Fortitude
Do you sometimes look back through the misty window of yesteryear
And see how far you've come
As you still run
Seen those old fall me down days as the days that made you rise
With a strength that made many silently step back in surprise
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Demencia (S)
On any given midnight
Beneath each and every fallen night sky
Living lost
In this wild city's jungles
Your memories linger
Growing in numbers
Like passing country fairs
Walking in unexpectedly
Smiling like a reborn JFK
Only to be stolen away
By Father Time
Like a new Cunningham
Burke or Hare
Life's true
Ladrona de tumbas
Of T cells
As he erodes eventually
Everything he touches
As my synapses crumbles
And I enter a new hell
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Foundation of the piece.
Dementia.
Ladrona de tumbas (S)
Grave robbers
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Here's to you
All the creatives
The gifted natives
Who know
How powerful the impact
Of poetry and its estate is
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The Voice of Kübler-Ross
As a lost soul-searching for their loved one,
As I still grieve
After ten years
Who crossed the Silver Pond
My question always is
Do people still believe,
there is life beyond
God's
Great Beyond?
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Do you sometimes wish to escape the hectic noise and low vibrational energy, in the world, today?
The Pied Piper of Agartha
(A lone voice sings within a whisper)
Would you willingly follow me
Into the Green Hollow
If I pulled back the veil
And showed you a way in
To get swallowed
To escape
To a wild world of verbs and contradictions
With love and laughter
Singing and whispering like loose
Chord progressions
As the old world recedes
Into the distance
To escape from your weary grotto of
Penitentiary existence
To unite in the Green Hollow
With others
Poets
Singers
Writers and all good folk
As our last line of resistance
From a world subjugated by darkness
As kindness
Compassion and Love
Are no longer viewed
As a pièce de résistance
So
Would you willingly follow me
Into the Green Hollow
If I pulled back the veil
And showed you a way in
To get swallowed
To escape
To a wild world of verbs
And contradictions
With love and laughter
Singing and whispering
Like loose
Chord
Progressions
As your old world
Recedes
Into the
Distance
To escape
From your weary grotto
Of penitentiary existence
To unite in my Green Hollow
My Green Hollow
As your life's
As your life's
Pièce de Résistance
(C)
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(A lone voice whispers)
Some may sometimes wonder if the Shadows are at work
When depravity and desire explode like New Year's Eve fireworks
While the Blind don't see
But swim in its dark seas
Daily
Saturated by its rain
Then caught and consumed like Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
By the Devil's Networks
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Foundation of the piece.
Has the commercialisation of sex and depravity, saturating nearly all forms of media, happened by insidious design?
To reshape and desensitize humanity?
(A lone voice whispers)
Do you want to hear some whispered rules from the Great In-Between
The Fourth Dimension
Well, here goes
Number 1
Find an everlasting love song
Knee-deep in lust for a real-life
And make
Number 2
Unrequited love
The Rebellious Song of the Transformational
As you throw away its emotional sharp knife
Make number 3
A layer cake of evocative delicious delights
To be explored and greedily devoured with your dearly beloved
Hidden from the watching dark shadows
Like thieves all around you
In the middle of any given night
And find number 4
The ancestral strength in midnight memories and ritualistic ceremonies
Of deep meaningful love
Within echoes from those now out of sight
Ascended so high above
To regain number 5
The strength to carry on and fight to finally
Find loves hidden highways and as you take flight
To embrace the sacred thought that your Guardian Angels
Always watch over and protect you and your family and friends in every way
Especially at night with their unspoken prayers
And you my beautiful child
Will be okay
In all of your life's affairs
Whatever angels or demons
Some of our earthly concessionaires
For upstairs or downstairs
Whisper or say
When they come out to play
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Corazón
(A lone voice whispers)
When your Corazón
Broke you in two
Like America
With the war on cotton
Did you become one of Corazón orphan's
Filled with precautions
Praying for another's heart
In the long run
As you weighed up newer options
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What does Corazón mean in English?
The heart.
Foundation of the piece.
Are the once broken more selective?
(A lone voice whispers)
A pure love once found
Before birth
At the beginning
Then once lost
While crossing the Great Barrier and Frost
To walk on mortal grounds
With those mesmerized by sinning
Through gold and pleasure
Is a beauty bound
To search for
In all weathers
By the longing sounds
That forever
Binds and calls to
Two souls
Entwined and enshrined
To come together
By once hearing
Angels singing
In unison
As Time
Unwinds
In a profound place
When lovers
First met
Before crossing the Great Barrier and Frost
To get their souls wet
In the mortal lands of sinning
Unknowingly knowing
They were marked
Before birth
As lovers
At the beginning
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Foundation of the piece.
Do we have a true soulmate, once met before birth, and are we just drawn unconsciously to find them?
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