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Allow the mind Afford its need to conjure Profound: If exaltation and majesty Require a bit of provocation and amnesty today Humor: As remedy and coagulation From the bleeding of Pain, stress and anger Affection: To reach out from solitary Disconnectedness and remind Ourselves that human beings exist For purposes greater than commerce, Ridicule and acceptance (approval?) Bizarre: Lifting the veneer of earth-toned normality To discover colors and shapes Radiant with black dissonance Thorny embrace Begging for elbow room among the Forbidden and unforgiven Slow dancing to rapacious cadences That salute unspoken, unthinkable Luscious folly Melancholy: For no reason Sans the blame of others Spite of self Grasping sadness leased By absentee owners Themselves insipid to the Context of sorrow they predispose And so empathy Created by that Ancient historian with his grandiose Visions of humanity's Zero sum pain Reflection: In, out Distinctive and plagiarized To give depth where blank existence Stands naked, cold And in need of decency Reacting to the homogenous assumptions That fill our tomes of daily dread Momentary answers to eternal questions Before the rain and incessant gray tender Cover the need to be alive Brilliance: Where our grasp of knowledge Tangled inquiry Defines Yields bouquets fresh enough To place in the corner For whomever looks our way Kernels of cerebral popcorn Gushing with flavor Vengeance: Arbitrary Yet sometimes predestined Stimuli and caricatures resembling Organic matter Causality reckoning from their Intentional, dark motives Resulting in your personal disgrace And corresponding focus Of their demise Satisfaction: At the end of journey Short and sweet Long and dreary Each the test of mettle From quandaries and dilemmas Begging to be solved Or merely maintained Where we find ourselves At the summit Top of the heap With broken smile Tacit laughter And the sigh of a lifetime. (4/19/05)
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