I know you both
Want and so too should wish
To expect a response
From all the other people
Apart from yourself
Even if that response be
The merest tiny
Subtlest of nods or blink's
Hiding behind a smiling blackened eye
Because they are simply unable or lack
the inner strength or stomach for the fight
To stand up or speak for themselves
In order so they can show you the pathway
But yet then again aren't you just
so to the problem as well
If you yourself expect others to do
Something you have yet yourself
Seemed unable to accomplish or do
Because that offers others
In similar powerless unmanageable situations
Surely no solace or form of help
In fact makes matters way far worse
If other victims don't seem to care neither
Your hoped for an aural jump
from commencement letters abroad
Your idealised viewpoint of the West
minus the 2.4 children,
and your multilingual approach
even German for extra flourish
inches in Deutschland for cumulative security,
I'm not interested in a Trans Asiatic Plains romance
Im a confirmed Bachelor
of 42 years standing,
I don't know how you got my email
But cease and desist
better concentrate on your own menfolk
This lost light,
lost is not...
must be in some
corner of the universe,
without being able to show off...
We need to search it,
snatch it with tongs
patience,
with stoic hope
we need to rescue her,
even if it is asleep
at the bottom of the deepest pit... !
Cave ne cadas... !
We should never desist.. !
Halloween - it starts
Thanksgiving eats, Christmas treats,
New Year's: Just. Say. No.
Written 1 Jan 2020
Trump Actions Cease and Desist Horn Limerick
This is what I have to insist
Each and every point Trump missed
To us bologna feed
Down path everyone led
His actions should cease and desist.
Hope Hillary gets better.
Jim Horn
Shatter glass, spit out your bay, desist
Lustful dogs who bark and bay, desist
Cold as silver shadows list on stone
Sun’s last ray and heat of day desist
Oracles insist, and dead men know
Luck and fickle lovers may desist
Words upon the wind; I told you this
Take your magic, walk away, desist
Time to reap the harvest you have sown
Silence, let your mournful lay desist
Scry no more, lest death thy mirror kiss
Havoc, all the angels say, desist
Madness, this, to love by will alone
Yield the ghost, Felicia; pray desist!
© Gail Foster 2016
How could i this peace destroy
When christ has given me lasting joy?
Never would i be satan's errand boy
Nor give my life to him as a toy.
Satan has many hands employ
The saints and saved to scare and annoy
Scorpions and serpents in millions he deploy
Just to execute his poisoned ploy.
Never would i be satan's envoy
Nor be scared of his teaming convoy
In the face of temptration i will never coy
And at last i will not be satan's cowboy
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