If poverty was
A river, then I would have
Drowned long ago

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Difficult things

Tis as hard to hold
A fistful of sand as to
Find an honest man

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The only thing we
Can be… in the blue nowhere…
Is our poetry

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Pleasant smiles echo
From another… to be then
cast away again

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Of all Gifts given
None can compare to giving…
A child your ear

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A mind at ease puts
A smile on ones face, but sex
Can do it better

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In ugliest Truth
Resides… more beauty than the
prettiest of lies

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I always try…hard
as can be… to never write
Twice…similarly

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It’s easy to write
Poetry What’s not easy
Is to write it right

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Matters of Heaven
and heart...not even wise men
can tell them apart

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