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D ROUGE 21

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ALEXANDER H

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Inhale

I am a puzzle piece

I am a misfit

But not miscut

Drawing in a long inhale

But such a short exhale

My breath is far from done

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Kiss

If only to fool one person

An act is created, failed

And portrayed none the less

Every thought, every step,

An abortion, a misstep,

A general lie reinforced

From time to time keeps

This ignorance alive

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Check the weather

Like bluebonnets, it appears every so often

One can go years, or even a lifetime without

Seeing it. Illegal to love, cut, and take home

But the other, none of the above

To entice, to hold and to ultimately die

All of this human emotion gives way

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My stop has come

Upon the extended chaos of my house

My soul cannot rest. The tasks that

Fortify a man are all hopelessly lost

In the peril that waits behind the

Loveless door. Exact, but yet so

Unsure, the need has been replaced

By want, and the want is completely

Forgotten. In this loveless home only

Torture endures. A love that has never

Been satisfied simply walks out the door

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Response

How do we respond? Rather how should we respond?

500 miles and 2 tanks of petrol and I still dont know

30 years of inhales andexhales, and I still dont know

Its unfortunate, this fate what must all endure

It seems senseless mostly and necessary partly

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55 North

Rolling hills of the countryside, ever clear lakes, and

Homes of the believers

Distant barns and bush hogged fields

Old white Fords and old gray granaries

Distant tree lines and even more distant lifestyles

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Passing by

Flowers and headstones, now what?

Unknown names, now what?

6 feet of forgetfulness, now what?

Abandoned thought, now what?

Forgotten family, now what?

Dying communication, now what?

Soon our unwritten names for these

Flowers and headstones

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Life

Passing by quickly

The Japanese sting roars loud

All under the sun

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Humans

Humans pushing time

Our natures end in sight

Humans pushing time

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Qualms with Quality

The quality is gone or maybe it was never here

Lets reach back and dig up the soil

Run it through or fingers, touch what birth feels like

For we have planted stronger, built stronger, and been stronger

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Blank

As a whole we will die out

It is inevitable

Our fates intertwined

Our compassion separated

It is only a matter of time

A seed yet to spring forth

We wait impatiently as

Death makes its relentless

Sprint towards us

We shall celebrate our

Decadent design and

Loathe our inevitable decay

As our lifeless eyes finally close

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Below the tower

Today I saw a tower

Where the masses bled below

The tower stood tall with etchings of gold

Although down below the grasses would not grow

The man stood at the window and tipped his hat to the men below

As they all bellowed and moaned for just one piece of gold

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My fountain

Ive seen the water flow and crash

Taking every shape of every container

Like energy my water never dissipated

It just evaporated bound to return and

Bring life to those unknown

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Inking

Writing

True, heartbreak, heartrace, life

Dancing, gliding, beating, surviving

Sincere, thoughtful, senseless, bound

Destructing, deceiving, trying, dying

Tired, untrue, clueless, dead

Penless

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Insperion

Time the lackluster lover

Never sympathetic to satisfaction

Its expanse in every direction

Is through with us in the blink of an eye

Leaving us as quickly as it came

The lackluster lover leaves us behind

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Farewell soul

Jovial but not content

I lay here searching

I am engaged but enraged

I cannot find

Feeling as though for eons

I have been empty inside

Hope leaves me just as

My last breath soon shall

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Memorial

Weve heard you loud and clear

Weve seen you in all your bravery

This life we live maybe taken for granted

But the songs of the warrior are written with care

In our daily walks we hear you loud and clear

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NMH

The fading presence of good men

Has its negative results

The beloved heroes of yesterday

Have turned into the unforgiven

Villains of today

The world continues its suspended

Spin no matter the weather while

Most of us sit here hating the ride

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Damn life

This damnable life Ive been given

All my actions still unforgiven

Hope still remains so I am driven

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Rouge

Breath life onto white

Pen slash vivid as sword slash

Ink runs into the red rouge

Emotion spilled forth

Mind springs forth

Eyes closed to envision infinity

All action portrayed and displayed

Breathe life into white

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DEDICATED TO MY BELOVED COUSIN

CHRISTOPHER LEE ALLEN

YOU WILL BE MISSED, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN