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As we merge together

In May

That day I went upstairs

The days were long and gone

Sitting around the table

Visiting with each others day

Looking at the other

Not really knowing what to say

My heart is not really in it

The love has gone astray

With life’s exhaling breath

Looking towards the Iron Gate

Would mark the end to be near

But every note was voiced

Please Not Any More

I say

Come upstairs my love

Let's merge and touch

keep me for you

take me tonight ....

Debbie Brooks 2014
 Sep 2014 Kenshō
blythe
Learn
 Sep 2014 Kenshō
blythe
In life,
It is essential
That you learn
How to be strong enough
To let go;
And wise enough
To wait
For what you deserve.
 Sep 2014 Kenshō
Emily Dickinson
613

They shut me up in Prose—
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet—
Because they liked me “still”—

Still! Could themself have peeped—
And seen my Brain—go round—
They might as wise have lodged a Bird
For Treason—in the Pound—

Himself has but to will
And easy as a Star
Abolish his Captivity—
And laugh—No more have I—
Remnants of a cataclysm,

Drift over my feet.

I stand paralyzed,

Gazing upon the ruins.

Slow thoughts,

Followed by slow emotions,

Settle down.

I shift my position.

Helplessly breathing,

With nothing left to grasp.
 Sep 2014 Kenshō
Jon T Wagner
I'd give up my left arm to always be right beside her. My right arm for her to know she's what I have left and both arms to be able to hug her when's she away. I just don't think I have enough to give to get the courage to tell her when she's here.
Sweltering night
New Orleans style,
an old house breathing
with
broken rafters

A three legged piano
drags itself to the edge
of reason
A dog lays down dying
inside my ribs.

The piano player
paints pictures
to walls
framed in smoke.

Smiling,
I sink into
something beyond
nothing.

He taps his feet
mine however
haven't moved

"Seattle seems
so far away" says
the woman next
to me

"I hear
it rains
a lot there"
I reply

She paints her
feet before her
toes.

I dig that
My two weakling hands on my delusional head
A face tattooed with tear lines of anguish and perplexity
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of this game

Many are sea sick with zipped lips in this freezing old ship
Precious dreams and lives; thrown overboard
Let me plead one more time with this heartless captain
We are charting upstream against the current, Sir
Sir! Please sir
Our lives and the lives of the next generation;
                                                                                  In your hands
Do you not care that we are perishing
He has a big navigational map on the wall
A gargantuan telescope in his hands
Alas, he is blind
Blind man will crush the blind into an iceberg
He is distracted by his own personal greediness;
Woe unto us, he is not far from a two hundred feet iceberg
He reminds me of the titanic
He has a crew who are not seas worthy
They are wearing their office like they are on vacation
The cry and the wisdom of the weak falls into deaf ears
Sir, do you not care that we are perishing!

Can you be my camera for a minute, Sir?

Focus below deck, sir;
Children without formal education
The future generation is today’s labor engine
They walk on the thin line of child...
Child, what?
Child slavery, Sir
They are brain washed
Manipulated and abused

Zoom on the mid-deck, sir;
The young jobless internet savvy
A storm tossed creative thinkers
A young generation with no future
A future neglected without action plan
Driven to push through the storm
One direction; the wrong direction
They are the masters of...
Masters of?
Masters of internet fraud and drugs, Sir
Gang banging is their security
Just like a candle under the night wind;
Their light goes off prematurely in lightning speed

Zoom a little high on the upper deck, sir;
Square pegs on rounded holes
Mismanagement and embezzlement
Unpatriotically obsessive creatures
Fanning the toxic flames of an aged ship
While expertise waste at the shore for decades

Will you anchor?
Will you pause and reflect

His words: acidic
Emotions: volcanic
Problems: oceanic

If angels rules; would have cry to them
Maybe they would hear the cry of the weak

Grant us safe voyage,
Thou that watch over the weak
Be our anchor in the midst of the storm
May we not sink in this sea of incompetence
Be our strength and hope in this journey to the unknown
Father, if it be possible be our captain and lead us to bliss
Don’t hail me when I am gone
I am the Holy Grail you don’t see
You will know when am gone      
It would have been too late then
We live in a world which is so obsessed about self. We hardly recognize the value of the least among us, until they crossed over to the other side of life. Value  and appreciate the little giants who God brings into your life as a gift to add value to your uniqueness.
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