June 27, 2023
symbols create a network of ideas
while neglect uses the conscious
to measure ones stamina to find
a means of escaping the 1% and
their torturous greed, we don't
live life anymore we live in a growing
fear based reality taking away our
ability to make a purpose for oneself
without being demonized by egos
seeking to break apart ones future
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without mercy years swiftly pass
evaporating our unclaimed goals
once necessary now put aside as
one tries to focus his mind beyond
the growing fear of being demonized
by egos of hate, our memories lack
details exaggerating our common
pride with rusty aging, our memories
slip on mossy rocks with water falls
swift currents and forgets the voice
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aching to remember friends or foe
in our youth we had plans for our
future, what we wanted to be when
older, baseball star, basketball icon,
a track star, no one could ever catch
our future and who we became, a
counter worker selling watches and
we rarely remember our youthful
dreams, we acknowledge our misery
a choice accepted as we feal like a
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wilting flower dying before it blooms
a secret inner acceptance despising
being born into a dying world used
by wealth but built by slaves since
the beginning of time, my eyes heavy
staring inward into an empty space
a dream once known now forgotten
how does one break free from a life
that would have made since a decade
earlier, we seek present moments to
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keep and not allow our visions to break
apart and evaporate, he leans against
the railing head lowered, his thoughts
journey over the belligerent past and
those that assume one is different just
being human, with past mistakes taken
for granted, a means to live without fear
the crows angry tongue sharp voices
yelling in madness, sounds of a domestic
dispute, anger's devilish partner words
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that enter the brain demanding attention
seeking vengeance through a weakness
that realization lacks necessity, what is
fulfillment but a revelation that being alive
is enough, the person they praise never
existed at all, a changeling without a
character, his face red with drink, his
evil power over an innocent boy