Standing in a green field...

Emeralds there

Jade to spare

Time to share

Ears that care

Mouths to dare

Hearts in prayer

Happy everywhere

...Happy everywhere

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Love Energy

let me be honest
honestly love you
you who be inspiration
inspiration to fly
fly free of pain
painless smiles
smiles and laughter
laughing forever
forever effortlessly
effort to care
caring only to love
love so hard
hard and firm
firm in this embrace
embracing all that is
is it, will I be satiated
satiation only to want
want more of this heart
heart full, brimming over
over, overtly for you

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Anger in your voices

It must be all that idle youth
with testosterone and estrogen booths
exstacy for exscape
excuses for rape
sodomy is chemistry
elaboration of sour dreams

Screaming
begging to be free
of what? Responsibilities
to yourselves and life
abilities to use for right
overtly hurting and painful insight

Damn children
slow down and retreat
be beaten back to your holes
your increasingly small bowls
eat your rice and meat
back to your holes, your beat!

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Clarity In Reality

you could bump into a stranger, look into their eyes for 1 second and
know your in love...

you could get married, have 3 children and spend more than 20 years
contemplating weather the commitment is what you really want in life...

you could go to university, learn a trade, skill, expertise, then graduate
and do something completely unrelated...

you could even join an organization to effect change, become its
leader and be more stifling/corrupt than the people you removed...

most interestingly, you could search for yourself, long, far and
wide; and after deep psychoanalysis, find a 'you' you'd never
imagine...

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I dream so much

The last few moments
I dreamed so much
dreamed about flying
and hearts I could touch

Afterwards I woke in pain
cried for another dream
wept for more slumber
hoping to shut down, just lean

just lean,
relax
smile in my sleep
rehears facts

Being that little boy
Saturday morning
watching cartoons
soggy cereal, -more milk pouring!

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