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RedStoneEB
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since 2003-06-08
Posts 772
uk

0 posted 2015-08-04 12:37 PM



Clasp on the embroided imagery--
i’ve sewn too well over the years,
to know more than my fair shar of pin-pricks.
I’ve shot out reason from the brain and replaced it
with what-if’s, chances, dreams, and things.
Where all fail to amount to the goal--
yet was there really any posts laid in the ground,
or was I just aiming for movement in the still-ness
of my life? i guess I cannot even answer that myself--
because i’m asking to a mirror, asking to those eyes
that stare blankly into me.

It is always about the other--
then the self, I mean its not like
I placed the spinning wheel on two options
and spun and spun and spun till it landed on
what I thought was richer, of the two,
the only one.

But whatever or wherever it lands
each leads to another spin some with greater
slots, some with prizes that come with
special bonus rounds, double or nothing,
playing to human nature to change what is perfect
and try to double on the happiness.

I spoke of misunderstandings
I wrote the name across my heart till it scarred
and everytime someone ventures their they
notice her name.
She may feel that I hate her,
for she hates me for what I am--
least i’ll say is that I don’t yet
i find the words don’t come as easy
as the feelings,
for the feelings have speeches granded than
the words, that words never say.

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JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
1 posted 2015-08-05 12:20 PM


fine writing...james
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