a time machine For I know what I would do I would travel back into the past To spend more time with you I wouldn't change what happened I would just relive the past Because I love when we're together And it's moments you can't grasp
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I fell in it A handful of times Those burning embers Of love and trust The consuming flames Of the pleasures of lust The perpetual game Of push and shove I get tired And burned out Running from all Life's broken rules And after all I don't care to revisit Those old blues But don't get me wrong I'm still your one And only fool Because you know Once or twice In the darkest Part of life I was so blessed To have your light!
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Apr 6, 2016
Apr 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM UTC
BURNOUT
Touch as the fervent feeling seek to know the ambiguity of it, Feel as the ****** of a sparrow wing crept upon my dreams, Fathom as the grief of rocks shrieked on deserted mountains, And the Sky was blue Touched by a Crescent Moon Unraveling the hidden truth How life was promised to me and you Awe as landscapes vanished from distant perplexing shores, Sigh as Long ships sailed on white ashes coasting inherently, Fright as the voluptuous sights, faking wonders in my night, And the Sky was blue mellifluously My Heart as to see a magnificent feeling to be free the beauty relentless, endlessly weave Pray as the growing wind whisper, a phrase to forever keep, Kneel as crowds offered Him, a gratitude of rejoicing praise, Trust as dandelions glides, the strength of His binding faith, And the Sky was blue for God is forever faithful & true to broken lives, he one's renew Keeping his promise to come again soon Awake as the daybreak reveal, memories of our love revisit, Sing as angels on white veil’s, bring you to heaven's place, Gone is the world I once knew, eyes closing as my soul flew, Amen...
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Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 8:07 PM UTC
◦ And the Sky was Blue
I've sat here for 21 years Watching all this go by People say things cliché With pretension in their eye I'm tired of hearing, everyday, what life is all about Reality is getting boring, let's tune in and drop out Have you heard the one About the killer and the priest? One blesses people with less and less And one is just a thief In "somewhere else" my mind is broken down Reality is getting boring yet still its name resounds There's stories everywhere you go And all of them the same Reductive plots and happy endings Just under another name I'm quiet as I sit and listen to what they all say Reality is getting boring, maybe I'll revisit it some other day
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 3:57 PM UTC
Reality Is Getting Boring
<> "And then one day you came back home You were a creature all in rapture You had the key to your soul And you did open that day you came back to the garden The olden summer breeze was blowin' on your face The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine And you were a violet colour as you Sat beside your father and your mother in the garden The summer breeze was blowin' on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden" In the Garden, song by by Van Morrison <> ***This touches me deep in the chest cavity, the palpitations of its internalizing echoing cavitations, a warning, go slow, choose your words wise and accrue, the mood, for the ache of creating, hurts, fevers me for I am but steps away from the garden, and its violet hues infused with fresh sunrising golden hazes, with kindly warmth, with warming kindnesses, touches, caresses my shoulders, begs me to stop crying, overcome, for I am overcome, eyes dropping wetting droplets, for find myself at the intersection, interlocking crossroads where perfect perfection begins and must meet its natural endings thoughts of capture, retentions, preservations, all impossibilities, challenges, see me, begging itinerant muses in the neighborhood to guide my hand, teach me newsome words, mine feel so old, so unworthy of this moment, hearing me solicit their Treasure of Summery Words but they won't, excusing themselves, that this in particular human has exercised, exorcised, all the tools in his ever diminishing capacity, time insufficient to learn a new calculus of addition and bid me calm my heaving chest, seize my tears, just add them to the brackish salted waters steps awaiting away live in this moment live within this poem, revisit it frequent, weep no more, your stilling heart weakened, take fast what is given now, and be contented, your treasury chest is full, overflowing with this summary of summery*** but I am not, cannot… 7:48:am jul 22
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Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM UTC
Within your violet, you treasure your summery words...
<> "And then one day you came back home You were a creature all in rapture You had the key to your soul And you did open that day you came back to the garden The olden summer breeze was blowin' on your face The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine And you were a violet colour as you Sat beside your father and your mother in the garden The summer breeze was blowin' on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden" In the Garden, song by by Van Morrison <> ***This touches me deep in the chest cavity, the palpitations of its internalizing echoing cavitations, a warning, go slow, choose your words wise and accrue, the mood, for the ache of creating, hurts, fevers me for I am but steps away from the garden, and its violet hues infused with fresh sunrising golden hazes, with kindly warmth, with warming kindnesses, touches, caresses my shoulders, begs me to stop crying, overcome, for I am overcome, eyes dropping wetting droplets, for find myself at the intersection, interlocking crossroads where perfect perfection begins and must meet its natural endings thoughts of capture, retentions, preservations, all impossibilities, challenges, see me, begging itinerant muses in the neighborhood to guide my hand, teach me newsome words, mine feel so old, so unworthy of this moment, hearing me solicit their Treasure of Summery Words but they won't, excusing themselves, that this in particular human has exercised, exorcised, all the tools in his ever diminishing capacity, time insufficient to learn a new calculus of addition and bid me calm my heaving chest, seize my tears, just add them to the brackish salted waters steps awaiting away live in this moment live within this poem, revisit it frequent, weep no more, your stilling heart weakened, take fast what is given now, and be contented, your treasury chest is full, overflowing with this summary of summery*** but I am not, cannot… 7:48:am jul 22
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time flies by and so does the wind against my window pane rain drops concoct a symphony: plink plink plink my body is comfortably numb though, my thoughts are quite the opposite time flies by and so do the feelings inside my head they are lost searching for some sort of salvation, searching for you, running, walking, crawling for you. time flies by and so do my memories of you i revisit them the good, the bad, and the broken if it's healthy- it hurts if it's haunting- it hurts. time flies by while i waste away in bed and i wonder if you are, too.
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 10:56 PM UTC
anxiety
They say that smell Is your strongest sense When tied to memory. That just a whiff of a smell Or even thought of a Smell can bring you back To a place and a time that You had previously Thought were left behind. For me the smell of Bleach is comfort, as my Nanny used it as a Standard, household Cleaner. I love that smell As well as of my favorite Dinner, mildew (reminds me of summers spent At camp, living out of a trunk) and My favorite flowers Each of these smells I Love to revisit time and Time again. One smell Though has embedded Itself in my memory and if I have my way, I’ll never Smell it again. Mom had Colon cancer most Of my time in High school. No clue on the stage But it was best not To Ask Surgeries, chemo, radiation, the Whole Nine Things seemed to be fine, Well, even great Until it took a turn My mom has never been Skinny; she is petite, but Normal Suddenly she looked like A holocaust victim She would get quiet Draw into herself For periods of time Another surgery. Fine She returned home And then something crept in That something was death And I’ll never know how I knew You just know. The smell of something Dying Isn’t pleasant It puts you on edge And turns your stomach Mom was confident That she was getting better The smell, that can’t Be described (dying tissue, pain Suffering) was glaring To me I never asked Mom or Dad If they could smell it Because the smell of Death Isn’t a sense that should Be shared I would just maintain that I didn’t think Something was right A day or so later Surgery. Fine. Home. Smell. Surgery. Fine. Home. Smell. Surgery. Fine. Home. After that last Surgery. The smell Left. But even now When I think back To that time That complicated time of Soccer games Chemotherapy Apply to college Surgeries The one thing in the Foreground Is That Smell Just a whiff of death Of human decay Of dying Of suffering And I’ve had my fill For a lifetime
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 1:58 AM UTC
Smell of Death
They say that smell Is your strongest sense When tied to memory. That just a whiff of a smell Or even thought of a Smell can bring you back To a place and a time that You had previously Thought were left behind. For me the smell of Bleach is comfort, as my Nanny used it as a Standard, household Cleaner. I love that smell As well as of my favorite Dinner, mildew (reminds me of summers spent At camp, living out of a trunk) and My favorite flowers Each of these smells I Love to revisit time and Time again. One smell Though has embedded Itself in my memory and if I have my way, I’ll never Smell it again. Mom had Colon cancer most Of my time in High school. No clue on the stage But it was best not To Ask Surgeries, chemo, radiation, the Whole Nine Things seemed to be fine, Well, even great Until it took a turn My mom has never been Skinny; she is petite, but Normal Suddenly she looked like A holocaust victim She would get quiet Draw into herself For periods of time Another surgery. Fine She returned home And then something crept in That something was death And I’ll never know how I knew You just know. The smell of something Dying Isn’t pleasant It puts you on edge And turns your stomach Mom was confident That she was getting better The smell, that can’t Be described (dying tissue, pain Suffering) was glaring To me I never asked Mom or Dad If they could smell it Because the smell of Death Isn’t a sense that should Be shared I would just maintain that I didn’t think Something was right A day or so later Surgery. Fine. Home. Smell. Surgery. Fine. Home. Smell. Surgery. Fine. Home. After that last Surgery. The smell Left. But even now When I think back To that time That complicated time of Soccer games Chemotherapy Apply to college Surgeries The one thing in the Foreground Is That Smell Just a whiff of death Of human decay Of dying Of suffering And I’ve had my fill For a lifetime
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Laying on the bed, reading your wedding invite. I recall the day you went silent and I threw my crown. Stepping down and lost myself. Today I let you go, my love. Not because I give up. I believe you cared and you still do. Your silence did cut through my flesh, Your strangeness burnt my heart. But here I stand today ready to let myself heal. Years of gathering broken pieces of my heart. My lost pieces of love, wailing to be found. Stranded I searched, and I still do. I held on to you, like a stubborn child. Your memories engraved, your doings encircling my thoughts. Strangely never remembering our fights, I was partial.   My heart wanted more, my soul was thirsty. I found pleasure in pain. I kept you alive. What a splendid journey, my love. The impeccable high of your addiction. As I drowned, I found myself. One day I chose to revisit my past. Regretting the time lost to stupid fights, blaming myself. I never felt, keeping you alive. Stupid were my acts, unreasonable was my anger. Childish were my demands. A sinner, at your altar I confess. Sleepless nights, result of a restless brain. Blaming you for the love I dreaded I deserved, For making me feel worthwhile. Keeping your memories alive, Redoing my past, for an escape. As the odds increased, so did my grief.   For the broken promises, and the endless thoughts. U left without a word, so did my Tears. You coward, I pushed myself to oblivion.   I saved our love when the world sympathised. I held on to respect, for u and our love. Wishing you the best, I kept u alive. My futile attempts to blame you, was a curse. A part of me found pleasure when they blamed you, My stupid selfish heart. But today I let you go my love, I allow myself to heal. You meant so much, you still do. But life is more than just you and me. A part of my soul is still with you, it’s yours now. Keep it safe my love. I’ll nurture what is left of it. As time flies by, I’ll heal. For a better tomorrow, for a better me. I’ll strive with a hollow heart and a partial soul. Thank you love, for the heat. For never cheating my heart. For the never ending  euphoria. I know u cared and you still do. When you found me, I found myself. For your breath of life, I’ll keep u alive. You made me believe in good. To Love someone more than my being. Surprised I’m to know my strength. Entwined souls, living in the moment. We headed together, Insane and reckless. Towards our predefined end.   I’m glad it was you and no one else. You were the one, my wildest decision. Oh my wings, my strength. But today love, I let you go. I was your princess. Now it's someone else. It’s time to put back my crown to rule. U won't be forgotten my love, but like any life chapter ours has come to an end.
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Jul 28, 2016
Jul 28, 2016 at 5:31 AM UTC
I let you go
Laying on the bed, reading your wedding invite. I recall the day you went silent and I threw my crown. Stepping down and lost myself. Today I let you go, my love. Not because I give up. I believe you cared and you still do. Your silence did cut through my flesh, Your strangeness burnt my heart. But here I stand today ready to let myself heal. Years of gathering broken pieces of my heart. My lost pieces of love, wailing to be found. Stranded I searched, and I still do. I held on to you, like a stubborn child. Your memories engraved, your doings encircling my thoughts. Strangely never remembering our fights, I was partial.   My heart wanted more, my soul was thirsty. I found pleasure in pain. I kept you alive. What a splendid journey, my love. The impeccable high of your addiction. As I drowned, I found myself. One day I chose to revisit my past. Regretting the time lost to stupid fights, blaming myself. I never felt, keeping you alive. Stupid were my acts, unreasonable was my anger. Childish were my demands. A sinner, at your altar I confess. Sleepless nights, result of a restless brain. Blaming you for the love I dreaded I deserved, For making me feel worthwhile. Keeping your memories alive, Redoing my past, for an escape. As the odds increased, so did my grief.   For the broken promises, and the endless thoughts. U left without a word, so did my Tears. You coward, I pushed myself to oblivion.   I saved our love when the world sympathised. I held on to respect, for u and our love. Wishing you the best, I kept u alive. My futile attempts to blame you, was a curse. A part of me found pleasure when they blamed you, My stupid selfish heart. But today I let you go my love, I allow myself to heal. You meant so much, you still do. But life is more than just you and me. A part of my soul is still with you, it’s yours now. Keep it safe my love. I’ll nurture what is left of it. As time flies by, I’ll heal. For a better tomorrow, for a better me. I’ll strive with a hollow heart and a partial soul. Thank you love, for the heat. For never cheating my heart. For the never ending  euphoria. I know u cared and you still do. When you found me, I found myself. For your breath of life, I’ll keep u alive. You made me believe in good. To Love someone more than my being. Surprised I’m to know my strength. Entwined souls, living in the moment. We headed together, Insane and reckless. Towards our predefined end.   I’m glad it was you and no one else. You were the one, my wildest decision. Oh my wings, my strength. But today love, I let you go. I was your princess. Now it's someone else. It’s time to put back my crown to rule. U won't be forgotten my love, but like any life chapter ours has come to an end.
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Distance, is this air around me that is vacant of you. Your heart, so far from mine, though I can hear it’s music. Patience, is the belief that time without you is bearable. Seconds slowly scrape along the line I drew to wake. Nothing matches this ache. of opening eyes to mornings, without your laughter. Closing them is redundant, it does not permit me back, to revisit the dream I had left you in. Eyes instead reluctantly greet the sunrise, whilst yours are still dancing, flickering, in the gift sleep brings. I wonder if your searching for me. Impatient hands long to pull you prematurely out of slumber. Reaching across this border in vain, restless mind teasing me, as it thinks of holding you, kissing you, here. now. Dare I soften the white peaks of the mountains that part us? I mustn’t, thinks the patient witness of time I’ll wait for you on the other side my dear...join me, soon, I wait eagerly.
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 at 7:33 AM UTC
Your Night, My Day
i took my first love down to strawberry hill, the only place i knew how to be free, only kids were we, i kissed her and she kissed me right there among the strawberries, but when i asked how long we would be she said nothing to me two days later she left me, and the strawberries beneath my feet lay cold in the breeze 15 my heart was afluttering, and i took my love down to violet hill there we sat in the summer heat, i asked just how long we would be, she sat as silent as a tree three days later she let me go, and i sat staring at the dead berries that lay buried in front of me 23 i thought i had found she, the girl who would always love me, but i got down on my knees and she said no to me, i didn't say anything, just watched the strawberries beside me wither and bleed, no longer living when you came to me the strawberry hill no longer carried its name, my heart beseeched me to revisit once in my lonely life, i told you my story of the strawberry hill and the heartbreak that had happened here, you sat the, silent still, and once done you said to me, "darling this hill belongs to we, i shall not leave you until life lets me sleep, and even then this hill is where you will find me" now i stand on strawberry hill, life breathed back by your love, you lay beneath your strawberries, waiting to greet me
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Jul 3, 2011
Jul 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM UTC
Strawberry
as an astronaut, I spun on a rotary around the core of your existence like you were the gravity that held me to the ground but kept me on my toes if home is where the heart is, i'm coping with this unbearable homesickness and I know my heart has an anarchy government, living a steel toed rebellion but these relentless thoughts about you have gotten bad again, i don't sleep my reckless behavior let loose, like a dog off his chain and collar and i revisited the places you always talked about, how i dreamed to be there with you recovering those lost feelings, and rebellion was assisting me in the mind of my teenage angst, no autobiographies could be more authentic than the hatred for this unrequited swelling i held in my heart without a doubt, you're featured in my dreams more than nightmares you couldn't be more real than the books that I hold in my hands i'm sleeping in water filled with sharks calling me a tedious terrorist entering their territory, leaving me with absolutely nothing just build a bridge, get over it, if you have to, revisit my mind maybe you'll see everyone is the enemy, not everyone is perfect -kra
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 10:16 PM UTC
re- prefixes
My Solace when every aperture is a tunnel narrowing, a light pin diminishing when nearing, when the desk drawer yields up unused theater tickets, for performances concluded yesterday, when the denouement is nothing new but worse, revealed in the coming attractions trailer, when the rusted unborn poem notion is almost done, but remains unpublished, for no beginning, no title, can be found, Then I recall the cornucopia days, when poems spilled forth like there would never be a when they wouldn't, I revisit my old friends, couplets, twins and triplets, seeded inside every tear, happy or sad, sweetly and freely, my old friends, reread, words rearranged in new combinations, old poems, plants bearing new fruits, re-titled all of them, one name, a collection entitled, My Solace.
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 3:59 PM UTC
My Solace (visiting old friends, poems from long ago)
Night sets, The sun falls. Moon and stars become uncovered. A pink faced child crawls under the covers. A cardboard book is clutched in soft bands. A                           f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n looks innocent and careless. Mother hen, baby calf, wiggly pig, their  smiling faces send the child off to sleep. That child remembers that story. They remember the smiling faces of mother hen, baby calf, wiggly pig. That child is no long a child, they no longer read that cardboard farm book. They remember their childhood with that book, they blur into one. They see a barn just like the                                f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n just like the picture in the cardboard farm book. They stop to revisit their childhood, they stop to revisit their innocence, they stop to revisit those smiling faces.                              f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n is only a step away, that no longer child pushes open the sun warmed door. They except innocence, they except those smiling faces, but they did not see what they expected. The innocence of their childhood was a lie, there are no smiling faces here. This is not the                               f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n from their cardboard book, from their childhood, they blurred into one. Mother hen is not smiling, her beak is cut off with a hot blade, she cannot move her wings in her cage, her daughters are taken to live her fate, her sons are ground alive to be feed to her, mother hen is not smiling. Baby calf is not smiling, baby calf is just born, then taken by a man in blood soaked boots, baby calf watches helpless as their mother cries, as their mother chews the metal bars, as their mother fights the electric shocks. Baby calf does not know their father, neither does their mother. Baby calf is put in a metal cage, they will live a year or two, baby calf will not move, that is the point of veal. Baby calf is not smiling. Wiggly pig is not smiling, wiggly pig can only wiggle, only enough so her babies can drink her milk, she cannot reach them though. Wiggly pig will watch her babies grow, but beyond what is natural, beyond what their hearts can handle, but there is a big demand for bacon. Wiggly pig can see her babies hung from their hooves, and slit open alive, but wiggly pig can only wiggle. Wiggly pig is not smiling. That                     f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n is not as innocent as the cardboard farm book. That farm in the book, it was a lie, but that cardboard farm book was their childhood right? They blur into one. Their childhood was a lie. That no longer child lived a lie, because power wanted them to only see the smiling faces, they wanted them to believe that farm in the book to be true, not the lie that really is. Power took away their innocence of childhood. Power took away babies from their mothers. Power took away my smile. The                      f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n from my child no longer sends me off to sleep. Instead it keeps me awake with the image of a farm, not the farm in the cardboard book though, a farm not filled with smiling animals, a farm filled with cries, blood, sorrow, pain, horror, death. A farm that is a lie.
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Feb 11, 2012
Feb 11, 2012 at 10:00 PM UTC
childhood innocence
Night sets, The sun falls. Moon and stars become uncovered. A pink faced child crawls under the covers. A cardboard book is clutched in soft bands. A                           f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n looks innocent and careless. Mother hen, baby calf, wiggly pig, their  smiling faces send the child off to sleep. That child remembers that story. They remember the smiling faces of mother hen, baby calf, wiggly pig. That child is no long a child, they no longer read that cardboard farm book. They remember their childhood with that book, they blur into one. They see a barn just like the                                f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n just like the picture in the cardboard farm book. They stop to revisit their childhood, they stop to revisit their innocence, they stop to revisit those smiling faces.                              f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n is only a step away, that no longer child pushes open the sun warmed door. They except innocence, they except those smiling faces, but they did not see what they expected. The innocence of their childhood was a lie, there are no smiling faces here. This is not the                               f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n from their cardboard book, from their childhood, they blurred into one. Mother hen is not smiling, her beak is cut off with a hot blade, she cannot move her wings in her cage, her daughters are taken to live her fate, her sons are ground alive to be feed to her, mother hen is not smiling. Baby calf is not smiling, baby calf is just born, then taken by a man in blood soaked boots, baby calf watches helpless as their mother cries, as their mother chews the metal bars, as their mother fights the electric shocks. Baby calf does not know their father, neither does their mother. Baby calf is put in a metal cage, they will live a year or two, baby calf will not move, that is the point of veal. Baby calf is not smiling. Wiggly pig is not smiling, wiggly pig can only wiggle, only enough so her babies can drink her milk, she cannot reach them though. Wiggly pig will watch her babies grow, but beyond what is natural, beyond what their hearts can handle, but there is a big demand for bacon. Wiggly pig can see her babies hung from their hooves, and slit open alive, but wiggly pig can only wiggle. Wiggly pig is not smiling. That                     f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n is not as innocent as the cardboard farm book. That farm in the book, it was a lie, but that cardboard farm book was their childhood right? They blur into one. Their childhood was a lie. That no longer child lived a lie, because power wanted them to only see the smiling faces, they wanted them to believe that farm in the book to be true, not the lie that really is. Power took away their innocence of childhood. Power took away babies from their mothers. Power took away my smile. The                      f                        d          a                    e                   r                r                          m                      c                b                     u                 a                     t                  r                     e                 n from my child no longer sends me off to sleep. Instead it keeps me awake with the image of a farm, not the farm in the cardboard book though, a farm not filled with smiling animals, a farm filled with cries, blood, sorrow, pain, horror, death. A farm that is a lie.
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I have a heart made to adore juvenile fantasies, despite modern tragedies. In moments of madness when modern photography presents to me the horrors of humanity I can engage for a minute and escape the insanity in the comics that carry super hero forms. When I see bombs that blister skin till flesh bursts revealing red disfigurement I can travel in my own mental compartment to escape this. I can revisit Winnie the pooh or review the crew of “Star Trek The Next Generation.” When mind numbing poverty rears its sad faces at me, with stranger’s eyes and thin lips quivering in lonely desperation, despite my empathy I have a gift for escaping the irrationality of human suffering. I just sip the soft brew of nostalgia for old cartoons recalling a slightly saner time, when all the sorrows were only mine, when I ached with a mother’s fury but tv shows saw me distracted the fact is I have been escaping my whole life, and I don’t see that changing.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 10:30 AM UTC
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Mar 2, 2013
Mar 2, 2013 at 8:47 PM UTC
a STARBUCKS revisit
(Holding fire and water together) I don't know why the rain keeps writing the name of Nigeria on the ground in every corner. I don't know why we are this broken and tortured like the fragments of the dust. I don't know why the Dapchi girls returned yesterday while their chikbok friends are still in captive. I don't know why every street in Nigeria is known with an imprint of good leaders. I don't know why we cry yet point accusation. fingers back to ourselves, who is fooling who? I don't know why the sun cry here with a closed lips. I don't know why we keep writing love stories while our brothers and sisters perish in shame! I don't just know why but I think you should know. Are you not the one that collected a cup of rice, clean notes and Abrahamic lie from them? I won't speak ill of this land again, I won't! I won't judge any one, no, I won't for the sake of my unborn children. No, I won't for the sake of what happened to Dele Giwa and Saro Wiwa. We poets are abnormal psychologically. We paints abstraction from the abstracts creating fears that might hurt those true patriots. My muse fell out from me yesterday night, When my television opened to a scene of genocide. Men on pants, women on trousers painting out the tears made for people inhabiting hell. Their laughters and smiles were printed to be archived among themselves. I won't speak ill of this country, no, I won't! Because of my unborn children, I won't! But I will tell just one tale for them to remember Of how monkeys carted away with our monies! Of how Snake swallowed our currency! Of how good our leaders are, I think you know! I have been holding these demons in me until last night they came out horribly in fierce protest to revisit this land again. To tell of those girls ***** under the bridge, To ask why boys like me are named after me, To speak against shadows of death lurking here and there. Nigeria is grey and black, red and violent, Retrieving this oceans of mysteries from the hidden abyss of grave corruption is the passport tabled on the pyramid top to recreate a versatile muses of a lyrics calling for a right to write our rights. Take a walk to memory lane pass your shadow, that of your father, mother & grandmas You will see a Nigeria in another angle trying to free herself from the grip of corruption, then, revisit her tears and struggles you will know we are the cause of our own misfortunes.! ©John Chizoba Vincent From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustrations
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Jun 30, 2018
Jun 30, 2018 at 5:00 PM UTC
Re-Visiting Nigeria
(Holding fire and water together) I don't know why the rain keeps writing the name of Nigeria on the ground in every corner. I don't know why we are this broken and tortured like the fragments of the dust. I don't know why the Dapchi girls returned yesterday while their chikbok friends are still in captive. I don't know why every street in Nigeria is known with an imprint of good leaders. I don't know why we cry yet point accusation. fingers back to ourselves, who is fooling who? I don't know why the sun cry here with a closed lips. I don't know why we keep writing love stories while our brothers and sisters perish in shame! I don't just know why but I think you should know. Are you not the one that collected a cup of rice, clean notes and Abrahamic lie from them? I won't speak ill of this land again, I won't! I won't judge any one, no, I won't for the sake of my unborn children. No, I won't for the sake of what happened to Dele Giwa and Saro Wiwa. We poets are abnormal psychologically. We paints abstraction from the abstracts creating fears that might hurt those true patriots. My muse fell out from me yesterday night, When my television opened to a scene of genocide. Men on pants, women on trousers painting out the tears made for people inhabiting hell. Their laughters and smiles were printed to be archived among themselves. I won't speak ill of this country, no, I won't! Because of my unborn children, I won't! But I will tell just one tale for them to remember Of how monkeys carted away with our monies! Of how Snake swallowed our currency! Of how good our leaders are, I think you know! I have been holding these demons in me until last night they came out horribly in fierce protest to revisit this land again. To tell of those girls ***** under the bridge, To ask why boys like me are named after me, To speak against shadows of death lurking here and there. Nigeria is grey and black, red and violent, Retrieving this oceans of mysteries from the hidden abyss of grave corruption is the passport tabled on the pyramid top to recreate a versatile muses of a lyrics calling for a right to write our rights. Take a walk to memory lane pass your shadow, that of your father, mother & grandmas You will see a Nigeria in another angle trying to free herself from the grip of corruption, then, revisit her tears and struggles you will know we are the cause of our own misfortunes.! ©John Chizoba Vincent From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustrations
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I ended the only relationship I've ever had. Seven days shy of four years I told him I didn't want to get married. "So you want to get married but just not to me?" I revisit that day in my sleep every night. The day that I took the plane to do it right. Boston behind me. "You have completely broken my heart." My brother by my side at the departure and arrival. The sumner tunnel under construction and $300 in jet fuel later. "I want you to be gone when I come out of the bathroom." A few months prior he told me that dating me was "bliss". I knew it hadn't been that for me. "Is this it? Are you done with me just like that?" I told him that he was taking me for granted and I couldn't talk to him when I needed him most. Hiding my mental illness should he think I'm broken. "Just because I don't ask how your day is does mean I don't care." He flew to Boston not 12 hours later. Even during his grand gesture he couldn't help but criticize me. "Stand up straight." He told me he thought suicide was selfish. How was I to tell him I had considered parking my car on the highway bridge over the Merrimack river and jumping off? A women did that the first week I lived here, so I knew it would work. "I thought about putting a gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger." My best friend told me he asked her for her name. I'd been dating him for three years. Pop quiz: Who is your girlfriend's best friend and roommate? Did he even listen to me speak at all? Did he even care about my life at all? "Whats your name again?" Three months later, I only see you when I sleep. I'm haunted by this memory. I never dream we are still together and I wonder what that means. I've broken up with you a hundred times but it doesn't get any easier. "Tell me everything you don't like about me. Give me a list."
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Jan 20, 2024
Jan 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM UTC
Seven days shy of four years.
I ended the only relationship I've ever had. Seven days shy of four years I told him I didn't want to get married. "So you want to get married but just not to me?" I revisit that day in my sleep every night. The day that I took the plane to do it right. Boston behind me. "You have completely broken my heart." My brother by my side at the departure and arrival. The sumner tunnel under construction and $300 in jet fuel later. "I want you to be gone when I come out of the bathroom." A few months prior he told me that dating me was "bliss". I knew it hadn't been that for me. "Is this it? Are you done with me just like that?" I told him that he was taking me for granted and I couldn't talk to him when I needed him most. Hiding my mental illness should he think I'm broken. "Just because I don't ask how your day is does mean I don't care." He flew to Boston not 12 hours later. Even during his grand gesture he couldn't help but criticize me. "Stand up straight." He told me he thought suicide was selfish. How was I to tell him I had considered parking my car on the highway bridge over the Merrimack river and jumping off? A women did that the first week I lived here, so I knew it would work. "I thought about putting a gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger." My best friend told me he asked her for her name. I'd been dating him for three years. Pop quiz: Who is your girlfriend's best friend and roommate? Did he even listen to me speak at all? Did he even care about my life at all? "Whats your name again?" Three months later, I only see you when I sleep. I'm haunted by this memory. I never dream we are still together and I wonder what that means. I've broken up with you a hundred times but it doesn't get any easier. "Tell me everything you don't like about me. Give me a list."
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1. On a nameless planet, in ferment we first met, eons ago, tiny microbes, evolving we were still, yet love a flickering light, bound us together. As two galaxies were merging fiercely then, to turn us and our nameless pang,to worthless dust there wasn't any time left for a future together. In a microbial kiss pathos ruled,we melted as one, promised to remember this tryst, imprinted so deep wherever in cosmos we would meet in future in whatever form we may be at that juncture.                                         2. This morning at the Metro that pang did revisit, seeing you gazing at me in goosebumps I stood, two galaxies within, I sensed were closing to to merge, coming to my senses again I find  you've vanished a microbe, you are in the air that every minute I breathe. We will conquer time, go beyond, love has power infinite, the encounters in flashes would intimate our impending union.
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 7:33 AM UTC
A love story originated beyond time
dust has collected in this once filled room of my mine it's floated and settled on the last few things left behind spellbind windchime now i can say this empty space is all mine 8 years of pacing this room 8 years of shouting at the moon 8 years of sleeping til noon just to ignore the fact I meant nothing to you so much anger has made home in my bones the way you used to speak about me felt like being casted with stones I used to try and drown out your tasteless, colorless tone you type "she's dramatic" in a text on your phone I expected this feeling of indifference to feel free with no stop lights yet this empty space and this empty mind coincide with what I've known this whole time that all too familiar feeling of restlessness has come to an end and even though there are still memories burned into my head I don't believe I have anything else left unsaid I envied your callousness I despised your self-righteousness and i ached at your lack of consequence what caught your eye was never my elegance but rather my callowness as the ice in your drink swirls and melts and you're blaming me besides everyone else as your anger starts to swell just remember it was me who wasn't treated well we can keep our heads down while our eyes meet on the street while you pretend I don't resemble meadowsweet and that we never danced in my kitchen with me on your feet but to be honest in the end we were always offbeat when you chose to secede I found you to not be an aesthete if you could agree to be without me this story is begging to no longer be told so maybe I'll revisit this time of my life when I've seen how my life will unfold til then my king is fallen on this chess board my feelings are buried far past the sea's shore and I've finally stopped keeping score
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Feb 25, 2022
Feb 25, 2022 at 2:02 PM UTC
empty space, empty mind
dust has collected in this once filled room of my mine it's floated and settled on the last few things left behind spellbind windchime now i can say this empty space is all mine 8 years of pacing this room 8 years of shouting at the moon 8 years of sleeping til noon just to ignore the fact I meant nothing to you so much anger has made home in my bones the way you used to speak about me felt like being casted with stones I used to try and drown out your tasteless, colorless tone you type "she's dramatic" in a text on your phone I expected this feeling of indifference to feel free with no stop lights yet this empty space and this empty mind coincide with what I've known this whole time that all too familiar feeling of restlessness has come to an end and even though there are still memories burned into my head I don't believe I have anything else left unsaid I envied your callousness I despised your self-righteousness and i ached at your lack of consequence what caught your eye was never my elegance but rather my callowness as the ice in your drink swirls and melts and you're blaming me besides everyone else as your anger starts to swell just remember it was me who wasn't treated well we can keep our heads down while our eyes meet on the street while you pretend I don't resemble meadowsweet and that we never danced in my kitchen with me on your feet but to be honest in the end we were always offbeat when you chose to secede I found you to not be an aesthete if you could agree to be without me this story is begging to no longer be told so maybe I'll revisit this time of my life when I've seen how my life will unfold til then my king is fallen on this chess board my feelings are buried far past the sea's shore and I've finally stopped keeping score
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It haunts us, we are scared of it. But we spend a lot of time thinking about it. We walk around wanting it. It drives us, makes us passionate. Ditch everything we know just to chase it. Wake up the next morning hoping to revisit. It is different for each person, and we try to make the most of it. Next year we make a bunch of promises, and swear to it. No more this, no more that, but more of it. Finally be the person we want to be, get really fit. Time passes by, we forget it. Maybe next year we will regret it. Once you look around, you will remember it. Slow things down, take a glance, it will hit. Every second counts, do not ever quit. You only get it once, before you split. It is called life, cherish it.
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Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 8:11 PM UTC
What is it?
Prolong the journey to happiness revisit the memories of converging paths sighted images is what made these last but we cannot be sure it is for long Hear the woman echo the cry of love and joy praising a man's piece the romance is their buoy Faintly, I felt her touch at our last goodbye unaware of anything around us but sheer sorrow our eyes met and spark adjoined our lips touched, raising an alarm in my heart Promote the fantasies of malady her deep dark secrets keep me near of unspoken dreams, my lips are sealed Along with her fingertips, dastardly teasing with suffice her strawberry scented hair straight though sordid. I still long for her touch, even now.
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 6:24 AM UTC
Secret Love
I close my eyes for a minute, In my mind I slowly revisit, The memories of that house And how I use to be in it but we're coming to a finish I'm saying, "I love you both", And although I say it in English To the both of you it's foreign, Probably Spanish or Finnish. I tell you 'I love you both', Because you have both Been part of my growth. I tell you 'I love you', even if I can't come around as much My love hasn't wavered as such, and when you two fight, it feels like there's a tight clutch As I grasp for air in my chest Wondering When the bickering Will lay to rest. I love you both mum and dad, I love you the way you have loved me, And even if we come from A different family tree, Share different facts of biology, I love you no different As if you were my biological Parents, and it's apparent, that we share the same bond.
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Apr 17, 2016
Apr 17, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC
To My Best Friend's Parents/ My Parents - MUM AND DAD.
All I know is monsters All I see is a cold world that gets darker as the *** stir's The future blurs to a point its so obscure it's not yours Can't seem to stop words from causing me to go backwards Maybe I need to go back and relearn like toddlers in diapers There's no cures All the fibers of my being are withering away like dead flowers Retreating like cowards The more I try the worse I fail, a living hell, crunch the numbers I've done the math, a chalk board full of blunders Nightmares occurring with my eyes wide shut It's more then a rut A candidate to win? Nope, I have a losing ballot No safety blanket and no bright colors on my pallet Hollow and cryptic Revisit the past like I'm stuck to it with a rivet This isn't just unfortunate it's inadequate Chew off my arm to be free or just cannibalistic Can I even resist it? This dark army that I have enlisted For to long happy never even existed And you wonder why I tend go ballistic... Man, *** this $hit! ©2018
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 12:39 AM UTC
~•§•~ Not A Winning Candidate ~•§•~
Writing always seems more urgent When it's written in italics, Even when the topic, Is rather mundane. Consider this example: I like to eat sandwiches Furthermore, everything Seems much more urgent, When written in bold font, We revisit the example: I like to eat sandwiches ...and a step even further, Writing seems absolutely Crucial when written in, Bold font, with caps-lock, Once again, we recapitulate: I LIKE TO EAT SANDWICHES At this point, it seems as though I am imparting unto you matters Of the utmost severity, that could Be the difference between life and death, ...but really, I just like sandwiches. This amuses me.
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Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM UTC
Mundane Italics