Short Every Man For Himself Poems

In the '60's I thought we were headed to the Stoned Age
    Psychedelics were huge, PCP was everywhere
  Yet by the '80's America had turned the page
    Teen-agers newly serious, off came their hair ... 

  And today, post-pandemic, where do we stand
    Seems it's every man for himself
      ~ Never mind where we land...

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Peculiar,
I caught you weeping,
On the side of the street,

To console you,
Is that up to me to be done?

I’d think to you
I'm just another person on the road

But in a world so everchanging
When trust is always broken,
And hope, never given

I don’t think I’ll be making the mistake
Of turning back
And gazing your eyes
Again
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Shakespeare brought good to life
Human nature to find the person deep within
Every man for himself
Humans of individuality all so different
Be stronger upon now
The path of a different way lays before ourkind
Community cut; slices our artery of connection
No need to associate ourselves
In times association sourced survival
Once weak and nor wise - we die
In times it masks of false happiness...

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"Why can't we all get along?" For the good of all
Why cant little kids share a ball
So they can play together until tall

Who is that teaching them how not to share
In schools, every man for himself, no care
Competitive world of cultures, religion, technology, status, appearance, even air

Like nature's children
Even the dangerous listen
The equilibrium for all and peace in the system
...

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