First cold snap
Birds start to fly south
Homemade soup
Cuddling by the fireplace
Hot chocolate in the morning
Covered with warm heavy blanket
A good sleep tonight
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Some see colorful butterflies
The colors
I
Forgot
I lost the ability to see the colors
and recognize butterflies
I no longer look up
at the blue sky
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Pen almost out of ink
Not much left
For this old fool
To write about
Anyways
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Pockets of air
Floating over the graveyard
Oh!
So
Many
Dreams that died
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Decades under control
Then
One day
Life went off tracks
I’m now lost
Unable to return
To my old self
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When survival kicks in
The gloves are off
Bare-knuckle
Street fight
All the way
Brains are
Wired that way
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Global hunger
will continue to rise
as
technological advancements
create more disadvantaged members of society
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Oh Mighty Corp
Large
Global
Controlling
Corporations
Will
Dictate
What we
Buy
Eat
Watch
And
How we live our lives
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Before
I seen everything in color
After
All was black and white
On bad days
Everything is graveyard grey
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Slowly every day
He painted the steps
Leading up to the favela
When I asked him why?
He said
“This is my vision”
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The Making Of A Storyteller
Experiences
Suffering
Pain
Misfortune
Produces
A
Poet
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Endless Migration
“Go west young man”
No
Move to the city
In poor countries
Cities
Are
Overrun by people
Flocking
For a better existence
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The Sailor
Only
FREE
While at sea
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There is disparity of wealth and opportunity
Parents who pay
For their children’s education
Give them a fresh, debt free start
Those who need to take out student loans
Are saddled with debt
That takes years to pay off
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Everything is impermanent
Yet
When something
Is
Lost
That deeply effects the spirit
It is not easy
Letting go
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Disturbance In The Workplace
Could never get ahead
Too much of a hot head
Such a short fuse
Most of the time
Angry
Argumentative
With coworkers
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Swift Replacement
She is always
Prepared
Before changing partners
Like a monkey
She has one hand
Already grasping
Another tree
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The Quarrel
They were a small group
Together
In search of the perfect place
Eventually
Disagreement mounted
Finally
They gave up
Went separate ways
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“Nobody wants to be in this position”
So true
Yet seems sterile
Simplistic
As she continues to
wait in line at
the food bank
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Experiences shape the way we
see the world
Looking at a bar of chocolate
Not the same
As eating the chocolate
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Childhood memories
Blank
Nothing written
No explanations
Denial
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Change of Perspective
The gods were forgiving
Escape from death
Twice
In a week
Going forward
All calamities
In life
Meaningless
Sand
Blown
About
In a desert storm
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Busted!
Stealing was always easy
His empire built on scams
Caught for the first time
Doing a small
Illegal deal
Reputation
Freedom
All Lost
Pondering:
When watching the rich and famous getting caught for doing something stupid, illegal and seemly for a small amount of reward , we tend to ask ourselves.
“Why he/she would risk so much for so little?”
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Sitting on her rocking chair
she said
“life is simple”
Just follow The Good Book
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She tries to change
but
mostly
makes all her decisions
based
on emotion
not
reason
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Suffering
Can bring about
A
Desperate
Decision
Leading to an act
That has life altering
Consequences
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The return
Very difficult
On my hands and knees
Picking up
Broken pieces
Of stained glass
Then
Trying
To glue everything back together
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She found out early
What is her purpose in life
Move around world
Free
A job here a job there
Just enough
To keep moving on
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Is there life after death?
Deep question
Sorry
Charlie
I’m too busy working
No time to think
Just
Work
And
Keep on working
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The poor and disadvantaged
Throughout history
Used and mistreated
When
Old and no longer needed
Tossed into the city gutter
To decay away
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Lie in bed
Sleep time
Meal time
Medication time
Institutionalized
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I took
What I thought was to be
My final walk
Stopped
Fell asleep
Woke up
Shackled
To a gigantic ficus tree
No longer free
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Years gone by
Like seaweed floating endlessly on the ocean
The Father
On his deathbed
With complete honesty
Told his son
“I’m sorry I hurt you”
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Freedom
We take for granted
Until
We lose it
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Oh boy
Did I climb
the mountain top
looked down
and realized
it was not worth it
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Admittance
The man
Stands at the gate
Checking
ID’s
Only
The normal
Allowed to pass
The man
Holds
The power
The chosen
Walk through the glass
Into another world
Full
Of
Truth
No one wears a mask
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Vacuuming cobwebs from brain
Clean mind is a healthy mind
What happens
When cobwebs are the only thing left?
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The Landlady
No one gets in her way
Runs a rental house
Mattresses on the floor
Always someone opening
Closing front door
Cheap rent
Packed in like sardines
Shelter expensive in this town
No one complains
Better than sleeping in car
Or outside in the rain
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Sleep rough
Dreaming all night
Wake up
Shaking
Mind plays tricks
Off and on all day
Raining outside
Pencil sharpener grinds
No place to hide
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