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LIFE'S END
So they think you are old and shouldn't live alone,
maybe you're too frail to be left on your own
Can't manage your own money or live in your own home,
apprehensive you give up and take up the tossed bone
So many years spent taking care of them,
it's your turn they'll tell you and move you right in
Deep inside you hope to turn back the time,
your life's work was them sure it will be just fine
Your full of anticipation life is going to be easier now
Soon feeling like a relic lifted up and knocked down
You have so many stories memories of days passed,
feel like every story told could soon be your last
They have no time to listen they heard it all before,
tell you they'll talk later as they rush through the door
Feeling like a burden wondering what to do,
no one seems to care about the trials you've been through
To them, you're just repeating things already heard,
but if they'd stop to listen your words are not absurd
Everyone keeps talking about the day you will die,
and who gets what & how your property will divide
Not wanting to wait they reach out with dirty hands,
to take what's in reach they can't wait for the end
You start to feel decrepit and feel your life's a sin,
its a bad situation that no one wins in the end
You find yourself weaker something isn't right,
don't talk to old friends feeling like a fright
Every day grows longer you can't wait for the night,
no one even gets it it's such a dismal plight
You sleep and sleep and sleep to escape reality,
your youth is long faded along with vitality
Closing your mind eye reaching for your partner's hand,
but alone in your bed, this was not the master plan
The dream realm is all you see through the haze,
you lift your eyes up & meet your lost love's gaze
But please don't go too soon to that alternate reality,
there are those that still need to hear the words you speak
Stop dwelling on real or perceived infirmities
or without warning, it will drain your remaining vitality
When you think of death or of the dying that they speak,
hold your head up high and breathe life into the scene
Change your attitude don't die it's not a dream
the younger generation you still need to lead
Hold onto your life and sow a precious seed,
life is worth living don't lose it in a dream
The countryside sometimes brings peace to your soul it is where you want to be when your spirit grows old, when your heart is ripping out and you cannot find an outlet to shout that is where you should go to get rid of the stress and release the anxiety.
Not everywhere you can call home, you have to look for somewhere profound to roam, the grass has covered the land and there is nowhere to stand except in the middle of road.
Midnight is barking around the town and the traffic is running up and down, the music is playing in the background, and she stand at the window in her night gown looking beyond the horizon, the night gets louder and the satellites in the sky with its flickering lights stood over the house and pull the cloud over its nose.
I wonder what she was thinking when she starts singing that awful hymn, something must have flashed across her mind and suddenly she burst out in tears and start to cry and the night drift and drift and slowly fade away.
There must be something heavenly up there, it is something that you cannot see, and it connects deeply in the sea, it has an emblem and a star and something that you can piece together to solve the problem of the age-old land and your distant cousin.
I glide among the clouds looking for something to make me feel whole, but the clouds keep embracing me and destiny keeps running behind me and something magnetic keeps pulling me towards the sea. The moon is out, and the fish keeps swimming all about and the mystics in the night sky is having a conversation with the universe that is coiled around the earth.
Listen carefully to the sounds around you and keep looking at the sky above you, there are millions of stars in the sky orbiting with the moon and lighting up the earth beneath it,
Glory is shining above you and paradise is drowning beneath you and the butterflies in the garden are gazing at the honeybee stuck in the ceiling, they are piecing together a formidable plan of how to drive the foreigners off the land.
I am getting ready to embark on the next journey, and the night sky will me there with lots of things to share, hold your head up high when you fly through the clouds.
A Letter To The Debtor
To those I've hurt and all I've wronged,
I never before accepted where I belonged.
I could apologize but I'm not sure that even matters now.
Maybe those who hear this will realize that I'm truly sincere
and will find it in their heart to forgive me somehow.
Like anyone does,
I needed a place to start
to begin a transformational change of heart.
I can say with absolute certainty,
I will never again be who I was.
For the unforgiving in nature,
that will likely never be enough.
Well, I'm not standing here for you to challenge me.
I don't need to prove to you what you've demanded to see
or that I'm tough.
Sit back in my shoes and think as much.
You'll start to see as such.
You've mocked me once.
You've mocked me twice.
You look both ways and try to play nice.
You smile and wave
but I've seen how each of you behave.
You say you care and that you understand,
but you stab me with the other hand.
It's nice to discover all you really had planned.
I forgive but I don't forget.
That doesn't mean I hold a grudge.
However, you are not who I answer to
and you are absolutely not my judge.
Haven't you heard?
I stick to my word.
What you see is what you do.
I learned that from watching you.
It doesn't take a scientist to decide
where to place my honor and where to place my fist.
The citizens of the four corners of this earth
don't seem to value their worth.
It's a trend you can't hind and a culture you can't pretend.
Just look at it from the inside.
Smile for a while with your arms open wide.
It's a slippery slope to learn which way to slide.
Two directions will often collide when the rite of passage is denied.
Hold your head up high and hold on to your pride.
Let dignity be your guide.
Don't push an open mind and heart aside.
I cried when I nearly met death as it died.
A new way of life quite literally implied.
You're truly alive if you know where you'll arrive.
It's a message well worth received to the deserving who have already believed.
Here is one final word to those who have truly heard:
Conceive, believe, and you will entirely achieve.
In life, many of our achievements are balanced by the sacrifice required to attain them.
We look at a beautiful dance or an exquisite athletic performance and cannot comprehend the sacrifice that went into it. Olympic athletes prepare for years for one performance.
Most mortals are not prepared to put in the time, effort, dedication, commitment or sacrifice required to achieve these goals.
Whatever your life path and choices, focus on meaning, purpose, integrity and goodness. Leave a positive difference in the lives and hearts of others.
What do you want?
By Michelle Morris
27/07/2023
You say you want glory
But you don't put in the work
Even talent requires time
Years of effort to perfect the outputs
You say you want to be famous
To be remembered in history
But without integrity and sacrifice
You might be mired in the wrong dreams
You say you want success
But you don't want to learn or grow
You think social media
Is the quickest way to go
You say you want awards
But accolades are only moments
You need to show commitment
And dedication to something noble
You say you want money
But money isn't gratifying
Without passion and purpose
Money won't hold your head up high
You say you want to go far
But achievement is perspective
Without introspection and focus
You might be chasing the wrong vision
You say you want a legacy
But what could you possibly leave?
Without compassion or integrity
Your life is hollow and unreal
What do you want?
Because fame and money isn't a real goal
You can't form a true connection
Without giving your heart and soul
Your life is filled with choices
It's up to you to make them worthwhile
When you look back on it one day
I hope you'll feel proud and feel your heart smile
© Michelle Morris, 2023
"Commitment measures an individual's passion towards achieving a particular goal and dedication is a quality that can only be gained through both commitment and perseverance. Commitment is required to build up a strong personality and to inspire others and dedication arrives through commitment."
Sometimes I close my eyes real tight and in the darkness I do find
Answers to the many questions that dwell inside my mind
It seems that in the darkness I can more clearly see
What has been is not what is or will someday be
Some memories last way to long while others fade to fast
Somethings in life drag on forever and others never last
There is no right there is no wrong what is left and right
It’s all just an illusion that we hold inside our sight
I've been rich and I've been poor and know it is no joke
Many people you cross in life are a different type of folk
Some games are made for winning and others made to lose
Sometimes in life you just can't help but be full of the blues
Yesterday is gone forever and tomorrow you just can't tell
That’s why living in today is the way to break the spell
The spells are born from the demons that live inside your ghost
And as you look into the mirror they are the ones you hate the most
You want to scream you want cry you want to cuss and fight
But instead you curl up on your rack for one last sleepless night
Your muscles ache your soul is tired and your heart it feels real sore
Sometimes it’s hard to stay in-tune with what it is all for
It’s so once again you can hold your head up high
Know that you have earned the right to look through your mirrors eyes
Life is short and fading fast I can feel it in my bones
The time has come to make myself a place I can call home
Sometimes in life it seems that no matter what price we pay
Those we love with all our hearts just start to fade away
I have laughed and I have cried and through them both I've found
There is no-body else to blame for I have let you down
My love has seemed to let you down I have failed to hold your heart
And inside I feel like dying as I feel us drift apart
Funny how the mind does work as it twist and bends
The fact is I'm not losing my lover I'm regaining my friend
Written for my dearest friend
My Wife Antoinette the last
night that I spent in prison.
That was almost 5 years ago.
Thoughts swirling in my head
Remembering we all bleed red
Life is a tapestry
True happiness a dream
Such a confusing world
Paradise yet to be seen
A country with a dark past
Some hauntings still last
Unwilling to change, planted in lead
Feel it with your heart and head
No crystal ball
No room to fall
Deeper into our subconscious
Life is far too precious
A bitter pill
Such a large hill
Let freedom ring
Let children sing
Saying hell no
Not in our name
This is a political game
Most looking for fame
Dig a grave
Hell, it's a road you paved
Here to make waves
Those who are adverse
Stuck with the curse
Burden on the young
Who is truly free
It will never be you or me
We mourn over the dead
A nation so divided
We are tainted
From birth we are painted
Who are the real heros
We all have blood on our hands
Invisible to most
Only the true can see
Even on our homeland
We have a roll to play
History is witten in stone
Learn from it instead of beating it to the bone
Our futute is only written in clay
Still malleable
All life is valuable
Old school. . New school
It is what's in our hearts
Time to stop tearing one another apart
Just take a stand
Even if you walk alone
Hold your head up high
What is life if you are to afraid to fly?
We all bleed red
Time for a transformation
Get ready to shed
Change doesn't come easy
Fear those with nothing to lose
We all deserve to live as we choose
Get ready because we all have a voice
Step up and make a choice
We condemn those we don't know
Some of us even for show
Confusion runs through me
Unsure of how things should be
My constant idealistic views
Desperately grasping not to become jaded
Dreaming of a utopia
Generations before us
Marching through the gas
Fighting for peace and love
Is the joke on me?
Is there something I can't see?
Scared for our youth
Where are the leaders?
Put personal pride aside
Stand tall
Take risks
Look in the mirror
It's time to live without fear
It can control your mind if you let it.
It can spread so fast like a beast with hunger.
It will spare no one with the pain.
It likes to hit one with so much force that it will knock you right off your feet.
Cancer is its name and death if you let it is its game.
There is still hope for one to grow old.
Just pray for strength to go on.
There are so many who are rooting for you.
Be strong and hold on, fight it back, don't let it win the game.
After all you are fighting with your life.
There is so much more to live for.
It will be worth the fight you will see.
The flight has just begun
The radiation will be no fun.
You will lose your hair; no one will care,
because they know the game that cancer will play.
You will be walking in the line all the time.
Getting sick is the worst of it, there will be days you wish it would just go away.
Then there will that one day you wish it would just take you and end the game.
You feel as if you have no more life to fight.
Hopefully you will not be alone with this beast or it will, devourer you whole.
The deep, black, lonely, darkness, only you can feel within your body.
Not having the control your so use to.
It is one heck of a game,
the beast of cancer will play,
with every part of your body,
from your head to your toes.
If you find out you just can't take it no more.
Pick up the phone and call a friend,
or anyone who you know can help you get thought it.
They can help you feel a bit better to know that you are not alone.
The battle is yours to fight,
all others can do is stand by you,
or even hold your hand.
With their smile and love,
it can go as far as a mile.
So hold your head up high and tell this beast it will not be able to win this game and fight with everything you can. Take your stand, there are those who have fought and won against the hunger of the beast. So please from those who love you don't give up and fight to live. Add your name to the list of those who have fought and won.
THEORIES THAT WERE PRESENTED
ILLUSTRATIONS IN HOW YOU REPRESENTED
MY FELLOW GRADUATES
UNIVERSITIES HAVE TAUGHT YOU WELL
AS YOU LEAVE THROUGH THE DOORS EVERYONE YOU ASSOCIATE WITH WILL BE ABLE TO TELL
BUT IT IS UP TO YOU HOW YOU SELL YOURSELF
BE CONFIDENT, BUT DON’T DO LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
THROUGHOUT YOU LEARNED THAT ACHIEVEMENT WAS HARD
BUT THROUGH YOUR OWN AMAZEMENT CAME ACCOMPLISHMENT
YOUR DEGREE IS YOUR PROVEN OPPORTUNITY
YET KNOWING NEVER LET DEFEAT TAKE CONTROL
YOU WERE TAUGHT TO BE CONSISTENT AND BOLD, AND WATCH AS YOU MANUEVER IN BEHOLD
YOU HAVE MADE YOUR PARENTS, GUARDIANS AND FRIENDS PROUD
LECTURES THAT WERE NOT EASY TO TAKE
IN FACT, PROFESSORS KNEW THE MISTAKES THAT YOU WOULD MAKE
BUT THE LECTURES YOU MATTERED STRATEGY BEING A CONCEPT
THE PURPOSE BEING TO ADAPT
BUT THROUGH IT ALL, THE UNIVERSITY PRODUCED MORE GRADUATES AND APPLAUD YOURSELVES
YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT IT COULDN’T BE DONE
BUT LOOK, YOU SEE YOURSELF, THE UNIVERSITY WON
I AM SURE YOU HAD SOME DOUBTS
IT WAS YOUR MIND BATTLING UNDERSTANDING AND THE POSSIBILITIES IN WHAT I AM WRITING ABOUT
YET THE UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHED EFFORT
A GOAL FOR TO ADAPT IN WHAT YOU SHOULD ACHIEVE AND HOW YOU SHOULD ANALYZE
TODAY, YOU NOW HAVE UNDERSTANDING IN HOW TO BE WISE
THAT SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE
YET YOUR INDIVIDUAL PROFESSORS WHO WILL HEAR YOUR NAME WILL SAY, ANOTHER GRADUATE I HELPED VENTURE OUT
YOU ARE THAT GRADUATE SO REJOICE AND SHOUT
THE MUSIC AND SPEECHES HAVE COME TO AN END
STEP OUT AND LET YOUR NEW CHALLENGES BEGIN
REMEMBER, YOU ARE THE UNIVERSITY BREED WITH INSTILLED AWARENESS TO PROCEED
STOP ONLY FOR A MOMENT, BUT LET WHATEVER ENDEAVORS BEING CONTINOUS
HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH
DIGNITY AND HONOR AS YOUR PURSUIT
FEAR NOT, BUT MOVE FORWARD
YOU PROVED EDUCATION OF YOURS3LF, BUT BE CONFIDENT IN YOUR PERSUADE
I SALUTE YOU TODAY WITH TOMORROW BEING A NEW DAY, A TIME TO REFLECT WITH FOOTSTEPS TO PROCEED AND MAKE THAT MOMENT BECOME YOUR CREED.
“With confidence let success be vengeance for all that has happened to you.”
~~ The Poet ~~
Courage to take on and achieve any task.
Ongoing resilience, you wont need a mask.
Never say can’t, always be willing to try.
Forge ahead to succeed, and you will always get by.
Initiate willpower to get each job done.
Decide when you step to the plate, this will be a home run.
Each miss is just practice for that big winning moment.
Never doubt your ability, practice self atonement.
Congratulate yourself for doing your best.
Esteem is required to reach the summit of each quest.
Intend to do it well and you will.
Satisfy yourself it can be done better still.
Ask yourself if I you're ready to do your best, and wait til the answer is yes.
Simply the best isn’t impossible to achieve.
Tell yourself you can , all you have to do is believe.
Any time you dream of winning, it's possible to conceive.
Train your psyche to know ahead of time that you can do it.
Engulf yourself in the knowledge, that you will fly through it.
Offer yourself time to muster courage to face, head on any goal.
Forthright attempts made with body and soul.
Memorize affirmations that tell you to hold your head up high.
Instill a pride in yourself that you find you can live by.
New challenges will face you, attack each with determination.
Don’t wait for others to praise you, give yourself an excellent evaluation.
the sweat on my hand is a visible thing
am I talking irrational as if philosophical
why does one equate logic with fear
I shed a tear to numb the pain
sparks pertrude through my voice as if a flame
yet deep inside I search for a reason why
the streets are filled with fly bys
everyone is getting a little bit high
one word to the wise we are left with a stress test
getting caught up in the mix with such an evil twist
as we parted ways hold your head up high and be brave
some people use reverse psychology yet in reality there just phony
alone with their innocence some even give a **** getting caught up in the mix
put your thinking caps on cause I got this song of how we can all get along
some freaks in the sheets are working on their beats
rap isn't dead cause I got crazy beats flowing through my head
hommie Luke Brice got capped in the back of his head now he's the walking dead
working to hard can give you a heart attack we tend to over react
sharp words in your tone you don't even need a megaphone
just like the movie Home Alone we got guys like Pesci taking over
under cover bosses spreading out upon the masses
the fly in the air only on first classes
yet what is the basis to the extreme aura I come to store a unique aura
busy as a bee floating through the trees all of life is but a mystery
still I got something up my sleeve
back in the hood where it's all good
Ice Cube & Eazy E
turning sadness to gladness falling back on that ass
no one in this life gets by on a free pass
like the underground sound you still want me around
some friends flipping burgers and fries does it come at no big surprise taking heed to those lies...
Arm me with harmony for my face in lights with the good night fights
music ain't the way it used to be Professors need to get another degree
watch me now I'm going down so is the rest of this song