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“You Are Not My Friend”

25 Saturday Aug 2012

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I knocked on your door
You wouldn’t let me in
You are not my friend
I stood out in the rain
Looking pitiful
You remained
Inhospitable
You are not the friend you
Profusely claim to be
I defend you
You don’t do the same for me
I begged for food
And you didn’t share
Not even a scrap
From your table
You were rude
You didn’t care
You felt it was best
For me to stay disabled
I can’t depend on you
To the very end
You’ve proven it’s true
You are not my friend
I don’t feel a sense of entitlement|
I feel small where something big should be
Everything vital went
Except for my dignity
And I haven’t recovered
Something paramount hasn’t come through
Nor has the tiniest dividend
In the process I’ve discovered
I can’t count on you
You are not my friend

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“How Do I Reach You?”

27 Friday Jul 2012

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H ow do
I reach you?

H ow do I start to move on and begin
O pening up to open you up
W hen closure hasn’t come to an end

D o I reach you when you break?
O r beseech you when you bend?

I can meet you in the middle, but what happens after then?

R oads can only go so far
E ven I am not invincible
A nd I’m not gonna say you are
‘C ause that would not be sensible
H ow do I learn a new lesson to teach you?

U-turn & return, tell me how do I reach you?

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“The Rhythm Of A Better Life”

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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I am without borders
Still within a trebled clef caused by this strife
Of living acapella
Lusting for the rhythm of a better life
As music seeks to strike a chord within my spirit
There is no major way for me to hear it
In isolation, how do I with my syncopated instrument
Orchestrate a sense of harmony
Not as one isolated incident…
…But as one with song that’s learned to dance with me

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“Confessions Of A Soul Mate”

22 Friday Jun 2012

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Sometimes I bore you
Sometimes I stress you
I adore you
I would rather decompress you
I confess
You…
Are the soul mate
I have had visions of
You are my life
And I live for your love

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“Sweet Words”

18 Monday Jun 2012

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I gaze at you and the stars
I wonder why they don’t compare
You shine brighter than they are
You make me need you more than air

I breathe you in
Exhale you out
Receive you when
The rose buds sprout

All at once I softly sigh
You smiled again and caught my eye
Silly me what could I do?
I found sweet words and wrote a few

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“The Unconditional Condition”

07 Thursday Jun 2012

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Sometimes you make me smile unconditionally
At times I cry when I think about what you do to me
The condition you leave me in
How you grieve me when
You have to go
It’s as if you’re conditioning me
To retrieve me in
Your afterglow
Is there something I have to know?
Have I nothing to worry over?
Or am I right tonight to have suspicion?
By daylight if you don’t hurry over
Must I discard my condition?
And allow you to flee you and me
Unconditionally

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“You Mean The World To Me”

21 Monday May 2012

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I may never get the chance again
I may as well not hold it in
You mean the world to me

I may not get to tell it all
I may suffer from withdrawals
When we roll separately

You mean the world to me

More than I’ve conveyed
More than I’ve displayed
More than any frequency

You mean the world to me

And in case this is my final call
And I lose my wherewithal
Just know eternally
You mean the world to me

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“Better Half”

06 Sunday May 2012

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When I think of you
I fly my flag above at half mast
From whatever prime it is
I see the one I love at half past
Whatever time it is
All because I gave my heart so half ass
Today the climate is
Cold, damp & dark – a half glass
Without a lime & fizz
And I’m too old to pour a spark
I’m half as strong as usually
That’s why you were my better half
And when I think of you
I long for what used to be

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“my SECOND skin”

30 Monday Apr 2012

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You are my second skin
One with me – we mesh
Underneath the soul within

…Far beyond where there is flesh

And you are my next of kin
Rarest of the rare –
Extent of your loss, what then?

…More than my heart could bear 

My second skin and my first love
You’re what I thirst love in the inner me…

…And my burst of higher energy 

Savoring you protects me when
Earnest devotion begins to believe
Companionship is rejecting a friend – I grieve
Once emotion is worn on my sleeve
Not that you’d abandon ship of this I can be sure
Destiny stitched the layers weaved… 

…There is nothing about us impure

So in this context we blend
Kindred spirits through & through
I see you as my second skin
Notably thicker to insulate me from a colder view…

…You breathe in me a warm second wind
And blow me away by you just being you

 

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“Change Your Train of Thought”

30 Monday Jan 2012

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Decide to change your train of thought
Out of what is ordinarily Influential on a one-track-mind

It has kept you chugging down a line
Nine times out of nine
Contrarily conceived
Ride an out-of-the-box car
Emotionally loco-motive and not necessarily naive
Decide to change your train of thought
It is you – you are the conductor
But it is primarily believed
Life & death have made you a passenger in an
Environment that derails you from engine to caboose

To re-train how you treat your precious cargo
Here is where you turn you loose
In a perpetual
New perspective primarily perceived
Golden at all stations where higher consciousness is stored
So at the crossroads toward your destination …

… You’ll let body, mind & soul get on board

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