Long Desensitized Poems

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...

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Room full of people, how could I be lonely?
These days it's harder than ever to find a true homie
I'm trying to keep a grip but I'm losing it slowly

Filling our voids with mediums of instant...

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Under the firmament 
Vying  to escape the dome  of purgatory 
A trap which seems permanent 
Filled with negative energy and pain
Stuck on a plain 
That plays tricks on the brain 
Driving souls insane 
Desensitized to...

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IF GOD GIVES UP ON US

Open season
the games have begun
We be target practice
Shoot randomly
no penalty

Kill at will
...if you will
Lives don't
matter to the people
you're chanting to

Kill for thrill
new sport
Kill at will
...if you think
Lives matter
watch the gavel...
justice...

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The impressions of Doeg, whom slaughtered eight-five priest and their families

Always wanting to play tug of war, to keep me from my reason

Entangled inside black emeralds of broken glass....

Smiling as I reflect upon it all;...

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This diary I do not wish to share
For fear that I would be a tortured slave
A servant of a menace though I dare
To let this ink concede the castle's grave
A servant of a menace who...

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The impressions of Doeg, whom slaughtered eight-five priest and their families
Always wanting to play tug of war, to keep me from my reason
Entangled inside black emeralds of broken glass....
Smiling as I reflect upon it all;...

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when one stands up against injustice
when one spits in the face of those that oppress &
shows not one ounce of fear in their eyes
often, if fortunate, standing amidst others who have come to
the same conclusion,
at...

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be not a receptacle to that spirit of sin
live by the word of God and be open to Him

in this day where the lines of morality have become blurred
where people believe and do all and...

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alienated and separated has become society
disenfranchised and distant are now the state of families
all of those systems designed to make us feel connected
have fallen short and now we feel rejected
we're just a bunch of numbers...

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One minute bought to make an impression,
   One minute to stir emotions, swirls of anger, guilt, affliction,
       One minute to pull the heartstrings to pack a punch...

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I used to be that girl being disrespectful, wishing that someone would pay me some attention. Waiting at my mom’s job, not knowing I needed my father; Mistaking that need with my friends’ father on...

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Nights you know I held you
I could never leave you
I just want to tell you
I would never fail you

At thirteen you were telling me to calm down
Selfishly I replied I’m not trying to stay on...

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Feeling everything at once,
And nothing at all.
Numb?
Maybe.
Just may be the medications,
My therapist says,
Meditation.
The answer,
The problem?
Is manic depression.
Some say disorder,
I scream.
Obsession.
The doctor’s dose me, 
I obliged,
Just because I don’t want to die.
Addiction killed my soul,
Reprive,
Or spiritually...

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Wake up America, 
Arise from your slumber
Media has desensitized your minds
We live in a new world of technology that has made you colorblind
Meaningless, with deeper meaning
Music lyrics have been subconsciously stealing
While you think it’s the...

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US
NATO
ISAF
ON
SUNDAY
MAY
29 TH
KILLED
TWELVE
CHILDREN
AND TWO
WOMEN
WHILE
BOMBING 
FROM THE
AIR
IN THE 
MIDDLE OF
THE 
NIGHT
AND
THE BIG
BAD BOOGEY
TALIBAN
WAS FAR
AWAY 
FROM THESE
CIVILIAN
HOMES
NOOR
AGHA ASKED
WHY
WAS
MY 
HOUSE
BOMBED?
BECAUSE 
SHE LOST
RELATIVES
IN THE
AIR RAID
GONE
HOMICIDAL
MANIACAL
MILITARISTICALLY
MURDEROUS
AND 
THE
GENIUSES
WHO WORK
FOR THE
RICHEST 
COUNTRIES IN
THE WORLD
WHO STOMP
ON THOSE
WHO HAVE 
ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING
HAD THIS TO SAY:

"Unfortunately, the compound...

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and so you’ve stumbled upon a new tune,
a new beat, 
a new assemblage of lyrics & distorted guitar,
beat & lyrics,
twang & acoustic guitar
all meshed together &
you cannot get enough of it.

at first you hear it...

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bars and cages of flags ,colors ,creeds .
in Egypt they've been saying we want to make Egypt great again .
can't help but look at the irony gullible red and white and blue patriots and the...

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This world is backwards 
Yes insanity is real
Desensitized from birth
But I can still feel.

You can see with your eyes 
But I see with my heart
You tell me to finish
But never allow me to start

You tell...

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Seriousness settles in, like an old friend
Seriousness spreads like a disease
Infecting us, accelerating, our aging process 
Our youthfulness, our playfulness, slowly slipping away
Our wonder in life, diminishing
Seriousness leading to rigidness, pathway to small mindedness!

Days and...

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Along the way, I never meant to be this complicated.  Lost myself when I was 17 and ignorin' it just to stay alive.  Recently, got jaded by life, but less desensitized by keeping...

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10/11/21


Sometimes 
I wanted to lay low
Or get recognized
Stormy nights and days with rainbows
Was it all really like what is televised
I think not, but for you and me I wish us the best in life
Any wrongs...

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Lyrics from a song from skillet

Walk this world alone try to stay on my feet
Sometimes crawl, fall, but I stand up cause I'm afraid to sleep
And open my eyes to a new day, with all...

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I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind...
 
I know not where I'm headed to,
the sage's advice, my only clue :
"Enlightenment is now in...

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I'm not Deranged just Derailed,
Deraptured with the Devolution of Angels,
The Devilization of a Nation,
Decorum Demands that I Devalue individualism,
Some Decadent, Dilenquent, Despot shouts 
"Our hair must be black!" 
"Our hair must be pink!"
Displaying our inner...

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