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Changes In Me

Open eyes to bright sunshine 
This feels like the first day 
Can't imagine what went before
Like a scene from an Ibsen play

The thought of you a lightning bolt
The kind that hits you twice
You are the catalyst demure
Sin pays a heavy price

I'm singing a new song
Euphoric and free
I can see the changes in you 
Come see the changes in me

I sniped at the words you used
I was jealous of your look
A vision from a catwalk
A princess from a Tolstoy book

I've put these days behind me
The truth has been my guide 
Your heart lighting up the way
Elegance personified

I need you more than you can see
So never forget
It's the changes in you 
That caused the changes in me

Behold my new tune 
Call it destiny
I bless the changes in you
Come bless the changes in me

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Dream Lady

Imagine your dream alive to see 
My thumping chest a reality
Imagine her hair, those wavy curls 
Eyes as brown as chocolate swirls. 

Imagine opening your eyes to see 
My beating heart a reality 
Imagine her face, a smile doth grow 
Ice white teeth, lips like Cupid's bow. 

Imagine her now standing there 
My yearning soul too much to bare 
Imagine her body, that perfect shape 
A slender neck, kissing her nape. 

Imagine her arms open wide 
My every pore screams inside 
Imagine touching her prefect skin
Her heart and soul a lottery win. 

But all I have are dreams for now 
Though every day i wonder how 
To share her bed as my dream wife 
To live in bliss, to complete my life.

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Math

Pity the fool who lives by numbers 
He counts his sheep while the sagacious slumbers 
Imagines triangles equal or obtuse 
Then numbers his thoughts by hypotenuse. 

He dreams of trig and long division 
Then stimulates his mind with a rhombus prism 
Wet duvets caused by a linear quantify 
He counts his orgasms by using pi. 

Correlation coefficients make him smile 
Exercises measured by the metric mile 
A career built on a quadratic path 
An idiotic devotion to anus numbing math.

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Words

Ordinary thoughts of standard diction 
Embellish themselves inciting friction 
Words give understanding for how I feel 
To give a 3D image, to sense the unreal. 

Hyponyms to idioms, romantic collective nouns 
Superlative adverbs widely used to counteract a frown 
Imaginative ampersands symbolic of the time 
Emphatic forms of rhetoric, devilishly rhyme. 

Words remain our lifeblood, progressive and alive 
To articulate emotion, a metaphoric drive 
So appreciate the syllables and annunciate the prose 
Give thanks to the words our language grows and grows.

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Self Lies

Where do the lies go 
That you tell yourself 
Do they take root 
And feed upon your health
Fattening themselves 
Then like a dart 
Finding nourishment 
Into your willing heart. 

Don't tell me 
You don't feel them there. 
The lies never die 
They furnish their lair 
What do we lose? 
Self respect the ego fall 
Our own sense of worth
The biggest lie of all.

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A Kiss

I could kiss you like I used to 
But it wouldn't be the same 
These lips wear too many battles 
A teasing tongue can't win the game. 

You could kiss me like you used to 
But it wouldn't taste as sweet 
The years have beaten the ego 
An empty soulless treat. 

Still we insist on existing 
And playing out this game 
Not dead but very nearly 
A fruitless, heartless shame. 

I could kiss you like I used to 
But it wouldn't be the same 
Your lips are like a stranger 
The taste is all that remains.

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My Heart

I've got a heart like a hammer 
I was born this way 
And this is how I will die 
And forever I must pay 
It sees love in black and white 
A fully grasping whole 
If I hate it's not so bad 
If i love then god help your haunted soul.

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Dreams

Drift, drift, drift until the calm 
Arrive at the crossroads of your sun 
The peace you feel a release from harm 
Metaphoric blast from a soporific gun. 

A feeling deep from somewhere arrives 
Gently caressing your visage 
A sensory overload of pleasure drives 
Tutoring perception, a perfect marriage. 

You are control, you are the beat 
The story is yours to make 
The ending increases the body heat 
Panting embarks a nervous wake. 

Where was I then, how can it be 
Interpretation a pointless thought 
A dread creeps up, a fleeting see 
Of a time I thought I sought.

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Her Eyes

They dance and sing a merry tune 
They sparkle with life, death immune 
They shine like the most precious jewel 
They choke my words, commanding and cool. 

My jaw seems locked, lost for speech 
My thoughts are cryptic, impossible to reach 
My heady head bunged with clouds 
My heart so heavy, a beating shroud. 

An unsullied spring of purest blue 
A cascade of beauty obviously true
A blink and a wink the dream has been slain 
Another glimpse and I'm frozen again.

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Philosophically Speaking

To produce a logic table
Clearly in your mind
Other possible worlds
The purpose of your find.

It's not empirical truth we seek
Only a Gedanken experiment
Knowledge that we cannot show
Proof that makes us sentient.

The greatest happiness or the moral right
Kant verses Mill
Empiricist or Rationalist
An argument of will.

So choose your dialectic
As Plato was taught
Because a life without philosophy
Is a life without thought.