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I could write you a letter                                                           ­                                                  
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tell you how I really feel                                                             ­             
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Bare my heart on white
paper,                                                           ­                               
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make assurances that it's real                                                             ­       
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Threaten you amongst hot
tears,                                                           ­           
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point my finger towards you                                                              ­                  
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but I know you have deaf ears                                                             ­       
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and feel nothing will ever do                                                               ­         
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The truth is we both try
  hard                                                          ­                            
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and we are both
complicated                                                      ­                            
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Holding to the chest all the cards                                                            ­                                                                 ­                                                                 ­                                
that may be the key to save us                                                               ­   
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Fearful to reveal our love                                                             ­                     
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find reasons to give
up                                                               ­                                         
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Never feeling we are loved                                                          
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and unwilling to fully trust                                                            ­            
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It never is an easy thing,                                                           ­                   
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to pretend we don't feel the pain                                                             ­       
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but deep inside we feel
something                                                        ­            
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that makes us want to try
again                                                            ­    
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So please believe nothing's
changed                                                          ­                                              
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My feelings of love remain,                                                          ­        
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you & I are too close to the
same                                                             ­               
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and I really want to try again
In better days of better ways we chanced upon the mind
Of great and grand adventure, of great and grand design
To sail the open seas coursing near and far
Uncharted in the ways, unguided by the stars
At the mercy of the wind we vied the stormy seas
To mount the raging crests and weather in the lees
Onward ever onward past reasons reach we strove
To gather to our ******* the sum of wisdoms trove
Emily Jo Apr 26
If you're late,
there's no hurry.

If you're not ready,
just take your time.

If you're holding on
to the tiniest hint of resentment,
I'll understand.

No matter what,
I'll meet you there.

Just promise me,
you'll give me a chance,
to call you mom and dad again.
Where you stood, that was me years ago. I'll wait for you.
HELLO STUPID!!
YES, I'M TALKING TO YOU!!
I'm not the one that's CRAZY,
It is you the BIGGER FOOL!!!
If you're feeling kinda LAZY!!
Have No Clue WHAT TO DO!!
If I slapped you down
with KNOWLEDGE!!
You totally just got SCHOOLED!!
If you're DUMBFOUNDED and DON'T KNOW!!
you totally just got *******!!
So, say GOODBYE TO STUPID and
Hello to SMARTYPANTS!!!
You are SMARTER than you think,
just give YOURSELF THAT CHANCE.
Go on, you got the UMPTION,
It's not as bad as it seems,
So get that out your HEAD and
Continue to FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!!
Hear me out, YOU ARE NOT STUPID!!!
you are EXTREMELY SMART!!
You got the POWER TO SUCCEED,
so take these WORDS TO HEART!!
Keep doing what you doing!!
Remember that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!
You have the DRIVE,
you have the PUSH,
Whatever your HEART DESIRES!!!


B.R.
Date: 03/06/2023
Maria Apr 10
They hurt their Love, and she forgave them,
All their fears and their whim.
And threw herself as onto a scaffold
To save them both, and not her or him.

They didn't take care of Love, but could be
More merciful, tender and kind to her.
She gave them happiness and so much charity
Up to the last day, while they were with her.

They killed their Love so bitter and wildly!
They ribbed their Love. They burnt her all,
With all their wishes, dreams and chances,
With their faith in Love in whole!

They forgot their Love. They simply buried
Their tender Love. And she went away,
Without 'Goodbye', remained as a shadow,
Irretrievable, lost, forever, noway...
Thank you very much for reading this ballad! 💖
From the glass that is empty, overflows divine might.
In the chasm of silence, where new stars may ignite.
As the void holds a state of potential in every instance.
The emptiness is proof of an infinite existence.

Energetic quantum fields, they hold a nothing that is all,
With a pleromatic silence that is actually the call.
Entropy keeps all her secrets, only told in conscious wave.
Each new pattern is stitched from the very fabric of decay.

Potential, though unspoken, lives in every empty heart.
Divine purpose suspended between  light and the dark.
Space and time twist as futures, echoing their past.
Silence holds the truth beneath continuum, born to last.

Silent emptiness, potential for a  limitless creation.
Hearts beat sacred rhythms of quantum contemplation.
A paradox prevails as the chaos becomes the tamed.
Converging bursts of particles blend to a single wave.

The empty glass, a garden. Home of quantum fields to sprout.
In this parodoxic realm, where our dreams  are breaking out.
In the spaces between seconds, whole realities are grown.
Each moment is a leaf upon the tree of this unknown.

The psyche falls apart, but its progression will make whole.
Where the  absence turns into a dark salvation for the soul.
By the frequency of binaural pulses altered, I'm entranced.
I'm the infinite, just waiting, within momentary chance.

In the silence of the mind, creation calls without a sound.
We're adrift in nothingness, lost in what we haven't found.
Yet the glass that is empty holds a hope beyond profound,
In emptiness lives everything. The nothingness, unbound.

And in the space of emptiness, as pure as it is wide,
There's a  potential Divine, hidden deep in the sublime.
Both the broken and the whole, find a home to be embraced,
By the empty glass, to be transmogrified in conscious space.

♦ Đerek Λbraxas ♦
Agnes de Lods Mar 26
A photo, a fragment of reality sent by my mother.
Just a piece of sky, one tree, and some ground,
a beautiful landscape with a hopeful, rising spring.
I am not there, but I feel a gentle wind,
carrying the scent of what is living.

On the tram ride,
I saw the damaged walls of the old house.
Some people still live there.
Are they disturbed or happier than I am?

Appearances can be so confusing and shallow.
Every perspective—another world.
The truth is scattered across small backgrounds.

Why do I feel amazed
that not every puzzle fits?

When I was returning home,
a young man sat next to me.
He started to talk about himself
and a series of unfortunate events.

He was looking at me
as if I was everything
while I was nothing more than a simple listener.

So, I got off, wishing him good luck,
knowing I wouldn't see that person again.
My life is overwhelmed by random encounters.

Now, I watch my memory of past situations.
I’m sifting through unclear interpretations,
wondering why I still dwell on symbols.

I wish I could believe
every circumstance was an opportunity,
a unique chance and not as things are today,
just casual happenstance
without coherence or deeper meaning.
Sometimes I just want things to mean more. Even if they don’t.
There's no promise of love,
I was lucky to find it.
Nothing says there will be someone there,
For you to hold or be held by,
When the storm rolls in.
A very few get to know,
Just how it feels,
To embrace your lover.
Carefully placing your hand on their face,
Love isn't promised,
Possibly it may never come,
So I am lucky to have it now.
It's rare for it to be true
To those honored poets,
An opportunity has opened up,
I'd like to spread this gospel,
Of a chance to reach new horizons,
Well beyond this world,
Now gather if you dare,
Join and journey to a new place.
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