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In the depths of desolation where death is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite, lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep inside a grim stalactite of unrequited tears. Apathy's icy grip holds tight holding back the meaning of your days and times and your spear. The battle standard needs to be plucked from the ground and dusted off as you take a good look around and get pissed off. No longer yielding, to be sold as unhappy meal toy a token for free and void. Imprisoning the soul in it's narrative wane, where prohibited to be an action again., reacting a core at the marrow decision. Warming the bones from a cone of cold that puts out the flame, that leaves you in the unskeletaled stasis of lifeless thing. But I, the poet, strive to break through the ice, to thaw the numbness, to ignite the value and advertise the price. With words as my tools, I try to chisel away at the disrepair therein the withered within. Of ideals that are a very real thing Archaeology of once was, unearthing the family, the preciousness within, the child, the husband the grin, the support of a wife, exposing them bare to strive agains against the stripes of strife. I summon the winds to gently erase, the erosion. Doth it go numb as a feeling betrayed? Dumped on your psyche like a season grayed. In your valley of dry bones. Apathy, shackles that bind the soul, and withhold the rains, in the infernal spirit of suppression possession that swallows you whole into a k-hole. Release the Kraken, among the gates and eddys and walls of drowning pool tides, release the floodgates, not the responsibilities of responsible Life. Feel the surge of passion, the rush of the fight, as hearts reawaken, yielding to the light. Spring forth, new life, integrity, cut those shackles away. Drop them to the ground like they were a filthy habit, habitation of the weary. Summon the good kind of pride that had nearly died. Feel the power of righteousness melt away the petrogenesis and glow you, grow you again, fertile inside. Since when does evil get special access, like the elitist, in your recessed- pockets. Let us call to arms, the alarm systems warmed, by pockets of resistance. Make them suck on that, red flag! Be aroused into the voice of your sensory charms, intuitively calling their bluff, make them answer for theiRspit and show where you come from, and put them in drag, before God puts them into the designing of their own, pit.

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Date: 1/15/2024 11:24:00 AM
How long does it take you to write these? I mean you mind must be such an overhinker of thoughts and so sporadic in nature also. I am always in awe how you link so many different things together.. You must read a lot, something I never do... i stopped reading after my masters... some mental block of something.. except for here.. which i like to support people..
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Jude Herrick
Date: 1/16/2024 12:31:00 PM
I used to be cursed with the stars, then cursed with the thoughts and crawling things of the gutter. Now, my hope is in the balance of wanting to see the big picture in little things and enjoying those things without scorpio machine analysis.
Date: 1/15/2024 6:05:00 AM
Interesting poetry as per your norm, Jude. Of course, the battle is of spirit, not flesh, at least for the true Christian - Ephesians 6:10-18. The standard we bear is unwavering faith in our Master and leader, the Christ. In him we conquer
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Jude Herrick
Date: 1/15/2024 6:28:00 AM
Thank you much, Tom. Indeed, that is the true standard to the spirit, the opposite of Apathy. The care of the injustices done to others. To give a hand and help someone get out of the gutter or the darkness. To overturn the crooked scales of the money changers who take advantage of the poor and vulnerable or infermed. Not by violence, but by spirit, rebuke and in actions recite the Word of the Lord.

Book: Shattered Sighs