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"Yesterday, love was such an easy game to.........."

There's two sides to this scenario 

If you are living your life in stereo

The abundant beauty fades to grey

Lord knows we've seen better days 

Lived yet loved long

Was not so easily forgotten 

It's crest still resides in our hearts

As pure as the light of our conception 

Brothers and sisters lived free

Not of the land

Not of our obligations 

But of the heart

Som...

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If I only

Tomorrow 

The first day of the rest of our lives

There's no time holier then now

Stillness of mind

In unison 

Our spoken word 

Image held in mind

Through the field of earth

Our kinetic energy travels

Your thoughts matter

What you give matters

Taking the time to find you, matters 

Love for one and other matters

 

 

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"Bow wow wow yippee yo......."

Truly trivial 

Holy sacrament 

Gazing through the window 

Never walking through the door 

We run in circles 

The nature of the cosmos 

Do we expand?

Retract?

Decentegrate?

Are you back?

The master at the wheel of a lowrider smokin a doob 

Bags pumpin'!!!

 

 

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The Forest

What is at the root of a poet's tree?

Does it have fertile soil to grow healthy and strong 

Are its seasons harse with extreme heat and fridgid cold

Does it see more darkness than light

Or did fate see that it would flourish through a constant kiss of radiation to move it to purpose

To give it the notion to occupy its space to the fullest 

Showing its beauty and radiance of its f...

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Two can play...

A beautiful young woman 

Keeping me guessing to her game 

Time, you think would have laid an axe between this potential romance 

Only the strings are still being pulled 

Tangled in her white lies

I set a blaze to the ties

Only.........?

She is still set to attend my party 

Busy with guests around the fire

I was unaware of her arrival 

Going in for some hot cider

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