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Forgive me for falling in love with you; 
I never meant to…

Forty Two

The leg that launched a
thousand haiku when healed must
remain to form true.

Psalm Forty-Two Me As You, Us and Them

The Smashing Pumpkins, shake down nineteen seventy-nine
Cool kids never held the signs; and we don't even care, as restless
As we are; hung down, with the freaks and ghouls ? Knowing that Paul told
His Timothy, tis not 'Our Heavenly Father's Will,' to entangle oneself within wordly 
Affairs this, being a good soldier; within Faithful's ranks, while we war not flesh and blood....
Surely their carnal nay the day, rather, pulling down these strong holds ? Mother earth she weeps
Waiting, for her deliverence; all of creation together, they groan; left panting aside, His, water brooks
Beautiful's majestic dawn you'll, ask ? Let go of your heart let go of your head, and feel it now, Babylon.


Forty-Two Years

A friend of a friend has a husband who left;
He quit after forty-two years.
His wife is a wreck – she’s distraught and bereft
And is drowning in buckets of tears.

To make it all worse, she has problems with health
So will struggle to be on her own,
As fate, like a robber with devious stealth,
Has made off with the life she has known. 

A marriage needs partners where both are content
Or resentment will bubble below,
But forty-two years surely must represent
Times with harmony’s ebb and its flow.

No matter what changed, it is always so sad
When a union like that comes apart;
For someone is losing the life that she had,
While she nurses a pulverized heart.

Page Forty Two

I know it's hard... for you to turn the 
page, especially when you don't 
want this chapter to end it's more 
love than hate, you can't do what 
you undid the present is here and 
that means that the past was late no 
need for me to spell it out or 
abbreviate, no resuscitation just 
elevation, let it elevate you priorities 
comes first and she don't even have 
a clue, so...what do you do when the 
one you love and you are on 
different paths, that leads to a home 
divided y'all do the math, step up to 
the mound like a pitcher a man 
putting his kids first now that's a true 
religion so if she can't understand 
that I don't know what to tell you, 
except how you gonna cross the 
finish line together when y'all on 
different levels

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