Roads We Chose
If you travel down the wrong Lane
where humanity is swept away
with hate and viral diatribes
well then you know
Tom Petty
has inseminated his seed
they knock on all doors
if a narrow mind will answer
ring ring
oh ,my hatred sings
do not be a little mind
unless genocide is your thing
Like a mirage, to see
The dreams seem nice
Until, words turn to ice
After believing in thee
Something seems like a sturdy rock
Trusting to be able to stand
Not expecting the other hand,
to bring deceipt with a knock
There are signs along the way,
often easy to ignore
Unwilling to open the door
Then a final blow has the say
As it's not healthy, it's best to leave
For whatever reason was the start
Now, much better to be apart
Time to let go with the chance to grieve
Heidi Sands
6/15/24
(C)opyright
It is so hard to decide
Whether to stay on this ride
Driving us both to a frenzy
Please tell me if there is any
Way we both wont crash and burn
It is a very sharp turn
We are taking down this road
Carrying a heavy load
Both our pasts weighing us down
Do we need to turn around
Before we're on a dead end street
Full of lies, heartache, deceipt
It's such a slippery ride
Let's be cautious and not slide
Into a romance too fast
Slow down, ease up on the gas
Before our hearts take the plunge
Off a cliff we both will lunge
Hanging on so we don't fall
Off this ledge, let's just stall
Stepping on the breaks so we
Can glide a along more safely
It's TRUTH and LOVE,which spark the light.
It's LIES and DECEIPT which spark the HATE.
Living in the shadows those bent and bound souls
congregate.
Bowing to their fear, rather than jousting through
and making wide the gates to LOVE.
Tis LOVE FOR ALL, despite their flaws, in which we HEAR and HEED
God's call.
Bite Size Poem #41
Run! Judgement!
It's coming!
It's near?
It can't be here!
Fear!
We missed it.
We didn't see it
It's Lucifer!
He's qweer!
It's all he said.
Deceipt!
Run!
Fleet!
Where's my coat?
Where's my tote?
Come! Run!
Scote!
He'll see you!
He'll take you!
Bury you!
Break You!
Run!
He's con'd you!
Found you!
Ferry'd you!
Nair'ed you!
Run!
Take two!
Make due!
Sent to grateful receivers, tied tissue paper package
Thinnest high pitched crinkles subdue outside sound
Drama sits by desire's side, scrunched ball wreckage
Item shines silent where tempting excitement's found
Picked up then turned in tunnel light, trim translucent
Resplendent sexual asset show, shop front renowned
From suicidal prospect, she radiates ready road ahead
Track paved in pledges strictly forbidding promiscuity
Attempting claimant admits her promises are pretend
Selecting occurs in empty moments, potential aligned
Perfecting her pitch to victims strewn along spectrum
Hypergamy erects ladders, to one's class not confined
Feminine walks lace edge assurity, swish skirt pretty
Tightly tuned to humour tugging tower church chime
Sprawl peals of laughter tartan on grass sits a picnic
Intimating intentions when ecstacy resonates from loins
Parading a masquerading charm, undeniable ticked time
Dishes out affection already demised lest limitless coins
12th February
Wealth Reflects Affection
I only exist for rape
Deceipt to be my light
When God will make it love
and others hate the right
That God will have his vengeance
for others he will own
When love falls by the wayside
and God reclaims his throne
I don't know what vengeance is to corruption
Nor what it is to sickness
Nor what him doing wrong by all
would ever lead to witness
That all my life I've lived for sin
was never worth the cause
When all the time I did for him
was all about the flaws
And left me filling in for him
when no one was around
When all the time we lived for him
could never be as sound
That every time we did for him
would never be the lound
When all we ever did for him
was subject to be bound
And everything he called deceipt
his price put on the crown
That every way we knew deceipt
was blasphemy on down
Why must I do this lovers dance
Every time I take a chance
Opening my heart up wide
Letting someone new inside
Only for it to be broken
By actions or bad words spoken
Just once I would like to find
Someone who will never bind
Me in chains of wrong deceipt
My love life is on repeat
Every time I try but fail
Please will a true love just bail
Me out of this hopeless cell
A lonely lock up of hell
I want to ve free again
Show me where I can begin
Seeing the light of pure hope
In a love to help me cope
With emotions of sadness
Turning them into gladness
It is so hard to decide
Whether to stay on this ride
Driving us both to a frenzy
Please tell me if there is any
Way we both wont crash and burn
It is a very sharp turn
We are taking down this road
Carrying a heavy load
Both our pasts weighing us down
Do we need to turn around
Before we're on a dead end street
Full of lies, heartache, deceipt
It's such a slippery ride
Let's be cautious and not slide
Into a romance too fast
Slow down, ease up on the gas
Before our hearts take the plunge
Off a cliff we both will lunge
Hanging on so we don't fall
Off this ledge, let's just stall
Stepping on the breaks so we
Can glide a along more safely
I hear the whistles
of times forgotten.
That asserted truth
lies wasted on the reeds.
Listening, intently
Concerntrating on a hope
Slowly and henceforth
Was a metamorphosis of sound
The cicadain shrieks therein molded
Into the peace of flute
Looking I exhaled
And painstakingly I retreated
To ponder this sudden change
When suddenly from the barren south lands
Swept in a dry wind
With seeds of uncertainty.
The wind, meant to cloud judgment
And with it, to silence this peace
Where was I to go,
Because although the voice within said left
I could not see the burdens of that choice
How could I be sure of this entreaty?
Deceipt of a desperate man
Or the indiscretions of youth?
Although now the shrieks were defeaning
The wind was blinding so the pain of touch surpassed that of its hearing
Even though the hope of it all was in sight,
the vision was now a blur
The times had now been forgotten
The voices have been silenced to rage
Well doubt found lodging through the wind
And judgement was corrupted
Insomnia of truth or ignorance of peace?
The uncertainty IS Deafening
So long Tommorrow
Shine So brightly
Live so freely
Cry together
Laugh so deeply
Smile Forever
Be What you can
Be Believe in
You Shall bring us
Pride Forever
And I cannot
Bend To sunset
End All Things
Before They begin
Show Some mercy
Hold On to me
I salute You briefly
We are One No leaving
We will Talk So subtly
We shall Hold So tightly
Find Me wanting
Touch So softly
Breathe So camly
Give Me hope to
Want So subtly
Yes I'll follow
You So Swiftly
Kneel Before us
Let us guide you
Wash Away your
fears be complete
Grab on to me
Guide My feelings
Set Me free
to Wash Away
the Sins Of all
That hurt us on the
shores of winter
Never Once
Ill forget
times According
Bring Me joy to
Grasp this setting
I submit This column
Birds Are chirping
Clouds Are parting
Suns Are rising
Win Ters Falling
Storms Are ending
Men Are rising
Oh This freedom
This is you
No conflict
This is me
No deceipt
This is US
Be simple
By Athi Godlo
TWINKLE TWINKLE DYING STAR
when i was a little lad i had a puppy named Fred
i loved when Fred used my lap as a bed
he'd romp around in my yard and follow me anywhere
and when it thundered and there was lighting he'd lick away my fear
if i needed something i'd stare at it and he'd fetch it for me
i don't know how he knew but i do know that the truth it be
when i wasn't feeling well and wanted to do nothing but sleep
he'd walk around quiety and not make a peep
he was so understanding and felt compassion from afar
i can't explain it the way i can't explain the dying of a star
his devotion never wavered and his love was all mine
and just like that star i'd watch him shimmer and shine
then i met a woman who did all the same things
but one never knows what fate and providence brings
by the woman i was done in by deceipt and wished i was dead
and i also wish instead of that woman i still had Fred
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DETECTED DECEIPT
at last
i detect the delectable aroma of the past
the shine of her perfume
whils't i stroked her golden hair humbled by the loom
at last i need sleep no more
for she hast walked back in my door
with a muffled rap on mahogony and pine
for once again the lovely be claimed as mine
bejeweled and beddazzling whist bethothed to beauty alone
i gazed into whisome eyes that always and ever shone
she'd look at me from across a kitchen table
and i would catch my breath if i were able
at last i detected the odor of yesterday
and recalled nearly everythiing the lady had to say
then i remembered the flash of her anger and ire
and now i detect the odor of a smoldeirng fire
so go once again and leave your scent behind
for i don't need to see you or have you inhabit my mind
beause the aroma was sweet as tupulo honey harvested from a vista vast
but now you're gone again.......at fu**ing last
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lies
deceipt
what next .
Silent cries
sad songs
lonely laughs
i made unbelievable decisions
they reamain in my heart
as do you
but to you
i am nothing more than a speck of dust
left only to die on the cold hard floor
but this ,i wish nothing more
i bear the consequences
anything to recieve you
anything to please you
once more
my soul burns
my heart yourns
only for you .
Dark
cold
nights i sleep
all for you .
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