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I am not required to love you. Let's get that straight. Neither man nor woman Is obligated to profess And show their undying love for you, Just as the sun doesn't revolve around the world, The world doesn't revolve around you. A series of acts showing your "kindness" Is not a contract for a relationship. The very fact that you have to shout How you are a "nice guy" Shows how you aren't; Kindness doesn't need reassurance. To be frank, This whole delusion Is getting a bit out of hand (see: the ****** Killer", a guy so sexually frustated He killed people for not giving him the right to get laid). Maybe, hear me out here guys, it's not because girls only look for "bad guys". Maybe we look for soulmates, Not Good Samaritans with hidden agendas. This may come off as a shock for some of you, But all-around goodness isn't equal to treating girls nicely Only because you might have a chance. So if your mating dance Consists of acting like you're an angel And simultaneously complaining About the blindness And insolence of women, It's high time you should stop. Put down the fedora while you're at it. It's become a symbol for gentlemen for you, But now it's a warning sign for us: "Beware the self-entitling guy!" Honestly, we cringe every single time. And darling, Nice guys always finish last because they whine Instead of running.
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 9:28 AM UTC
Re: The Friendzone and Nice Guys
Blameless as daylight I stood looking At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown, Tails streaming against the green Backdrop of sycamores. Sun was striking White chapel pinnacles over the roofs, Holding the horses, the clouds, the leaves Steadily rooted though they were all flowing Away to the left like reeds in a sea When the splinter flew in and stuck my eye, Needling it dark. Then I was seeing A melding of shapes in a hot rain: Horses warped on the altering green, Outlandish as double-humped camels or unicorns, Grazing at the margins of a bad monochrome, Beasts of oasis, a better time. Abrading my lid, the small grain burns: Red cinder around which I myself, Horses, planets and spires revolve. Neither tears nor the easing flush Of eyebaths can unseat the speck: It sticks, and it has stuck a week. I wear the present itch for flesh, Blind to what will be and what was. I dream that I am Oedipus. What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.
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The Eye-Mote
Approaching the end of night I woke with stars in the sky and your skin kissed by moonlight. In this quiet time, quite some time goes by as my universe comes to life It is you, Precious you Resolving to Revolve to. It is you. This, I can't undo. Couldn't break this bond. Energy So strong Tugs at my core And keeps me in your orb. Always watching you, Ever falling into you.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 5:14 PM UTC
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Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 6:54 AM UTC
Cruel Inhumane Autocracies
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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You asked me who I want to be, so here’s my answer: I want to be FEARLESS & SELFISH I want to walk above the ground I want to give my thank you speech And wear the crown I want to open my voice I want to tell them exactly how I feel And not give a **** about their ideals I want room to grow from a fraction to a whole I want my world to revolve around ME And be able act fierce and carefree I want to be the woman that intrigues strangers I want to bravely approach them with friendly banter And have spontaneous encounters that brings on laughter I want to be someone more like me
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 10:30 AM UTC
Me
dear stereotypical people, you make me sick. i mean, who are you to tell me what i can and can't do because i don't have a **** why do you think that this is a rap? is it because i'm black? because i live on an island, i must be wild and uncouth? and whenever i speak my mind, i'm another rebellious youth? dear stereotypical people, you see my glasses and call me a nerd? and make fun of me because I know of words you've never heard? oh i'm sorry, that i took my education seriously. and i swear if another person says 'girl you're so tall, you have to play ball.' i'm gonna run head first into a gaddamn wall. dear stereotypical people, why do you trust the white man in a suit but not the black man in the hoodie? is it because he looks cleans and exudes goodie goodie? dear stereotypical people, please mind your business which i'm pretty sure doesn't include how that teenage mom and her child are living. dear stereotypical people, why do women that are open about *** make you wanna run away? i mean, i'm pretty sure it shouldn't matter what she does with her body unless she's your wife my God, why can't y'all let people live their lives? dear straight men that lust over gay women, NO WE DONT WANT TO ********* WITH YOU **** it, we like the same thing you do! dear people of the world, yes I live in the Bahamas no I do not live in a hut, eat coconuts and go on the beach every day. dear stereotypical people, i promise i don't hate you i do hate how you look down upon people that live differently from you, that see differently from you, that think differently from you. i would hope that you know that this world does not revolve around you, no one will stop being who they are because of you. don't get me wrong, some people hurt because of what you do. just think about how you would feel if it were you. my prayer is only that you think before you say. and maybe one day, you'll all see the error in your ways.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 7:13 PM UTC
dear stereotypical people
dear stereotypical people, you make me sick. i mean, who are you to tell me what i can and can't do because i don't have a **** why do you think that this is a rap? is it because i'm black? because i live on an island, i must be wild and uncouth? and whenever i speak my mind, i'm another rebellious youth? dear stereotypical people, you see my glasses and call me a nerd? and make fun of me because I know of words you've never heard? oh i'm sorry, that i took my education seriously. and i swear if another person says 'girl you're so tall, you have to play ball.' i'm gonna run head first into a gaddamn wall. dear stereotypical people, why do you trust the white man in a suit but not the black man in the hoodie? is it because he looks cleans and exudes goodie goodie? dear stereotypical people, please mind your business which i'm pretty sure doesn't include how that teenage mom and her child are living. dear stereotypical people, why do women that are open about *** make you wanna run away? i mean, i'm pretty sure it shouldn't matter what she does with her body unless she's your wife my God, why can't y'all let people live their lives? dear straight men that lust over gay women, NO WE DONT WANT TO ********* WITH YOU **** it, we like the same thing you do! dear people of the world, yes I live in the Bahamas no I do not live in a hut, eat coconuts and go on the beach every day. dear stereotypical people, i promise i don't hate you i do hate how you look down upon people that live differently from you, that see differently from you, that think differently from you. i would hope that you know that this world does not revolve around you, no one will stop being who they are because of you. don't get me wrong, some people hurt because of what you do. just think about how you would feel if it were you. my prayer is only that you think before you say. and maybe one day, you'll all see the error in your ways.
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When my heart hung in the stars I'm convinced my better parts got lost on the dark side of the moon. the doctors say I'm dreaming but I could swear to you that the man on the moon is crying asteroids and wilted flower petals. we revolve around the same sun but our revolutions although intertwined, are chasing different horizons longing for unfamiliar faces. the stars are in my eyes but it will take years of staring into broken mirrors before I find the planet that my smile resides on.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 10:17 PM UTC
Revolutions
Are we fated to dance to the same tune alone in our separate universes? Is it true that we must silently keep to our preordained curses? Are we destined to swoon at the beauty of the moon at differing time slots? Why were we given invisible ink to connect our lives' dots? Must it be that our lives revolve around the whims of the sun? Isn't it ludicrous that we won't see the intricate webs we've spun? Was it the plan that we exist only in our minds and hearts? Why do we have to tolerate starting when the other's ending and end at the other's starts? Has it been written that we can only afford to infinitely chase each others heartbeats? Was it foretold that we're trapped in a singular notion that never really fits? Is the game set as such that we can never emerge as winners? How is it that the ocean was made out of our tears that flowed from rivers? Why is it that with our entirety we believe but do not know? What's the reason for the path made clear but we're too afraid to go? What does it entail to possess the very least but yet you covet it the most? How do you pride yourself in something but not allowed to boast? Why do we frantically scramble to piece together jagged shards? Can't we just play this blasted deck of lousy cards? Is it destiny or cruelty to have found then lost? Why does it seem absurd that we have all its takes but can't afford the cost? Is it the thoughts that **** or the emotions that debilitate? Is it the challenges we take on or the curveballs we anticipate? Why bother when sheer folly is all it seems to be? Why tarry when the heart is free and the mind is ready? Is it ridiculous to have found myself still very bothered? Is it wrong to question fate that had always bound us tethered? Why is the good always bad and the bad becomes worse? Is it true that the harder we fight, the deeper we immerse? Has life turned to be but sad little rhetorics? Are we but performers on stages coerced into theatrics? Is it time for me to surface this one-man submarine? Will it be so that if I do, my journey would then begin...?
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 8:38 PM UTC
Rhetoricals
Are we fated to dance to the same tune alone in our separate universes? Is it true that we must silently keep to our preordained curses? Are we destined to swoon at the beauty of the moon at differing time slots? Why were we given invisible ink to connect our lives' dots? Must it be that our lives revolve around the whims of the sun? Isn't it ludicrous that we won't see the intricate webs we've spun? Was it the plan that we exist only in our minds and hearts? Why do we have to tolerate starting when the other's ending and end at the other's starts? Has it been written that we can only afford to infinitely chase each others heartbeats? Was it foretold that we're trapped in a singular notion that never really fits? Is the game set as such that we can never emerge as winners? How is it that the ocean was made out of our tears that flowed from rivers? Why is it that with our entirety we believe but do not know? What's the reason for the path made clear but we're too afraid to go? What does it entail to possess the very least but yet you covet it the most? How do you pride yourself in something but not allowed to boast? Why do we frantically scramble to piece together jagged shards? Can't we just play this blasted deck of lousy cards? Is it destiny or cruelty to have found then lost? Why does it seem absurd that we have all its takes but can't afford the cost? Is it the thoughts that **** or the emotions that debilitate? Is it the challenges we take on or the curveballs we anticipate? Why bother when sheer folly is all it seems to be? Why tarry when the heart is free and the mind is ready? Is it ridiculous to have found myself still very bothered? Is it wrong to question fate that had always bound us tethered? Why is the good always bad and the bad becomes worse? Is it true that the harder we fight, the deeper we immerse? Has life turned to be but sad little rhetorics? Are we but performers on stages coerced into theatrics? Is it time for me to surface this one-man submarine? Will it be so that if I do, my journey would then begin...?
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I want to write you a trilogy on the stages in which our relationship formed. The first book would be solely based on the day that I stopped treating your text messages like active landmines. Stopped tiptoeing. No longer being afraid of what your affection would do to me once I submit to it. It would be based on the first step I took to stop being so **** afraid. From that very day you've helped me in ways I'll never be able to fully explain. Helped me let go of fear and trepidation, and open my heart to the greatest thing in the world; your love. The second would revolve around the first time you kissed me. I don't know if you noticed, but my knees buckled like seatbelts and I shook like glass window panes in torrential rain. That day you awoke something inside me that I didn't know existed but I'm so glad you found it. Like a stray kitten I was lost and you brought me back home without questioning where I'd been, and I'll never fully understand why, but I guess it doesn't matter. You've taught me not to overthink things, to just revel in the moment. The third would be set in here and now. Every forehead kiss and stolen glance sums up to another page, every loving gesture is another chapter. We are creating something people wish they could create for themselves. A love that belongs in museums to teach the world what it really means to give yourself to someone, with no fear, and not a single ounce of regret.  To say that you changed my life is an understatement. You altered my way of thinking. Took a broken thing and made it new again. Made me, new again. And with every word that slips from your lips I am reborn.
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 11:25 PM UTC
To Say I Love You is An Understatement
I want to write you a trilogy on the stages in which our relationship formed. The first book would be solely based on the day that I stopped treating your text messages like active landmines. Stopped tiptoeing. No longer being afraid of what your affection would do to me once I submit to it. It would be based on the first step I took to stop being so **** afraid. From that very day you've helped me in ways I'll never be able to fully explain. Helped me let go of fear and trepidation, and open my heart to the greatest thing in the world; your love. The second would revolve around the first time you kissed me. I don't know if you noticed, but my knees buckled like seatbelts and I shook like glass window panes in torrential rain. That day you awoke something inside me that I didn't know existed but I'm so glad you found it. Like a stray kitten I was lost and you brought me back home without questioning where I'd been, and I'll never fully understand why, but I guess it doesn't matter. You've taught me not to overthink things, to just revel in the moment. The third would be set in here and now. Every forehead kiss and stolen glance sums up to another page, every loving gesture is another chapter. We are creating something people wish they could create for themselves. A love that belongs in museums to teach the world what it really means to give yourself to someone, with no fear, and not a single ounce of regret.  To say that you changed my life is an understatement. You altered my way of thinking. Took a broken thing and made it new again. Made me, new again. And with every word that slips from your lips I am reborn.
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In that land somewhere of our dreams all is to be found right therein it seems where there isn’t a struggle for survival as the brotherhood of man is in revival. We help each other and have no real fear our hope is occassioned with good cheer. Whatever we think, do or therefore say is imbued with love and lights the way. We have all arrived at that promised land and must work together as a united band; giving and sharing of the good we all can while upholding this brotherhood of man. Non-violence is one of the rules we live by the essence of love we maintain and glorify. We all live as one in both our heart and mind and express those feelings of a universal kind. There are no problems that we can’t resolve as all our life around love does here revolve. In living by the truth we are becoming free and in this condition enjoy the grace to see All that exists in the world can be seen anew which is an affirmation of scripture and true. Our life now is filled with bliss as it once began in this state of knowing the brotherhood of man. We do not therefore seek to get the better of each other but accomplish all that we need to helping one another. Being free from any unnatural cares our lives are whole and all that ever happens a joyful experience of the soul. Awake to intuition we have to realise our ultimate potential and so everything bears the stamp of some divine credential. In being as we are then our years extend for a long span as we all live in accordance with the brotherhood of man.
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Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 7:08 PM UTC
The Brotherhood Of Man
In that land somewhere of our dreams all is to be found right therein it seems where there isn’t a struggle for survival as the brotherhood of man is in revival. We help each other and have no real fear our hope is occassioned with good cheer. Whatever we think, do or therefore say is imbued with love and lights the way. We have all arrived at that promised land and must work together as a united band; giving and sharing of the good we all can while upholding this brotherhood of man. Non-violence is one of the rules we live by the essence of love we maintain and glorify. We all live as one in both our heart and mind and express those feelings of a universal kind. There are no problems that we can’t resolve as all our life around love does here revolve. In living by the truth we are becoming free and in this condition enjoy the grace to see All that exists in the world can be seen anew which is an affirmation of scripture and true. Our life now is filled with bliss as it once began in this state of knowing the brotherhood of man. We do not therefore seek to get the better of each other but accomplish all that we need to helping one another. Being free from any unnatural cares our lives are whole and all that ever happens a joyful experience of the soul. Awake to intuition we have to realise our ultimate potential and so everything bears the stamp of some divine credential. In being as we are then our years extend for a long span as we all live in accordance with the brotherhood of man.
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On the nights I accidentally sleep through the evening and wake when the sun’s long gone, I can’t help but think about how it feels like falling for you. I say this because it always shocks me, leaves me trying to figure out what’s going on. It gives me a loss of gravity, as though I’ve lost contact with the world for a while. With my being used to being alone, hearing your voice through my speakers brings a smile to my face. I can’t place the exact feelings. I have trouble wording it. Shy was never a word to describe me. But you’ve somehow shut me up, your grin alone catches my full attention. Whenever I talk to you, I feel grounded. I feel like gravity returns. That’s just it, I’m gravitated to you. Somehow, it’s almost like you’re the Earth itself. Perhaps I’m your stars, hoping you’ll make a wish on me. Take a chance on me. Perhaps, I’m even your moon. Maybe you look up at me when I’m hardly even here, a sliver. I do that a lot. I hate that I can’t be saved from rising and falling every night, because I worry you get tired of the cycle. Me and you together feels like a storm rolling in. The calm is long gone, the winds coming from the east coast, rolling through Wisconsin like a force only you could bring. By myself, I’d be intimidated. But knowing it’s you bearing the force brings no surprise. If only you knew your worth. I understand your fears, seeing as if I am the moon, and you are the Earth, I will inevitably leave your side for at least a while. But know I will never leave you. I revolve around you, and although I am not your sun, know that even when I’m gone, I am yours. Know that no matter what happens, I tried
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 2:07 AM UTC
Earth - Moon
On the nights I accidentally sleep through the evening and wake when the sun’s long gone, I can’t help but think about how it feels like falling for you. I say this because it always shocks me, leaves me trying to figure out what’s going on. It gives me a loss of gravity, as though I’ve lost contact with the world for a while. With my being used to being alone, hearing your voice through my speakers brings a smile to my face. I can’t place the exact feelings. I have trouble wording it. Shy was never a word to describe me. But you’ve somehow shut me up, your grin alone catches my full attention. Whenever I talk to you, I feel grounded. I feel like gravity returns. That’s just it, I’m gravitated to you. Somehow, it’s almost like you’re the Earth itself. Perhaps I’m your stars, hoping you’ll make a wish on me. Take a chance on me. Perhaps, I’m even your moon. Maybe you look up at me when I’m hardly even here, a sliver. I do that a lot. I hate that I can’t be saved from rising and falling every night, because I worry you get tired of the cycle. Me and you together feels like a storm rolling in. The calm is long gone, the winds coming from the east coast, rolling through Wisconsin like a force only you could bring. By myself, I’d be intimidated. But knowing it’s you bearing the force brings no surprise. If only you knew your worth. I understand your fears, seeing as if I am the moon, and you are the Earth, I will inevitably leave your side for at least a while. But know I will never leave you. I revolve around you, and although I am not your sun, know that even when I’m gone, I am yours. Know that no matter what happens, I tried
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By: Cedric McClester To achieve your ambition Stop hoping and wishing Voting is a mission It’s like going fishing No fish will you find If you don’t cast your line So drop your remote And go out and vote Your candidate Might not win the debate But let me clearly state If you don’t participate Then you abdicate By not voting your choice You lose your voice And can never rejoice Democracy demands Having all hands Both critics and fans Despite their brands Being involved To get their problems solved Things tend to revolve So we’ll be absolved Voting is a right We could lose over night Unless we unite Stop being uptight And stay engage in the fight For which people died Payed in blood or their hide To not be denied Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 7:41 AM UTC
VOTING IS A MISSION
They expect me to be as smart as Einstein To have the body of an Olympic athlete Show kindness to everyone even if they have hurt me Deal with my own problems To shut the hell up when I curse They say THEIR world doesn't revolve around me But they don't understand that right now MY world revolves around them
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 2:23 PM UTC
Expectations
Cast me not in any mold of your preconceived ideas and notions For I am A woman With my own Intelligence and Intentions Contained I shall be not In contours Predefined I morph, I change, As I evolve Not in any orbit will I revolve Chisel me not like Some statue fine For I am neither divine Nor a concubine Label me not as Fertile or fallow Or simply as shallow I am not just a mother sister or wife I am a woman dignifed At times whimsical at times emotional I can be spiritual Or plain evil I am but a woman Individual!
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 12:27 AM UTC
A woman- Individual
You really can do whatever you want, you know. People who say that aren't just naive optimists. However, they do leave out a very important caveat: You really can do whatever in the world that you want... So long as you want it MORE than anything else in the world. Like... say you want to leave town. Maybe you don't do it. Maybe you sit in your office and dream about getting on a plane but you never do. Responsibilities, money, family, friends, fear... Excuses. Honestly, Excuses. The truth that people don't like to face because it makes them uncomfortable is that if you REALLY wanted to leave town, If you wanted that and only that, If you wanted it more than anything else in your entire life, You would do it. That is the simple truth about... most impossible things. You want it? You've got it. But you've got to be willing to give up every other thing in your entire life in pursuit of it. You've got to know yourself well enough to know, absolutely KNOW, that this thing is what you want, what your soul craves, what your dreams revolve around. You have got to be 100% dead SURE that what you want is what you WANT. And if you are, if you can know that and face it and understand how selfish it might be to abandon everything else in your life for it, and if somehow it still pulls you towards it like a magnet even with all the rationality and doubt and practical thinking you can throw at it... Then that is your purpose. Your dream. And you will have it. That said, anyone who thinks I'm unreasonable, or silly, or naive, or wasteful for going after love... Quite simply, I know what I want. I know who I want. I know what makes me happy. And since I know it so clearly, so utterly, so inescapably, I couldn't possibly live with myself if I didn't do everything I could to have it. And it's not an easy path, knowing what you want. Because when the answer is no, it's no to your deepest dreams, to your heart's most aching desire. When you have to wait, you have to wait for air to fill your lungs, you have to wait to be born. When you lose it, you lose the sun, you lose the earth under your feet, you lose the courage to look in the mirror. But when you have it... when you have it, you have a home. I know what I want. I want love. I want to be happy. I want to do what I love doing, and I want to be with who I adore. And if I know that, and I admit that, and I put everything I can into that... Well then, It's not over until I breathe my last breath. I haven't failed until I've fallen. And I think I can live with that.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 11:37 PM UTC
Whatever You Want
You really can do whatever you want, you know. People who say that aren't just naive optimists. However, they do leave out a very important caveat: You really can do whatever in the world that you want... So long as you want it MORE than anything else in the world. Like... say you want to leave town. Maybe you don't do it. Maybe you sit in your office and dream about getting on a plane but you never do. Responsibilities, money, family, friends, fear... Excuses. Honestly, Excuses. The truth that people don't like to face because it makes them uncomfortable is that if you REALLY wanted to leave town, If you wanted that and only that, If you wanted it more than anything else in your entire life, You would do it. That is the simple truth about... most impossible things. You want it? You've got it. But you've got to be willing to give up every other thing in your entire life in pursuit of it. You've got to know yourself well enough to know, absolutely KNOW, that this thing is what you want, what your soul craves, what your dreams revolve around. You have got to be 100% dead SURE that what you want is what you WANT. And if you are, if you can know that and face it and understand how selfish it might be to abandon everything else in your life for it, and if somehow it still pulls you towards it like a magnet even with all the rationality and doubt and practical thinking you can throw at it... Then that is your purpose. Your dream. And you will have it. That said, anyone who thinks I'm unreasonable, or silly, or naive, or wasteful for going after love... Quite simply, I know what I want. I know who I want. I know what makes me happy. And since I know it so clearly, so utterly, so inescapably, I couldn't possibly live with myself if I didn't do everything I could to have it. And it's not an easy path, knowing what you want. Because when the answer is no, it's no to your deepest dreams, to your heart's most aching desire. When you have to wait, you have to wait for air to fill your lungs, you have to wait to be born. When you lose it, you lose the sun, you lose the earth under your feet, you lose the courage to look in the mirror. But when you have it... when you have it, you have a home. I know what I want. I want love. I want to be happy. I want to do what I love doing, and I want to be with who I adore. And if I know that, and I admit that, and I put everything I can into that... Well then, It's not over until I breathe my last breath. I haven't failed until I've fallen. And I think I can live with that.
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Sometime everybody's gonna throw you down Talk **** and look at you as a clown Life is just a big bowl of soup Everyone's in a group and I'm siting in **** Well I couldn't give a **** And I wouldn't give a **** People spike their ego and stick to it There wasn't a clue Not a person knew Emotions were starving When I needed help, I used to look for you It's like you didn't exist Not a single trace Wish I could still say a lil' somethin' to your face Always when I needed you, you were never there You were living a dream and I was in a nightmare Everyone is never who they seem You and I were never on the same team Just sugar coat it with cream My milk and cookies are there for me No one else is around To pick me up off the ground But I don't give a **** Cause I got milk and cookies It's been a while since I heard Last time it somehow resembled a **** Things used to be so great Right before I walked out that gate This was only a one way ticket After that all I heard was a cricket But I still wanted to hold on I turned to look back but you were gone This problem was never solved All my friendships dissolved Guess I didn't fall in orbit to revolve My milk and cookies are there for me No one else is around To pick me up off the ground But I don't give a **** Cause I got milk and cookies I'll never submit Cause you'll never admit To all the ******** These cries seem unfit
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Jan 25, 2011
Jan 25, 2011 at 2:08 PM UTC
Milk and Cookies
Jade -- Stone of the side, The antagonized Side of green Adam, I Smile, cross-legged, Enigmatical, Shifting my clarities. So valuable! How the sun polishes this shoulder! And should The moon, my Indefatigable cousin Rise, with her cancerous pallors, Dragging trees -- Little bushy polyps, Little nets, My visibilities hide. I gleam like a mirror. At this facet the bridegroom arrives Lord of the mirrors! It is himself he guides In among these silk Screens, these rustling appurtenances. I breathe, and the mouth Veil stirs its curtain My eye Veil is A concatenation of rainbows. I am his. Even in his Absence, I Revolve in my Sheath of impossibles, Priceless and quiet Among these parrakeets, macaws! O chatterers Attendants of the eyelash! I shall unloose One feather, like the peacock. Attendants of the lip! I shall unloose One note Shattering The chandelier Of air that all day flies Its crystals A million ignorants. Attendants! Attendants! And at his next step I shall unloose I shall unloose -- From the small jeweled Doll he guards like a heart -- The lioness, The shriek in the bath, The cloak of holes.
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Purdah
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. The convenience of the high trees! The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray Are of advantage to me; And the earth's face upward for my inspection. My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I **** where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death. For the one path of my flight is direct Through the bones of the living. No arguments assert my right: The sun is behind me. Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
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Hawk Roosting
I keep you near You give words to my thoughts You name them You give me something to write about Something to feel I keep you near For my own benefit To pain and revolve me I keep you near Not for love For my interest Because you give me a reason To aspire To conquer Oh yes I keep you near For the same selfish reasons as you To satisfy my ego To build myself up I keep you here Till you grow out of me Till I'm too big you won't fit I keep you near I keep you near indeed
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM UTC
To my benefit
What did I lack, as a friend? I always helped you Even when I was busy I provided you moral support I stood up for you When you were made fun of I took time out for you As and when I could I even invited you over to my home Along with my other friends And my mother and grandmother took great trouble To ensure that you all had a delicious lunch They treated you like a family member And after college, I continued to keep in touch As much as I could Though I made new friends, during my MBA I never ever forgot you Also, in case you forgot It was you Who wanted to be friends with me in the first place At a time when I was too shy To initiate conversations with girls You broke me out of my shell So, I thought it was obvious That you cared for me How wrong I was You just saw me as a project Which eventually got completed After we left college I was nothing more to you Than a tool, to be used and thrown I was never truly a friend to you Though you called me your best friend And that too multiple times You took offense over a harmless comment And cut me off from your life It never occurred to you That I could be very sensitive And therefore such an incident could impact me adversely Including destroying my self-esteem And creating trust issues Anyway, you may be flying high at the moment But keep in mind That, as the ancient cliche goes "What goes around comes around" I have nothing more to say Except that you can try to be a better human being And think about other people as well After all, the world doesn't revolve around you alone
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Aug 30, 2023
Aug 30, 2023 at 7:21 AM UTC
The World Doesn't Revolve Around You Alone
What did I lack, as a friend? I always helped you Even when I was busy I provided you moral support I stood up for you When you were made fun of I took time out for you As and when I could I even invited you over to my home Along with my other friends And my mother and grandmother took great trouble To ensure that you all had a delicious lunch They treated you like a family member And after college, I continued to keep in touch As much as I could Though I made new friends, during my MBA I never ever forgot you Also, in case you forgot It was you Who wanted to be friends with me in the first place At a time when I was too shy To initiate conversations with girls You broke me out of my shell So, I thought it was obvious That you cared for me How wrong I was You just saw me as a project Which eventually got completed After we left college I was nothing more to you Than a tool, to be used and thrown I was never truly a friend to you Though you called me your best friend And that too multiple times You took offense over a harmless comment And cut me off from your life It never occurred to you That I could be very sensitive And therefore such an incident could impact me adversely Including destroying my self-esteem And creating trust issues Anyway, you may be flying high at the moment But keep in mind That, as the ancient cliche goes "What goes around comes around" I have nothing more to say Except that you can try to be a better human being And think about other people as well After all, the world doesn't revolve around you alone
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We use video games To make video gains Until the screen goes black And reality attacks We lose all our progress In the deletion process As we level up we devolve Around the TV we revolve The more experience we gain The more moments we lose Our memories forever stained When this is what we choose Our life inside a hard drive Our life becomes a hard lie We revel in being unwise Rage quitting life We enjoy strife And avoid pesky light When we live in the dark With consumerist plights We are all marks Video games balance in a zone Between game and art The frustration starts When art is confused for games And games mistook for art People take things to heart And spitefully spew viper venom If this is where games send them Then why do we play? We have no other way To feel accomplishment In a society that worships competition Video games become the second edition Of a life filled with loss On our pixelated cross We are murdered millions of times Reminiscent of the millions of lies That make us losers in the real world Video games become our shiny pearl The computer displays defeat When our lives aren't complete Because we need someone to beat Not realizing our lives are conquered By frivolous topics we've pondered Our meaningless life squandered And hope comes in the form of new releases While inside our faulty headset is in pieces
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 3:13 AM UTC
Video Games
it must have been light that invented my mind the light terrorizing my eyes so that I walk obsessed by beauty I am trapped inside the circles of time they grow and revolve in my tissues it must have been love like a pocket of darkness like the gravity that is so simple that we can't understand
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Oct 19, 2023
Oct 19, 2023 at 4:51 AM UTC
light
I was the tides and you were the moon,                              you brought me too close all too soon and just like the tides all I can feel is the cold                              we suddenly came crashing to a unfortunate halt. You shouldn't have said you revolve round another                              my voice sounds so dull when before it was thunder if these words were lies I would surely paint them white                              because honestly baby, I just don't wanna fight. So please won't you stop rubbing salt in my wounds?                              I wish what we had could again be resumed however you are the moon and no doubt you'll move on                              I barely even had you and you're already gone. So your words are like anchors and I'm helplessly drowning                             my heart was so strong but you stopped its pounding.
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 4:30 PM UTC
The Melancholy of the Tides
Its the little things you do, like the way you pulled the covers up over my exposed body before you left this morning You probably thought I was asleep but I was awake enough for a minute to see the last thing you did before you shut the bedroom door, and went downstairs was take care of me it's in those moments that I fall even deeper in love with you the moments that remind me how lucky I am to be the center of someones world who absolutely dosent have to revolve around my orbit but decided that they wanted to I am loved deeper in my weakest moments you never stop trying your love is unwavering even when I do nothing but push against you you simply stay and love me anyways maybe it's because we're more than lovers we are two souls connected in a bond tighter than I think either of us can comprehend you are my best friend and loving you comes easy natural, free flowing, like breathing many people will confess their undying love for someone in their lifetime claim that their relationship is stronger than anyone else's that they know that they have something so special no one could ever understand but I don't think our love is complicated or hard to comprehend because with us you get what you see and simplicity is the beauty of the bond that we share we have never needed more than just each other because love is enough
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Sep 6, 2015
Sep 6, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
SIMPLE
god, i forgot how much i loved you until i was with you again. until i felt your fingers drawing me closer to you, your breath on my lips, hot on my pale ghost skin, your voice whispering words in the language you made just for us to understand. there are galaxies hidden in the space behind your ribs, i can feel them with each inhale you exhale, taste them in the back of your throat. your thumb traces circles across my hand, like rings around saturn, and you know i revolve around you like that too. you are planet earth and i am the moon, you are beautiful and i will only ever shine for you.
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 8:28 AM UTC
galaxies