The company doesn't make them anymore.
It was supposed to be a gas saver.
So, believing it to be a good buy,
I put up the 5000 dollars.
But never again.
It wasn't about the dollars.
It wasn't about the style.
It wasn't about the color.
It wasn't about the size.
It was really about location.
And it really was about me.
But never again.
It could perform well in the flatlands;
But it was a flop in the hilly places.
At first, I was upset with the car.
But later, I was annoyed with myself.
And I learned my lesson on economizing.
I bought several vehicles over the years,
And learned a thing or two about cars.
I don't often say 'Never', but about this,
Never again.
Never again
Never again will I bend to peer pressure from anyone
I don’t have any need to fit into society
I’m fine exactly as I am
Never again will I change the way I am
Why do I have to impress anyone
I love the person I am
Never again will I succumb to life’s weight
Everyone has gotten through something in life
I’m resilient enough to survive
Never again will I doubt my friends’ belief in me
They have always told me the truth
I have no reason to doubt them
Never again will I let my emotions control me
Negativity will always cloud judgment and mind
I am capable of thinking clearly
Never again will I be hesitant to express my love to people
You never know when it will end
I have to cherish every moment we share
Never again will I put myself down
What is the point of doing that?
I’m whole exactly as I am
But there are empty promises at the moment
I have to be sure to keep all these promises in the end
I will hold myself accountable for all these promises
Leaning on the support of my friends to better myself
Never again
Run away from danger
Oh you man of value
Listen to the call of nature
It holds a destiny for everyone
It will show you the way out
From a Trapped world
Hold on to your pains
Keep your light on
Remember
No one is coming to save you
From a dying world
So run away from your negativity
Oh man of dignity
Listen to the call of nature
It has a message for humanity
Never again
Should I run
Should I walk
Should I crawl
Should I pray
I know if I seek I will found
So should I write
Should I sing
Should I fight
Should I speak
Should I be silent
Should I be brave
Should I be courageous
I know am a human I have a life to live
So should I be a sheep
Should I be a mere follower
Should I be truthful
Should I lie just to gain
Should I love
Should I care
Should I rise or should I fall
Should I ride my world or die for nothing
Should I live only just to be alive
I know the essence of life is beyond just to be alive
So should I be myself and say
Never again
Repeating myself
Over and over and over again
You can’t begin to imagine the pain.
The anguish.
The derelict feelings born of a journey
To better thyself.
To become the best version of me
A version forged in solitude.
I scream into the silence,
And I cry like a ghost in a glass house
Visible, but unheard.
Seen, but not felt.
Do they care?
About this version of me
This loathing of life,
This obsession to become
Everything they said I couldn’t?
Let me make it clear:
I. Will. Endure.
In spite of them.
In spite of the silence.
In spite of the lack of applause.
In spite of the hate.
The anguish.
The sorrow.
So I say unto you
You who don’t want to see your loved ones win:
You sit still while the chosen move.
You call effort "too much"
While they make it look easy.
You sleep because you're tired of trying.
I sleep because I burned myself alive in effort.
I don’t rest because I’m lazy
I rest because I fight every single day
To outwork, outthink, outperform
EVERY. LAST. DOUBT.
Let me show you a world
Where execution is my art.
Where performance is my ritual.
Where there is
No stop.
No quit.
No giving in.
Never.
NEVER.
NEVER AGAIN.
I go to where I last saw you,
where plum blossoms
painted the road white,
to see you again.
But the ground is swept clean
by leaf blowers,
and it is only me
on the grey concrete.
I go to where I once saw you,
where the crescent moon
hung like a metal hook,
to see you again.
But now the moon is full,
and for all these days and weeks,
I have not yet found you again.
You, a passerby
of gardens and night skies,
never to be caught
at the same place again.
God asked me is that really what you want?
A man that truly doesn't care about your heart?
Who will take advantage of your kindness and only think about himself?
While you would put his heart above everyone else,
At that moment I thought of the past and now,
And how God weeded each of them out,
And placed me alone again so I could see,
I no longer felt trapped, and He gave me peace,
A freedom in my heart I can't quite describe,
Even through the pain and the tears in my eyes,
Like I could finally breathe again with purpose to thrive,
Like I've never felt more alive,
I thought of the apostle Paul with his words that I could now understand,
And I remembered that feeling of being alone again,
Not alone in the sense that you think,
Got engulfed my heart around everything,
All of a sudden I could focus without interruption in the way,
And I realized not one man I chose really loved God this way,
They didn't respect the faith and the love I held for God,
And at that moment I thanked God they were gone,
Because the distractions were taking me farther away,
Away from my first love, diminishing my faith,
In the darkness of her room,
She find it’s the only place she truly
Belongs.
On a cold dark winter’s night,
Not even a single star was out to
Give a flicker of light.
Too many years of heartbreak and
Being Lonely,
Too many years leaving a little girl still seeking
A place to be.
Oh there were times at least a few,
She thought she found a place to start
A new.
Yet they soon disappeared gone and then
The darkness stated all over again
Leaving her with loneliness as
Her only friend.
Now as she sits and watches the evening sky
One sees crimson sun seems to slowly fade
And wave good bye.
It no longer bothers her you see
She has found a place and a person
One who once was as lonely as she .
Together they found that special place where
They belong
A place where they will never again be alone
Never again shall I feel like this from the first time I saw you to our very first kiss. I knew that I'd love you and you knew that I cared
I could tell that you felt it by the love that we shared.
To love you and lose you if time could only retrace
I would love you much stronger
for your love I could never replace.
Now my heart is so empty as I long for your kiss
to love you so much, but never again shall I feel like this.
A bird in a cage, I refuse to be bound,
Transport Adaptee will never break me,
I am no rotting fish; for all to see ,
Your rules are like chains ,time to break them down,
I'm no prune and certainly not a clown,
I’m no ugly duckling to any degree.
You whittle down my selfhood, Not,I decree,
I am not worthless junk that you just found.
My mind is like a steel trap,I know the facts
In a wheelchair, I move like a brisk breeze,
I want to soar like hawks to be happy.
My body is healthy I feel no setbacks,
If I have my freedoms I’m easy to please,
Treat me with homage then I won’t be snappy.
The cacophony of headlines spills into homes.
Living rooms swell with images of death.
Horror hails against insulated windows...
A fusillade of destruction and trauma
Resonating in a global conscience.
Barrages of how's and why's rally...
...between...
brothers, sisters;
wives, husbands;
fathers, mothers;
sons, daughters.
All comsuming blitz of bewilderment.
Disbelief pierced by shrapnal of reality.
Darkness, without peace, smothers Europe
again
The brown eye girl is heartbroken a friendship of over a decade is
finished She tried and tried to get it to work out for the better. But
nothing works time and time again finally she heard what he had to
say. he says he regrets meeting her at their old high school. Even
talking to her that day. The brown eye girl cries for hours trying not to
think of all the things she wanted to say to the blue eye curly hair man.
It just makes her feel worse. She doesn't know why she should feel
like crap when it was him who hurt her not the other way around. In
truth they should have done things differntly but that is the past. All the
brown eye girl cares about is never hearing his name ever again.
Fortune teller squirrel gives me the old once-over
I squirm a bit, like my half-blind eye, Cocker Spaniel, Rover.
I see that you think you are special, she says, glaring at me.
Feeling uncomfortable, I wonder how great this teller can be.
Feeling superior because you are a human being, I bet.
I am annoyed at this second, I clear my throat and kick Chet.
Chet is my cousin who thought this squirrel was so good.
Never again! I say as we leave, as if I ever could….
I feel awful my head hurts I keep hearing things I threw up a ton last night. couldn't walk anywhere. had no sense of balance. my head was throbbing all over. it was pulsing pain. I have never felt anything worse. I wanted to die. I thought I was going to die. never again
Never again, never again
Nor an idea, neither a plan
Was it a challenge I had to withstand
Only I wouldn’t, never again
There was a time when I ran out of door
With a happiest smile and a ball
I never questioned the game what it’s for
Throwing a ball to the wall
Sooner or later everything’s changed
I didn’t took much notice
Maybe I should, at the coming of age
Leave it all, join the exodus
I escaped into depth inside but of course
I dried all I could understand
This cup is empty now, so is the source
Never it will flow again.
A promise is an oath one makes,
An oath two people agree on to be.
A bond where an ending need never be.
If by chance one breaks this sacred trust,
Honor and friendship would end,
For with honor broken to end it is a must.
Trust and understanding would be no more,
And one’s honor will be scattered to the Winds and return nevermore.
No longer would one be thought brave, loyal or trustworthy,
He had betrayed all trust and dignity.
For going back on his word so carelessly,
He has lost the essence and the soul of what a man should be,
And a friendship that never again will be.
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