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Me

I love myself

I love to run

I like to have fun

I love how my eyes are bright as the sun

I shine like a star to everyone

I play hard all the time

My shorts are tighter than my games

My brain is a functioning computer

I think as a zooming scooter

I shoot ideas like a bullet

I sometimes want to quit

I love myself

I love to run

I like to have fun

I want to be done

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As I looked up,

I saw the heavens open.

As a loving father,

Reuniting with his son.

Then I heard,

Shofar sounding trumpets,

Loud enough for the whole world

To hear.

And many disappeared,

Many not knowing why,

Not knowing,

They had gone with the Most High.

It occurred as a lightning bolt,

And like in the days of Noah,

They will be warned,

And they will be sheep, with no shepherd to guide them,

The wolf will camouflage himself, and they’ll be lost,

Forever

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Hair white as dirty snow,

Big eyes like a doe,

Nothing can replace her.

For nine years she had comforted me,

Through good and bad,

When people passed away,

And when there was nowhere else to stay.

Honey has been there for me.

She is the symbol of my childhood,

No other being can replace her.

She has protected me in my youth,

To return the favor,

I will protect her in old age.

She is a clown car filled with tiny comedians that tickle you with laughter,

Laugh at her sleepy face,

As she sleeps more often,

Till she doesn’t wake up anymore.

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Up up up, Thru the sky we go
The wind blowing thru my hair
 Like a rocket ship
Rolling

See the horizon 
So hot and beautiful 
Down we go
Rolling

Loop de loop we go
Nervous we should know 
Winds gushing past us like a overfilled cup
Rolling

To the end like now the start begins

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They said high school are the quickest 4 years

I didn’t believe it

They said high school goes by in a blink of an eye

Where did time go?

They said high school would be one hell of a ride

Why did we have to move so fast?

High school is a roller coaster

One day you’re at the top

Hands lifted high without a care in the world

The next you’re at the bottom

Wishing you felt that rush of adrenaline you did at the peak

Reminiscing how much you were living in the moment

Just before you know it you’re at the end of the ride

Wondering how you got to the end so quickly

Where did time go?

School Days turn into rapid weeks

As rapid as Usain Bolt on his feet

Rapid weeks turn into quick months

As quick as Naomi Osaka with her hands

High school is a race

A race against time

Before you know it times up, it’s that year

The year every student dreams of

The year of victory

The overwhelming waves of relief of closing a chapter

The joy of finally starting a fresh one in life

The year of waves of regret

Wishing you could’ve gone back and lived a little more

Wishing you didn’t have to grow up

High school is race against time

And I see the finish line

Why did we have to move so fast?

Thank you high school for the lifetime memories

Thank you for introducing me to people that I will cherish forever

Thank you for the sleepless nights

Thank you for all the crying sessions

Thank you for all the laughter we’ve shared

Thank you for reminding how limited my time is

Here’s to one last quick roller coaster ride

I truly believe it now

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WHAT I'VE COME TO REALIZE

Never in a million years would I think it would be me and you

Me and you are tighter than a butterfly loop

You shine like a star in my darkest moments

Never would i think it would be me and you

You make me laugh like a stoner that just smoked

You are my guardian angel

My better half and my friendly ghost

Never I would i thought it would be me and you

If i were ever hurt you would care for me

If I lost it all you would still be there for me

I love you like a fat kid loves cake

Sometimes i wish we could just run away

Never in a million years would i think it would be me and you

Now i ask you to just stay true

Life is our wheel of fortune

We just have to spin it

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Wonder why?

I wonder why,

All the happiness only lasts a moment,

Why the moments only lasts a second,

Then I remember,

the moments within the second last forever in your heart,

Like documentaries Anne Frank kept in her diary.

I wonder why,

A broken promise is never forgotten,

Wonder why a heart can be so fragile,

Like a glass cage that cannot be put together once it’s broken,

It’s like a wound that never gets healed,

Then I remember,

a mindful self can change one’s wisdom,

And with a truthful heart, you can change one’s music and it’s rhythm.

I wonder why,

A bitter truth only hunts you down like an enemy waiting for its prey,

A imagination is only in your head like they say,

Then I remember,

Imagination is a journey that you must start with the hope of better and finer tomorrow,

You are the only one who can determine how it’s played,

We must experiment life,

So that we don’t regret all the good or poor deeds that we did,

At the end we can all say “God blessed us with all the strengths and hardiness today”,

Yet I am still wondering why.

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words of advice to the child i'll never have

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words of advice to the child i'll never have

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love is not transactional and happiness is not a commodity and
chocolate is good for you, despite what the magazines
at the grocery store checkout line say.
besides, you’ll burn off the calories when you’re wandering the world
but when you get home and put your suitcase down
talk to the pretty blonde girls
because i guarantee you they’re hurting too.

go to protests and go to plays and
listen to music from every continent
except antarctica, since i don’t think there’s any music there
but maybe just go there? and even if you can’t
because it’s not financially feasible go to the aquarium
and look at penguins;
look at everything like a child learning that the sky
is infinite for the first time.

shop at thrift stores and dance in the rain and
learn the names of the constellations and play the kazoo and
read shakespeare and socrates and baldwin and
give money to the homeless man on the corner.
it’s his choice how he spends it and even if he’s buying drugs
who can blame him for lusting after a few hours of oblivion?

because some days will be shitty
but when you get ignored and rejected and
crushed beneath an avalanche of acrimony
remember that you eat sunlight and are made of stars
and how could that not be good enough?

yes, when the world is an earthquake crashing in your palm
(it’ll feel like that a lot when you’re ten through seventeen)
climb onto the roof and scream until your throat is about to burst
the pain is just another reminder that you are here
and you may be broken as cracked concrete
but blood still pumps through your shattered veins.

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I'm  at the beach

Somewhere where I find peace

A place where I enjoy to go

The beach is Disney World to me

There nothing like it

I'm running through the shallow water

I'm jumping into the waves

I'm a dolphin swimming in the water

I’m floating on the water like a boat

I’m having a blast

The beach is beautiful

The atmosphere it creates brightens my mood

The sun is like a bright yellow sunflower

The blue cold water refreshes your mind

The beach calms you down

The beach is where I am happy

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Unapologetically you
Living in all your glory
Strong and powerful like a lions roar
Presence stronger than a horses back

Unapologetically you
When you walk in a room eyes follow you
Remembered as if you are a distant memory

Unapologetically you
Strides so distinct mistaken for a cheetah
Attitude so loud not a word said

Unapologetically you
Not mistaken for no other
Gloriously you
Proudly you
Unapologetically you

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What do you see?

Do you see an aura

When you see them?

Shimmering with potential

Like the sunrise upon the sky

Showing it crimson colors to start a new day?

What do you see?

Do you see a toolbox

When you see them?

With every utility at the ready

With all being used at least once?

What do you see?

Do you see a problem

When you see them ?

One as tremendous as neutron star

Seconds away from becoming a black hole?

What do you see? Potential? Tools? Problem?

Or do you see something else?

Do you see what I see

When I see

myself

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The world is now shown, in rose tinted lights

Relics brought ripe from the past

Where sword and steel rules over the fields

Never intended to last…

A being born from petty thievery

Sought out finding purpose

And blot out the wicked blights plaguing the world

This was the hero.

His blade drawn in the blink of an eye,

His determination was as sharp as the blade he wielded,

His courage shines as brightly as his amulet,

The amulet, the heart of magic and heroes

With the evil defeated and sealed away,

The hero rests with his wife

The world, prosperous and safe

His duty was fulfilled

The world is now shown, the lights turned off,

This earth does give way,

releasing the darkness

These blights have made graveyards out of gardens

A being born from hatred

Sought out death and destruction for all

And blot out the dwindling light across the world

This was the evil.

Corrupted husks of heroes hunt for the heads

Of those who resist their rule

Black slime molded into human-like form

But not safe from their warp

Shapes phasing through,

foul faces of festering feral fatality

The evil devours the world

Poisoning it with putrid malice

Its talons shredding it apart

However, this evil was

Never intended to last…

The world is now dark, through broken lenses

The relics now lost to time

Remembrance is not of much care

As is of keeping away death from one’s spine

This earth does provide, no longer for life

This being descends, like crows from the sky

His will, unbreakable.

His determination, unflinching

His traits are all so familiar…

His quest: to bring this corpse of a world back to life

Yes, this being has it,

The Spirit of the Hero