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Thinking

i am numb to the outside

as it whirls around me

passing me by

 

an i frozen in time?

or flying so fast

that the blur begets stillness?

 

Either answers the same, for

the moments melt into morrow 

and now is never again

 

The day, elusive 

like the mouse

and the dark night, quick 

and clean as a cleaver

 

the only time 

I stop and think

is…

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Stains

once stood a great warrior

of malice and pride

with no battle too bloody

for his hungering eyes 

 

his blade, sharp and stained

stood tall at his side

left in its wake

only dead men would lie

 

then, in the distance 

that red, setting sun

gave a glimpse to the man

of the deeds he had done

 

the crimson and black

was all he could see

he saw not the...

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The Fisherman

He waits

unlike most

and searches

through the muck

through the dirt and the dust,

the nails and worms

 

He waits 

for a glimpse of success

a meal for his minutes spent

on the water’s edge

a reward

for his tireless toil

 

He waits

as his bucket fills

alongside his hope

then empties

leaving his spirits all the same

 

For his catch does not ...

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