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Details | Free verse |

Silence and Checkmarks

2023 resolutions :
Listen more -talk less
a few more check marks on 
my bucket list


Details | Senryu |

It's All

it's all about 
the checkmarks
on your bucket list



posted on September 29, 2018
Details | Free verse |

Heavy

Heavy is the brow that sits the crown of power, 
fame or shame it is a wonder that we live with 
greed to want for more than we can afford 
or sow the seed and set the deal 
dealt to us in deeds we need…

We want more to succeed in our greed
we wear the finery of a life lived out fast
we burn out in all the lights we love 
and breathe the shadow of the tv screen 
and dance the dance macabre

We want to have and to hold all that
is dear but to pay the price 
for a mear meek soul in the void 
of life that is touched for a costly lie

We seek to have and to hold 
to warm and to mold the binary 
of life in our hands such is the power of man

For heavy is the brow that sits 
the crown the power the 
flame the perceived shame 

We are plugged into little black 
digital boxes and waste our 
lives in opinions and checkmarks, 
suicide drives

We live vicariously through 
others imagery we worry 
what we are liked or shared or 
only care as we count the 
Tick-Tocks of life now lost in a computer app 

We are void of passion seconds 
to our demises close to our 
death but 30 secs of shame 
slides slices of life pointless and enflamed

Heavy is the brow with thoughts 
of more than what we are more 
than self, as humanity runs 
a mock not thinking or dreaming 
we only wait for dawn with our 
eyes wide shut as we scream into the night

Book: Shattered Sighs