Short These Things Happen Poems

But these things happen to the best of us. 
Whether good or bad. 
We know that we can make it through. 
Whether alive or barely living. 
Through triumph or failure. 
Inside we know we can. 
With out stretched arms. 
We welcome something new....

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Speaking Your Mind

Every time you 
don’t speak your 
mind these things happen:
snails do 
aerobics, flamingos update their 
details on
important apps, palm trees spill 
out Amish hats, combs beg to 
eat 
lemon pie, stools memorise 
flame thrower literature, and
gravy animals, who live in 
the clouds, help out 
swamped midwives.
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Dear Lord,
For the bountiful harvest
and your sustenance this past year,
I give thanks.
Bless those this day
less fortunate than I.
I ask Lord, that on this day
each might have a good meal,
a warm bed, and a friend.
And through whatever kind act
I may provide, that they would know,
It's through your love
that these things happen.
Not because I'm a good person,
but your humble servant.
Amen...

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An old man sits all alone
For ten years now, his wife's been gone

A woman stands, hand on her bruised face
Nowhere to go, but she has to leave this place

A small child cries, mother asleep
Too many pills, now this death she will keep

Once he enjoyed getting high
Swallowed in addiction, he now wonders why

Why these things happen, no one understands
We do the praying, and leave the rest in God's hands....

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A glance from the side
What's wrong?
Nothing, nothing
Everything, something
I don't know
I don't know
You'll never know
Why do these things happen?
Things just happen
They just do
I don't know
But why?
I don't understand
Neither do I
Leave me alone
There's no sense to this
To any of this
Let's just go
Where?
I don't know
I just don't know
You'll never know
You'll just never know why

Written April 24, 2006...

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Its not u, its me
Im tellin u cuz its crazy.
Crazy things happen dont u c
Crazy things happen wit u and me

Its hard to say goodbye
When u know everythings a lie
Its hard to say whats inside 
Cuz every word makes u wanna cry

Dont u c whats happening
Im going crazy
I need u in my life cuz 
Its eatin me alive

These things happen all the time
Theres no need to lie
Just hold on to your love
Through these...
"Crazy Things"...

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They piled a heap of logs
fire they light and run away
cats and dogs come from sky
the work well done collapses

Things done in haste out of hate
make plotters foolish gamblers
when the world laughs and giggles
cleaning powder they spray 

The logs fate piles on gamblers
the burning oil it adds in dark
the cries of the innocent offended
ignite revenge flames that burn souls

When these things happen, no cry
get your guitar and play nice melodies...

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Whenever I hear songs of love past
Whenever I hear of relationships that forever will last
Whenever I meet a woman with grace and charm
Whenever I see a mother with a child on her arm
Whenever I see a mountain, a river or snow
Whenever I hear a bird or feel the wind blow
Whenever I go to church, to work or a park
Whenever I see a couple hold hands or snuggle in the dark
Whenever these things happen, what else can I do?
When every breath reminds me, I love you....

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There I was an eight year old girl
On an adventurous whirl 
We had a thing for hanging
I ended up dangling
With a driver that wanted to hurl

these things happen when dramas befall 
I got stuck between the van and the wall
out cold I was lying
driver almost crying 
vans were forbidden, for fear of a sprawl



*Naughty me, ended up unconscious 
from hanging onto the back of our neighbors’ van,
poor man needed shock treatment, luckily
I lived to tell the tale lol *...

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Come to me, and hurry.
I grow tired of worries.

Come to me,and hurry 
I grow tired of pain.

I offer every single good deed under my name to end this game, this life.

To end the misery dancing down my spine. 
Punching my walls in the morning, upset that I even woke up, all the time.

I take a good look at life with all three of my eyes and wonder why.

Why can't I be happy? Why can't I be free? 
What did I do to have these things happen to me?

Come to me,and hurry....

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