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Still... Just There
The place where I come from doesn't bekon me.
It's always just... there, like part of my DNA
That never really goes away.
My home town doesn't beckon. It's just there. It just waits.
The places where I spent time have all changed hands in time.
But if I went back, I'd find... nothing the same;
Except the name, which always reamains...unchanged.
It waits for my retu...
Wednesday 19th February 2025 10:32 pm
Where Your Soul Resides
If you sell your soul
Can you ever get it back?
Have you ever felt something
Slipping slowly from your grasp?
When that something lost is so vast
Can you just go on?
When you're in the fight of your life
And loose, can you forgive yourself?
When life's parade passes you by
Do you bother to wave?
Can you keep asking the questions
With answers too hard to face?
Ca...
Saturday 21st December 2024 10:21 pm
At The Ledge
Each time before when I had fallen, landing in the pit below,
I found upon the ground were words that I could gather up to build
a latticework of scaffolding to climb upon so I could go
back to the surface with the crowd, but every time I found that still
I’d stay close to the ledge not knowing why I didn’t walk away.
I told myself it wasn’t wise. I asked, “why don’t you ever l...
Wednesday 21st February 2024 2:55 am
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