Oh, what a day it was I was flowing with the wind Standing by the creek Saw an angel with a broken wing I stuttered to a halt And hid behind a rock As if compelled by Some mystical force It was a vision extraordinaire Though there was gloom on her face As if her […]

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When the night arrives And you hide behind your shadow When you close your eyes To conceal all you fears When you try burying yourself behind the walls And they keep on closing; you’re not your heart When you want to scream out, scream out loud And you try, trying hard, but you can’t As […]

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Roaming through the ruins – Stumbling stones – blocks of sooty bones Baalbek – a bird’s eye view of the gods who flog me. I’ll be down…down there as the falcon flies – I’ll be crowned there – crown me with your shiney drones. There’s nothing left Nothing left to lose – or to gain. […]

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The reel reads, “The End”. The show is over, It’s time for my departure. Played my part at par, I would like to think. Life is a circle, I believed. The reels would roll over again For the next show. I might play the same part again, Or maybe not. What I believed Was not […]

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She drives on an open road, to the place Where who resides Have you seen? Have you been? There? When she looked around The empty ground There was a light beyond the dark Clouds! She screamed in the surge of silence She lived in the far off lands She dreamed of taking him over In […]

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Raining, raining on their faces . . . On their heads – the heavens wept. Up, up – up into the mountains Fire fell . . . on the promises unkept. Didn’t we try? (Yes, we tried to run) Didn’t we cry? (Yes, we cried into the night . . . ) Didn’t we . […]

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A walk alone Into the weeds A foul smell A taste in mouth Is it something worth dying for? And crying for? I have an answer Do you have none? Ah! It makes me wonder Silently crawls in my skin Black melancholy I am in, yeah Breeding Mary Jane Love of my life Trance, a […]

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