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Sometimes I Wonder

You think you can get it 
straight 
You just can't get it right 
Your goals lost sight 
Failure is an understate

There's not much you can do
You try another angle
A force is against you 
On a thread you dangle

You reach;you hold on
To any thing stable
You pull yourself up 
And cause a disrupt

Every action has a reaction
Ever number a fraction 
When you lift yourself up in 
that fashion 
There is a subtraction

You take life from what you 
grasp onto,seal it with a kiss
You couldn't handle what you 
had to do,taking was not your 
wish 
You just wanted to be ok
You never thought you would 
hurt people this way

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Reborn

They say the things that don't kill you,make you stronger. 
I say I don't want to talk about it any longer

It's been some time now. 
Will this wound ever heal?
Some way somehow.  
I will Accomplish the impossible,a way to not feel. 

I will erase my memory,trust me it is easiest that way. 
And look forward to the future 
Tomorrow is truly another day. 
Numb,that is what I will be,
Dumb,when asked to recall memories that hurt me. 

They say the things that don't kill you,make you stronger. 
I say I don't want to talk about it any longer. 

No more think,hurt,remember and weep
I will be normal Wake up,eat,work,and sleep
Life will be easy,there's nothing to fear. 
Trouble?i will just stay clear 

I need to revert back to who I used to be. 
Before the contradictions,abuse and lies changed me. 
I will start over,dumb out my brain 
Live life as a simpleton,normal and sane

They say the things that don't kill you,make you stronger. 
I say if I don't forget I can't do this any longer.

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Bipolar

I sank so low, I settled on the oceans floor
No mammal no fish
I had no wants not one wish
I wanted to keep sinking more

I have explored here before
No one else wanted to go
The depths so very low
Yet I kept sinking more

I wasn't down there long enough
I usually would come up
Just to get some air,
Then sink back down in despair

I would rather live down there below
Cause low is all I know
Everybody I ever had around
Slowly I dragged them down

I was just starting to cope
With possibly losing my father
I gave up hope,and
assumed my love would find another

Drowning,in the lowest part of the ocean
Is where I discovered my mother
I put my arms and legs in motion
I swam as fast as I could
She had to recover
She was who I needed she understood
My spirit was about to leave
And leave my love alone with grief

Then suddenly I got some relief
Standing firmly on land
Someone reached and grabbed my hand

She pulled me to shore
I held my mother
I thought how I made them suffer
My wife alone to walk the earth
And the scar on my mother,from the day of my birth

My wife began to weep
And asked for me to explain
 I kissed her and told her
I'm sorry I left you astray
I found my mother
she was down there beside me
We stood above her and told her
we loved her

She must of drowned a long time ago
Quit was kept so no one would know
How she truly believed none of us cared
that is a feeling that both of us shared
My mother drowned so I can live
It's the only way she can answer my questions

My wife prayed for strength from up above
It had to go to this extent
For my whole life to make sense
My mother never felt any of our love

She was down there feeling exactly the same
We were both trying to switch the blame
I had to sink to as low as could be
For me to understand people love me

She new how to love but a different way to show it
She drowned so I can live on
Life will be better now that I know it
My wife can rest assured
I can love her the way she deserves
Now the feelings are no longer hidden behind a veil
Resentments are finally gone
And life can move on.
Unconditional love will prevail























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Life In Persepective

Life in perspective.
Is A never ending thought.
Most,theories differ.

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Begun

What was to begun,began
What was at hand needed a hand
On its own two feet it will stand 
And all of the kings pawns and all the kings men 
Couldn't get it back in order again
Where will we achieve
Where will we compensate
Where is relief
Where will we dominate
Well dominate in belief
Cause we shoot for the stars 
How can we calculate if we don't know who we are
If we are who they perceive us to be
We should succeed naturally
Straight up organic
Making decisions in a panic
Will make all the difference 
Our actions speak for them selves we don't need reference 
One day at a time
Without rhythm or rhyme. 
We chaulk up another day 
And we accomplish it our own way

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Doubt

There's barely any room to hang a hat
There's people sleeping on top of each other
It's been awhile since anyone has sat
No one wants to make room for another 

No one wants to get out,they want to hang around and babble
The want to complain that they can't move an inch
And rearrange words like scrabble 

You see there over looking one known fact
Through the front door,is not the only way out
Think before you act
And always leave some room for doubt!

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Pain

A feeling you can not describe. 
A thought that travels without a ride. 
One that has no help at all

That came from the house that's whole. 
That lingers in the past. 
That is as transparent as glass
That longes for embrace 
That needs nurturing 
That hides behind a lying face

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Dam Thoughts

My mind, thoughts go in 
thoughts go out
They make there own dam 
route
They pave there own way
I tell them to stop!of course 
they don't obey!

I hope they will fade away 
Check in a motel for a short 
stay
Go get themselves a one night 
stand 
Crumbs on a kitchen table 
swept with an open hand. 

As usual they go off the 
handle.
I should leave them in the dark 
and  blow out the only candle 
Let them see how it is to think 
without light
It's guaranteed to hinder there 
sight
Maybe if I take them of course 
People would stop judging the 
source.  

These thoughts are making me 
sound like I babble
I've got to rearrange every 
single thought like scrabble. 

My thoughts are completely out 
of hand!
Stop you are confusing me It is 
impossible to understand.

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Useless

What if what was priceless 
named its price
If impulsivity stoped  to 
listened to advice
And what once was was twice. 


What if what was at hand 
needed a hand?
What was to be couldn't be 
If two legs couldn't stand
And all of the earth was a 
single grain of sand

What is the ocean without land 
?
A star without the sky
a question noone understands
And an answer that didn't know 
why 

If I was not me
A group had no we
An argument couldn't  disagree
And an eye couldn't see 


If a story wasn't  told
A diamond never sold
origami cant fold
And a child didn't  get old

A cry was never heard
A wound never cured
A cross noone could bare
And honesty was unfair. 

A microscope that can't focus 
A house that's homeless
A marriage that's loveless
A prisoner that's hopeless 

Like a eagle that never soared
Feet that  never felt the floor
Life can be a bore
When you have touched every 
knob and never opened any 
door

I guess sometimes wisdom 
don't always make sense 
Like a treasure that doesn't 
have two cents

Not every home has a picket 
fence
And many people places and 
things feel useless 


Useless !!!

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Days Are Numbered

Take it easy,take it hard 
Take it inch by inch,take it by the yard 
Get it,how you get it 
Remember how you got it 
And don't ever say you forgot it

Remember a word so misunderstood 
Superstitions got you knocking on wood 
Got you making the sign of the cross
Got you thinking your friends a jinx and that's why you loss

We forget the things that mean the most
And get side tracked by something a star post
Caught up in bull*****that don't matter
Far fetched dreams make your ego a mirror that's shore to shatter 

Remember the first time you had a crush
The first time you drank like a lush 
The first time you ever kissed
But more importantly the time with your family you missed 

Memories are the things you shouldn't forget
Rather then saying pappa need a new pair of shoes when you lay your next bet 
Forget not betting the opposing team
Cause win or lose you'll never fur full you dream
Wake up like god parted the sky's and hit you with a light beam
Remember what really counts 
Family not dollar amounts