Seize or be Seized
I wake 6, sleepy
I wake up I will win I feel this deeply
I will not let them take my joy
I am not a toy
I arrive at 8, awake
I will win and take,
Take this day,
Take the suns golden ray
I sleep at 9, victoriously
I took the day it did not take me,
I won today, I will tomorrow
I will win and swim not drown in sorrow
Inked Confession
Innocence stolen
Defending my elders extremism
Fields of olives, roots never sowed by me
Dagger dripping red
Inch by inch the watermelons are mine
Dancing in glee, I bury tiny white robes and red stains
Forever blind to, denying all crimes
Faded Morality
New flowers will bloom on top of Ghazi
We thieves soon to face our just reward
Their children lie buried in the ashes of sorrow, in silent grief
Insanity, Oppression, Fabricate
Insidious allusions of grandeur
offerings of the human flesh
forever, crimes inked in history
Iniquity, Oppression, Forlorn upon a childs bones
O, Mortal Goddess of the Heavens Seized,
Whose Name, pleasant, doth make my heart to quake
There’s naught I would not bravely do to please
Thee well, all wisdom, surety, I would forsake,
If only you would draw nigh unto me...
There is no better thing than that bright hope
That I, once more, may see your holy face!
There is no sand, wov’n into better rope
Than that from which I weave my perfect grace:
That I may hold thee soon against my heart,
That I, thy tears may with my kerchief dry,
That you will come to me by Heaven’s Art,
And we will bide awhile, you and I.
But if this cannot be, then I must climb
The mountains’ rocky faces, turn back time.
Are you seized, Camellia
Of a secret grief
To let slip, uncontrollably
A blessing too brief?
A silly thought, true; only
What for it grasssed, glows
Of father's death at the prime
Emblematic shows.
Euphony Success didn't reach
at my House Divine;
Money in Dress did teach
the lie in Shrine;
Honey Access did preach the
shy for wine;
Rummy Progress did Breach
did die the Shine;
Dummy Excess did Seize
the Sky of Mine.
She was too delicate to be exposed to people with germs,
so her parents put her into a gilded cage, and there she stayed,
most of her life, never touched by humans, watching them smile
and laugh through the glass. Always wanting something more,
but never knowing what, for her imagination did not allow her more.
shes seized and captured
surrounded by gold and glitz
never knowing love
Evidence Seized and People Pleased
What they did was witness to have teased,
And then all the evidence they soon seized;
Find things needed,
They stampeded;
Exactly what they wanted and were pleased.
Jim Horn
All of the evidence that they have seized
from Cohen.
Sapphire currents
engulf consciousness
'neath waves of confiscated
ancient sunken treasure,
delving neath oceans
cobalt manifests,
lost riches of bygone eras
destined to respectfully
resurface its significance,
midst new horizons' encompassed
realms as clarity's power deeply inhales
depths of salty sea's tumult
WHY SHOULD WE CALL IT A NIGHT
WHEN THE HEAVEN IS FULL OF LIGHTS
AND THE STARS IS SHINING BRIGHT
AND LIFE IS STILL FILL WITH DELIGHT
WITH THE DAY CALLING THE NIGHT
AND THE SUN ROTATING IT LIGHT
AND THE MOON FLIRTING IN OUR SIGHT
O' WHAT A JOY WHAT A DELIGHT
WHY SHOULD WE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS
AND WASTED ANOTHER SEDUCTIVE NIGHT
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO EMBRACE TONIGHT
WITH YOU IN MY SIGHT
THE NIGHT IS STILL BRIGHT WITH DELIGHT
AND WE ARE STILL STRONG IN OUR FIGHT
SO GO OUT AND SEIZED THE NIGHT
ENJOY AND CONQUER EVERYTHING IN SIGHT
*DEDICATED TO THE NIGHT OWLS
anguish and distress
unable to cope, relate
an imprisoned state
So, how on God’s green Earth hast thou been of late?
I do wander deeply with you across many strips of land.
I can blow my breath to the winds polishing each hand.
But guess what love? I’m free in the wind at a rapid rate.
I am a development in progress of keeping it all straight.
I am a progress in process of being sworn into command.
I am processed to progress commands sworn on demand.
Take those over there and keep these here for I do berate!
Rise in the East and set in the West!
Let the Stars shine down and smile.
Give it your least or give it your best!
The test of time reveals your own trial.
Because in my actual reality, it is all on file.
You're a seized opportunity giving me rest.
New onset seizure,
Syncopal episode – hmmmm
Psychogenic origins?
Regardless of that
I paid the price in full,
Although I’m grateful
That bitten tongue
And broken bone
Were not on sale today
Pain has painted my
Body black
And stuffed my nerves
With tar
I feel too thick in it
To move
Maybe tonight I’ll
Swim in dreams
Of darkest India inks
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