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Knotted

I’m twisted up like forgotten jewelry that has become each other’s best friend

Untangling while frustrated will have me give up and try later again 

I need a different approach 

I’ll think I’m close to unraveling 

Then another string causes for a different stroke 

The knotting of jewelry is intricate , delicate 

One wrong move could be the end of it 

The time I spend on this i...

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Time

What is a day but a measure in time 

don’t you hear your own clock chime 

You might think it's not so simple 

So refuse to act on this impulse 

just to think of what others may say 

But now is the time to seize the Day 

 

Your future is earths worm food

For our life can’t be renewed 

Our ashes will be left behind 

That's how it's all designed 

So live the life you ...

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One Day

One Day

On no day in particular

You arose with ease renewed

The dark veil had lifted from your mind 

Pulled softly like so many cob webs 

Suddenly the rain stopped pouring so heavily and turned to a comforting drizzle kissed with a warm breeze

The sun no longer bore down so hatefully 

Instead gently caressed your face soothing 

And existence seemed to lean in and whisper, "...

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All That I Am (Power To Decide)


 What we have may be decided by many things
 But we alone control what we will be.
 We are how we act.
 If the power to affect what we are and what we do exists at all
 It comes from us alone, and is given and taken wherever we choose.

 

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 I am not magnetic, 
 Money shall have no power over me.

 I am not eternal. 
 Time shall have no power over me.

 I am not blind to the wo...

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Without Regard

Without Regard

She sashays like she knows something

Like she knows nothing

About how things got this way

Like nothing has anything to do

With everything

She feels objectified by

Life

Which made her this way

And neglected by whoever should have cared 

Unsatisfied

Unappreciated

She’s got those walking blues

Like walking pneumonia

Contagious

She spreads ...

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