TEARS AT THE MARGINS

A tribe looks into the sun

Wondering if they had betrayed God or vice versa

Their King shading a tear, not for himself but for a people

Life was threatened

Fear for their children gripped them

Hope for them dimming like twilight

Neighbors holding them in derision

But one last torch was left unspent

The torch of corruption and filth

They hated it but that was their last hope

After deep reflection and the King quiet

The elders spoke and said

" It is time to raise a mafia, whose filth matches the world

Whose darkness can fight with their darkness

Only he will be able to bring back our light

Only he will fight for us"

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OVERSTAYED VISIT

You don't need me So I thank you for the good you have done I say it in silence That way you will not sense the silent good bye It hurts me that our business in your face is done But I will remember we were brothers I will pray for you For my prayer is that you fly high and steady in the strong winds I will not forget that you helped me And the much I am or will be will acknowledge you But tonight I will pack what I can And leave your house brother Not groaning For all of us are guests in each others lives In my case I must have overstayed my visit I hope love never grows old I will find peace when it thrives again But now It is obviously used. YOU CAN READ MORE

THE PARADOX

The fact that the reason to hold on is bigger than the reason to give up Does not trivialize your pain The fact that you neither shed a tear nor made a sound Does not mean you never cried The fact that you smiled all through the ceremony does not mean you were happy The fact that you are alive and happy Does not mean you aren't dead A strange ghost animating your body Not your dream self The fact you woke up with a plan Does not mean you aren't drifting through life The fact that you love a song Does not mean it makes you happy The fact that you woke when the alternative seemed lucrative Tells that you have outsmarted the paradox once more

KINDRED

I wish I had a friend Whose loyalty would never bend Walk with me miles on end Be plain and never pretend A cynic who would blend But to me be a kindred A spirit that knows me Keep me and my secrets just as I would To the very end

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