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    Black Lives Matter~

    "If only people looked within me
    If only my color didn't matter
    they hate me!
    they make my heart shatter...

    At a tender age
    they made me feel
    like a bird in a cage

    People of 'my kind'
    survive not for long...
    those people don't listen
    they just know
    we are wrong

    Don't treat us like this
    why can't we live with
    no hatred and bliss?"

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    Find back (2)

    Past, present, future
    All mixed together in a mess
    In the expanse of the eternity
    Find again and find again.

    Getting the immediate
    Have lost gone before long
    Trying to find in hopeless mind
    Here, there, in all the areas there.

    Looking for this that has no end
    When will the get together be broken
    No one can ever predict
    Just will remain the relish.

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    Front path

    No more in the dark
    open the eye
    No more sitting idle
    follow the path of light.

    Perhaps it is not easy
    still do not end up running.
    The path may have ups and downs
    but effort should be there to reach out.

    Get out on the way with bold step
    go ahead in front
    Barriers are all around
    yet they have to be crossed.

    That's how it will be done
    all the paths have to be passed
    Only then will it be seen in the coming days
    the door to all possibilities.

     

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    [grey hare]

     

    grey hare
    on the night meadow
    leaping shadow

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    Change

    Similar to waves or rivers, we can only move forward when we’re changing, or else there’s no progress, no continuity.. else we become stagnant and rot where we are clinging to everything we’ve been gathering. 

    All that we carry holds us down, in life there’s nothing to hold on to, this only adds to our weight, not allowing us to step ahead, we become heavier and heavier.

    We’re here to experience, to see and touch but not to claim anything for our own, because nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves.

    When we put back everything that we have been carrying, each day we become lighter and lighter, thus like a feather we float through life unencumbered, and then living would not be as harsh as we think it is.

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    Perspectives

    Will you live today as an optimist
    Or will you let life be boring and dull?
    Will you seek to conquer and drive each day,
    And live life with a glass half full?

    Will you live life with false hope and expectations,
    Or will you acknowledge reality, and gain some control?
    For living with a more negative look on life
    Can help you focus on achieving your ultimate goal.

    Is there a balance between these two,
    Between the positive and the not?
    Maybe there’s some warm in-between
    Of the icy cold and the scalding hot.

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    Reflection

    She looks in the mirror and cries
    For she is not the beautiful woman she once used to be
    She looks in the mirror and weeps
    For the loss of the reflection she used to see

    Our culture tells her that she’s bad
    Because she has freckles and wrinkles and such
    And she forgets to stop and think
    That maybe looks don’t matter all that much

    For appearance fades and standards change
    But one thing stays constant and true
    Its the inside that truly matters in life
    That bright, bold, beautiful you

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    Battles

    Her eyes held all the stars of the sky
    And her smile held the warmth of the sun
    The wrinkles in her eyes held wisdom
    But her complexion showed all the battles she had won

    For before a diamond is a crystal
    It is refined and purified through heat
    Before a maiden can be rescued from her tower
    There is a dragon the knight must defeat

    There is no victory without a battle
    And there is no glory in an unfought war
    Without struggle, there can be no resilience
    You can't know peace until you’ve experienced the gore

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    Wounds

    Some wounds have this peculiarity:
    They may be hidden, but they never fully close.
    Always painful, always ready to bleed when touched,
    Delicate as a withering rose.

    They remain fresh and open in the heart,
    with every pulse and breath, pulling apart.

    As you lay in your hospital bed,
    hurting more than you can bare,
    I'm sorry for all the times I gave up on you,
    For all the times I wasn't there.

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