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Changing of the Seasons

Spring Time
Time of Warmth
Time of Happiness
Time of New Start

We frolic around
Picknick in fields
Swim in pools

Cooling down in Autumn
Comes time of change
Time for thanks
Reasons to celebrate

yet comes Winter
A dark beast arising from hibernation
making it colder
and colder

Days go into hiding
Getting shorter
and shorter
Darker and darker

Greens warmth
Life and Joy
Replaced with white and cold
Death and Decay

We curl up for warmth
For Support through the shivers
For some get lonelier and lonelier

Until Spring again
Bringing warmth with it
In it's time f warmth
Time of happiness
Time of new-start

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Truth ought to be taught

Truth ought to be taught
The triumphs of good to evil
Heroes and bad guys

But we are all now so polarized
Gone are the days of the black and white truth
But instead it’s that of the Red and Blue

For truly, it’s the triumphs of evil to good
And bad guys
and more bad guys

Covered by the sands of time
Emerging is the popular truth written by the Victors
Leaving even losing sides to the hands of bias

So, If truth ought to be taught
What truly is the truth?

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To love

I see you everyday
From the halls of the school
In the real world
To the deep recesses of my mind

I see you in the warm embrace of two people
I see you in the morning sky
The midnight moon

I see you meet people
Bring people together
And leave people

I’ve seen you in pain
In Joy
Smiling and laughing
Frowning and down

I remember your eyes
The sent of your hair
The warm glow of your skin
Your warm embrace

Everyday, I remember all these things
See all these things
Hear them all
Miss them all

What do I feel?
I feel the pain
The sorrow
The hurt

I miss your presence in my life
The joy you brought in the mornings
When I looked forward to your presence

I walk nervously
I put on a stern face
And push you down




I push the emotions down
And down
And down
Until it bursts back up

And it comes back in a flood 
A Flood of pain
Hurt
Sorrow and mourn

Nobody will ever see it
Nobody cares about it

Their all off with you
Enjoying your presence
Your being
And purpose

The important purpose you bring in life
The purpose of bringing pure
Innocent new beings to this world

To get back up and look for you again
Seems futile
Seems like it’ll always be a failure

But I’ve got to
Because you are not permanent
You will not wait for me
You will always move on
And you are always ready to take me back

You’re always there to help me meet new people
To bring me together with another person
Just for us to leave each other again

I see you everywhere
But never can I find you
And when I do, you don’t stick around for long

So tell me why
That on today, Valentines day
Where I will see you everywhere I go
That I cannot find you
I cannot find love

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A Joy! A Joy!

A joy!
A joy!
A joy to the world
Born October 27th

A Joy!
A joy!
To my baby cousin
Of 2 years old

What a joy
When i see him I smile
For he is the new world life
He is the world's new innocents

When I see him my struggles go away
Struggles and pains
Which would only Taint that his brightness
Which would kill that innocents

A joy!
A joy!
Such innocents as to inspire hope
So as to inspire others to bring the same light to the world.

So please
O Please
Keep the gleam in your eye
The Gleam that can lead others in the dark

And as you do
Don’t waste your strengths
Don’t waste it on picking the same baggage up every day

For if you do
It will become yours 
Weighing you down and down

Use that gleam to help others
Carefully carry others baggage with them
And help them to carry it on their own

All so that one day
When a new joy
New innocents will enter the world
You too will appreciate
That which you’ve brought to the world

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My secret to life

live today not tomorrow
keep going through the hard times 
for, it will be over soon. 

This is key to living a happy
successful life, 
and I cannot wait to put it to the test

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The Dance

I sleep
And sleep
And I push the alarm away

I open my eyes and go about my day
Readying for the dance
Picking up and carrying my bags

Walking to the venue
Arriving at the door
I feel the buzz of my phone in pocket
And I open it and see your picture notification

Pushed in my face are new pictures
New pictures of you and your new boo
The taunting words I can hear you say 
Can you see the difference!?
Will you too be at the dance?

And I enter anxious
I enter alone
And I sit isolated from the others

When my alarm goes off again
I open my eyes
And I’m shaken

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Weekday phone call to weekend split up

At dinner you sat
With phone in hand
Leaving no room for me 
in your attention span

I got up
And came back
In active conversation you sat
With your friend on her phone
And a call on top of that

He came in a flash
Greeting you both
When he sat down for a peer to peer talk

I talked it up with him,
he was one of the guys
Someone I knew for telling boyfriends lies

We left and we hugged
He took you both home
Leaving me standing as if I had just gotten stoned

We talked only twice more
Once the next day
The second was was a whole other foyer

Two weeks later
You called seeking attention
An attempt that I gave zero exemption

For this was cyclical in nature
Where you’d mess up
Say something
And I’d make it better

But here I was done
I put my foot down
Breaking the cycle
Shooting you down

I wanted to wait
till after Christmas
But you gave me no choice
And i’m sure you think me senseless

But still it does stand
I was too understanding
I gave you everything
And you gave me nothing

And in the end
Tried as you might
To paint me the bad guy
So I allotted you that right

I meant every word that I said
From down in my heart
Because I was over tip toeing
I gave you words that were tart

From the bottom of my phone
I’ll read it aloud
Where I said: “... Good bye, for good this time”
You said “... Good bye and don’t even answer”

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Grief

This isn't happening
Why would it happen
Today of all days

I want to pound the dash
Pound the table
Break something

It couldn't have happened
How can I do better
I feel like I can't and I won't

I would do anything so I don't have to
So I don't have to worry about doing better
Because to do better would be a disservice
A disservice to memory

I can't do better
I need to cry
But to cry is to fail and shout

"I CANNOT MOVE ON
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW"

it would admit
That it happened
And it hurt

But it did happen
And it does hurt
It will always hurt
But I can live
I can move on

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You

I miss you
I wish I could hold you
That I could hug you
Again

I wish I could make it all better
And make it last forever

Whether it's love
Whether it's the need to comfort
Or to fix

You make me smile
You make me laugh
You make me want to share everything

But I'm scared
I'm scared to be hurt again

Not just to be stabbed by your heart again
But by anyone else's
By My own

To fall upon my own blade
Would be worse the suicide
It would be torture

I wish I could have more time
More time to learn
To learn truly what I feel
Whether it's love or the need to comfort

Because I miss you
I want to hold you
I want to hug you
And if I can
I will never let go again
And I will make it last forever