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Adoptee Victim of the Holidays

Adoptee Victim of the Holidays by Corey Quinn (Chaotic rhyme scheme to match my emotional state)

As I enter the home to over salted deviled eggs, loud dogs and poisonous side conversations,
the adoptive family quickly unleashes their shallow holiday greetings and stale smiles.
The black sheep of the family has entered the home with the people pleaser persona ready to please,
and the scoffing house owners covert resentment that you can see for miles.

I go straight to the TV gathering because sports takes precedent over discussing the oddities of the human soul.
Any emotional releasing of truth from an adoptee to a narcissistic narrative holder, to their image, may take a serious toll. Along with football being the shield to any true connection, the subject of jobs is always a safe bet.
Employment talk is a sanitary substitution to life's passions, the path to which an adoptee's heart is truly set.

I mention my joy of a piano gig to an adoptive sister's husband who quickly changes the subject.
God knows how many complaints they have shared about me as I stay in their minds, they're abundant.
It's an unspoken rule that I am not to share my success unless it is theirs that is confirmed to be greater.
Their ego is fragile, their understanding is short and their comfort mindsets are baselined at haters.

I pretend to be ok as I walk in circles, hitting the appetizers and surface level relations.
Only dreaming to myself of real connections and completely conscious of the apparent negative vibrations.
It's time to eat and I sit at their kid's table with another outcast who is an overt racist.
But not outcasted for his racism, it's his word against mine if I'd ever complain and their distaste for bigotry is forever in stasis.

It's time to go home and alone my depression hits, for I long for the compassion of another.
I long for a family that knows me well, my pains, my yearning to uncover.
I declare Thanksgiving is the last holiday with the adoptives, I refuse to bare them for Christmas.
The adoptee chat is my new family now, my allies, my companions, my witness.

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Let Us Sing Our Days Away

As I appear today
don't know if Summerland is far away!
Would you regret to stay...
and ease a lonely man's pain?
Is love to feel this way?
Then I am not the same
Let not my heart to stray
and leave this beautiful game!

But if I said too much
beg you forgive my touch
Let us sing our days away!

As I appear today
don't know if Summerland is far away!
Would you regret to stay...
and ease a lonely man's pain?

But if I said too much
beg you forgive my touch
Let us sing our days away!

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My Mother Was Catatonic

My mother was catatonic, symphonic chronic is what I smoke.
Livinin it bougie, choosin floosies no uzis and then I choke.
You can be me, insane cerebral cortex is
just what I feel.
Living pervy swerving Lexus and hexes to get the deal!
I'm the homosexual, heterosexual, suicidal bloke.
I was adopted by white family and to them I'm just a joke.
They are white supremacist hollow and they drink a racist coke.
And they bought themselves a black kid, broke me down and built a moat.
I'm the illest of the illest, you the illest with a pill.
Donate plasma with no athesma, drain so much I start to spill!
Got the game on lock with fakers who found out that words can kill.
Better bump this  on speakers like I invented free will!
Spendin money by the twenties gettin hundies by the bill..
And I'll never stand for the flag so you coonies can in chill!
If my words had a flavor I'm sure I'd be spicy dill.
Bringing back the old school freshness like my name is Uncle Phil!

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Some Days

Some days...
I just want to give up.
Most days...
like I'm never good enough to 
feel something real.
These days...
I feel down...
I feel down!
In need of love.
In need of love.
Someone to hold.
Someone to hold.
In need of passion.
In need of hope.
I feel I need your love...
your love...
Some days...

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My Primordial Wound

Taken away at birth...
Damaged to human touch...
So I don't like to feel much...
Me and my primordial wound.

I have a hole in my chest...
one that food, sex and drugs cannot sate...
so please don't embrace me unless you can relate...
to me and my primordial wound!

You say you don't see color...
but to you I'm still just another...
and you wonder why I search for my mother...
Me and my primordial wound!

You adopted me but ignore my issues...
so I rain down my sadness into tissues...
so to my adoptive family, I don't miss you!
Me and my primordial wound!

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Question to God

If I sold me soul...
would you hate me?
You see, I'm all alone.
It's gunna BREAK ME!

If I sold me soul...
would you hate me?
You see, I'm all alone.
It's gunna BREAK BREAK 
BREAK ME!

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Purple Dreams

Sweetly, I drift asleep...
and I see your face...right next to me.

Leaning, in for a taste...
cause I've never lived so... so happily.

Meaning, I need you to stay...
so I can feel your...soft and tender feet.

Leaving, our emotions on display...
but it's ok, cause we're so far away.

Darling please don leave! 
My heart would sadly grieve!
I'm dreaming about you.

We flyin over the sky.
Watchin the sunset...and clouds go by!

Moaning, I feel so high...
and it feels so good that I could cry!

Darling please don leave! 
My heart would sadly grieve!
I'm dreaming about you.

Purple dreams...move so slowly.
You'll never know what you mean to me!

Purple dreams...move so boldly.
The only way I know...
The only way I know...
The only way I know...
how it feels to be free!

I envy, true lover's bliss...
for I'm awake now and I need a kiss!

Who's gone? Who do I miss?
Who floats away from my lover's wish?

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Where the Moon Knows My Name

Said I love you...
like a moth to a flame. 
You're no good for me...
but I'm the one to blame!
Standing beside you...
cause I've never felt this way...
under the starlight...
where the moon knows my name!

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Under a Rainbow

As I.. talk with you...
I feel I'm sitting here...
under a rainbow...
in the sky!
Which is a recipe...
for love and harmony!

And dreams...
as cheesy as they go...
dill like a pickle...
or false like fools gold...
can come true!
If you only knew...
how to reach...
for those very stars!

And my heart...
was forever lonely...
till I met you...
my true love.
You make my vision...
come true...
oooooo!

As I.. talk with you...
I feel I'm sitting here...
under a rainbow...
in the sky!
Which is a recipe...
for two lovers...
to embrace!

And my heart...
was forever lonely...
till I met you...
my true love.
You make my vision...
come true...
oooooo!

As I.. talk with you...
I feel I'm sitting here...
under a rainbow...
in the sky!
Which is a recipe...
for love and harmony!

And dreams...
as cheesy as they go...
dill like a pickle...
or false like fools gold...
can come true!
If you only knew...
that I...love you.
that I...love you...
that I...love you.

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Red Damsel Seductress

Red Damsel Seductress...
You peel away my poor defense.
Your body oozes poison.
Your lavender venom gives me voices!
Red Damsel Seductress...
Smooth evil in your Heavenly dress.
You lay back and blow your steam.
Your attitude is like tainted cream.
Red Damsel...
Your devilish ways!
Drinking the thoughts of my brain...
Tickling all of my pain!
Red Damsel Seductress...
Your the baddest girl from the East to the West!
Your a real cold crazy, *itch with a quest...
and cool is your fire in my chest!