For one moment

I admit that

I hope to

Be

the

reason

you try again

when you need to

I did

not think

you'd die

not even

when

you

were

asleep

I was not

at ease

because

I should have sung to you in your final hours

For this reason, I will never neglect to sing

not if I wish to hold another note in my life

I will not sway. I will not wash away when one

needs me most. I will be the bells of celebration

We're alive. We are free. We are brave

If someone tosses rockets they get eliminated.

Rape and murder are two eyes I'd slit

Not hate

Hate is not a crime

Refuse to be terrorized. I will

live for myself, not sacrifice my wealth

and I will not take wealth from others

I will not be drawn out of my life, I will fly

not towards a black hole, I will not kill

unless I have to. I love my peaceful neighbors

I defend myself.

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#hateisnotacrime #freespeech #peace #ceasefire

it's not an excuse

If one can stop fighting

they can start thinking

If we keep freedom

in the minds of men

They can feed themselves

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Drunk poems sound

cheap

Verse pumps blood

like rhythm sweet

Some words are good.

Good roots go deep

For some, wild seeds

are unwieldy things

Others

sow them

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#poetry #badpoem #philosophyoffocus #goodword #progress

I rise

quick, What's the biggest difference between rains and tides?

One can feed the fields, one can kill for miles

What's the reason I have for defending mine?

I'll give you a hint, this is the war of ideas

This is war when you wake to news every day

Calls to violence and injustice. Quick, What's the name

for "these days"?

When war takes taxes like names

We need heroes with resumés

We need houses in safe places

hospitals, businesses,

Not bombs everyday. Sometimes,

peace costs more than a brave face

To cross oceans takes more than a spotlight

You have to drive yourself through the storms

Say,

I will not be at war.

I will not pay

for those who keep me fighting

I will not stand for death

I will not be defined by "these trying times."

I correct them. I define myself

I am the good I want to see

Justice means refuse to do right

by evil

Moral means to strive for my life

Quick! Nobody's free while they die

I want to trade ideas—the good ones—

I want bad Gods burned for war crimes

When I stop struggling for power

I have it. When I stop praying for peace

I make it.

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#Motivation #lifelessons #philosophy #war #peace #rise

I'm a falcon

I may be small, but I'm sharp

Maybe quiet, but never silent

My voice is powerful

not loud

Be proud

when your strength speaks for itself

Soar too high to hear the shrieking whine

of your enemies

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A pack of wolves sounds oddly

like clucking hens

behind a hip-height counter,

and a few computer screens

When not whining about salary

I watch them complain about training

resentment and irritation on free education,

or mat leave, sick leave, vacation pay and overtime. That's

what our taxes can afford

It doesn't go towards a healthy environment

for certified clients. No, they spend the days

sweating over blank checks with blank spaces,

staring down blank answers

from blank faces.

How many industries are the same?

I've checked a dozen, the results are loaded and locked

If you are unhappy at your office, don't clock in

Don't waste your time and our energy

Don't expect more from my employer because you need it

Earn it.

I hold myself up by my principles: Never bitch about the job. fix it.

Never submit to the clause, if it ain't broke...Don't want progress?

keep plucking away, but stop asking me to pay

for your unhappiness

My time is valuable to me, as yours should be to you. I'm grateful

for those who see my potential and dig in. Yes, make money with me, yes

ask me to solve problems. Yes, teach me how I too can find success,

as of now...I work alone, but I am the real social animal

Watch me claw free facts on my first day, let me sniff out bullshit and defend

the best parts about work: comradery, productivity, and capital

I don't care if I never chat to my fellows when it means we've finished our work

I don't want to talk to anyone who won't choose themselves over a job

Who feel like work keeps happening to them. You have a lifetime

to design a career, I fear for the ones who hate this job, so

Leave it to me

but

Leave me to it

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#work #happiness #lonewolf #philosophy #poetry @theprose

I choose you, Partner,

because I love you

I don't love guessing

I don't trust someone who says, trust me

I don't like getting upset

when my hopes were high

Yet, I like getting my hopes up

I love how softly you catch 'em

I like setting each other up

to score

I like Your

sense of humor. Your eyes. Your body. Your smile

and Your

stupid ass puns

Butt

You are too far away. How I feel about you

would be easier to say

if I could lay my head next to yours

Why don't I pity you? It happens

when my dream of love shatters

Are you bullet-proof?

100% sure of yourself, HERE, NOW, in reality,

refusing to break down to irrationality

irresponsibility. You make me value boundaries

You make me value distance traveled

AND intimacy. I miss you.

Not just the idea of you-

the feel of you, the truth of you

You're the best to ever hold me

You've the kindest words I've ever heard

When in my head I fear I am a broken thing

Fear I cannot love completely, and so I fail to try

You give me reason to love you. I never wonder

why you love me. You tell me

I never wonder if you have more to give, I know

You could go if you want to

I don't.

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#Valentines #lovepoem #romance #longdistanceaintforsissies

You've already licked my back with flames

You have scorched my skin and mind

This torture is not even the worst you can do

Want Me to beg? The hot

slash of blood on your face is not my disgrace

You want me to bleed? Go ahead

I have bled and I'll bleed again, I'm not dead

You want this too? Say it

You'll see me in Hell

But I won't see you.

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#poetry #spitfire #revenge #heatofthemoment #predator

Man, find my eyes and seek the shine within.

Many sin

Many search from my eyes for a way to get in

Try to wriggle out some small respite in my eyes. Many might

hold instead, precision power

with that Power comes response

When worthy, I stay quietly smiling, but

I

never give in, never give up, as in,

or out of it, Pride

keeps open eyes.

Arrogance hides

If we sing

together, Stay present.

On that day, I'll take you flying

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#seductionpoetry #romance #Valentines