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On Second Thoughts By David Kavanagh

...By David Kavanagh


On second thoughts
When instinct becomes 
an educated guess
And improvisation 
demands quick redress
Like thinking on one’s feet
if too drunk to stand
Be found all at se...

On second thoughts

...When instinct becomes 
an educated guess
And improvisation 
demands quick redress
Like thinking on one’s feet
if too drunk to stand
Be found all at sea
throwing up on dry land

Twisted situa...

God is love

...love is a flame that has no name
being God Himself our soul’s aim
Who dwells in all forms as a spark 
bliss magnetism too hard to tame

the truth stated simple and stark
love and light is our t...

Moving

...Moving.
She packs away her memories and smiles as she recalls
The images of happy times that once hung upon her walls
Looks at all the packing crates, neatly labelled and filled.
Takes one last g...

Burden Child

...You were never meant to be a vessel of sorrow,
Yet the world placed its trembling hands on you.
A child seen as an outcast has no place here, they said,
Treated like a beast than an actual human b...

The chains are still there you've just got to look closer

...Stalked all their life 
Stained by a crime not committed 
A permanent mark on black skin
A reminder how we will never fit in
Labelled as criminals
Despite being exonerated 

Probation was for ...

Drowning in a sea of their hate

...Expectations
No rest
No time to breathe
A weight on your chest 
Nothing less than excellence 
Even that's not enough
A world that tells black people
That even if you follow the rules
You are ...

Dogma Enigma

...
Dogma Enigma

When the pedophile is god
and genocide is good 
when caring for the other
is a never not a should
when race is a weapon
and gender is revoked
when science is blasphemy
and cl...

The medical gaslighting of a black woman

...Is to be pushed to the brink of psychosis
And to then be labelled mentally unstable 
It is to ask for help and be met with the door 
Then when we worsen they blame us for waiting too long 
As if ...

Structure of the universe

...The first creation was the cosmic egg
Hiranyagarbha, that’s shaped like our head
All souls caged within it, for freedom beg
Taking endless births, till they’re by love led

Polarities balanced, ...

Waiting in The Lion Dance Chinese Take Away

...
I sit on a straight back
red vinyl chair 
in a Chinese Take Away
waiting for my beef
and black bean sauce, 
pork chow mein and a serving
of special fried rice - hear 
from behind a beaded ra...

White privilege

...White privilege 
The ability to exist Without fear
The ability to walk down the streets 
And not jump at every siren
To not calculate every move
And overthink every word
Because in out world
O...

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Submitted:   16/7/25

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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all known. Its int...

Just want ,wanted to be heard

...World knows the seven deadly sins-
lust,gluttony,greed,sloth,wrath,envy,pride.
A woman basic need to understood and being
heard  is  more deadly a sin
which burn the mind and heart to ashes.
Eve...

This

...This posed a problem in ancient Loch,
As it’s not a canvas of Van Gogh.
     When paint ran down my arm 
     While squashed and ground bugs harm,
I still labelled it ‘Woolly Epoch’.

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