Long Lose the battle Poems

A Glimpse In A Life
By James Hackett Jr


Grasping Sand
The harder i try to reach you, the gap seems to expand.
Its like grasping at sand the harder I squeeze the more slips through.
I do not know...

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Obey The Cross That Jesus Suffered Although It Will Cost All You Claim As Yours !
Each of us must learn to take a part in the dance be part of Christ's vine by his design
Although...

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Big boys get brainwashed by television 
It's my mission to fulfill you with vision 
America is going under these days.
All the countries around us aren't getting their ways.
Who's to blame?
Shame just came...
Out of nowhere for...

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Drifting off into a black space
To a land not far away
I see visions of another world
Where only kings and queens can play

There are jesters in the courtyard
There are dragons all around
I can feel my astral...

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I understand your fear, your need to run away,
I feel your tears, I cry them too, 
and wish I could disappear, forever. 
My cousin, slept with and dated the man 
who raped and mollested me...

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Most times when we walk early on the beach it’s just Deborah and me.
but the other morning we happened to walk past two old men fishing by the sea.

We quickly exchanged greetings then quietly let...

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Acid has become our rain
and oceans with mercury do we stain
dioxin lies beneath our ground
in everything toxic materials be found
 
E-coli is used to alter genes in food
where recombinant DNA is understood
heavy metals do the...

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Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted teeth disguise my disorderly brain, 
feeling lost in the mist,...

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7/29/22

Sane of a sound mind
Stay out mine
Just trying to reach cloud nine
Instead of always experiencing the down sides
Before it's chow time
This all goes without rhyme

Messes cleaned up with a rag
In my presence tails wag
I zig...

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Dedicated to my Dad who lost his short battle w/ Colon Cancer on June 18,2013

I hate you Cancer
Your vile evil and cruel
You don't care who you hurt
I'll never forget that day
I'll always hate you for...

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My breath was the first to go
Stolen by the thieves that have attempted to steal so many others'
The thieves that have tempted the honor of the most noble defenders
Stolen from me with no preparation and...

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Sitting here in my office
Sobbing the day away
Almost unable to breathe
And too weak to even pray

Paperwork before me
My thoughts losing the way
Not knowing if I'll make it
To the end of this day

My eyes are tired...

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Most days I lie in bed for days end pretending I am dead
Some days I lose the battle  to hunger, thirst and heartache
This pain is real, pain is the only real thing, not even...

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There are days I lose this battle with depression
Mental anguish like a demon possession
It sets in like a shadow of sin over me
Consuming all my physical energy!
I often wonder if suicide is my only answer
Emotional...

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Beneath a columned structure people watch
     As man and beast compete in a deadly match
        Soon the drama  before them will unfold
 A...

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If it's not one thing then it's another.
I'm either fighting with my dad or hearing screams from my mother.
My girlfriend doesn't trust me. I can't pay for therapy.
I can't do this all alone. I get...

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Conundrum

In this sad world of pain and dark dismay;
Each sundry soul has his own price to pay.

For life's sweet favors we must pay the sum.
Both for today and all the days to come.

Winners and losers...

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I’ve stood on your balcony beside your Bald Eagle.
Wolves prey on the lonely souls lost in the night.
I’ve seen your attraction to the dark side flowing.
You have no more room for regret and no more
ways...

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The founder of the union	
of native American Nations.
The great visionary –
the prophet and peacemaker.

The man of sanctity and spiritual powers
He said to his people that God
is many times brighter than the Sun
and “I will be...

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what's a little bit of love from a big part of me
if it makes you smile for a while and you are digging my style
if i made your day better, then i will shower you...

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On my knees, Lord, and with hands raised
I pray I need you, oh how I need you today.
My heart is broken, my strength is gone, 
I am desperate for love only you can provide,
and the...

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Its effects run in you
Always through you
And when you’re not careful,
It can go all the way down
If you clench it hard enough
It almost squeezes back
Ripping at your everything.

In the moment it wrenches you
And you play...

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Your beauty thus be my only friend,
as I go into that dance of life alone,
and only your true inner beauty shall keep
me warm on violent, cold nights,
when those busy folk move down the streets,
when I...

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I'm the lyrical one and I have been for years 
Ever outspoken the voice of my peers
Spit phrases that thrill when those lyrics I drop
I'm a lyrical legend and top of the shop 
Well my...

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No matter what the day may bring
deep inside let that joy sing
Keep the faith be forever strong
lose a battle win the war, fight on fight on

Burdens may weigh you down
the world mocks and scorns you...

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