Persecuted for Difference Alone
Me alone, an island song, drifting in a tepid breeze, misunderstood, unrecognized, difference the sense I don’t belong, yet I
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Following the Cheering Masses
Eloquent phrases to enlist support, doused in ridicule to denounce recourse, tried and true within persuasion’s bounds, threats carefully clothed
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The Phoenix Rises More Powerful
Break my wings and I shall rise like a phoenix, soul the flight of tender freedom, and wings just a
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In Retrospect…
Loosened by the grip of self-disdain, I look at how I wore the brunt of blame, believed those who chose
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Here in the Brown Land, our Home
The weight of summer heat has arrived, and quiet the mood, so somber, as skies impart their endless blue,
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Leave My Beliefs Alone
Heretics my friends, atheists make no amends, and crackpot esoteric s just muddle the stage, philosophy all poker-faced, and theology
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A Hole Within, To Be Healed
I keep the hole within clean and dust free, as if in resolution I want it to be accommodating, yet
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In Hindsight’s Ache
Eroded we become, like stone upon a seashore, once stoic in stance and present, now lost within the sands; and
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As the Master Waits
Let time abide its own ragged path, one moment slow, the next so fast, unnoticed, and are we at its
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The Finesse of Choosing
We have choice, the very process of our circumstances, and in making choices we must accept the consequences, but how
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To Be the Observer
To be the observer, not fraught by the calamities of life, is yet another perspective, untethered by personal connections yet
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The Manifestation of Dark Choices
Darkness sees only darkness in recognition of itself, and people who embrace it are much the same in their view,
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The Human Struggle to Find Self
Grasping reality, is like trying to hold one single piece of dust floating in an endless dust-storm, swirling in some
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Letting Go, My Challenge
Quietly subdued, and in the flight of circumstance, but out of place I feel, holding the floor and vile strikes
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Let it Flow, in Honest Timbre
The flow of thoughts arrests a heart, open to that current of life’s report, and share we may our deepest
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Cut Loose But Whole
Keep me in the fold, for I have lived apart yet yearning from the start to be normal, complicit in
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In Broken-Hearted Fall
Shall I fade into your dull lifeless hues, relinquish the heart that sang your song, before the love has gone,
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My Place and Purpose
’Twas in the surge of early youth, I felt a searing displacement, an arm’s length space between myself and others,
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To Nourish the Soul
Until we are ready, truth is but a shadow cast from denial, and epiphanies come not from the truth itself,
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That One Moment of Release
The gloaming light afire, ‘cross a darkening blue, brings a silence to my heart, a temporary lull as if time
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Enemies, But Not By My Measure
Fluid my thoughts, nefarious thoughts held at my periphery, bound by my choice of rejection, as others try to pervade
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Profound Dreams Soothe My Soul
Profound Dreams Soothe My Soul He looked down at me, a question in his eyes, Standing so close, I wanted
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Where Truth Sees Not the Light of Day
A man judged from hearsay of accused sin, or appearance, circumstance or chatter within the crowd, is never a guilty
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