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  Having a conversation with yourself and learning something

  

  By Persona, Hanford, CA

  In a world where later never comes, Don't close your eyes to the hustle and bustle of the slums, The systematic hum, the ascetic drums, all culminating into the ecstatic static of the mind. Impossible. Don't you know the world walks so slow, As we all turn every corner and in corner...
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  I Proclaim in the Name of Love

  

  By Persona, Hanford, CA

  I proclaim, in the name of love: I will wave the flag of reed and dove. Forward is the direction I move the hands of hate I will reprove. Through the storm, I make this vow I will stand firm, I tell you now. I'll bow to no men, nor gods of hate nor kings, nor guns, nor heads of st...
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  Compass

  

  By Persona, Hanford, CA

  As I sit upon the sands of time I look upon the ocean vast. Tinkering with this little ryhmn Remembering the past. It's not so hard to look back As I smile out at this sea. I wonder how the sands will shift If I remember thee. Don't move to fast Nor go ...
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  The Lake

  

  By Persona, Hanford, CA

  There is a lake in this world that neither small, nor at all what one might say is particularly large. This lake is surrounded by a vast open plain that encompasses the entire outer rim. In this plain, there is a large family, living in a cottage just beyond the line of the lake and the plain...