Long Fall through Poems

The World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue the show
Leaders come and leaders go
Repeating the show of long...

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I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...

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Clutching the moment 
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away, 
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...

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Is there a life after death? I'm about to see
I'm ready to find out, got no one looking out for me
Been betrayed by everyone I gave my all too
They dug the hole, they made me...

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Gentle leaves, breathing soft prayers,
	Praising the One who silences the seas,
		Sends peace through the flow of winds,

Gentle leaves, in hues of hopeful, delicate
	Gold, mahogany, tangerine – crisp beauties,
		Stories beneath the laughing gatherings,

Gentle leaves, pouring out...

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A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole where bunnies ware
Waist coats and fancy pocket watches!
Empty tea cups,...

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The excitement starts
The second I wake up
I have the biggest smile ever
Today I am jumping
Today I will fly

My stomach has butterflies
A tea and I’m ready to go
To the skydiving hanger
To my chariot with wings

The tiny...

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Laying down on the hospital bed...
Helplessly feeling so much dread...
I hopelessly dream away the sorrow,
Wishing there was another tomorrow

I'm sorry that I've let you down, Father
I apologize for the things that I've done
I'm sorry for...

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if you’re reading this piece 
right now,
you’ve got the world at your
fingertips---
might not feel like it, might
feel like your own life is gonna
come crashing down upon your 
head, might have a thousand
skeletons in your closet...

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Decided not to give up  yesterday                            ...

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I love you.

It pains me all so much,
that I could never speak these words, to her.
She is one, aware of all my hurt,
chose to desert and put the joy of other’s first.

Hers included.

I am selfish.

I...

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For all the times you made promises you had no intention of keeping,
For all the times I needed you with me instead of out with your funky women,
For all the times you made me feel...

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"Eternity is the simultaneous whole, seen all at once. This is the character of eternity, and this what the past and future are in God." - Augustine of Hippo

"Eternity is not the hereafter. This is...

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If your love was like the Namib;
Mountainous and bare,
Would you dig deep for water?
Would you scour the ridged crevasses there?
For something that moved,
Within and without,
Trying to remove, any and all doubt.

If your love was a...

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When I’m with her everything changes and I start to notice life in different phases, like the man on the moon

Her beauty is written about in praises

Even though she sees nothing but imperfection as the...

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(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)

I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise...

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Where sunless river weeps and waves into the deep
 Please awake me not as I sleep very charmed sleep.
 Have many a names in different cultures world over
 Boann, Anqet, Mujaji, talaya, Lelawala, & Tsoninar

...

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They clipped my wings, yet I still fly
Thrown off a cliff to chase a lie
Now I fall through the clouds
A broken bird left to die

A single wish to give me strength
My salvation is bittersweet
Its form...

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In a voice both gentle and wise
He whispered hope through my life
Revealing a love that could surprise
With its tenderness and light,
Always lifting my heart from the dark
Raining sparks of wonder across my nights
Filling my soul...

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Beneath the deep silence of reason hides a breathless house,
The remains of oblivion, where dreams die like shadows at evening.
My soul weaves its infinity with countless shortcomings,
Heavy shadows of darkness, left in thoughts not ennobled.
The...

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Someone said to me 1% rule the world,
I refused to believe and insults they hurled.
Why get personal because I reject the ideal?

If you believe it use this time to talk facts,
insults suggest you have nothing...

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Night time yet again /starlight swallowed by black-hoes /Never to reach earth 

Monster under bed /Darkness engulfing my heart /Flashlight in closet 

Broken down body /Pieces still falling apart /Trying to survive 

Needed violence /Craving...

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I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth finds its prey
knifing sunset’s...

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Until I had a nightmare and things got vile

It was you running from me on our wedding day

I yelled out baby please come back this way

For weeks that scene bothered me

Then my trust for you...

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The biggest test of my heart and soul,
Has been to trust in you, to let things go,
Some people will allow you to have the last word,
To manipulate your heart, to make you feel unsure,
Rest assured,,,their...

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