Tag: Poetry
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Exist
Freedom of speech belongs to the loud and aggressive. Freedom of speech is their cacophony of voices shouting all at once. Freedom of speech is their smothering words that silences all other. Freedom of speech is the preserve of the crowd that excludes all but them. Freedom of speech is not our freedom extended to the…
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Suffering Is a Superpower
Bleed out drop by drop, Breathe out gasp by gasp, Lose time tick for tock, And love beat by beat. Each day darkens upon dark, Each touch lessens its loss, I watched my heart disappear, Shrivelled and dried by fear. Push me away, slap my face, Shove me to the wall, that’s my place, Punch…
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An Everlasting Light
The worst doubt drives my fear Do I really have any light to hold? When all I have will disappear Once all I am and was grows cold. When that light I carry dies out Another question I’ll ask with more doubt Will I leave the world dark once I go Or bathe it briefly in…
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Secret Still
I vouchsafed a secret Held my breath for a time Perhaps our hearts would meet And she would tell me mine She made me promise Her word she would keep She said she’d be silent Even whilst asleep She waited for a moment And told all in all to all To friends…
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Breathe
Under the shadow of a wing I woke blinking at the light And now that dark turns to night I fear I will disappear again. And I will catch my breath and hold it Until I know there is no more breath Yet another will hold it for me Until we both breathe again.
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Never Unknown Again
You know I’m staring at you Though you won’t look at me Your head is bowed low Over Candy Crush or Apple TV
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The Gift
How could I understand When it left my hand That heavy burden, now lightly lost Had released all and every cost? The gift then revealed itself to me.. I am a constant escapee I am a freedom loving revolutionary I am the silent conspiracy I am the light to a world of misery
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The Bitter Sea
Mine is a lost soul that swims in a bitter sea Overlayed and swamped by waves of jealousy Caught and held under by a rising tide of night At the mercy of winds of animosity
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Beyond The Steps
There must be another world beyond the steps One where people descend to disappear Or another from which they’ve made the climb From this temporal world to another one In the meantime I watch them sit And shuffle in their place until settled And wait as they forget all breath Until they are called back again Perhaps…
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Joy
Joy is such a bastard You never know it’s there Till it sneaks up on you And clouts you unawares. Go and ignore the bastard Bloody well tell it to go away Too bad now you noticed It will settle in and stay