Best Poems Written by John Conde

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You Are Not a Starfish

Keep making progress
Learn from your losses
Embrace new challenges you'll face
You will always have options
God gave you two legs
So you would'nt be stuck like a starfish

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My First Priority Is Me

If theres one thing i know 
That's set in stone
Is that you can't be
Everything
To everyone you know
So just be you
If their expectin more
It's time to let them go

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Paper Clips

Most people are easily bent out of shape
Like Paperclips
Because they can't hold it together
Like Paperclips
My words are weapons so I lock & load
My Paper Clips
I bet your two cents is worth less 
Than a Paperclip

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Give Me a Break

Break pattern, break chains, 
Break the mold, break through new ground
Break the binds, that can hold you down
Break away, break the tie, win the game
I hate to break it to you is what I love to say
Right before I break it down
No I dont belive in luck,
Bad break and break a leg statements 
I have no need for them, I hate when people break them out
You wanna make an omelette well 
You know you got to break some eggs
Those are the breaks my friends
But not the ones that slow you down

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Dont Be a Trust Dispenser

Thinks he's on some cool ish
But really on some bull ish
The type of dude that
You want nothing to do with

This is the type of dude 
That will  promise you everything 
Wont deliver anything
& use excuses endlessly
He'll be acting like a boss 
As he undermines your cause
Sometimes you just gotta cut ties n walk
& Whats really wack,  is when hes needed most,
Is when he busts out the o'llllll dissapearing act
I say screw him pshhh, who cares where hes at
Coming back deflecting blame & trying to make you carry that
All hes got is this,
Inflateted sense of confidence
And poppin his ballon
Shouldnt take you too long and 
Dont benifit him....
Straight to hater mode
No cash to spend....
Straight to do me a favor mode
Behind bars again.....
Staight to  prayer mode
Guess mr untouchable 
Got caught up in the danger zone
Who needs enimies, with friends like these
This guy all types of nuts, like trader joes

Thinks hes on some cool ish
But really on some bull ish
The type of dude that
You want nothing to do with

Dont let all of his kindness jestures
impress ya
& turn you into a trust despenser
Youll regret the 
day you let your guard down, 
yes he will pretend to, be genuine
Then switch  up from jeckyll 2 hyde
In a few seconds Time, his agendas
to convince ya that hes dependa- 
Bull, which is bull, I bet when ya, first met him,
The impression that he left ya
with is a confident man with all the answers like alexa
But guess what 
The less ya put creadance into the the things hes speakin
the better off youll be in the long run, yessir

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Social Maestro

I'll instigate an incident
Exaggerate significance 
Initiate a conflict 
Purely form of interest
Consider me an *******
Although I'm considerate 
Enough to let you speak
Until you prove that you're an idiot

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Peter Piper

Peter Piper pickin peppers
Pick your pockets 
Potential profits
Purely pleasure
Plan on passin on, Puttin  all
Personal belongings 
In your purses or wallet
Because peter's plottin,
Poppin up practicly anywhere 
Presidential pluckins possible
He's a professional 
At peak performance
Nope no police department's
Pieced it all together 
Or ever seen em processed 
Or positive i'd em
From His POV his priority in the PM
Is please deposit
Palming anything you got 
Then proceed 2 Pawn it
This piece of garbarge
Will pinky promise a priest 
And peace out with paquito mas
Than he pondered
Sticky finger Peter Parker
Will put his paws on OPP
Then hit it raw like ODB
Pick the lock on your car
Pop it out of park 
And sell it all to a pick a part
Put him in a pickle 
And he'll sprint into a parkin lot 
Without the paparazzi
Ever posting a picture up
He's greasy as a pizza pie
He be living the life of pie
Cuz his pirating, kind of seems 
Like there is no end in sight
The punk will Punch you like Paquio 
Probably start a petty fight
He'll Parasite a prostitute
Until her pimp begins 2 pry
Like a possesive partner 
With a pimp hand of dynamite
Peter almost pissed his pants 
Packed his back bags 
And tried to find 
Another peice of ass
Peters past 
Will eventually catch up with him
And have him peekin back
Not even Robin Williams 
Could be peter pan
Then he'll proceed from shame
Plead guilty peace of cake
I mean to P B & J
Thats standard policy
Now peters possibly 
In a ungly situation
Than Polly Shore piping Polly Dean
Lights out not a peep
All bets are off
He can't pick another parlay
Tryin to cover up his peter
Because he's peeing on his prostate
Poor Peter

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This Is Your World

This is your world
Your day and
Your time
It's all right there 
For the taking

Go for the win
Drain the clock
Drain the shot
Cut down the nets
The dedication 
To the craft you've been
Mastering
For so many days that
You expect to win
Anticipate being
A champion
All cavelier when it's on the line
Because losing here 
Has never crossed your mind
Hanging banners there
Like Chandeliers
On some whatever stuff
Like it happens all the time
Absorb the losses
To inspire progress
Get on a roll
Until your tire's popping
It could all be yours
But nothing's given
Because competition 
Is unforgiving
But that's to be expected
You got to stay the course
& Dont abort the mission

This is your world
Your day and
Your time
It"s all right there 
For the taking8

If they knock you down 
Get back up 
Or you will prove them right
You weren't good enough
 My last resort has last resorts 
My last resorts are never done
Everyone's against me forget everyone 
Success is the best revenge that anyone
Could ever have and by quitting now 
You'll be remembered
As the dude who threw in the towel
Step up to the plate and rise to the occasion
Never be timid or intimidated
If you ain't the best 
You should be doing your best 
To be putting yourself
In the conversation 
If they're debating put it to rest 
Show them how you play when
You're put to the test
Make all of them haters say
Who would have guessed
Do W-O-R-K
Then jet

This is your world
Your day and
Your time
It"s all right there 
For the taking

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Covert Jealousy

Haters are fans in disguise
And what takes up alot of there time
Is talkin about people
That are not there equal
& For that to be so
They'd have to learn how to climb
What really upsets me
Is not what they say
It's just the fact that
most of It is based  on envy
Your own progression
Leads them to question
There personal value
And all that does is depress them
I have a suggestion
Maybe stop all the hating
Do a 180
And start congradulating

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Misplaced Loyalty

I've invested too much time 
Into people I thought were genuine 
It's baffling
How many people you know 
You think have your back
But actually don't 
When you need me there
I show up 
When I need you 
It's you know I would but 
I've come to learn 
I ain't the only thing desyroying me
The other part of it is misplaced loyalty
It's crazy to me
How you could treat people like royalty 
But when I'm in a hole
They can't even throw a rope to me 
That's some bull and bull is bull
Even if it smells like potpourri 
Some people just don't care 
They'll throw you under the bus 
After you give them their bus fare 
I'm good enough to help you out 
When no one would 
But when I need you to vouch for me
It's a shoulder shrug

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