jay

Groping in the dark
Searching for a light
Hands out stretched
Trying to touch what isn’t there
Nothingness
It closes in
The only sound is
The beating of your heart
The beating slows
Until it finally stops
Then nothing

Welcome to The Void

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"No."

It is a complete sentence.

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war = experimenting to discover novel ways for humans to kill each other en masse.

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An endeavor to negotiate
Betwixt belligerent parties
To come to an accord
For enduring peace and
A novel modus vivendi

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An image idealized and heroic
With unquestioning flattery and praise
Engineering exaggeration while
Manipulating spectacles deificate
The extravagant ideological demands
of the self-proclaimed demagogue

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Two medical students;
One plants white roses
The other sows asphodel

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Cold terror
Stalks the streets
Innocents disappear
Speaking the truth
Can be fatal
While others hide
Behind barricades
Waiting for the spring
And the ICE to break

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In a black bile sea of melancholy
Hold on to the life buoy of hope
There are better days to come

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like a shaken soda
emotions explode
when bottled up

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Working on my 2nd book of poetry. I am SO frustrated with editing and formatting. I could scream. Haven't yet, but I have been swearing. I screwed up a ton with the first book and I'm trying to do better with this one. Any tips or advice would be great.

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with a sigh
I say goodbye
although you're gone
your heart lives on
in those you left behind

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Dancing round in circles
Going nowhere fast
Dodging past the truth
Blinded by his lies

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Flittering about
Like a hummingbird
Dodging raindrops

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Dreams

of another time
and another place

Keep me awake at night

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A silent pool

The mirrored surface stares back up at me

I toss in a pebble

I can not stand the silence
And I do not like what I see

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words, words, words
a bevy of words
big words
little words
a plethora of words
saying everything and nothing
all at the same time

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Searching for a home
Connected to my soul
Found one for a time
Was told I could not stay
They sent me back
Where I did not belong
Perpetually disconnected.

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#home

when reality
becomes fallacy
it collapses society

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I love Welcome to the Monkey House. One of my favourite books.

I’m not that smart
I’m totally going to fail
It can wait until tomorrow
It has to be perfect
Is this the truth
or
Am I doing this to myself?

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Violence and fear
Zip ties and mace
The innocent disappear
With lies and taunts
From the government

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They had a choice...
Some laid down their guns
And walked away
Some picked them up
And did it anyway

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Row on row of pure white stones
Some left unnamed
Lost somewhere
On a forgotten battlefield
Or on the sea
Some went by choice
Some by chance
But all paid the price

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The bodies pile up
Until they go unnoticed
Televised on the nightly news

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A fate they did not choose
Guinea pigs for a foreign state
A future for us they choose
Free from the Hibakusha's fate

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Protest fill the streets
While the secret police patrol
Missiles keep flying
While the innocent keep dying
Time to send the children back to school
Meanwhile
The peace plans are a farce
Inciting temper tantrums
On a plane going nowhere fast
As monks walk across the Bible Belt

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Overestimation of a future possibility
Or something from the past
Maybe this or
Maybe that
Total lack of confidence
And questioning my beliefs

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A symptomatic derealization of
Circumstantial condition
That alters the memory
Inducing delusion
Leading to vulnerability and
The detriment of well-being

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