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words

People truly overlook

The beauty of words

The words you read now

The first words you read

The words you are yet to read.


I wish people could see words like i do

beautiful strokes

tellung stories

For your mind to put pictures too

Or even just a word

A single word

It is still beautiful


All words had to come from somewhere

From one language or two

Though the second more common

Sometimes pulled ...

The Cycle

We are all like plants

Plants who start off being inside of something

Something comforting, safe, and protective

Ensuring whoever’s in there will come out just fine


The seed planted eventually gets the plant out

The plant is just a small stem

Sticking out of the ground

New to the world


The plant continues to grow

It has a few more leaves

A few more petals

But still has more room left to grow


Th...

My Place: No Longer.

There was place I could hold within,

Where pain seemed impossible,

Where love reined an shined.


It held cherished moments

When I looked upon it.

The night sky.


Where light from stars,

And deep blue from the night

Had held it all,


The pains,

The needs,

The love


But now?

Now the sky full of stars seemed dead,

And cold.

A place that been once so magical,

Now hurt to behold....

Pieces Of Me

I am a puzzle

Comprised of multiple pieces

Each piece designed to be itself

Not necessarily taking on life

But reflecting my life’s hurt, pain, emotions mindset and health


How many pieces can you put together until you see a full me

How many pieces are there

Just two hours worth or an infinity


Each piece tells a story, can you see

The firsts of many and the lasts ofs are more than one

The ...

Silver Lining

Ever since you’ve left there’s been this ever growing void,

A hole that cannot be filled, of hope I’m now devoid.

Sounds or smells remind of the not so distant past,

Or I recall an inside joke and suppress the urge to laugh.


Knowledge of you, useless now, sits inside my head,

An oxygen mask put atop a body which is dead.

I know that you’re not coming back and that I must move on,

They say you do...

the lesson in loneliness

being locked into isolation,

unable to crawl

into any semblance of company,

is one of life's

cruelest chambers.


the echoes of loneliness

collide around you,

until the lack of love

is something

you can't just ignore.


you're forced to face it.


you're forced to compensate,

and in that reparation

of giving yourself warmth

instead of finding it elsewhere,

you learn a lesson

many will never know.


yo...

ā€˜Chef Extraordinaire’

Oh, don the apron

Pick up a knife

Nothing’s more fun

Than to peel, chop and dice!

To measure ingredients

Using a finicky scale

Recalibrating repeatedly’s ever so tedious

Persistence at last does prevail.

Cream, whip, and mix

Sift and then fold

Are all cute culinary tricks

Grease those trays, oh so old

Preventing disaster when baking sticks

ā€˜Fan Force’ oven’s a farce

Delicacies remain pale or ju...

Meaning of life

Smoke swirls from the end of your pipe

And I ask you the meaning of life

You grunt and turn away

I guess I’ll ask another day


Smoke swirls from the chimney

And I ask the sky

What is the meaning of life

But the clouds drift away

I guess I’ll ask another day


Smoke swirls from atop the fire

I ask the pot

What is the meaning of life

The pot turns to the kettle

And neitger of them can say

I guess I...

Nocturnal.

Once the flowers bloom, we’ll be doomed,

And our hearts will dry out soon,


When the sun shines, I will cry,

How will we ever get by,


Without the feeling of cool moonlight,

Showering us from a great height,


And the stars we once counted,

Choose to not keep us surrounded?,


We’ll instead stand with what has sprouted,

From the diurnal, and when blue is clouded,


And we’ll wither off, turn to ash ...

Daylight Doom

Doom, doom, doom

Once the flowers bloom

It’ll be our doom, doom, doom.


We must away

Hide in the day

Until the night comes and we can play.


For orcs are we

And our destiny

Is to live in dark and from the sun flee.


We spread fear

Both far and near

But only until sunrise draws near.


The daylight nears

And brings our fears

The sun comes up our flesh it sears.


Sunlight, flowers

Pixies, showers

Sun...

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