stress fades

at least for the moment


I've given up childish notions

of making a difference in this world


I accept the tragedy

the daily circus of heartache


and while I find this moment golden

the next might find me swamped in dross


and though it may take a while

for this body to divest


its bad habits and wounds of failure

still may their intrusions come


less and less...so longer and longer

moments of peace and clarity may prevail....






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I want to die

I want to live

it's all a lie

I try to forgive


though my mind

is caught in its tether

I'm happy to find

I know better






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I'm no better

than you my brother


I too know the deal

and despite that


I too still look

for some way out


must be some sadness of flesh

must be some weakness of mind






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the hoax of freedom

is the most harmful fallacy

we face in life


there are no alternatives

despite what breaches of action

our choice make...


there is only this single reality

and what you make of it

within the vectors of its processes


this single reality in which all is consumed....





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you have seen the way to go


if you take off in a different direction

then you'll have nothing to say at all


even though you'll say "help me...I'm lost...."





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RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE, PAL

if it is a new world you want


know it is already in existence...

you in your instant to instant


moral choice do not build it

but rather you realize it is there


and surrender at last

to it...and there


find yourself in what you wanted....





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ALL IS HERE AND NOW? THEN WHERE ARE YOU?

no more can we hope...

there is no right action


every move we make

is tangled in falsity and defeat...


and those so desperate

to be positive and grateful


never get it that it is not for this world

but for the unknown one beyond this one....





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