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On My Wall
Ladybug, ladybug on my wall
It was there all summer, but now it's fall.
It was there all season, but never found reason
To stand and fight, or take off in flight.
It just clung there helpless.... on my wall.
Afraid to stand, afraid to fall.
Not really sure about its gender,
Just watched it miss out on life's spendor.
Was it waiting there for a man?
Or for someone el...
Saturday 23rd November 2024 9:58 pm
This Little Bird
While most other birds sing a duet,
Or with a chorus hidden up in a tree,
There's a little bird that sings loud and proud,
Alone, but in harmony.
This little bird sings outside my window,
While the rest of the birds are asleep.
This little bird sings with depth and conviction,
While others can only dream.
Where does it find the courage
To stand alone and sing?
...Friday 22nd November 2024 10:39 pm
Don`t Dance To Everyone Else`s Tune
Don’t Dance To Everyone Else`s Tune
Why do we spend our life trying to please everyone else.
All our own thoughts and feelings boxed up and put on the shelf.
Always worrying what other people might think
Instead of just living by what comes naturally and on instinct.
Concerned by the reaction of the neighbours next door.
Like your own desires and ambitions, you fear to ...
Sunday 20th October 2024 7:08 pm
One
I’m sorry to disappoint you
That I can be too sweet and so weak
And yet I can be cold and cruel too
That I can completely snap to my core
And morph into a creature of different sorts
I’m sorry that I’m not white or black
Or immaculate
Or of any matter
For that fact
I’m not anything
At all
Not wholly whole
You see,
Incompleteness
Has been my superpower
...Monday 8th May 2023 9:09 pm
The end of the chain
the madness is carried
from perpetrators to victims
from link to link on the chain of misery
where victims become perpetrators
and perpetrators create more victims
on and on it goes
history shows
that the chain extends
‘til the bitter end.
there is so much madness
coming from our race
sometimes I wonder
do we use the word “inhuman” in the wrong ways?
we ...
Monday 10th August 2020 8:12 pm
Be Yourself
Deafened by definitions
About who we
Should be
Becoming blinded
By beliefs
We can't see
Consuming assumptions
Of society's strangers
Persistent peer pressure
Tries to
Rearrange us
But to yourself
You belong
You cannot
Be sold
There is
Nothing wrong
In breaking free
From the
Mold
Thursday 10th October 2019 12:54 pm
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