We are the perfect ones
The few, the selected, the leading elite
We are the seamless ones designed to be
Humanity 2.0
Oh, they have crafted us so carefully
Pounding, drilling
Shrilly sounding the beat of the seamless ones
Get up, Get dressed, Ready, set, go
Make friends, make the grade, make...
Leaning in the front corner of my tiny, overstuffed closet is a well-worn, beaten and beloved stick. Carefully crafted from the branch of a maple sapling, the weapon is light, maneuverable and deadly. It was my Excalibur, my Curtana, my Vorpal blade. It was soaked with the blood of my many invisible...
I saw a moth last night
It's wings fluttered and rushed
Beating for the basement light
That flickered and flushed
No portal through the glass it found
To lead it to the light
Yet suffered in the darkness
And the longing of the night
"Little friend," I asked the moth,
&quo...
Wave upon waves
Dimly lit
In the half light.
Beacons of the dead
On beautified Graves
Pebbles crackle
Underfoot.
As we walk the
Path of remembrance
Grief is our shackle.
With bent heads some
Mourn. Silent
Prayers are said for
The innocents and those
That did not succumb.
We ca...
Like a snowfall in mid October
Your life began and now it's over
No more flakes float from the sky
I'm left without any tears to cry
I cried them all before you died
The phone call
Planted the seeds of worry
The hospital
Seemed unreal
Isolating the dead
And sick
From a world ...
The day the world shattered ,
I met a glass man
Standing on the sidewalk,
Counting cars that passed.
He stared for a moment
At me, trudging down -
Down the long, gray, bare hill.
The man wore a suit,
And a silken tie was
Tucked neatly under
Stiff fabric. And he asked,
"Why do you tr...
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