My voice protects human potential,
I won’t walk down your road to failure;
These words aren’t labeled confidential,
they are perfume on me clean and pure.
Walk away if you think I’ll downgrade,
I am not some low model robot;
Not gonna take the straw bed you made,
I won’t suffer your distressing cot.
My voice protects human potential,
I won’t walk down your road to failure;
Thriving’s the result of essential,
it ends the need to simply endure.
The joie de vivre that’s been delayed ,
soaked firewood that has been left to rot;
White hot ideas are doomed to fade
when we buy in to a tragic plot.
My voice protects human potential,
I won’t walk down your road to failure;
Excitement should be exponential,
not hidden fine print on a brochure.
Can’t truly live when you are afraid,
mild mannered is one thing I am not;
Weave hard work and drive into a braid,
that detailed design is a sure shot.
Call me ludicrous ‘cause
I know it’s outrageously early but
I’m aching to put up my Christmas tree
It’s crazy but no surprise
I could use a little cheer
I want to buy in to the illusion
That everything is wonderful
That everything will be alright
That Santa will take care of folk
Who have been good all year
I’m longing to dreamily lose myself
In the glow of holiday garlands lit
Close my eyes and kiss my sweetheart
Under the magic of mistletoe
Call me what you will
AP: 2nd place 2020
Is weird to be born
in society thinks is the
greatest ever and for good reasons.
I was being breast-fed when my mom heard the news
of JFK
She remembers, I don't.
I don't member RFK either or even
MLK, but what I will tell ya
is forty odd years later doesn't ring true
that all three were
“random acts of violence”
We gotta get smart, people
trust our own brains 'cause I tell ya
what slave-owners don't want ya to know
Long as ya buy in to brown-nose ass kissin' consumption
you're riskin' your kids future and furthermore
the half-life for super-powers is about two-hundred
years, ask greece and rome
turkey, egypt, great brittain and so on
just sayin' think on it please
that's all.
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