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