Guard well this tender cradle.
In every aspect strive
To nurture as you're able
That you and all may thrive.
Be not in haste to gamble
This rich estate away
On promises of ample
Enrichments to be made.
No matter how beguiling
Scorn negligence and greed.
This is your bed and bounty
Your very life, indeed.
Guard well this tender cradle
For Nature, like a host,
Will set an ample table
For those who prize it most.
I speak to the unhearted;
Whom seek to be imparted;
Broken and complete;
Seeking all whom our bleak;
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enrichments gallery I shutter;
Nightmares have dreams I uncover;
It behoves me to raise my esteem;
Slightly embarrassed I sleep, I dream...
the awakening
6/22/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019
paint me a dark picture from black and white
bind me by the enrichments of this life
tear my pale skin with the blade of this knife
take my enduced coma to a new height
break my endless darkness with a new light
connect this heartache to a new found strife
conjour a new way to destroy my blithe
in which i struggle with through the dark nite
a lack of judgement will be your last note
letting the words of others take your mind
poisoned beyound means with no antidote
to my heart, you have been very unkind
wearing their lies like your sheltering coat
now to the venom they feed you , you bind
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