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#31

It feels so good


Energy, Drive, Passion, Yearning Yearning to feel, to feel good, it feels so good. Hope, Will, Power, Roaring Loving to be alive despite Its trials Is the epitome of human spirit. Dreams, Breath, fire, flaring It just… It just feels so...

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#32

Isolation


I am in pain, struggling though no one sees, I am adrift in an ocean of humans A star in the milky way. With all those eyes no one sees me drowning With all those lights no one...

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#33

You are my God


I feel you, though you are there, You stand behind me though you aren’t my shadow, You are more like a light, showing me the path. You heal me, though I am unharmed, You fight for me though...

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#34

I Miss You


Though in my mind I scorn you My heart still adorns you, Longs for you in the heat of Passion You make up my daydreams, You haunt my nightmares, To me you were my greatest distraction, and inspiration And...

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#35

The Wing-Push of forever

The poem is about breaking free from long held ideas or traditions. I initially wrote the poem in response to a series of conversations with a young woman who had left off from sex...
Ideas Old ones Like straightjackets in time That keep us from who we are coming to be Sometimes breaking free comes in shove-push But the truest is spirit-light Dove-like release From whoever's naked body...

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#36

Mentality

Equality.
A sane person, In an insane world, Is labeled insane, For what is sanity but a label, A classification of our worth, And yet I find myself wondering, I let my mind run astray, Does it truly matter, In the infintum, We...

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#37

Equality

Equality.
Why does it matter, Our religion? When we are all human All family, all kin Why is there hate, In the lines of your face? When you hear them say They're from a different place Why do we force, Our opinions on one...

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#38

In My Head

Mental Illness.
In my head there are voices Creeping crawling inside of me Get out, get out, but they just stay In the dark where I can't see In my world there is corruption Invading my territories now Push them back and...

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#39

Written by a Ghost.

The season's pass.
"Boo" I say my scary line And if you ask me, I am fine I don't need your tender care I just need you, to be there "Boo" I tell my friend this phrase She runs, screams and cries...

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#40

Greed

Sexual abuse.
How selfish can you be You were supposed to be my brother How selfish can you be To try and steal from another Because of you I'm broken now I'm lost, I'm bruised, I'm shattered Because of you I'm asking...

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