Best To Be Beside Yourself Poems

Together   			     we walked,
       Side by side 		            awhile –
	      You, on 	    ...

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The Sun was acting rather strange
With the Moon and Stars concerned.
As it was not content to share the sky...
And not prepared to wait its turn.
So the sea was simmering and boiling hot
Without the night's return.

But the Moon and Stars were patient
And before long they had...

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Surprise ties to realization binds me to lies and the truth of who I am and where I've 
been. The slim chance that I might be is whimsicle at best but the rest of the story is 
told in storey by storey by molding life...

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Another eccentric façade flows decadence
Beside yourself with a quaint mockery
Counting blessings you sought after a hummingbird life
Do the scars that you cherish set you free?
Escaping your feeble yet cynical pestilence
For my exuberance is tainted by thee
Go drink from the lake and drown your horses with...

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Postcards of a ghetto life,
facts of being black
It's a common assumption in the hood
that you know how to talk smack
Lay the whip of indignation
smack dab on a hater's back
Twist the insult in deeper,
than give the whip another crack
If somebody tries to low rate you,
even try...

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Together we walked,
Side by side awhile-
You, on your road,
I, on my sidewalk;
You, in pursuit
of dreams yonder,
I, caught up in my
thoughts at hand.

Somewhere down the road,
We came to a crossroads
And you chose to
take a different course,
Turned your back on me
and walked away.

My path led me
down a...

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Sometimes being in love can make you feel drunk,
Like you're stumbling trying to walk,
The first I love you got you sprung,
Because your words aren't making any sense when you talk.
Sometimes being in love makes you feel like you just can't win,
No matter what you say...

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Heart strings tug and strum a piece of melancholy
The mind vacillates from lovely days long past
to today's bitter reality

Longing for that loving, motherly touch
Oh, so quick to get me line when I was out.
That touch that I still thank God I had a chance to
feel...

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Why did you reply to my message that day? It’s not like you to respond, that isn’t your usual way
For years you have ignored me as though I was a stranger to you, so what changed between then and now? Is your conscience eating away...

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Alone, 
Dark, 
Cold, 
Left beside yourself, 
In this world, 
No helping hand, 
Only judgemental remarks, 
From others who see you around, 
Nobody walks in your shoes, 
The demons you seem to face, 
Nobody will ever know, 
Because nobody wants to take my place, 
Tattered and...

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Wouldn't it be great 
if all our problems would go away
and wouldn't it be grand
if all our issues would disappear

Sometimes we feel like 
nothing will ever change
Sometimes we feel
like nothing will ever be repaired

Wouldn't it be magnificent
if our parents didn't get drunk
and wouldn't it be...

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Be wary of the ebb of tide
that strands your woes,
bone-dry up on the high dry side.
See how the winds of sorrow do blow.
Right over the mud flats of despair they go.
Desiccating all remnants of life,
that the flooding tide brought in.
Leaving only a trickle of fickle...

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When Head Is Big and So Is Ego

Sure was truly such a terrible sin
When you have to be a has been
And some day when old and gray
To go, don't remember which way.

Each time when over start to stoop
Are always sure to spill bowl of soup
Then...

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They say Love is blind,
So, it is up to us to recognize it when we see it,
Yet even those with 20/20 vision seem to struggle,
To see the golden glow that surrounds it,
Or hear it playing their theme song,
They even fail to feel the arrows Cupid...

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Someone spirit,
Spirit is in the air;
The color Purple, royalty that you wear;
And a Golden Crown, that's placed upon your head
Mercy and Grace surrounds them,  yes

Yet In the twinkling of an eye,   you will be there by their side My Father God...

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