Defenseless is not having help during needed times, the intent to leave people without a way to live and survive.
Defenseless is not allowing police and security to do their job, of restraining, protecting, and other ways of making us all safe.
Defending is a way of teaching, maintaining, and making us all able to live and feel safe today and every day.
We read in history of how many groups lived in intentional community’s making them feel safe and secure as they go through life.
Forcing people to live in unsafe communities can lead to death and health issues that can make other issues increase.
I am thinking of the hammer of the Scots, I read that the dilution of the people by way of non-intentional community weakened the communities.
I am thinking of the intentional Indian communities in America, I am thinking this makes them stronger, having their values and culture as one.
I am thinking of the other places around the world that have intentional living and how being one makes them strong.
Let us all be aware, and take care, don’t be defenseless, grow, learn, love.
Lifting prayer to God, today and always.
I find myself back in a space I tried to escape
My efforts to change a waste
My true self hiding behind a cape
This pathetic self, leaves me with a vile taste
I am not this thing I can’t control
Though I feel like I just want to let go
Constantly working towards a goal
To help and love everyone, not just for a show
The world right now is unbearable
I see so much hatred
What people are doing to one another is terrible
Life is sacred
Nothing I do will change things
Nothing I say will make a difference.
Who knows what tomorrow brings
Perhaps just a stance of indifference.
Nothing I do will change the world around me.
If I had faith, I would pray for everyone to have empathy
I know few people see what I see
My weakness is my sympathy.
I came into the world naked
Defenseless and helpless
Poor and up against a loveless world
I gave my soul to the devil
In the quest for silver and gold
And now eternal damnation stares me in the face
What is the essence of life anyway?
To serve my creator and live hereafter
I can never be richer at death
Than I was at birth
Naked I came from the womb
Naked I shall return to dust
Mundane possessions
Pale into insignificance
a meeting
of the lips, yours...
and mine;
my heart was won.
it didn't so much
as put up
a fight.
you claimed it!
my shield
of armor
fell away.
crumbled, my wall of
vulnerability,
and...
i'm stripped defenseless!
(yalto)
When the hot droplets of sea hit the rough Fabric on your fitted t shirt
When the bones and nerves that write the Stories in this book grip so tight
They turn white
When
My brain finally lets the walls that
Hold in poison
Depriving the dopamine
The little amount that rarely shines
Give out
And release
I feel so safe
I feel as if the atoms surrounding us
Have vanished
I am vulnerable
And defenseless
But with you
I am not afraid of becoming either
Or
Defenseless humans
They are so innocent
They never stand for war
They are humble
They are submissive
They want no trouble
Either do they intend
To fight any nation
Yet destruction never
Leave them alone
Defenseless humans
Despite they home
Are designed with poverty
Still a few of them excel to power
Despite they are isolated
Still they got prove to win
Despite they are intimidated
World wide
Still the world keep knocking
On their doors
Defenseless human
They fight no nation
They just wish the world
Would love each other
So many of them has no
Interest in politics
Despite it still control
Their economy
They just want to be free
From artificial humans
They need no more wars
They need no more troubles
They are still ready to feed the world
If only the world let them be
God bless Africa
vulnerable shoulders scantily clad
bare of protecting pauldron
without his strong arms encompassing
chest underdressed
short of a shield
without his beating breastplate pressing
helmet unharnessed
mind recklessly unleashed
without comforting thoughts of our melding
beaming brass unattached
sword unwielded for defense
strong arms to swing ~ missing
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amidst these sullen skies
tiny drops stream down
pain lashes out
atop the muddied ground
she sinks within
unable to lift herself
she tumbles down
like autumn's leaves
memories piling up
buried in the past
as years blow by
she crumbles
in winded gasps
time winds down
her last breath drawn
the storm lifts
as darkness falls
she rests in the stillness
02/29/2020
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#2 Defenseless
I am just a swollen bloated thing in this harsh world
Nothing here but the laws of physics upon me hurled
No safety, power, decision is mine as I am uncontrollably twirled
Under and over and across the sweltering haze
Never before feeling, always fleeing from the gaze
Now it is just me… alone… caught up in a daze.
The ramparts have fallen, all is mis-aligned, broken;
The wreckage of my thoughts you left as mere token.
Untidy answer I wish was unspoken!
Everything, everyone caterwauling at me in my alien world
Eyes upon me, I cannot escape from this demented gaze
Ears ringing from pain - from curses unspoken.
February 28, 2020
Title Chosen : Defenseless
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Since the day our eyes first locked
you held the key to my heart.
I come to you defenseless.
Old barricades I’d put up
tumbled down; you built me up!
I come to you defenseless.
I have trust in all you do.
No fear have I in trusting you.
I come to you defenseless.
Trusting you, I trust myself.
My precious soul mate you are!
I come to you defenseless.
Feb. 19, 2020
Theme title: #2: Defenseless
For Edward Ibeh's Pick-A-Title, Vol 14 - Tristich - Poetry Contest
Slash me with the sharpest sword,
Strike me with the minor chord,
From condescending, cutting word me spare.
February 17, 2020
Defenseless and drained of power
The reason is simple, you are a victim
an emotionless being without a heart
Hell is the snake in the room no one talks about
brainwashed lackey - screaming silence
- suppresses me with waves of steam
Missing a guardian angel
They find the hammer very quickly
aggressive enemy, a threat
The street has its own laws
the world is still full of shades and gray zones
Without shell protection, a defenseless turtle
15-02-2020
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The instant you were born, my whole world changed
nothing was more important to me than you,
plans for future happiness got prioritized and rearranged.
I picked you up and gently rocked you in my arms
fragile, weak, and defenseless
you won my heart with your baby charms.
Helpless and dependent on mom and me for your care
I assured you with a whisper,
that mommy and daddy would always be there.
As feelings for your mother and you combine
you both become the focus of my life
as I gaze into your eyes, and you stare into mine.
I fell in love for the second time in my life
although I never thought it possible
to love anyone as much as I love my wife.
You count on us to protect you
and we'll never let you down,
there's nothing we wouldn't do.
You inherited your mom's sweet smile
and your bright blue eyes came from me,
but you brought your own unique style.
From your crinkly nose to your wiggly toes
sweetheart, you're the answer to our prayers
and amidst the thorns of life, baby, you're the rose.
(Tristich)
Defenseless
Young, Black, Brown, Defenseless.
Naked, Bleeding, Mute, Defenseless.
Broken, Hopeless, Afraid, Defenseless.
W What slithers in the mind, gnaws at my peace
O Other people's words, to which I assign a motive
R Rather dwell on verses of Scripture, sonnet or verse
D Deliberating on sounds cast awind, torture me alive
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