They hate us, and we hate them
We can’t learn and they can’t teach
We disdain and they condemn
The most real deal we reach
Is the postponement of war
That would crush this world to dust
It’s the only way we know
And they know it quite like us
Both sides sometimes come to terms
Both pretend that its ok
But we always make u turns
And they know we are to blame
So we bark at them and they
Give it back well amplified
And it goes like everyday
That’s the progress of mankind.
Long for the tender tormenting touch of her slips, a vermillion vice of the abyssal depths that lay within the merest brush of her breath, a zephyr's caress that set aflame the parched arid landscapes of my wasteland as sighs hollow echoes whispered promises grew, the inferno of my longing raged, a maelstrom of need that threatened to consume all reason, all restraint in the swirling crimson vortex of those velvets, the boundaries of our recurrent reality grew tenuous, and the tyranny of the flesh held sway as the flexuous uncharted curves of your caress became the acid test of my resolve, dissolving the fragile, varnished veneer of self control, as the confinement of thy desires began to dissolve like gossamer under the scorching waxen sun of ardent, copious passion.
As we entwined, visceral privilege awoke, like hydras flourishing in some foresworn elixir, every casual respite yawned vacant, sucked into the vampiric vortices of intolerably testy discontent.
How provoking, this postponement of unbound reciprocity, tongue just grazing the tips of those plush velvet onyx lips, while catalyzing inveigling suspense
When you are in a confused state
Born thoughts will not be great
For this you must postpone action
For the dying of possible friction
When calmly you try to deliberate
Good and bad, you can segregate
While holding a negative emotion
Pessimistic will be one's notion
At the time of a chaotic situation
Surely there will come no elation
Just do something else carefully
Forgetting this whole chaos fully
Analyze not the pros and cons
Try to establish not your stance
Allow the matter to take its course
Keep tranquility using mighty force
As a result of this postponement
You may soon face advancement
A solution will strongly emerge
As you suppressed your urge
Your reputation will surely soar
Your character, all will adore
Take time and decide very wisely
You can clinch success nicely
If decisions are like this taken
Heart can never at all be broken
This type of sagacious treatment
Will lead to a peaceful settlement
Just try this dear at your own pace
No doubt, joy and mirth, you will face.
Please decide firmly your life's aim
Via toiling, success you can claim
In case you are driven by lethargy
Will get wasted your whole energy
If postponement is, by you, made
How can you succeed my comrade?
Very easy to put off things lazily
Victory loves one who works busily
Fools quit by terminating their hope
Against pressures they Can't cope
Wise souls swim against ill-luck
And win through sheer hard-work
When setbacks come, losers weep
When opportunities come, they sleep
Wise people trap via brain chances
Their mind and ideas, trust enhances
If you go ahead with a firm attitude
You will win as you are damn shrewd
Never flinch and lose courage dear
Tear and fear are enemies to cheer.
Despite endless attempts to avoid it
We can't sidestep it forever
At one point or another
We all sail into stormy weather
When your ticket gets punched
You'll be flooded with sadness
Turbulently twisting and turning
In a constant state of madness
Next comes the hardest part
Your ticker just can't take it anymore
Furiously feeling the crack in your heart
Misery making you crumble to the floor
Dragged down into the depths of despair
Searching for a watershed moment
Surely there is a solution out there
To put your pain into postponement
Fortuitously stumble upon a toolbox
Time to tune up your heart
Grab the Elmer's glue for the fracture
Then duct tape other pieces that fell apart
Subsequently realize who sent the repair kit
Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers
All chipped in to cobble it together because
Heart splinters get sealed with love from others
Soon mend your ways
Before it is too late
A way to win, trace
Meekly obey not fate
Start your duty now
Don't easily postpone
Contact with love
Over the phone
Make a visit with no delay
Please destroy your ego
Try to find out a way
To do that now itself go
Time runs so fast
You may lose a chance
Give up not at any cost
Efforts, you enhance
If you are lethargic
And lazy to the core
You can do no magic
Losses only you store
If you act immediately
You can make amends
If you act resolutely
Your loss, your act ends
Delay will bring sorrow
There is no doubt at all
For a happy tomorrow
Your life, you overhaul.
Wishing you contentment and peace this holiday.
Safety and health for all, I pray.
Some festive foods and display,
Gifts to receive and give away.
May this much enjoyment,
Outweigh concerns of the moment,
More gay times merely a postponement,
'Til communal singing and music are again a component.
Inform him soon
By post
Or
By phone
The postponement
Postponement
Collecting time, buying the truth after
Wear hip boots while visiting Venice
A huge rainfall caused a postponement of tennis
Driving the express
Causes much stress
Keep the windows closed to avoid wetness
In the Darkened Foyer
There you are again.
Walking this darkened foyer, and that carpeted hallway,
Eyeing the sunken-eyed dancer who forgets she’s not alive;
She’s just passing by all the sickness of dissipated humanity,
Wrapped in a single walk, and a solitary stretcher,
With a squadron of crucifixes affixed to the skin tags,
Applied with holy powders on these ancient, prayer-eaten walls,
These never-ending white walls that stretch before us,
Telling stories of prolonged death spasms, and postponement,
Of human decline in the face of the hopeful ones,
And the healing ones, with shocked knowing grins,
And the comatose ones, who know when to at last wake up;
Wake up! I say to the dead ones, the digested ones, long interred!
Now is the time to move your monuments and your dirt.
Now is the time to complain to the clock, the cold twitching clock,
That now holds no eternal sway in either direction for you or me!
Or all the dead ones, lying over there on solitary stretchers,
Under white sheets, in the darkened foyer.
Who wants to go to Mars?
Be forewarned, the round trip is three years
now I'll ask again... who wants to go to Mars?
if you've got an urgent surgery approaching
like a heart transplant or leg replacement
perhaps a postponement would be wise
however, if you're ninety-seven
you'll surely want to get back for some cake
okay I'm being silly again... must apologize
how about Jamaica or Rangjung?
I canceled my death for you
a postponement on the inevitable
the choice had come
I could have walked away
but all things considered
and considering how much I love you
I chose to stay
This decision has had its price
for to relinquish life meant I would reunite
and to remain would surely break my heart
but I am no martyr
I do not wish to hang myself upon some bleeding thorn
but to your sorrows alter
impart my faith
In you
Yes I know you are broken
and in auspicious form so bitterly hidden
to reap your tears
shall bring to low your hearts desires
and in the garments of lies
hang you so with all your fears
until, until you praise them
This courtship of the beguiled
plenary to your sanction
would seek heroins and heroes such as you
to free yourselves
and may such honor find itself impromptu
in such stalwart souls ambition
to impart your faith
In others
Lord, I Praise and Thank You!
Lord, I praise and thank you
for this moment.
I give you my life,
with no postponement!
I repent of my backward
and sinful ways.
I lift up my hands and
give you praise!
I admit that I can’t do it on my own.
I invite you to be the lord of my home!
I come before you on bended knees.
And ask you to change
my life… Please!
You’re the one that I want
to daily seek!
You are so strong,
and I am so weak!
I love you Jesus! More than I can say!
Speak your words,
that I may obey!
I worship and bring honor
to your name!
Your message of salvation,
I’ll forever proclaim!
By Jim Pemberton 06/13/16
Follow the dreams
That lie in your heart
It can be all that it seems
If only you'd start
Live for the moment
Cherish the hours
Stop with postponement
Relinquish all power
Forget all past fears
Just feed your soul
Spread around cheer
And soon you'll be whole
Soak in the sun
Cleanse in the rain
Just have some fun
While you work through the pain
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