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In the temple of the mind— flash,
Mortal pegs are but fingers shape,
The light of dreariest day, told lash,
All for the rush, conspiring too late.
...We brand ourselves with
something that we are not
Pretending to be kites
riding the wind
with the air in our heads
Disoriented, we
rely on vertigo to endure the
ups and downs and thought
that we are
masters of the sky
So we seek and want
that is
we cannot have
But we are tied...
To the ground
we are
tied
and we have become
confused of
who we really
are...
Mek
01.24.13
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
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sit in the grass
near where the pink tree blossoms grow
(watch the traffic move on slow)
what you find in the day
is what you make
i didn't stop traffic,
but i could use the break
Feeling pretty unfulfilled
here’s a cheers to spending that
twenty-second year
over worked and under paid.
Unhappiness disguised as routine
mingling about with bursts of extremes
that I mistake for real living.
The grog, the sweat, the drowning struggle
to conform to that American bill paying drone.

I think in black and white
but I always create in color.
There’s a pounding at the door of reality,
unrelenting, it has claws poisoned with truth.
-- my idealism again,
begging, pleading, swearing up-and-down
that I have to get out--
that there is never a “right time”--
that to change--I have to
and its not a decision this grind can consume.


I sprint through the hallways of my self
hello, again World.
It was all that I needed.
I breathe.


*(I hope this happens a thousand times again)
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
Nameless
Why am i diagnosed with such a horrible disease?
waking up everyday
feeling as if drowning in a world where everyone else can breathe
slipping in and out of reality and dreams
watching people laugh and enjoy their day
while you sit and stay
thinking..
thinking of the what ifs and why nots
realizing that in the end its useless
so heres your choice
which one will you choose
to live or to die?
to win or to lose?
i grab the knife and slit my wrists
the end is near
its almost here
now close your eyes
theres nothing to fear.
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
amt
This Time
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
amt
This time it will work out.
This time it's different.
This time it's special.
She said,
every,
time.
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
amt
They ask why I gave up.
They ask why I let them win.
Constantly nagging at why I let it happen.
What did I do it for?
I didn't do it for him,
I didn't do it for her.
I did it for me.
 Mar 2013 Mike Winegar
Morgan
My jaw is aching from clenching my teeth
& with my eyes burning,
I'm swallowing an other pill just to sleep
This year is a current;
Every tired stroke I make
to swim back to my bed only
sends me deeper into a violent sea
Salt water waves flooding over my eyes
This is the kind of night that ends with my insides,
spilling endlessly into my sheets
I will rip every tattoo out of my skin
until I'm just a blank canvas
between tan walls,
waiting to be forgotten
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